I
am the mother of seven girls and one boy so when I say how boys play is
different from the way girls play I truly know what I am talking about.
The first five children were girls so our house was full of dress-ups and
Barbie dolls. I tried one Christmas to have a ball and bat
delivered by Santa. That did not go over so good as the ball got lost and
the bat was used as something for the Barbie’s to ride on behind the wave
runner. So when my son arrived I was so excited to go shopping for
boy things you would have thought all of the things I was buying were for me.
The
first thing I remember getting was a truck. As soon as my son
could hold anything in his hands there was not a moment in any day that you
would not see him without some kind of vehicle. The second big step
was to get my husband to build a sand pile in the back yard.
We never needed a sand pile before because if my daughters went outside you
would find them sitting in the shade on a blanket playing with
dolls. I could not believe how many trucks my son had. I am
sure I certainly didn’t buy them for me.
There
were the normal cars and trucks, police cars, and dump trucks. But
I do think that his favorite vehicles had to be the ones with moving
parts. He had a fire engine that had a ladder that went up and
down, a truck with a scoop on the front to dig in the dirt but his favorite was
a truck that had a crane attached to it. The reason why he liked
this one was that he could pick things up with it, lift them way up high and
drop it! This trick used to make him laugh and if the laughter
would get really loud mixed with screams I would know that somehow he had taken
one of the girls Barbie’s and dropped them from the tip top of the crane.
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Some
people in our neighborhood were preparing to have a new roof put on. This
neighbor was a do-it-yourself kind of person so he had the shingles delivered
to his front yard and got Salt Lake City Crane Rental to come and help him
place the shingles up on his roof. There was not a bribe in the
world that would have gotten my son away from sitting as close as he could to
be in on the action of watching this rental crane do its job. He was so
amazed that a crane could take something up so high. I think it is
every little boys dream to be able to grow up and still be able to play with
trucks whether they are dump trucks with dirt or trucks that move and lift
things. Needless to say I was not too surprised to see my son
gravitating towards getting into the construction business.
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