Today we were lucky enough to have our friend Kristi and her two sons Nick and Travis over. Nick is 3 and Travis is 8 weeks old. Aly and Nick love to play together but as they get older it is becoming quite clear they are filling their gender roles and preferring gender based play.
I will say they did happen to play house today and it was quite interesting to see what they thought each person should do. Aly was the Mommy sheep and Nick was the Daddy sheep. Apparently, Aly decided that the Mommy sheep stays home to take care of the baby lamb and the Daddy sheep goes out hunting. Nick left to go hunting and brought his family back cherries. How cute are they deciding who has what role. I guess they really do model after us don't they?
So now that I am ready to go back to work, how will that change Aly's view of what the woman's responsibility is? It will be interesting to see!
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