Boys will be boys?

So, my friends and I have been discussing this topic alot lately. Everyone always said boys are much different than girls, but I didn't believe it. I even have one friend who said that she and a family friend could tell the difference between their kids (one has a girl, one has a boy) at a week old. I can't imagine that would be true.

Then there was H-Dubya. H-Dubya is a very. busy. boy. He is into everything all of the time. He must be watched. He will climb onto a table and begin throwing the glass plates and votives onto the floor. He will empty out cabinets and climb in. H-Dubya drinks a sippy of milk or juice and instead of sitting it back onto his tray will throw it onto the floor so hard it bounces. He is hungry all of the time. He gets snacks out of the pantry or trash and sits on the floor to enjoy them. He runs away from us in public if we let him walk. If Daddy tries to catch up with him in the bookstore he will begin grabbing books off the shelves and throwing them in Daddy's path, because he knows that Daddy has to stop and pick them up and he can get away. He gets into Mama's makeup drawers and takes everything out, throwing it into the shower. If you ask H-Dubya to not touch something or say No, he rubs all over and grabs said item as much and as quickly as he can because he knows that after the word No, things are taken away.

All of the above items were never experienced with his older sister. If you told Syd no once, she would reach for the item and whine, but never touch it again. And Syd never ran away from her parents after the first time.

I am now a believer in gentic differences in girls and boys. And as also discussed with friends, it does seem that it is harder on the mother that had a girl first that the mother who doesn't know any different.

Now, H-Dubya is also Mama's little sweetie. He is very attached to his mama and now his daddy, too. He is very loving and will hug and kiss us, and wants us to hold and carry him around much of the time.

I have checked a book about Raising Boys out of the library. I have always wanted a baby boy, and I am so happy to have the opportunity to parent one and watch him grow into a man.