Sleeping Beauty and Other Stuff

I remember someone telling me before I had kids that girls and boys are essentially the same.  They said that  only act like girls or boys because we teach them to act that way.  I don't buy into this AT ALL.  As soon as Dax could walk, he wanted to throw, hit, tackle anything he could get his chubby little hands on.  I am not saying that the girls never throw or hit or tackle, but there is MOST definitely a difference. 

Cora is turning into a seriously girly girl.  For about the last week or so, she has decided that her jammies are just not fancy enough.  So, sometime after I put her in her bed and kiss her goodnight, she adds a frilly tutu to her pajamas.  I didn't think about taking a picture the first few times, so last night I snuck into her room and took a picture...this tutu is white and so it is a little harder to see.   

It is getting harder and harder to catch this little girl tutu-less.  She puts them on over her jeans, too.  Speaking of dressing up, the other day after lunch the kids were playing upstairs.  The girls were playing princesses in Arden's room, and Dax wanted to play too.  Here is one pretty princess!

Luckily for Preston, his wish came true and Daxton now dresses up in his dinosaur costume every time the girls start putting on their princess dresses.  (I used to occasionally discover that poor Dax had been dressed up as a princess by his sweet sisters...Don't worry, even though Preston has forbidden me to post a picture of the boy in a dress on the internet, I have one saved to show to his fiance someday) . 

Here is a picture of the dress-up crew.  Kinda looks like Arden needs some bigger dress up clothes.  I told her that maybe it was time to pass down this Cinderella dress to Cora, and she looked at me with a straight face and said, "Why?  It fits great!"  Um, okay. 

So far the kids don't differ too much in what they like to watch on television.  Dax will happily sit through the Little Mermaid or Sleeping Beauty, and the girls don't mind watching Kung Fu Panda.  Their latest and greatest favorite show to watch is "Octonauts" from the Disney Channel.  The Octonauts are cute little animals that explore the oceans and teach kids about different kinds of sea creatures.  It is pretty educational, and the characters and kind of cute...how-EVER, some of them confuse me.  For example, what the heck is this pink guy?



I would guess from his legs that he is an octopus, but if that is the case, why does he have piggy ears?  And why does he have a nose like a dog?  Don't even get me started on whatever these things are:

Arden just told me that this is a "Vegi-mal." They are kind of like helpers to the main animal characters.  So somehow these cute little Octonaut animals have figured out a way to cross animal and vegetable DNA, and created themselves a small army of mutants to cook and clean for them.  Kind of creepy actually.  Maybe whoever created these vegimals did some genetic experiments on the octopus and that is how he got his piggy ears and doggie nose?  I am rambling.  Guess it is time to go run and then hit the sack.  As you were.