It's a girl!

There are people in this world that are sure Madeline is a boy. We often hear "hey buddy" and "what a cute little boy" when we are out and about. Side note: Would I really dress my little boy head to toe in pink? Do little boys often wear ponytails on top of their heads? People are crazy sometimes. She may not have the hair to show for it, but her true girliness is coming through more and more each day.

These are the ways I know she is 100% girl:

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1. She wants to wear anything that can be worn. If she finds clothes on the floor in her room, she drapes them over her shoulders. She now takes clothes out of my closet and wants to try them on. She cries when I try to take her hat off when we come in from playing outside.

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2. She loves to accessorize. Madeline found a pair of Scott's old earbud headphones and has claimed them as her "necklace". Every morning she pulls them out of her toybox and wears them around her shoulders for a good part of the day. She doesn't mind wearing things in her hair, and if a barrett falls out she brings it to me to put back in. She will wear anything that is round with a hole in it as a bracelet.

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3. She love, love, LOVES shoes. I'm sure my dad is thinking "Hmmmm, I wonder who that sounds like?" My shoe collection has majorly shrunk since high school, dad. Madeline wants to wear shoes first thing in the morning, and doesn't care that they have to go over her pajama feet. She knows where the shoe section is in the stores we frequent. She cries and tries to reach out and touch the shoes if we go past it. I bought her a pair of shoes a couple of weeks ago. Later that day we were in the car for quite a while and I noticed that she was being unusually quiet in the back seat. When we stopped to get out, I saw that she was turning her feet this way and that while she admired her shoes!

As for the whole nature vs. nurture argument - I think these symptoms are 90 % nature. I am believing more and more that we are born with certain innate qualities that pertain to our gender.

It's pretty cute right now to watch her dress up, but I may have my hands full when she's a teenager!