The Wild Boys

I don't care what anybody says: boys ARE different from girls. I know a lot of the differences in behavior are the result of environment. But I suspect that the bulk of the difference is innate. Boys are different than girls. Not better or worse than, just different. They act different. They smell different. I walk into my boys' room and it has that boy smell. It reminds me of how my brothers' rooms used to smell back when I was a kid.

Since school has been out my two sons engage in typical boyhood summer behavior. They get up early and make themselves something to eat. I do not know why they get up so early! Even Todd gets up before 8am and he was notoriously hard to get up throughout the school year. They make huge bowls of cereal and eat them on the porch. After breakfast they watch a show. Then I make them do one chore each, after that they are free to do whatever they please for the rest of the day, since we're not starting summer studies until the 15th. They usually go outside and play, play, play. They play war games and with their Bionicals, and they run around with sticks. We have a log attached to a rope and they like to frequently swing on that.

Brian got this walkie-talkie set with 4 receivers, sometimes we let them go back into the woods and talk to them often on the set. When they burst from the woods with their dirt-smudged faces carrying large sticks and yelling, I think of them as the wild boys. They remind me of the boys in Peter Pan.