Little boy wonder

My husband was mortified the first time my son picked up his little sisters pink, sparkling purse. My son was only five months old, but we were in public. My husband did not want any one else at church that Sunday to see his son playing with a "girly toy".

Since then he has played dress-up with the girls on a regular basis. He puts their dresses on and accessories just like they do. When we play salon to paint our nails, he is the first in line to have his done. I am not the least bit concerned that my little boy will one day grow-up to be a manly man. I think that he is a perfect example of how children will play with what ever they happen to have.

He also tends to do things my girls never would have thought of. For example he has tried to shoot his sisters with Mr. Potato Head's arm. does it look that much like a gun? And yesterday he found a stick in the yard that was twice his size and was making firing noises as he tried to maneuver around the yard. While I don't like the children playing with sticks, I tried to give him a smaller one that had less possibility of tripping him. He gave me a funny look and promptly returned to the oversized bazooka.

There is something to the saying, "boys will be boys". I think in a way it is truer that boys will be boys even when there isn't a single boy toy to be found. They will simply make one.