5 things about Atticus

And now for an Atticus update:

1. He loves animals. That is not a new theme, but right after being at Grandma and Pop's house, he talked about Snip and Yodel a lot. But, this week the theme seems to be towards puppies. He loves puppy dogs. He still gets scared of some in person, but mostly he loves them. We have some friends who have a little dog named Bella. Sometimes when they come over, they will bring Bella and Atticus loves to play with her! He also has many stuffed puppy dogs. The other day, we had lots of "sick" puppies who either had thorns in their feet, ate too much dog food, had coughs or cooties, or who had been bitten by turtles (not sure where that came from). So, we had to doctor them with our vet kit many times to make them better. He just LOVES his puppies. We travel too much to have a pet puppy, but if this continues, I'm doing a puppy birthday party next year!

2. Atticus has lots of thoughts lately and when he is talking about something important or giving you his honest opinion, he will crinkle up his face while he talks but being completely serious. It's just funny to see the emotion when he is talking!

3. A few phrases he uses a lot:
"If I eat too much _____ (usually a vegetable), I will get a tummyache." when he doesn't want to eat, and even if he hasn't eaten too much.
"I just being cwazy siwwy!" (He tells me he is being crazy silly when he has actually been a little too rough and I ask him to calm down.)
"How bout you yay wif me for just a yittle bit?" in response to every single time I put him to bed. Do you know how hard it is to tell him no all the time to that sweet little voice?
"Does Jesus yike it when _____?" He usually will ask me this after I've told him I am happy with him for doing something nice. Although one night when Vic had already turned on a lamp that Atticus likes to turn on himself, he told me that "Jesus didn't yike it when Daddy didn't yet me turn on that yight!"

4. He has started to like wearing hats. He has a fishing hat, a cap and a cowboy hat.

5. He has started to be that silly boy that comes out of his room in only his underwear and maybe a VBS necklace around his neck and playing his dog guitar while setting up his tiny animals at the table and requesting that I sit and play Go Fish with him. There are moments when he has so much going on in his mind that he gets distracted with something but instead of leaving it, just adds it to his activity.

He's just so funny!