Girls will be Girls and Boys will be Boys!

Yesterday I had a friend and her new baby boy over for lunch and all three kids were instantly in love.  They each showed the baby love in their own ways, A wanted to give kisses, B gave him a toy, and C watched over him. C surprised me the most with her reaction which was to just kneel down and stare at the baby, I thought I would have to pull her off him, but she didn't even try to touch!
At one point she turned around and went, "ug, ug, ug?" Which is hug in C language, I told her no and she just turned around and continued to stare.

I know that some people believe that we teach children to be a boy or a girl but I believe a lot of their tendencies are natural. The older C gets the more she gravitates to baby dolls and dressing up, and with two older brothers this has been surprising to me.

I expected her to play with cars and dinosaurs because that was what she saw her remodels playing with, but the first thing she picks up is a baby doll! And those dolls go everywhere!

C is definitely developing the skills to be a great mommy! But I think it is also important all three kids develop some skills that may be to some people considered outside of there gender. I will expect my sons to be able to cook clean, and do the laundry just as well as C, and I expect C to be able to mow the lawn, change a tire, and make minor home repairs. I think it is important that kids learn how to be a responsible adult and to take care of themselves, no matter their sex.

I was raised to do everything from cooking to hanging drywall, and I am so grateful that my Mom taught me all those things!  I like knowing that if anything ever happened to my husband *God forbid* that I know how to take care of myself and I don't have to worry about how to change my tire or manage my money.

I want my boys to grow up and be great providers for their families and my daughter to be a wonderful mommy but I want them to know how to handle whatever life may throw at them!

What are little girls made of ? Sugar and Spice and Everything nice....

 Unless of course you have two older brothers! My daughter, who we shall call Princess, is at 15 months quite a handful! She has more attitude packed into her little tiny body than most people. Where she got that the attitude from I have no idea... I am the most quiet and reserved person you will ever meet!

My Princess has picked up on quite a few naughty things from her brothers, like tantrums, if things don't go her way she will lay face down on the floor and cry until you try to appease her. Usually, she will throw whatever she "had to have" back at you... talk about drama!

The amount of her stinkiness, as my husband would phrase it, has reached new levels lately.
Today I had to run to the grocery store because I had a full sink of dishes and no dishwasher detergent ( we learned the hard way that you can't use dish soap, talk about bubbles galore!). So I, against my better judgment,  piled all the kids into the car and headed to the local grocery store. This store trip quickly turned in to a nightmare, boys running everywhere causing chaos... And than there was my little Princess, being very un- Princess like, she was unloading my cart just as fast as I was putting things in! She even managed to open a carton of eggs and to dump them into the cart, thankfully they didn't get all over! She also threw my car keys out, which I realized right before we walked away, it would have been so annoying to go on a scavenger hunt at that moment. I finally made it to the register thinking I had managed to get everything on my list and leave the store with only minor damage. Only to find out...
Later in the day my husband came home for a quick dinner before heading back to work, I started to make him a quesadilla and  went to get out the cheese I had just bought... it was nowhere to be found. I knew I brought in all my groceries so I scanned through my receipt to double check I had gotten it, sure enough it never made it to the check out. My sweet little angel, somewhere along the way to the checkout decided we didn't need cheese and threw it out!  It wasn't the end of the world but still super annoying. *sigh* Oh, why do children have to grow up and do naughty things! My trip was only redeemed by the amount of money I saved thanks to my coupons. So here's to all the little girls made of sugar and their spicy little antics!