Dancing with Dad

This morning Andrew put on some music and I came into the living room to see that he was on his knees dancing with Corilynn. She had a smile that was unmistakably that of a little girl so enamored by her Dad and happy to be dancing. When she was done, Lyman wanted his turn. I told him that I would happily dance with him since boys danced with girls. But he gave me this totally shy look that was kind of cute. He told me he wanted to dance with Dad.

So Dad preceded to show Lyman how the boy holds the girl's hand and her waist as they dance and had Lyman try to lead him in a dance. Then after the tutorial Andrew tried to get Lyman to then join Corilynn and dance with her now that he had learned. The same shy and worried look came on his face and we both chuckled to ourselves. Andrew asked Lyman if he was nervous to dance with a girl and Lyman confirmed.

It was the cutest thing to see both our kids fulfilling their gender rolls so completely at such a young age. Corilynn loved dancing and was the happiest of girls. Lyman was scared of dancing with a girl - nervous really. I suppose I wont see much change in either one of those sentiments in 10 years - with exception to one: Lyman might still be nervous to dance with a girl but at least he probably will want to.