Big families or just a family full of boys?

So I was reading this article on MormonTimes (http://mormontimes.com/mormon_voices/tiffany_gee_lewis/?id=9209)about big Mormon families. After reading through the entire article I could have sworn she was talking about my family of 3 boys. In the article she lists 10 things about growing up in a big family:
1. Never a dull moment
2. Hand-me-downs
3. Humility
4. Laughter
5. Noise
6. Character Building
7. Abandonment
8. An audience
9. Low-calorie life
10. Healthy neglect

No big family needed around here, all these things come with multiple boys in a family.

Here is items 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8 all rolled in to one incident just last night. Jared (the 13 year old), searched for his Boy Scout uniform so that he could attend the Court of Honor last night. Really he didn't have a choice because his brother was at football and he was suppose to be in charge so that meant the responsibility fell to Jared. Anyway, we have not worn our scout uniforms all summer as we wear our scout t-shirts instead. When Jared put on his scout shirt it was so small he could not keep the buttons together. Never the less he wore it. When he put on his merit badge sash I about about fell out laughing. It seems to have shrunk from when he last wore it and barely comes to his waist. Literally this child looked like he was wearing clothes that his 8 year old brother could be wearing. He wore it anyway. He is the biggest comedian and played it off really well, and had all the parents laughing, of course. He could not bend over as the shirt would have come untucked, he had to keep his belly sucked in or the buttons on his shirt would open up, and he had to keep pulling down the merit badge sash or it would have been up under his armpit. I really wish I would have had a camera last night. I could only shake my head and laugh with everyone else.
You don't need a large family, you only need a couple of boys to make it feel like there are 10 kids in the household.