I never knew how easy I had it with my daughter.
She would sit and play quietly with her blocks. Even once in a while she would look up at me and giggle, or ask me to read a story. No biggie.
Then I had my son.
*cue the Macaulay Culkin scream from Home Alone*
That kid just won’t sit down. People warned me about this. They told me this would happen. But I didn’t believe them. “No, he acts like his father,” I told people. My husband is cooler than cool, the most laidback man ever. President Obama has NOTHING on my husband.
Man, was I wrong. I can’t take my eyes off him for one minute without him flipping over the dining room table, breaking the lamp, or mysteriously squishing purple pooh everywhere. Yes, you read that right. First he pooped the purple pooh, then he dragged his little butt across the floor, getting purple pooh bits all over the carpet.
Lord, give me strength!!!
Ladies (and fellas), do you think little boys are different than girls? How so? When did you first realize raising a boy was going to be something totally different?
LOL. I can not stop laughing!!! This is exactly how my son is. I love boys for that.
LOL. Purple poop??? Youve got to be kidding me? How is that even possible?!
But whats sick is that even with KNOWING that boys are a handful, I sooo want one! Pray for me.
Everyone tells me the difference is crazy and I listened. I have a baby girl on the way and I am sooo scared that she is going to be little miss diva with the attitude of a teenage girl lol. This is what people tell me anyway. Now here you are saying the complete opposite – I hope to God I get lucky and have a calm, laid back little princess.
My son on the other hand, OMG!! He is a mad man. Not that he’s bad but he is ever so curious and very energetic. Just like you said if you take your eye off him for even a split second you might turn back around and find your house burnt to the ground. I guess it’s to be expected – he’s a little boy.
As sick as it sounds I’m really curious about the purple pooh lol.
Haha, I sooooo know what you mean, these lil boys aint no joke! Just the other day I was on an important phone call, so in order to be able to focus, I let Jaedyn crawl out of the room. When I get up to go find him, he’s in the bathroom, surrounded by a whole roll of toilet tissue, sitting there, eating it! I can’t leave the lid up on the toilet, I have to hurry and get what I need out of the fridge and close it if he’s on the floor or else he is all in it pulling stuff out. He opens my bottom drawer, takes out my socks, panties and bras then eats my panties (I blame that on his daddy, lol). I feel bad, but I’ve lost count now how many times he has rolled off the couch or bed or something, and finally, this boy kicks my butt! He’s too rough to try to play with these days, this lil boy will leave you black & blue he’s so rough…and he’s only 10 months…what am I going to do when he is 2, let alone 10?! Trying to discipline him is a joke as well. If he repeatedly reaches for something after I’ve said “no” and tried distracting him (this is one determined/persistent kid), I’ll pop his hand and he will laugh!!! ::sigh::
I’m still glad I had a boy rather than a girl though!
YES!!!! Boys are different from girls. I tell everyone if my son would have been my first he would have been my ONLY! ;p I have a daughter (7) and my son is (5). He would swallow things, pull stuff down, not come when you called him, and just be generally destructive. He definitely added a new sense of joy and excitement in my life. I wouldn’t trade him for the world, but I am praying for his Kind. teacher.
Ha @ your son and all the other “boy” experiences. I don’t know… perhaps its just age or personality because my 9 mth old twin nieces are the EXACT same way. Between biting, slaping, crawling you over and wrestling you down on the bed each time you move a muscle, they give you a real workout, lol. And let me remind you there are 2 of em’. They are a trip…
My daughter was that way as well… the girl ate my plants for goodness sakes, lol.
Oh gosh, this is so funny. THis is exactly how I imagine boys! I always thought I would have a girl first and I was frightened when I found out we were having a boy! I always say, “I don’t know how to take care of boys!!”
I am feeling your pain, only I have two boys and they are like night and day. My oldest was like your daughter. He’d sit and play in one spot, real calm and cool. But, that second one—he is a tazmanian devil. You know where he has been by the mess he leaves behind. So, I am not sure if it is the fact that they are boys or that fact that they are born second, third, etc. When was pregnant with my second everybody warned that had I had him first I would have rethought a second child. I love them both but they are at best, challenging.
Hang in there!
I think yes– very different. Every now and then I think you ge the odd ball quiet and collected boy– but let me tell you– I run a preschool from my home. Every once in a while I get a sweet girl- the kind without a mean bone in her body…but more often then not…I get little girls like my daughter….god I do love her but…I remember when I was pregnant and was finding out the sex….i saw it and knew she was a girl before the woman said anything…and my heart began racing….I told my hubby…not sure how I’m going to handle the drama, the attitude, HA can u imagine both of us being on our period!!! I aready had a son who was 5 when I got pregnant with her…whie he was rowdy and crazy…a girl scared the crap out of me…and my darling daughter is now almost 4…and I can say…I had good reason to be scared. I also have a 2.5 yr old son and he’s just as off the wall as my oder son was. But, my daughter takes the cake…I can clean up after the boys and pull out some hair here and there from my head…but my daughter..ohhhhhh…jst begam becomng less dramamtic and sassy about things about 4 months ago…like one day she woke up and said…hmm time to be sweet…lol
But, overall– not talking about my own children…the boys of the preschool are by eaps and bounds the most troublesome. You can give them a lego, a book, a crayon, and a car and they will concock something crazy to do with them! Now the main diff. for me is the boys are always going…getting into something, trying to pul something by you, trying to figure out how to accomplish something you don’t want them to do. But, the girls are “almost hormonal”– thats what I call it. Once minute they love their friend the next they may never speak again…five minutes later they are having a tea party, and this may happen 50 times in a day..because she won’t play mommy or because she used the orange crayon the other ittle girl had to have…or she might die….did u know you can die from a ack of a orange crayon–wel u can…lol…with the boys….there’s a punch thrown, toy thrown or a shove and their back to playing as though nothing had happened…lol So, in someways I adore the simplicity of boys..both with the older ones such as my 9.5 yr old and esp with the toddlers!
Boys tend to want to earn and enteract through activities and play…have to be moving– girls are norm. more content sitting and playing nicely. I have never had a boy ask to sit down and do an activity…but some of my girls here ask for homework…lol and these are kids 2-4 lol…but you gotta love them all
OWWW had to share my share of pooh- I have seen pink…bright pink–GLITTERED pooh….lol…my daughter used to eat crayons and markers tips…thank god they are non toxic..but one week she managed to get ahold of some gitter as wel and for a few weeks i got diff. color pooh and many days with glitter!
Yes, boys are on a whole other level…and let’s not even talk about a “strong willed” boy. I can write a book about the experiences I’ve had with munch face (he’s 3) but one of the one’s that takes the cake is when he found the one PERMANENT black marker on the house and drew all over his hands AND FACE so that he could be like spiderman. LOL!!! I laugh now but you can’t begin to imagine how difficult it is to wipe permanent marker off.
Yet in spite of all the heartache and struggles (he’s always been very strong and big for his age, in fact, he once accidentally kicked his dad in the throat when he was changing his diaper and we joked that he would be the first baby to ever kill his parent LOL), still, I couldn’t have asked for a better son.
I would love to have a girl one day, but I’m definitely happy I have my boy (I prayed for a boy!).
YoungMommy, the fun (and drama) is just beginning…
OMG, I was just thinking about this earlier this morning. I have two sons ( and cried on the sonogram table each time I was told). I wanted girls so badly since I am the most girly girl ever and wanted to do hair and buy dresses basically lol. I just knew I would have no clue what to do with a boy.
*cue boy #1*
He was born and is the most mellow little man you want to meet. Even at 7 yrs old he’s still really mellow, plays well by himself and if anything wants to stimulate me more than the other way around(read to me, sit with me… even comes to check on me when I’ve been in my room for a while). I thought I had it made.
*cue boy #2*
This child is sooo energetic it’s crazy. I can’t believe he’s mine sometimes. He will be two in a couple months and he has already got *some* personality. He runs around the house full speed, climbs on my coffee tables, bumps his head on things and gets up like he meant to do it, is moody and temperamental asnd fusses with you ( in baby-gibberish mixed with some real words) like he’s a grown man…but he is the sweetest little boy you could meet lol.
I want to say all boys are like boy #2 but since I happened to get two of them who are on the opposite ends of the spectrum, Im not so sure. And as I sit here and watch him run and pull stuff out (my baby oil actually… that I’m still trying to figure out how he reached it) I’m secretly hoping he was more like his brother.. but I wouldnt dare change him.
PS…my son is famous for sharing the GREEN poo (like food coloring green) with the world lol
@Superwomanmomlady – YES! Purple!!! Like, almost Barney-the-dinosaur purple but a little deeper…ARGH!!
@ Candise – Now, I don’t want to make it seem like my daughter is sweet as pie. I mean, she is more talkative than anything else. But she will TALK YOUR EAR OFF from one spot. My son? Oh, my. Just yesterday he toppled over a table and broke a remote control. Did I mention he’s only 9 MONTHS OLD?!?!?! What AM I going to do when he gets older….
@ Ms Bar B – LMAO at Miss J eating your plants!!! LOL. My son ate a marker yesterday. *sigh* It gets easier, I hope.