Life in the blue Victorian house... Hey, if it ain't chocolate it ain't breakfast

                Jordan and Stogie in an old portrait by Karen Dvorak

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My young son, Stogie, is all boy.  He rides his skateboard in the house, he takes his scooter apart every chance he gets, and he likes eating potato salad cause it gives him gas.  The upside of this is getting to live my childhood over again--this time as a boy.  :)

The downside....

For some reason, boys must conduct experiments.  They absolutely must find out what makes things tick.  Example:

One time Stogie put an uncooked piece of chicken in a plastic bag and left it in the backyard for three days cause he wanted to know what rotten chicken would smell like after a few days.  Now i understood that, so i went with it and just stayed outta that area of the yard for a while.  No harm done.

Well for some reason, my other son Jordan didn't feel the need to do these kinds of experiments when he was growing up.  No, my gay son, Jordan, was content to play dress up with the neighbor girls and play all the make believe stories that mimicked what Disney was putting out at the time.  Pretty cool stuff.  Jordan also had a few dolls that he was pretty attached to.... one in particular that he um, breastfed for awhile when he was four years old.  That doll met a cruel, untimely end, by the way, which you can read about here.

So yeah, my sons are waaaay different.  I know and accept this and for the most part, i embrace it.  But boy did i flip out this morning when i stumbled onto Stogie's latest experiment.  I opened the freezer door, thinking i would get some ice for my diet Coke, and wouldn't ya know it--a very large clump of grass with the earth still attached was sitting there.  (Our latest experiment?  How long does it really take grass to freeze?)  That's bad enough, but it was sitting on the rack above the ice cube trays and some of the dirt dropped into the ice cube trays before they were frozen and so the dirt was frozen inside the ice cube trays!  Jeeze.

I exclaimed to Stogie who was there monitoring the experiment..... "WHY CAN'T YOU BE GAY AND PLAY WITH DOLLS LIKE YOUR BROTHER DID??!!"  ((0.~))