Girls

For some time now, there has seemed to be some emerging division of the sexes at school among Jamie's friends, as the boys have enacted their PowerRanger/ Transformer/Ninja Turtles/Spiderman/Batman superhero personas. We heard from one Mom that her little girl was sad because the boys didn't play with her any more.

Lately, however, Jamie seems more and more interested in girls. Our on-the-way-to-school stories lately have focused around Jamie and his friend Shawnie and "the team" referring to the superheroes - usually J and S as the leaders supported bu Luke, Siler and the lone girl, Leah Mei. Yesterday, however Jamie said that the story would be about a new team member, and a girl no less, Jackie. This is, to be very clear, an elite group of fire-fighting, bad guy-catching, Batmobile-driving superheroes, so this is a major honor, though one fully deserved. In the ensuing story, Jamie made sure that she got to play an important role in reeling in a criminal stealing double-decker buses in London.

Another clue about the rising status of girls comes from a Wiggles video the boys are into right now. There are some singing and dancing pirates (don't ask), some men, some women. Out of absolutely no where the other day in the car Jamie informed Sarah that he liked the girl pirates better. When asked why he thought for a bit and said "Because they talk prettier and sing prettier."