With two big sisters, Briggs has always been very comfortable playing with girls. Although he likes "boy" things, he's always been more than willing to play Barbies or figurines or mermaids or doll house. Sometimes he may be a truck who talks to the Barbies or he might be building Magna Tile castles for the figurines, but he's still a part of their play. He reads princess books and plays mermaids in the tub. The kids his age in our neighborhood are girls. His closest aged cousins are girls. There are more girls than boys in his preschool class, and he generally chooses to play with the girls at school more than the boys at school. Although there are boys he plays with at church or small group, it shouldn't surprise me that most of his friends right now are girls.
Briggs and Grace
Briggs and Keiko
Briggs and Dava
Briggs and Caroline
On the other hand, some of Adelie's closest friends are boys. She recently told me that she has a boy at school who says he's going to marry her, another boy at school who says that she's his girlfriend, and she has been bringing home notes from yet another boy that say 'I love you!'
Lord help us when she's a teenager!!
