Conversations

Here are a few of our conversations in the last few days:

Me: "Atticus, you are a mess" as I clean him up after making cookies. He had sugar and salt and flour everywhere on him and the counter since he has to taste test as many ingredients as possible!
Atticus: "Attis hot mess!" Clearly, I've used this phrase before.

Atticus: "Mommy?"
Me: "Whatty?"
Atticus: "Mommy say what not whatty. Mommy?"
Me: "Hmm?"
Atticus: "Mommy say what not whatty hmm. Mommy?"
Me: "What Atticus?" Guess I should give in!

He tends to just tell me what everyone is doing and ends with "everybody busy!" or always tells me when he is "veddy go!" (ready to go).

We were at the children's museum recently playing in the HEB section. He was getting fruits and vegetables for his basket.

Atticus: "Mommy, what's dat?"
Me: "That's an eggplant."
Atticus: "Attis buy eggpant for daddy."

In his Sunday school class, the first lesson was the story of creation. So, in the car on the way home, we had this conversation:

Me: "Atticus, who made the clouds?"
Atticus: "Dod!" (God)
Me: "Who made the trees?"
Atticus: "Dod!"
Me: "Who made the cows?"
Atticus: "Dod!"
Me: "Who made the goats?"
Atticus: "Gaba Pop!" (Grandma and Pop)

Recently, Grace has started to pick up Atticus' toys to hold or chew on while we are playing. Each time, to attempt to teach him to share, I tell him that she is allowed to play with his toys too and make him let her keep them. It's all he can do to let her and usually still grabs them away. But, recently, he got smart. As soon as he sees her start to take them and just as I am about to remind him to let her play, he says "Attis get Dace toy!" and goes to bring her all of her toys. It just makes me laugh because he is so sweet and wants to get her things to play with, but does NOT want her to play with his toys. And he knows he will get in trouble if he doesn't share, so he finds another way to keep from sharing with her.

On Sunday morning, both kids were dressed so cute, so I sat them down and said I was going to take a picture. Just as I'm about to start, Atticus looks at Grace and says "Yook at Mommy Dace, say cheese!"

Also, while getting Grace's 6 month portraits done recently, Atticus was playing on my phone. All of a sudden, while I'm focused on getting Grace happy for the pictures, I look up and Atticus is pointing the phone at Grace and saying "say cheese Dace!" and snapping away while the photographer is also taking pictures with her camera. I wish I could have had a picture of that! I'm sure she appreciated it, but surprisingly, he got some good pictures of Grace; especially, since she preferred to look at her brother instead of the photographer!

Sometimes, before bed, we set a timer to let Atticus know he only has a few more minutes to play before bed. It's a timer in the shape of a lemon that winds up. So, we wound it, told him, and set it on the table. A few minutes later, as if he is afraid his time is almost up, he runs to it, picks it up and says "Daddy five more mitts tdipah" (Daddy! Five more minutes on the timer) and attempts to wind it up.