Dragon like pink

This post returns to the contining saga of a Dad's concern about his son's attraction to pink girlie things.

The other day Lion and Mummy McT went to a Birthday party, one which Dragon had not been invited to and he was a bit distraught about that. Nothing seemed to have worked to console him, I had even said to him that we could go out and do a Daddy/Dragon thing like take a drive in the ute, but after half an hour of tears and 'No!'s I gave up and let him sook. Finally Dragon stopped crying and walked off into his bedroom.

'Do you want me to read the Grumpies book?' I asked

'No!' came the reply

'Do you want Daddy to read something to you or do you want to....'

'No!'

'OK, let me know when you want to be civil?'

Not long after that I hear him talking to himself. 'I want ride in Drandads (granddad's) ute. Yeah, Drandad's ute, I want go shopping. Shopping in Drandad's ute. Daddy said he take me shopping in Drandad's ute. I want Daddy/Dragon day in Drandad's ute and go driving to the shops..... Dad! Dad! I not crying anymore! You take me shopping in Drandads ute, we go to the shops!'

So off we went.

'Dad, you buy me something at shops'

Well, maybe a t-shirt, I think and take him to look at the clothes. No luck, unless you want something that looks like the cover of an Alice Cooper Record or like it's come directly from a mural on an Aztec sacrifical temple. Skulls, bones and gore... I wonder what archeologists will make of our society if they uncovered the boys clothes section of Big W, 500 years in the future? Would they say our society used to ritually sacrifice our children to the god 'Pa'Ass Mah Tee Vee'?

Anyway we finally pick out a thin knitted jumper with a monster on the front, interesting since he never thinks he is cold and throws a hissy fit when asked to wear something warm. After promising that he will wear it when Mummy tells him too we walk out of the boys clothing section and run right into a 5 foot high fairy doll display...

'I want that!' pleads Dragon

'What?' says I pretending not to notice the pile of pink fairy girlie dolls.

'THIS!!' says Dragon draging out the one on the bottom of the pile

So now he has a decision: Pink Fairy Doll or Manly Monster Jumper.



Uhmmmm.....
Uhmmmm.....
Uhmmmm..... 'I want this one AND this one.' He decides.

'Uh no, just one, how about I take a photo of it and we'll show it to Grandma. Maybe she will get for your birthday.

'OK'

Well, another close call avoided by a quick thinking Dad, and we both left with our masculinity intact.



I think he was happy with his monster jumper after all, and hasn't once asked about the fairy doll.

Shopping with Daddy

After being concerned about my youngest son's attraction to a fluffy pink piggy handbag, in this post and this one, I convinced myself that it was just an attraction to that one item... no it looks like it is an appeal to a particular colour, Pink.

I took him shopping the other day and we where in the boys section looking at some boys shirts, with things boys would like on them... 'How about this one with spiders on it Dragon?'. 'noooo, scared. spiders' (whimper) 'What about this one it has a Dragon on it?' 'Um... No.' 'This one, it has a robot on it!' 'NO!' 'Look at this one, it has a crocodile..' 'No!' 'A Shark?' 'No!' 'A Skateboard one?' 'Yea..... NO!' 'How about... Dragon? Dragon! where are you?'

'Want. This. One!' 'Where did you get that from, this is the boys section?!' 'Round. 'Ere' Sure enough just behind where we were standing is a 'End Display' with pink and blue umbrellas and raincoats. In my frustration I tell him I am not buying him a pink umbrella. This stops him for a while, until I turn around and he is holding the pink umbrella out again saying 'We. Buy. Lion?' Interesting logic, Daddy is not going to buy it for him so maybe he will buy it for the eldest son.

I finally convinced him to put it back by telling him I will take a photo of it and we will show it to Mummy and maybe ... cough cough NEVER cough, she might buy it later. He ended up choosing a shirt with owls all over it, because he thought they looked like Lion's imaginary friend 'Huddy'.

Above: Dragon in his new 'Huddy' shirt.
Madagascar #2 quote in the picture above is: If I had only two days to live, I would invade a neighboring country, and force my own ideology on them, whether they wanted it or not.

After that Dragon behaved himself and allowed me to look through the book store and kitchenware store, only because I told him he could choose a donut for morning tea if he let me look at what I wanted to. And guess what he choose? The donut store with pink livery and a pink donut, I was able to convince him he wanted a dinosaur shaped donut and not the girl shaped pink donut. At least you'll notice he insisted on wearing his Sunnie Glasses again.

I guess I shouldn't worry too much about his affinity to the colour pink, I do have a pink shirt and tie which I bought to wear when I proposed to his mother. It was sold to me by a very vivacious but effeminate salesman who told me that pink is a very Manly colour in Italy, so manly in fact that women are not allowed to wear it... Ummm I wonder, I might have to google that one.