{"id":2898,"date":"2013-12-16T21:12:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T03:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/babyz.hottie-biscotti.com\/?p=2898"},"modified":"2013-12-16T21:12:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T03:12:22","slug":"348365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/2013\/12\/16\/348365\/","title":{"rendered":"348\/365"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/babyz.hottie-biscotti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-14-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2895\" alt=\"12-14-13\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/babyz.hottie-biscotti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-14-13.jpg?resize=593%2C445\" width=\"593\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-14-13.jpg?w=593 593w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/babyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-14-13.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>First Marshmallow!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And she loved it. \u00a0Of course. \u00a0More proof that she is in fact my flesh and blood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We went to the Van Kleefs tonight for Lights in the Heights. \u00a0We didn&#8217;t walk around at all, but just driving down the streets was a lot of fun. \u00a0Carson is way more into Christmas lights and decorations this year. \u00a0I love this neighborhood. \u00a0It might be my favorite in Houston.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Shallan has a bunch of her old Barbie stuff and the Hartman girls were playing with it tonight. \u00a0Carson went in there to play with them, which doesn&#8217;t bother me at all. \u00a0I don&#8217;t care if he plays with Barbies at the age of 3&#8230;13 and I might start to worry. \u00a0At one point he held up a toy mirror and told those of us standing in the kitchen that it was his &#8220;shooter&#8221;. \u00a0All boy. \u00a0I know some people have this idea that our culture fosters behavior in boys and girls as far as what toys they play with and how we encourage certain behaviors as the appropriate ones for their gender. \u00a0Which may be true to some extent, but in having a son and a daughter I can already see gender differences that I did not encourage, and from an early age. \u00a0I haven&#8217;t discouraged Carson from playing with dolls (I bought him a pink baby doll before Betsy was born) and he loves the tea set Betsy got for her birthday, and Betsy has no choice but to play with cars, trucks and tools because we have a lot of that stuff around. \u00a0But Carson still turns things into guns and bangs things together and Betsy sweetly pats her stuffed animals and dolls&#8230;and she bangs things together. \u00a0But there are definitely differences between girls and boys that are just innate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; First Marshmallow! And she loved it. \u00a0Of course. \u00a0More proof that she is in fact my flesh and blood. 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