Saturday, 3 March 2012

Boy Like You

Are boys more gullible, or do they just like their food more?

Lightning is really easy to fool.  That whole 'zooming plane/chugging train open your mouth and shove the food in' thing, he totally falls for.  And the even more obvious 'one spoonful of savoury/one spoon of sweet' seems to be his favourite way of finishing a meal at the moment.

Which I know is classic baby, but totally not like either of our previous two.  Once she'd had a taste of the sweet, Toots could tell the 'good/wholesome/savoury' spoonful a mile away and point blank refused to open her mouth for it, while Tiger, at least when she was under a year, shoved whatever she wanted in herself (where has that girl gone?!!?). Neither, ever, graced the Don or I with even a flicker of appreciation at the plane/train idea.

So maybe it's 'things that move' that the boy likes.  Certainly if there's a toy with a moving bit on it then he'll find that bit and move it over and over.  And over and over.  And if moving it makes a loud noise, all the better.

They really are lovely, the difference between boys and girls; first kids and subsequent ones; British and American...

No, I'm just kidding about the last one ;)

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