Boys Are From Mars

lately i've been finding myself saying:

"you are such a boy"

"only a boy would do that"

"boys will be boys"

i am a mother of two boys and how do i know this?

our house is full of any mode of transport - you name it we have it.

cars, diggers, boats, garbage trucks, tractors, trains, planes, helicopters the list could go on.

i am consistently telling not kaikai but bracky now as well to get their hands out of their pants.

this is a CONSTANT basis, it happens at any point even when we are out at the shops and just about to have lunch, mid-conversation with someone - where's their hands, down their pants.

i have to say it does drive me INSANE.

their fingers are up their noses 24/7 and sometimes they go for the full boy-ness of sticking their finger in their mouth afterwards.

they will not watch movies about princesses or any girl that is the star feature, their is the exception of Jesse in Toy Story - but "she's a cowboy mum."

our book collection merely exists of you guessed it anything that remotely is related to transportation.

they love spending the afternoon playing outside particularly playing sports, this includes a game of rugby between the two of them.

they are the first ones to jump in the mud, run in the rain, anything that gets them all dirty so mum has to change them - they are there.

they would absolutely LOVE it if i would let them run around starkies all day long.

doesn't matter if they knock themselves into anybody they just get up (scratches, blood and all) and keep playing because they are boys.

my mother's reply to all this is "they are just normal boys,"

i am feeling quite out numbered in our little family of four but that's ok.

because at the end of the day just before i tuck them into bed they always make sure they give their mumma a kiss.