GatorFarmer
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We decided that five would be a good number to try for. My wife is newly pregnant with number four on that progression.
So far we have three sons. The oldest is dramatic and likes to comb hair "to make you pretty." He'll soon be four. He plays with his toy guns though and is mostly nice to his brothers. We took all his Trio blocks and made a mammoth fort/castle. He insisted on gun towers and "power generators". If you ask him what makes the grass grow, he'll yell "blood, blood, blood".
He can also sing a good part of the theme song from "Rawhide."
Our middle son is mean one. He's also skinny. He likes to fight and scheme. He still sucks his thumb. Rather than a stuffed animal, he sleeps clutching a cap pistol in one hand. I jarred him slightly covering him back up as he slept a few weeks ago. He was muttering "kill, kill, kill" in his sleep. He also takes plastic utensils home with him - or failing that straws - whenever he goes out to eat somewhere. He calls them "shanks". His favorite toy recently was a glow in the dark Halloween plastic meat cleaver that cost a dollar. He'd sleep clutching in on the couch when he took a nap. Good kid. He'll be three in Feb.
The two older boys have taken to playing a game while watching "Scooby", their favorite show as of late. Whenever the monsters show up, they get their toy guns and yell directions at each other to fire, reload, "shoot him down", etc. When the batteries in one died, they said they were out of ammo. Sometimes they yell "battle stations" first. Who knew Scooby episodes would be such a wonderful training exercise. They've started to expand this to other tv shows, apparently on the theory that monsters can be disguised as people and not just people disguised as monsters.
They get their colors and numbers mixed up, but know all the wrestlers in the WWE by name.
They also have a constant ongoing war involving soldiers, dinosaurs, monsters, zombies and wrestlers. Sometimes aliens and ninjas too, and of course robots... Soldiers have to go in their forts to not be eaten by dinosaurs and to shoot them as my oldest son explains. Makes sense.
Our youngest will be a year old in December. He's large for his age, our other two sons were skinny. At not quite a year old he's wearing clothes meant for 18 to 24 month olds. (Not fat per se, just big.) He also seems the laziest. He does get animated for food though. Baby food is something that he largely skipped, having tried it perhaps twice and then simply stealing food from his brothers. Can't blame him, the stuff tastes nasty. He actually cried when everyone else had a toy gun and he didn't, and those were among the first toys that he'd swipe. Finally we gave him one of his own and he seems happy, though not as happy as when he had a giant foam mallet to bash everyone with. But then he tried to eat it so I had to take it away. Lately he's adopted a toy monster truck and bashes it into things.
For some strange reason, my wife is hoping for a girl this time.
So far we have three sons. The oldest is dramatic and likes to comb hair "to make you pretty." He'll soon be four. He plays with his toy guns though and is mostly nice to his brothers. We took all his Trio blocks and made a mammoth fort/castle. He insisted on gun towers and "power generators". If you ask him what makes the grass grow, he'll yell "blood, blood, blood".
He can also sing a good part of the theme song from "Rawhide."
Our middle son is mean one. He's also skinny. He likes to fight and scheme. He still sucks his thumb. Rather than a stuffed animal, he sleeps clutching a cap pistol in one hand. I jarred him slightly covering him back up as he slept a few weeks ago. He was muttering "kill, kill, kill" in his sleep. He also takes plastic utensils home with him - or failing that straws - whenever he goes out to eat somewhere. He calls them "shanks". His favorite toy recently was a glow in the dark Halloween plastic meat cleaver that cost a dollar. He'd sleep clutching in on the couch when he took a nap. Good kid. He'll be three in Feb.
The two older boys have taken to playing a game while watching "Scooby", their favorite show as of late. Whenever the monsters show up, they get their toy guns and yell directions at each other to fire, reload, "shoot him down", etc. When the batteries in one died, they said they were out of ammo. Sometimes they yell "battle stations" first. Who knew Scooby episodes would be such a wonderful training exercise. They've started to expand this to other tv shows, apparently on the theory that monsters can be disguised as people and not just people disguised as monsters.
They get their colors and numbers mixed up, but know all the wrestlers in the WWE by name.
They also have a constant ongoing war involving soldiers, dinosaurs, monsters, zombies and wrestlers. Sometimes aliens and ninjas too, and of course robots... Soldiers have to go in their forts to not be eaten by dinosaurs and to shoot them as my oldest son explains. Makes sense.
Our youngest will be a year old in December. He's large for his age, our other two sons were skinny. At not quite a year old he's wearing clothes meant for 18 to 24 month olds. (Not fat per se, just big.) He also seems the laziest. He does get animated for food though. Baby food is something that he largely skipped, having tried it perhaps twice and then simply stealing food from his brothers. Can't blame him, the stuff tastes nasty. He actually cried when everyone else had a toy gun and he didn't, and those were among the first toys that he'd swipe. Finally we gave him one of his own and he seems happy, though not as happy as when he had a giant foam mallet to bash everyone with. But then he tried to eat it so I had to take it away. Lately he's adopted a toy monster truck and bashes it into things.
For some strange reason, my wife is hoping for a girl this time.
Obviously, well done.
