Other distractions

Along with the drums, the other toy this week that has been a good distraction while quarantined is this Curious George tea set. Atticus has been making tea and snacks for anyone who will sit long enough to play.

And a bit of hindsight wisdom for anyone who may be in these shoes in the future: when running out and picking up a video for a sick kid, make sure it's either longer than 30 minutes or tolerable to be viewed 5 times a day. I learned that the hard way.

Drums

Uncle Justin got a kid's drum set for Atticus at a garage sale last weekend. It's a huge hit! We've been stuck home with the chicken pox for the last week, so this was about the best distraction we could have hoped for.

Atticus still has yet to believe us the these should not be played before 9 in the morning, though. He's start at 6 if he had his way.

Snow day

Winter finally hit here this week, three months late. Better late than never, I suppose. Atticus very much enjoyed his snow pants and eating snow wherever he could find it.


Sliding into large piles also proved to be exciting.
Too bad that this glimpse of winter was so short.

More drumming

Daniel and Atticus found a bunch of old drumsticks in a box while cleaning this weekend. We assume these were left over from when Uncle Mike had the drum set*, as they are pretty much Uncle Mike-hand sized. Atticus was excited to get a few new sets of sticks, especially when he realized that an overturned kid sized swimming pool makes a great drum.

*which started out as an Uncle Chuck drum set, what, 23 or 24 years ago??









We also managed to get this shot for a things-in-front-of-Atticus'-face size comparison to show you just how much he's grown in the last seven months.

Two

The best part of living with a two year old is the emerging imagination. We love finding interesting things around the house, such as the set up below.