we are he-man woman haters, we feed girls to alligators...

I don't know where or when William decided that girls are yucky--but he did. I knew that this would happen one day but I guess I didn't expect it quite so soon. Sometimes I'm included in "what girls can't do" and sometimes I'm exempt because I'm a mom.

In the last few weeks I was told that girls can't watch Transformers and that he and Rich couldn't share an apple with me because I'm a girl. Apparently girls can't eat apples either.

Sometimes his distaste for girls works in my favor though. He was in desperate need of a haircut. I told him that his hair was getting "like girl hair" and people would tell him "oh! what a cute little girl." He certainly didn't want that... so he allowed me to give him a haircut.

And then, a few weekends ago we went on a "family date"--first stop: McDonald's. (Or as William calls it "Old McDonald's".) William loves playing with the other kids that are there but this time there were girls. And not just any girls... kissing girls! These girls were probably 5 or 6 and were chasing all the boys around. We saw them corner William by our table, trying to kiss him, while he managed to fend them off (and their mom's looked on and said "don't kiss those boys!") But up in the tunnels it turns into Lord of the Flies with no parental supervision and one of the girls managed to kiss him on the cheek. As we got the boys into the car we asked him about it. He said that he didn't like girls to kiss him. Rich teased him by saying "I like mom to kiss me." William then conceded that it was okay for mom to kiss him... just not friends.

And, for now at least, I'm okay with being the only girl who can kiss those baby soft cheeks.