It's interesting that you mention that! I read a book recently that said mothers produce more testosterone when pregnant with a boy, and that most of the difference occurs during the 3rd to 6th months of gestation. So by the time you really feel the baby moving around, he's definitely a boy!
All my children (3 girls, 4 boys) are different from one another, but the big thing I notice that the boys have in common is all the physical activity ... running, jumping, thrashing, leaping, spasming. If I tell my oldest boy (10) to stand up, he can't just stand, he leaps up, spins around two or three times, waves his arms around, and levitates across the room. Drives me insane!
Of course, it was my 6-year-old daughter who put a dent in the wallboard with her head last week :-).
Both my kids were HEAD WALL BANGERS when younger.... very strange LOL
****If I tell my oldest boy (10) to stand up, he can't just stand, he leaps up, spins around two or three times, waves his arms around, and levitates across the room. Drives me insane! ****
Yes, thank you! You have described my son to a 't'.....everything he does is like this!
Whether it's brushing his teeth (toothpaste and water everywhere), getting dressed(the dirty clothes go flying around the room), walking down the hall (he runs and then slides into the kitchen on his knees), eating dinner (you can *always* tell which place was his, from all the food particles around his plate and on the floor beneath). OH, and he's loud too!!
He drives me batty, but he can also be so delightful and very sweet....boys are really complex and that has surprised me.
Well I've gotta get the wild thing ready for swim class. Will check in later this afternoon! Ya'll have a great day.
One of the things that I notice that is different with my son than my 2 girls is that they play gently with toys.
My son would play dolls with my daughters when they were younger. They have this playhouse. My son would take the baby doll and put it in the oven and say the grandmother was evil. Then the boy dolls were always some sort of super hero saving the other dolls. There would always be some sort of fighting going on.
My daughters will also sit and do art work (crafts, writing, drawing) for hours. They'll sit still and do their homework. Kids can be in our house, the computer and the TV can be going on, and my daughters can focus on what they are doing.
My son gets so easily distracted. He can't sit still for long. Homework is a battle. He's been tested for ADD, but he actually has a longer than average attention span. He does focus for school and especially for tests (Thank God).