<p>LOL, Momof2Inca!! Thanks for providing some hope to those of us who are still in the trenches. I keep asking my H, "So, you're a guy. He'll grow out of this, right?!" and, he just looks at me with that prey-animal about-to-be-eaten expression like, "How the H-- am I supposed to know!" Alright, group :::slugghugg::: everybody!</p>
<p>Sac's right. It's how they come out of the box, so to speak. I looked at my son the other night and realized that he is exactly like me. A carbon copy of my personality. When he was born, he cried for an hour straight, not just a regular baby cry, a full-on, red-faced, really ticked off newborn who did not appreciate being <em>pushed.</em> When he was five and in Kindergarten, he told off a nun who put her hands on his shoulders to remind all of the children in line to keep their hands to themselves. He turned his sweet, little face up to her and said, "That goes for you, too." OMIGOD, that was a fun phone call from the principal! On the last day of his parochial school career in April of that year (school ended in June), he marched out of the lobby proclaiming, "We're going to DISNEYLAND!" </p>
<p>The other night, I saw the head honcho of his art program give him a rather stern reminder to turn in his field trip journal. Instead of his journal, he'd inadvertently picked up the notebook he'd used for his DMV driving lessons and turned that in, instead. Just the tone of the teacher's voice raised my hackles, and with that extra sense that we all have, she looked right at me, recognizing...something. My son rolled with it and didn't seem to mind her tone of voice.</p>
<p>He'll be 17 in a couple of weeks, and it's taken me this long to understand that he'll do things on his own and in his own way. The boy who went to preschool every day dressed in white as <em>Vanilla Boy!,</em> who then delighted in rolling in mudpuddles to become <em>Chocolate Boy!</em> at the end of the day...will somehow go to college. </p>
<p>SBMom, thanks for the great idea on touring colleges! Sounds like more fun for everybody. :D</p>