Legos and Guns

 LEGOS and GUNS. What is it about those two that appeals to boys? They build grand "daddy dragon mansions", planes, submarines, "ak40s" and turbos... They save mom, kill mom and rescue poor Indian children from communist while traveling through the jungle, no wait that was my grandmothers childhood story.

A Computerworld columnist writes:

There are a couple of truisms: Lego just goes on and on, and on… and, when it comes to guns, boys never really do grow up.  Some comments posted on the Brickarms forums: “I want human-sized Lego weapons”; “As a child, I always wished that Lego would come out with some grenades for my dudes to throw at each other”… and so on in similar vein.

Here's a snippet called Fathers & Sons from the Wall St Journal:

I can't shake the sense that boys are supposed to become manly. Rather than neutering their aggression, confidence and desire for danger, we should channel these instincts into honor, gentlemanliness and courage. Instead of inculcating timidity in our sons, it seems wiser to train them to face down bullies, which by necessity means teaching them how to throw a good uppercut. In his book "Manliness," Harvey Mansfield writes that a person manifesting this quality "not only knows what justice requires, but he acts on his knowledge, making and executing the decision that the rest of us trembled even to define." You can't build a civilization and defend it against barbarians, fascists and playground bullies, in other words, with a nation of Phil Donahues.

 Everyday they talk about saving the world and mom from doom. They talk about being like daddy, diving deep in the ocean and using guns to shoot the bad guys. Often I find myself encouraging these rough manly attributes and although that is a quality woman look for, we look more for those that are respectful, have pride, honor and courage.

My husband  thankfully has all these attributes to instill in the boys. These are things they will learn as they grow, through trial and beatings  errors but for now they need to enjoy this part. CHILDHOOD... because as we all know, it goes by too fast.

I do love watching them build castles, guns and the lot.

Is it Prego or Preggers?

I swear I feel lazier and lazier ever dang day! I'm sure the lil parasite growing inside me isn't helping much these day oh wait before you start saying " what did she just call here baby?" let's be real here people that is what they are right now. they feed off your body's nutrition for themselves.

so lets see my tally of Prego things this week:

wanting to hurl: 20
actually vomiting:0
crying at commercials: 4
snapping at the work who didn't get my order right at Wendy's:1
going back to bed after a shower:5
getting up in the middle of the night to pee:15
looking at my belly and butt to see which is getting bigger faster: 7

I got a "wonderful" [insert sarcastic tone] email from my ex about the boys and other drams fill topics but in midst of all mean and hateful things he said NOTHING bothered me EXCEPT he made a comment of me getting fat...... now first off I have been 119 for many yrs now but the fact that my Pregnant behind is inevitable going to gain weight; that really bothered me. I can't stop thinking about it " I'm going to get fat" DAMN IT!! I don't want to be one of those woman who gain a number of lbs and look like they should have a [WIDE LOAD] sign attached to my back side. This is what is frightening me the most of this pregnancy- not the fact my husband will be at sea for the next 3 months or that I M/S just a few months back but its me gaining weight.

I suppose I will learn to deal