Boys!

We were at a 4th birthday party on the weekend at an indoor play park. I heard a lady there telling about her daughter who didn't want to go to the play park because she would get her dress dirty. Also she didn't want to take off her shoes (you have to take shoes off to play on the play equipment). I thought, what a GIRL!!! Liem, on the other hand, was only too happy to pull off his shoes and green Santa's helper hat and race off to climb all over the play equipment.

My days are spent with boy's toys of all sorts....we watch Porco Rosso (Liem's favourite dvd about an Italian sea plane pilot who has been turned into a pig), we play with planes of all sorts all day - planes Liem has made with duplo, paper planes, plastic toy planes.... One of our neighbours gave Liem a toy plane and the first thing he does is point out to me the SIX GUNS that are on the plane wings. Yesterday we are playing with a lego fire engine, he is playing with the toy water sprayer and tells me, "I wish I had a bigger gun than this". On previous occasions, he has also asked for "a gun I don't have to make". He's also played with our neighbour's super soakers (BIG water guns) - LOVES them and wants one for Christmas. I am determined to stick to my NO GUN policy - Liem, of course, will find a way to deal with this, in his own way (points "gun" fingers at Mummy, "Piu, piu!").