Princess

"Excuse me?  Is that your little girl?"  We often hear this from time to time.  After having three boys in a row, the day we had a baby girl changed everything.  We were so excited to bring a little bundle of pink into our home.  Dresses, bows, you name it - we were giddy.  Imagine our surprise then when three years later, our little "Princess" doesn't know she's a girl yet.  She runs with the boys, plays with the boys and ACTS like the boys.  She is as wild as her big brothers.  We started to see the signs of this around her first birthday.  We took the kids to the park and began to watch as the other sweet baby girls sat by their parents or played in the sand.  Most of them didn't want to run, climb or jump...they sat beautifully.  Our daughter on the other hand was climbing Mt. Everest just to keep up with her brothers.  That was also around the first time we heard a gasp from a concerned parent looking around saying, "Whose little girl is that?!  She might fall!"  We knew at that moment - we were in for a long haul.
    I like that she's going to be tough and I'll have to admit- I'm pretty glad she can hold her own.  Even now as I sit, she's playing hide and seek with her brothers and she's smoking all three of them. 
    She IS starting to show signs of wanting to carry a baby doll and push them around in her stroller so we'll see how it goes.  One thing's for sure though, as of now, it looks like her dolls are all going to know how to throw a pretty mean football.