Twodles likes girls

He's only two and is definitely already showing his interest in the ladies!

Any girl would love this tough looking dude.  The bandana and GI Joes in hand tip the scales!

His first time going to a movie theater was to see The Lorax.  He was glued to the ginormous screen for every minute of that brightly colored movie!  From that point on he talked about Audrey non-stop.  He constantly says, "where Audrey...she cute...I love her" or "mom, your pretty like Audrey!"  He even said he wants to be Audrey for Halloween.

First time to the theater

Then on the fourth of July we went to the city parade.  One of the floats had a bunch of girls dancing on the flatbed of a semi to loud music.  When Twodles woke up from his nap that afternoon, he told me  "pretty girls dancing on truck, music loud!"

Twodles checking out the ladies at the Fourth of July Parade, and Mr Medic looking VERY skeptical 

As of late he's found a new crush...Rapunzel.  We borrowed Tangled and as we were watching it he said "I love this girl, she pretty, she got long hair on her"

Here's where Mr Medic will point out that even at a young age boys like girls with long hair, but its not the long hair I've got on my mind.  Its that he's even showing affection for the girls at all when he's so young.

Twodles is clearly attracted to girls.  I have never heard him say "I like the boy, he is cute"  Now one could argue that he has been trained and conditioned to respond affectionately to girls only.  He see's his daddy and me being affectionate (which I believe is very important for children to see) and he watches movies that depict men and women liking each other.  I have never talked to him about liking one or the other, nor have I allowed him to watch forms of media that promote same gender attractions.  So I guess if that is conditioning...I'm guilty.

I've expressed here on my blog once before already about how I believe that we are each born with specific gender identities, and I know that includes our attractions to those whom God intended, men for women, and women for men.  I know is that without much outside influence, Twodles enjoys him some cute girls, and it sure is cute and just a little alarming.  I assume I may just have to keep a close eye on him as time goes on.  I wouldn't want him to be that sneaky little boy that is caught chasing the girls at recess playing kissing tag!


So here are my questions:

Do you believe that people can be born with SSA, or is it a series of events that cause them to develop those tendencies, or a combination of both?

Do you believe that a parent can have a strong influence on their child's sexual preference?

• For instance, if I were to play dress up with Twodles and occassionally put him in a dress, or give him barbie dolls to play with or whatever it may be, is it possible that I can alter his "original" sexual preference to that of another?  

Fu-Choo-ing & Gender Identity

How is it that boys come out of the womb with a love of all form of weaponry and the ability to make gun noises?

A while back Twodles was playing with his army guy and was naming what it had on.  He said shoe, hat, and then pointed to the weapon attached to its tiny green plastic body and asked "was dat?"  I was taken aback because I really didn't want to tell him it was a gun.  For some reason the word sounded way to violent for his sweet innocent mind.

I'm not the type of mom that won't allow toy weapons in the house, but it just caught me off guard.  So, after a quick pause, I scrambled to find another word to call it and suddenly blurted out sword!  As if that sounds any less violent, right?

Needless to say his innate ability to make gun noises has manifest itself in the form of the sound "fu-choo"  If you ask him what he is doing he will tell you he is "just fu-choo-ing"

On his birthday almost every other present was a gun in some form or another.  He got a western looking gun, one that blows bubbles, and a Toy Story themed one that shoots foam disks lightening fast across the room.

Birthday boy with his new gun

When he can't find his guns or doesn't have access to them, he will turn practically anything into a gun.

All that being said, I truly believe, as it states in "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" that we are all born with a specific gender identity.  I've seen it so clearly during my time as a preschool teacher when little girls care for and nurture their baby dolls, and when little boys defend and protect.  This isn't to say that boys cannot display nurturing qualities, or that they shouldn't play with baby dolls.  The same goes for girls.  Its not as if girls cannot be a little rough and tumble. We are given abilities and characteristics that enable us to fulfill our future roles as husbands or wives and fathers or mothers.  

Its so fun to see my sweet boys doing what they do best...BEING BOYS!