Andrew loves women--he gets it from his daddy. The boy, at 15 months old, has been saying the word "girl" for three months. If he sees a girl--he gets excited.  He LOVES to hold a girl or hold her hand or kiss her--but my son ain't got no gentleness to him. He just runs right up to the baby girls and just grabs 'em--yanks 'em down to the ground--and just loves on 'em.

Mind, you, he ain't walking... so his strategy usually is to crawl over to where the unsuspecting female child is playing--pull up on her and then warp his arms around her and just start kissing and hugging!  And he ain't got no tact--the whole time he's screaming "girl girl girl"--and once he gets that girl, he yells "mine, mine, mine".

The other day we were at the doctor's office and there was this little white girl playing with a toy in the waiting area.  The child was about 3 or 4 months older than Andrew--so she was walking and talking--doing a lot more with her motor skills than my son was doing.  So he saw her and went wild.  I tried to keep him away from her--but he was determined to go over there.  I turned my back to hang his jacket up on the coat rack and before I knew it, little Speedy crawler Gonzales was already over there where the child was.  He grabbed her ankles--pulled up on her--cause he can't walk--grabbed her around the neck and started the love fest.  The child was terrified. She started crying and screaming "mommy, mommy, mommy..."! 

I thought it was a fluke until last night...

We were at a taping of Almanac on Minnesota's Twin Cities Public Television when Andrew spotted Mary LeHammer's daughter.  A three year old cutie pie with blond hair!  She was sporting a pink dress with snow boots that had a light on 'em--and the light would go off every time she made a step.  Now y'all know little Emmit Till couldn't resist don't you? Andrew saw that girl and yelled out "Girl!" and pointed over there at her.  This boy--who just got three shots in one leg and hadn't been mobile since the vaccinations--WALKED--over there to the baby girl and started chasing her. 

Mary was crouched down on the floor--and her daughter was running circles around her trying to get away from Andrew.  But that didn't stop my son--like OJ Simpson--he was determined to get that white woman!  He kept going and out-smarted a three year old--she went around--he stopped and she was forced to bump in to her. He put his arms around that child and squeezed her so tight--I thought he was going to choke the life out of her!

She was yelling to try and get away--but Andrew started screaming "Mine!" and was so excited he laughed hysterically.

Shawn went over and pulled his son off the girl and told him "Come on boy. Some times you gotta at least try to play hard to get. You can't go chasing women around like that."

"Well, ain't that the pot calling the kettle black." I told him, "That's been your method of operation for years..."