IF YOU SAY SO...

Kristen relayed a story about Tobin to me recently.

She'd been helping a friend with something at her house and Tobin played with their little girl who's close in age to him. While they played, he got into the few boyish toys she had, which were plastic dinosaurs. She situated the dinosaurs to her liking and then explained to Tobin, "This is the mommy, this is the daddy, and this is the baby dinosaur. They're living together in this house."

Tobin looked over at Kristen, and in his extremely expressive way, scrunched up his face and shrugged his shoulders as if to say, "Um, I don't get it, but whatever..."

Of course when Tobin and Blane play anything, it ends in explosions, or shooting, or general destruction. So this whole playing house thing was completely foreign to him. Hopefully before long, his baby sister will educate him on the more feminine side of playtime.