Personality

My favorite part about this age is the sense of individuality that is evident. Atticus now likes to choose his clothes and is very opinionated as to what we do during the day. He loves to direct other people also. Often when he plays music, you have to play also, and he tells you exactly how to do it (to play the guitar correctly, says Atticus, you have to tap your foot). I love seeing what kind of person he's becoming.

Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Last weekend we all went down to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science to check out their current dinosaur exhibit. It was Atticus' first trip to the museum. The dinosaur exhibit turned out to not be all that exciting to Atticus, with the one exception of a scaled down tyrannosaurus rex skeleton that was in motion, showing how they walked (he kept running back to it; he could have stood there and watched it all afternoon). Atticus was just as excited to go up and down the escalators and run arcoss the glass-walled catwalks that connect the parts of the museum. We should know that kind of thing by now, I suppose.

Toddler games

Atticus loves making up games. Yesterday Atticus played "Two Mittens and a letter". Rules involve wearing a pair of mittens, balancing a letter magnet on one of the mittens, and walking around the house in circles repeating the name of the game. Here he is in the middle of saying "Two mittens and an H, two mittens and an H,..."

Neat freak

Atticus likes to tear up the house, just like any other toddler. To his parents' delight, though, he also likes to clean up. We recently got a new shelving system where Atticus can organize and put away all his toys. He also takes the broom away from you if you are sweeping and has to do it himself.

But he went a little overboard the other day when he tried to mop the front walk while it was raining.


Silly boy.

Website

Daniel added some pretty cool features to the website, so go check them out.

Also, there are videos up on the site too, in case you didn't notice. I hope to get some new ones up there soon too.