Girls will be girls, and boys oh well...

I just walked past my shoes which Mia got hold of his morning and is piled in a heap, where she was viewed these and obviously decided that they do not meet her quality standards.

I was wondering weather the girlishness of girls and the boisterousness of boys are in-born. I mean Mia could not have gotten her shoe and bag fetish from me, and definitely not from my husband (or maybe we are just both in denial). I mean here is a girl that can hardly say 50 words yet have dress sense; she literally eyes the clothes I select for her and should she not want to wear these she puts up a fight. If I should win this fight she will go and select clothes that she wants to wear bit by bit once I put her down, the same goes for the shoes, although she seems a bit more indecisive about what would be best here, and just continuously keeps asking to put the others on, regardless.

She also got into the habit of taking things with her as we leave the house. Just as we are ready to leave in the morning for her day mother, she dashes around the house to find something suitable to take with her.
She has taken her father's old straw hat, a Pick 'n Pay green bag, a  giraffe her own size; the plastic carry box for eggs, her bouncing ball, a couple of books, and some garden tools, so suitable is debatable. She also loves hats, she stands in front of her mirror parading and trying on every single hat she owns, whilst giggling and frolicking to herself.

So we have her down for shoes, clothes, bags and hats, that I would say make her a girly girl in my books.

Now boys on the other-hand, or the ones I have laid eyes on the last couple of years; seem to have a couple of innate characteristics. The throw things first off to check if it is a ball, if it is not a ball, they will continue to throw the toy to see if they are able to destruct it, if destruction is not possible by means of throwing then alternative methods will be applied to try and destruct.

I am not saying that boys are destructive in nature, I am only saying that boys seem to disregard things they are not able to thrown, bite, push, shake or bang. I think they might have a bigger need to figure out the inner-workings of things, which is why they are so set on taking things apart. I must also confess that I come out of a third generation girls only family, which means that I do not have a lot of experience with boys.

Which brings me to my next point, I have opted to have my sister in Johannesburg's children over for a week in December, now Elsabé is one of my favourite people in the world, and so is her brother Hardus. I mean he is the first and most probable only boy to be born in our family for a couple of years; we all adore him, and it would be great to see him, but it would mean that I would need to come up with a strategy for keeping him busy. We have lots and lots of balls, and I think he is past the throw and see stage. In a nutshell I think I am in for a bit of a learning curve this December; and you know what I think I am looking forward to it.