Monday, September 26, 2011

No hair bows for BOYS!

ANYTIME we go ANYWHERE someone ALWAYS says, "MY GOODNESS! Only ONE boy and all those girls?!" Poor Isaiah, at this point it's of no concern to him that he's the only boy, but every stranger in sight seems to think he must have the hardest life with "all those sisters."
There are times when I can see his pent up inner-boy ready to be released. Usually it happens around 4PM every afternoon. As soon as Scotty gets home from work I send Isaiah in for "boy time" with daddy. That usually consists of some wrestling and race cars. Once he's been roughed up a little he's usually back to his sweet normal boyish self.
He's always LOOKED like a boy. As a baby it was obvious that he was a boy. There was just something masculine about his sweet little face. He's always PLAYED like a boy. He loves balls, race cars and the like. He makes just about everything crash off the side of the table and he loves to flick things across the room. He's all boy.
HOWEVER, all of that doesn't stop him from playing with Barbies, magic wands, and baby dolls with his sisters. None of this worries us at all as I'm sure even a brother with one sister would still be caught playing with a Barbie or two in his lifetime. He does usually gravitate towards the male dolls. We have talking "Steve Irwin" and "Moses" dolls that he LOVES to play with.
His recent fascination is with hair bows. With four other girls you can imagine the amount of hair bows in this house. We have an entire drawer in our bathroom full of hair bows of different sizes, shapes, and colors. SEVERAL times a day he'll go in there, open the drawer, and check out all the bows. He tries to put them in his hair, but because he hasn't quite gotten them figured out he usually ends up with a pile on the floor. He'll bring me a hand full of bows and say, "Momma. Ha-bow. PWEEEZZ." The first several  times I obliged his request and we'd all smile and laugh at how "cute" he was with his bow in his hair. After the first few times, though I decided to tell him that boy's(in my house anyway) don't wear hair bows and suggest a nice hat instead. This is usually a wonderful idea in his opinion and he'll go to his room and find his growing collection of hats and choose one(or two) to wear. I'm sure at some point he'll stop wanting to wear hair bows, but for now I'm going to soak up his masculine cuteness and go find that boy some more HATS!

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