Boys and their toys

When we had Gavin, I knew that this poor boy was being thrown in to the world of a girly girl. Of course he had more "masculine" books (I branched out when he was first born and bought some truck/emergency vehicle/firetruck books that are favorites even today), etc. But understandably, for awhile the majority of the toys in our house were mostly girly. We even tried to evade the whole princess phenomenon with Sydney by trying not to feed into and it still sucked her right in (I think it is partially innate!). So when Gavin grew old enough to move around and eventually started becoming interested in Sydney's "things" I found it quite entertaining when he'd wear a necklace or choose a Dora book over an animal book. Then my little boy continued to grow and somewhere along the lines he was introduced to trucks (I think it was actually a combination of hand-me-down Tonka trucks and new Caterpillar trucks from Aunt Ginny and Michael!) He's never looked back. Now he is all about trucks. And cars. Firetrucks. Trains. Dinosaurs. Most recently he has become obsessed with monster trucks thanks to a buddy of his from daycare who generously shared his monster trucks with Gavin! Now he has a small collection of about 4-5 monster trucks and he is very quick to correct you if you call just a regular truck a monster truck, or the other way around. He's very particular, my little man. :)

Anyhow, this is a video of Gavin with some of his "mon-trucks" as he calls them. I think I love this video so much because right around the time that he turned 2 I was beginning to be concerned about his speech. I knew he was still young, I recognized that he has a very chatty big sister, and I knew that with his personality, he probably wasn't very interested in trying to work on communicating with us. Over the last few months there has been an explosion of words and now he has no problem voicing his opinion(s). I have loved watching his personality blossom--he is such a funny, happy little boy!