I still love bathtime.

After we wash my body and my hair, it's swimming time.


Once the water's all gone, we do "nite nite tub" where I pretend to go to sleep in the bath tub.


Sometimes, like in this picture, I closely resemble a trussed turkey...


But it's fun fun fun!

My birthday dinner.

After playing, it was time for dinner. We all wore our party hats.


And I spoke to my Aunt Gillian, who wished me a happy birthday.

Then we had cupcakes...YUMM!


And because it was also Chanukah, Nana had jelly doughnuts, too.


It was my best birthday ever!!

Happy Birthday to Me!

I had my 2nd birthday on December 6th. Can you believe it?!

We went over to Nana's house to celebrate. I played with my dump truck.


And Mommy and I played with my workbench.


And the AWESOME drum that Vicki gave me!

Uh-oh. Do you know what happens when you get so caught up playing that you forget to change your diaper...?

A visit from Opa

Opa came to visit us not to long ago. I showed him all the important stuff, like how to work the VCR.


He lost interest, but I kept at it!

More playing.

After dinner we had more play time. For me, that totally meant getting Daddy's belt, Ollie's collar, and Nana's mop and rocking out.


What?

Turkey Time!

Then it was time for dinner.


Hooray for turkey!


I was mesmerized by the candles.


But even more entranced by the sparkler Nana broke out at dessert!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We went over to Nana's house for Thanksgiving dinner. But before dinner, we played!

I love to ride on her carousel horse.


And Daddy and Uncle Adam and I played with blocks,


and jumbo legos.


Good times!

BIG NEWS!!!

Every night before bath time, I sit on the potty. Usually I just sit there for a few minutes and say, "potty," and then get off and get into the tub, where I promptly pee in the water.

Well, tonight was different.
Tonight something HUGE happened:


I sat down and went pee pee in the potty! We were all very excited and screamed and laughed and sang the "Atticus went pee pee in the potty! Woo!" song for a long time. Hooray!!

The mac & cheese series

We had lunch at a diner with friends last weekend. After much consideration, I ordered the macaroni and cheese.


As you'll see, I started off with my spoon. It wasn't without incident, as you'll notice from the few cheese splatters in my hair, but it was fairly civilized.

Things began to go downhill, though, when I abandoned the spoon and went at it with my hands.


From there, really, there was just no turning back.


Mom got me cleaned up in time to pay the bill though. I think I'll put this on the card...

But I'll leave some cash for the tip.

Out with the boys

In keeping with how Mom and Dad have raised me so far, Dad took me a friend's brewery opening.
Yep, that's me in front of two beer taps. What about it?

Happy Halloween!

I was so excited to dress up in my monkey costume. It even comes with its own banana!


Bad Mommy only took a few pictures, but let me tell you, I make one darn cute primate.

I scream, you scream...

Believe it or not, besides one unsuccessful taste when I was very young, I'd never had ice cream before. So Mom and Dad gave me a little treat after dinner the other night.


I wasn't too sure about it at first but I finally took a taste...


Oh WOW! Why have you been hiding this deliciousness from me?!