Jul 18 2008
Friday Flashback
While I was putting all those family photo albums back on shelves, I came across my own baby photos. I can’t have been more than two… Although my mother reports that my two boys are WAY more active (a nice way to say “They’re nuts. I’m glad I had girls.”), it does look like I enjoyed both climbing and dirt.
While I wasn’t a tomboy, I was certainly not into the whole girly thing that I see around me today.
What were you like?
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Great photo! You were so cute. At that age I was pretty much terrified of bugs. Dirt didn’t bother me, as long as there were no bugs in it.
It’s funny you mention the girliness. The almost-7-year-old next door is such a girl, and no one knows why. Her mom’s not at all girly (neither is her dad in case anyone wondered), but basically as soon as she could walk she’d pick up any nearby bag and carry it around on her wrist like a little purse. She loves to play with the neighborhood boys and climb trees, ride bikes, whatever, but always in a dress and usually in pink or leopard print boots. It’s so funny how some of that is just ingrained in us.
Very, very cute!
I was pretty much a tomboy. I had dolls, but I usually dragged them around by their hair. I was happier outside, playing in the dirt, or being wherever my Dad was. Why yes, I am daddy’s little girl, why do you ask?
I grew up in the country, being girly wasn’t an option really. If I wasn’t at home, I was at my Grandmother’s farm and all the fun places to play were also dirty. I mean really, it’s pretty hard to carry a purse and chase a full grown hog around a pen.
Jenifer – For me its worms. Can’t stand them.
Cynthia – I had relatives in farm country Indiana. We learned some pretty cool stuff when we visited like how to catch the chickens and put them to sleep by tucking their heads under their wings and rocking them. We’d catch as many as we could (they were good at evasion), line them up, then yell really loud to wake them up all at once. Man was that fun!
We were always told to stay away from the hogs – particularly the ones with babies.
That picture is darling! I was more of a tomboy too. And very into sports. I did the Barbie thing, but it didn’t last long. And LOL at your mom’s comment about your boys. You’ll love this, since you hate worms. After my youngest saw the movie How To Eat Fried Worms, we were outside and he found a really long worm in the dirt. He looked at my husband and I and said how much will you pay me if I eat this? The dh said twenty bucks, thinking there’s no way he’s going to eat it. But he did! According to him it tasted like dirt.
very cute! I was a girly girl up to age 7. then I became a bit of a tomboy.
lsounds like you are in love with your iphone! what is the name of the new cat?
Ugh! Robin, boys will do the most disgusting things – and the men aren’t that much better sometimes
Hyun, the cat has no name. She’ll be leaving us. Things have gone from okay at best to bad. What can I say, we tried.