An uncertain foray into the blogosphere

I'm not sure how to go about blogging. I'm sure I should be careful that I don't give out too much information where a crazy would be able to find me. Not really sure I am interesting enough for that, though. Maybe to someone but then they would have to be crazy, yes?

I'm a father of two boys (aged 3 and 16 mo.). Is that too much info? I love them tons and tons. It's funny, after watching my oldest get to this age and following my youngest son's progress, I've come to an interesting (sort of) conclusion - Boys are genetically wired to like boy things and girls are wired to like girl things, at least at a young age. 

Not particularly profound but, there you have it. My example of this is my youngest. For the longest time, he has been happy to go about his little life eating, drinking, crying, pooping and all the other things that babies do. He never really had a preference as to what he wants to watch or play with, just whatever was in front of him. Lately, however, he has become obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine ®. He will dig out the few engines we have and play with them, or bring them to me to start up or replace batteries, as needed. Even more remarkable, to my mind, he will go to the DVD shelf, dig through them until he finds a Thomas disc, then bring it to me with the command to "wha", which we believe means watch. 

It's fun to see him do this but it sure is a pain to clean up the discs 2 to 3 times a day - at least. My oldest went through the same disc destruction phase when he was that age. He had (and still does) the same appreciation for Thomas but he wasn't as forward with his Thomas watching demands.

I have a new niece and I am very curious to see if this genetic wiring theory proves out. My older niece had the same obsessions with girly toys, I believe but, living more than 6 hours from her, I have no first-hand proof. I think I will be vindicated, though.