Most of his cousins are girls, particularly the ones who are older than he is--the ones he has looked up to.
And, of course, he's got his mother and sisters to keep him company most of the time.
The natural result of this is that although Ben is very much a boy--we all know he loves Star Wars, bugs, dinosaurs, working outside with his dad, etc.--he is extremely comfortable around his female peers, and just generally pretty in touch with his feminine side.
For example, he LOVES babies, gets upset if we watch Barbie movies without him, and wishes he could have a new Christmas dress like his sisters (just feeling left out, of course).
Anyway, because of all this female influence, Benjamin sometimes thinks a bit like a girl. For example, I've noticed that--unlike most little boys--Ben talks a lot about falling in love and getting married.
In fact, when he was in preschool he used to come home every day saying he had married someone!
This summer he met a girl at the park who he claimed to have fallen in love with, and he is always bringing home pictures from school that girls have drawn for him.
A couple of days ago, as we were hurrying to his classroom door before the morning bell, Benjamin said he'd seen a really pretty girl who was in kindergarten.
Me: What does she look like?
Ben: Well, she has curly hair, white skin, and looks like C (a girl in his class), except she doesn't have dots on her face (C has a few small beauty marks on her face that Ben has apparently noticed).
Me: That's nice.
Ben: I think I will marry her someday.
Every day since, Ben has been craning his neck to see the kindergarten girls standing in their line outside the school as his unromantic mother hurries him by.
I think it's kind of cute that Ben is always falling in love, but I worry about him getting his heart broken at such a young age.
And she couldn't really be The One, could she? :)
1 comments:
Lisa, that is so sweet:) Ben will make a wonderful husband one day with all the time he spends with girls!!
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