Ice Ice, Baby!

The calendar may say it's Spring but the air temp and recent snow showers have Atticus focused on a more wintry landscape. Take this boy on a walk and as soon as you turn your back he'll have found a snow mound to stomp over to and on top of all the while saying "Aiyyssss. Aiyyyyssssss." No denying John's excited about Atticus' fascination with water in its frozen form. Already, he's displaying the required but odd fixation of a budding ice climber.

Atticus had his 15 month well-check with his new pediatrician this week and apparently freaked out at the site of his doctor's white coat. Her advice to Big Momma was to have us wear our white coats and use our stethoscopes on him to help de-sensitize him a bit. Already, we've failed him. Three shots later, Atticus spent the next 24 hours walking around like an arthritic old man. It was pitiful and funny all at the same time. He weighed in at 22 lbs 4 oz and measured 30 inches in length. At 16+ months, our boy has yet to triple his birth weight. Oh, well....

Firsts this week...

• first adventure ride in his "Co-Pilot" chariot tooling around the neighborhood...pulled by daddy and flanked by mama and then vice versa. the boy just sat back taking in the scenery.
• extended drum solo...at least 20 seconds by daddy's count
• signs for "all done" and "girl"
  
• sliding down the big kids' slide just like the big boys sitting up the whole way down
• climbing into his car seat without complaint
• attempting to climb stairs with alternating steps even though his body's too small...
• sayonara to the bottle (but not the booby)...he's already on his 2nd set of sippy cups as he cuts his canines. the boy's got 14 teeth!
• new foods include sardines, potato pancakes, cottage cheese, water chestnuts, red pepper, filet of sole not to mention all the sample cheeses Whole Foods had to offer (not to mention the salmon pate)
• stacking 6 plus Legos
• sharing boogers with Big Momma...nuff said.