silly old gender
Miss Baby is hitting the age where she’s starting to think about gender. When the Little Guy was this age, he took to vacuuming to prove his masculinity (my DH vacuums; I don’t).
Miss Baby delights in identifiying the gender of family members: “Daddy, boy; Little Guy, boy; Mommy, boy.” I’veexplained to her that I’m a girl, and she seems willing to accept that. Normally, she identifies herself as a girl, but tonight, she tried something else: “Miss Baby, half boy.”
Hmmm. To be honest, she is a bit tomboyish; we agreed that she’s got it about right. But a comment like that suggests that Miss Baby has some interesting ideas about what it means to be a boy or a girl.
She does like to vacuum.
When my daughter was learning gender, all the relatives who were not grandparents were aunties. Including Auntie Roger.
But then, none of us like to vacuum.