ETC.Z Schimpf

There is a difference between XX and XY. Anyone who has taken algebra knows that. But is it really that big of a deal in the human body? Does it really effect what we are?
Let’s see. Place a silver star on a pink piece of paper and another silver star on a black piece. Zoe will pick pink, Creed will pick black. Even at nine months of age walking down the toy isle Creed would shake the cart trying to grasp a toy packaged in grays, blacks and silvers. Zoe cried and pointed at pink and purple packages. At home they would play with the same toys, drank out of the same bottles, rode in the same car seats, had the same Mickey Mouse sheets. For the most part their lives were fairly neutral as far as gender goes. Not absolute, there were clothes, dresses verses ties, football jersey verses lace socks. A few toys but they were all thrown in the basket equally played with.

So why are they different now? Why at age 2. I have a little boy who puts anything he can fit in his pocket (for owning l5 match box cars I have already washed 12). Thinks sticks are Gods gift to all kids, dirt and rocks follow a close second. Climbs and goes 97.5 mph unless he is eating then he slow down to about 75 mph and even sleeps in go mode. A couple of nights a go I called around to see if little boys ever stop moving. I called several experts-mothers of boys. 99% agreed that little boys only stop moving when they are asleep. The other 1% said they will also stop the second before and ½ second after the word “Ou Oh.” But I have a little girl who adorns herself in every pink or shinny thing she finds. Waits for the praise not, “You look beautiful”. She knows that we have been telling her that since she was 5 ½ months old. She wants more. She wants someone to tell her that her choice of purses goes great with the hat. She wants you to watch her dance, listen to her sing, listen to her tell her side of the story. Although I can’t understand ¾’s of what she says it has to be with eye contact. She wants to be daddy’s princes.

I am not talking personality difference I am talking boy girl differences. For her birthday Zoe received a baby stroller. She will carefully put a baby in the stroller and push it around the house, with a bag hanging on the handle of course. Creed will get hold of the stroller, run it up and over the dog pillow, through the blocks in the middle of the floor, over the cat if the cat would sit still, he has even tried to get it up on the couch. Creed received a tractor for his birthday. He has pushed it off the table, off the back of dad’s chair, on the dog, down the steps, through the sorted piles of laundry, into the furniture… Zoe has taken her Barbie for a tractor ride around the room, they were finished.

Lets look back at the XX and XY. Well there is your difference. Every cell in their bodies (not just the parts inside their diapers) are different. The tip of their fingernails are different, the cells on the bottom of their feet are different. Every cell in Creed’s body says “I AM A BOY” and every cell in Zoe’s body says “I AM A GIRL”.God created us in His image-that is why boys and girls are so much alike as they are different. I watch my little boy and little girl through out the day I am reminded that “God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.” and He did this for His glory.