It’s hard to put your finger on it. But it is different.

I’ve long felt that baby girls must be much like baby boys. Of course, I only had baby boys around me, but I felt certain about this. After all, they’re babies. Maybe when they get a little older, start having personalities and interests, maybe that was when the differences would show. But in the early weeks where the baby is little more than an eating, sleeping and pooping blob, there can’t be much that is feminine or masculine, right?

Well, while I still think that’s basically true, there are a few little differences here and there. They have totally surprised and charmed me. For instance, Evie doesn’t care to be manhandled much. She’s now getting old enough to where she can be played with a bit. Kile has always played with our babies in the past and the boys always enjoyed his particular brand of bouncing and swinging at this age. It was often how he would coax their early smiles out. But Evie just does NOT care for it. She’ll make a sour face, even start crying. She seems a lot more sensitive to touch and noise than either of my boys ever was.

She also loves to be spoken to or sung to. Not that the boys didn’t also enjoy such treatments but this is where she really will beam out her smiles. Often, while I’m changing her diaper I will coo at her and tell her what a pretty girl she is or sing a little song to her about being a princess with dirty pants. She eats it up and smiles and wriggles about with obvious joy. That is what she really responds to… interaction, not action. Isn’t that interesting?

Sugar and spice and all that’s nice…

Snips and snails and puppy dog tails!

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