Saturday, August 26, 2006

Gender Differences

Esther is now 9+ months old. She is crawling and walking around furniture, standing unassisted and has occasionally taken a step on her own. She has 4 teeth, weighs 19 1/2lbs, likes to eat everything we're eating but also likes to spit food and water from her mouth. She is beginning to use her voice and her signs more and is really enjoying books, especially about animals. She has followed her older brother's development (other than his exceptional weight gain and her hair lightening) almost exactly.

However, there are a few exceptions...

She LOVES babies. I mean goes crazy over them. There could 20 toys between her and her prey (the infant) and she will push them aside with a vengence to get to that baby. She also loves dolls. We didn't have any (only stuffed animals) because Simeon wasn't into them at all. Thankfully a client I was visiting was intrigued by Esther's enthusiasm over one of their dolls and gave it to her. She adores her 'baby'. Her affection consists of kissing, licking, talking to, dragging around by the hair, slapping on the face, dropping on the floor, banging the head numerous times on the floor...okay, so we're still working on the gentle thing! It sounds mean, but she really is showing love with all these things.

Another thing she has taken to doing lately is putting clothing (or dishtowels, or anything cotton for that matter) on her head to look 'pretty'. She's constantly trying to 'dress' herself.

At this age, Simeon's favortie game was for me to build a tower while he recklessly knocked it over. His motto for everything seemed to be 'Destroy and Conquer!"

I guess I wasn't expecting my kids to play so differently at such an early eage. So much for the gender nurturing thing. Mine seem to come by it naturally! Or maybe Esther just wears too much pink! :)

8 Comments:

At 11:59 AM, Blogger Emma said...

MY GOSH!!!!
Those children are getting so big -tears- it certainly makes me feel lonely. I wish I could see ya before Christmas but some news reached me that you may not be able to come:O I will surely die if I cannot see those kids so COME HOME!

 
At 12:29 PM, Blogger Roo said...

the mama hen gene begins early! we were at brians parents house and they have a little doll crib. (they found at a garage sale and it was shilohs first time "playing" with it) she crawled over to it and DUMPED a small doll she had into it. ??!!!!

 
At 2:04 PM, Blogger Joyska said...

okay... your children are very different and yet... when you put them in the same picture... they are one in the same! ha ha... notice the mirror image in the last photo... amazing!

 
At 9:12 PM, Blogger Yvonne Parks said...

What a Princess!

 
At 11:23 PM, Blogger Rochelle, John and Amelia said...

Dang girl, could they get any cutier!

 
At 6:40 PM, Blogger Erica said...

That picture of them sleeping is simply delicious!
They are adorable.

 
At 8:51 PM, Blogger Christina said...

Esther is so sweet, she just keeps getting cuter everytime I see her. She certainly is a little girl.

 
At 3:18 PM, Blogger Priscilla said...

In my expert opinion....oh yeah I only had girls.

Very cute pictures and stories...it is good to keep up to date....a little anyway.

 

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