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November 28, 2009
4.28: Fairy fingers
Most of the time, Owen is more than happy to play with his sisters. They're running around the house like chickens with their heads cut off? He's right there with them. They hide, he goes looking for them. They sit with me to read a book, he climbs over top of them to get to my lap and be right in the center of it all. When the girls go upstairs to play in the game room, he roams around downstairs, calling their names and trying to get them to join in a nice game of "Run, Piggy, Run."
Since, he's the youngest, Owen is usually happy to follow the girls' lead. The only time he really gets to be in front is when he's chasing after the girls and they come up behind him to lap him. He's ok to let them make up the rules, as long as they aren't too complicated and they don't take too long. Other than that, he's ok with pretending to put on make up, dancing with Cinderella's stepsisters, and marrying both of them in a hurried ceremony that ends with a shrieky rendition of Ring Around the Rosy. He loves to try to copy their gymnastics moves, even though his legs are still too short to push him over through even the simplest forward roll. He does much better running behind them as they relevé and chassé down the hall, holding his arms up in the "pretty" position.
Owen may not end up the most masculine of men, but I imagine his future wife will be grateful that he grew up in a house full of sisters.
Posted by me at November 28, 2009 9:43 PM