I don't know exactly when it happened, or how it happened,  one day, it just did.  I was changing my sons diaper when his little hand reached down and he found "it".  His life has not been the same since.  "It" has been appropriately named "fire hose", as in "Mommy, Hunter is putting his fire hose on the dog...Mommy, Hunter's fire hose is peeing off the deck...Mommy, Hunter is chasing me with his fire hose...you get the point!  What I have realized is that boys and girls are different from birth, actually from conception.  Did you know that in the womb, girls mouths move more than boys?  Just a little piece of trivia.  When my son started talking, it was either a "car" sound (of which my daughter still can't duplicate) or a very intentional word.  Nothing wasted.  Here is another one...why do boys have to kick EVERYTHING???  Seriously, he walks around kicking chairs, balls, walls, toys, sissy, the dog, and pretty much anything does not get out of the way of this permanently attached weapon!  Nothing in his world is a gun (yet) but I am amazed that he can turn just about anything into a car.  I first realized this when he started driving around a little gold sparkly barrette accompanied by a vroom, vroom sound.  This is when I knew that the only people that think that we raise our boys to act like boys, and our girls to act like girls, never had one of each.  They are different at a cellular level and that is that.  My girl has never laughed at a fart (she even calls it a toot) or a burp! and my son...can't contain himself whenever he has the joy of letting one go (from either end!).  Just for the record, we do not celebrate bodily functions around here or even react, but he can hardly contain himself!!!  Oh, and just in case any of you are reading this that don't have a boy, know that your husbands obsession with hair and boobs, started when he was 1.  REALLY.  What is the deal???  For a while, I had to warn other women when they held him to guard their ta ta's because he would just dive into them!  Keep in mind that my kids were not breast fed since they are adopted, so this is not a "food" issue, its a "boobie" (one of his favorite words) issue!

I'm gonna jump ship for a quick minute...I "work" one day a week.  I call this my vacation day, because 12 hours doing hair is much easier than the same amount of time with my children.  Anyway, on these days, I get to have real conversation with real adults and it feeds my soul.  I am lucky to have some great people that I love and respect, and sometimes I even get some great advice from.  A couple of weeks ago, a client that I adore was telling me a story and unbeknownst to her, it turned into some almost life changing (at least attitude changing) advice.  We were talking about her grown son and his beautiful family when she made a comment that went something like this; "...I would give 5 million dollars to have my son be little and call me mommy again..."  It didn't mean much to me until the next day when my son walked up to me, lifted up his arms, and asked me to "tuggle".  My first reaction was just to say just a minute, but that is when it hit me... I looked into his huge brown eyes and saw a man.  A man with his own life, and his own family.  Not my little boy calling me mommy!  It broke me (in a good way).  I know there will be a day that I will want to give 5 million for my son to need me like he does now.

So my point is this...he is a boy, a crazy little boy!!!  I may never fully get why he kicks everything, pees on anything, loves farts and only talks for a reason, but he is my boy that will be a man someday.  I want to do my best to enjoy every moment of his littleness! (my little girl is included in this)  It is hard to be a mommy, it is frustrating and demanding but some day my job at this level will be over.  We are raising "men" and "women" but for now when they look at us with those big brown eyes...lets drop everything, because someday, we will be looking up into their eyes!

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