two of a kind family

[metaphortunate]

Who was it I was talking to about the luck of having two kids of the same sex?

Because it does feel like an escape. See, if I'd had a boy and a girl, I know in my soul that I would be absolutely convinced at this point that there are real differences between boys and girls, even at the age of like a year, and that I knew because I had seen them.

If the Junebug had been a girl I would be convinced that I had hard evidence that it's true that boy babies cry more than girls. If Rocket had been a girl I would be convinced that, wow: girls really do show so much more affection and emotion than boys. Even at such a young age.

But they're both boys, so what I have hard evidence for is that n=2 doesn't mean shit. Kids vary.

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[troisroyaumes]

My mother is already chalking up every single difference between how I was as a baby and how my son is as a baby to girl vs boy. (I'm an only child so no siblings to make that comparison.) "He cries more loudly than you did...it must be because he's a boy! He kicks and fidgets more than you did...wow, boys really are more active than girls, aren't they?" Sigh.

[metaphortunate]

Aaaah, you had the baby! Congratulations!

....grandmothers. Oy.