His tiny boy stats:
Weight: 23.9 lbs 7th Percentile (He's been in the 2nd or 4th since he was 6 months old.)
Height: 33.5" 24th Percentile. I don't understand where he got this short gene.
Head: 19.5" 77th percentile. Um, giant head.
My saddest thing about his improved speech is that he now calls himself Acuss, instead of Ass. I do love when he says his whole name though. "Acuss Bonson.....Henny!"
He loves kids. His ear is so tuned into any kid noises wherever we are and then he'll excitedly yell for the kids. My favorite was when some older kids were about a half a block down our street and he excitedly yelled "Kids, I coming!" He has his two best friends down the street, Franny and Holland (Honny) He gets so excited every time he sees them and loves to do everything they do (they are four and six years old) He also adores his cousins. Especially Jersi, Anna, and Jonah. He asks about them all the time. Sadly all three live far away.
Jonah and Anna
He loves copying everything other kids do. He had one crazy week there, where he got to play with his friend Henry (One of my best friends, Laura's, son, they're three weeks apart) then the next day he played with Holland, and then we went to Disneyland with all of his Williams cousins. He was mimicking so much that by the time we got back he'd decided he could climb on everything and walk up and down stairs without holding anything.
Copying Holland
-He hums along his bedtime song with me and I love it.
-His little personality is so fun. He likes to be silly to make us laugh and he's so active and he's very sweet. He loves to talk to people and sometimes he gets a little shy. And he is seriously so well behaved.
-He's very sensitive to any negativity he perceives. When he's asked to say sorry, he gets very quiet and I think, ashamed, but eventually he'll say sorry once he's had time to think. Any time he thinks Dan and I are mad at each other or him, or even if we talk loud (I talk loud around my family, for instance) He'll use his angry voice and tell us no!
-He likes to tell me when it's time for things. Like I'll tell him it's dinner time and he'll say no, it's treat time. Or he'll tell me it's train time, or outside time. Or anything else he wants to do.
-He LOVES Mickey Mouse and Goofy. He thinks any big building or castle is Mickey Mouse's house. He's always telling me it's Mickey Mouse time which means he wants to play with Mickey Mouse or watch a Mickey Mouse movie.
-He somehow picked up on mine and Dan's names. He doesn't usually use mine, but sometimes when he can't get Dan's attention after calling for daddy, he'll switch it up and yell Dan!
-He loves to take our noses and eat them or trade them around and he's very good at keeping track of whose is whose. He also loves to take out his eyes and pretend he can't see.
-He is an amazing cuddler. I love when he comes up and says "Nuggle mama." He loves to snuggle and I am not complaining. He loves to pat our backs or hold our faces while kissing us. And when he's especially sleepy, he'll play with my hair.
Snuggle time
-He likes to use "The force" to command people to do things. He'll hold out his hand like a Jedi and command the automatic doors to open or tell the light to turn green.
-He only has 11 teeth and 2 of them came in just last week. He still doesn't have the two teeth that come on either side of his top front teeth. So he has his two front, his four bottom front, four molars and one canine on top barely poking out.
-He's very helpful. He loves helping me cook and do chores like vacuuming and sweeping. He'll often find crumbs or other things on the floor and say "Gross, garbage" and go throw them away.
-I like to brag about how smart he is (He's probably just normal but whatever.)
-His memory actually freaks me out. He's like my little brother, he'll see or hear something and remember it the next time perfectly. I'll read him a book he's never heard, just once and I'll catch him days later reading it to his toys telling key elements from the story very well. Same thing goes with songs we sing him.
-He recognizes land marks and can tell me when we're within blocks of our house, my parent's house, and church. He'll also tell me to be quiet when we pull up to the library.
-He's known all his colors including black, white, pink, and gray since he was about 20 months old, same with counting to 10. He loves counting things.
-He know a few shapes. He loves circles and he's known moon and stars for a long time, but he surprised us a couple of months ago by pointing out ovals and squares and triangles. (He sometimes confuses triangles and squares) Plus now he knows heart and sometimes rectangle, he'll also call anything from a pentagon to an octagon an "Oc-gon"
He's known that A says Atticus for a few months and my sister taught him S says Sammy. We'd also taught him B and C. He loves pointing those letters out everywhere we go. So for our road trip just two weeks before his birthday, I got him an ABC puzzle. I hadn't spent much time singing the ABC's to him but I had started about a week before that and was surprised that he could sing with me quite a bit after only a few times hearing it. I got him the puzzle so we could sing the song together on our road trip and was surprised when he pointed out O right away. Especially surprising that he didn't call it a circle or an oval, just O. So we started pointing out the letters as we sang the song and within a week he knew all but a few letters (He's never been able to get E, I, N, and Y). He call them his "AB's"
He loves to do his AB's until I try to film it and then he throws fits or forgets all his letters, etc. So this is the only video I have of it. It makes me car sick to watch because it's all over the place but I was trying to be fast before he decided he didn't want to do it anymore.
-"Hold you" when he want he wants to be held.
-"Ya okay" when I ask him if he wants something.
-He says um repeatedly and slowly when he's thinking or making choices.
-"I do it self" I don't know where he picked up on the concept of myself etc. We rarely say do it yourself. It was usually "You can do it without help".
-"Davra" His version of Avada Kedavra. He does this to kill us off for fun or if we're chasing him or being too noisy. Then he kisses us back to life.
"Nakey" I always thought it was weird when parents would say nakey instead of naked but now that's how Atticus says it and I think it is so cute. And the boy would live naked if we let him.
-He asks okay? after telling us what he's planning or wants.
-Not my favorite but lately with his hyper sensitive hearing, he is constantly saying "What's that noise?"
-I also love when we're going about our day or playing etc and he'll either say "Fun" or "Happy". Makes me happy.
-Purples and mores.
-"Cheeries" or Cheerzies" for Cheerios
-"Toesies"
-"Goo me" for when he fake burps. Real burps he does not excuse.
Lots of mommy time
No sleeping without Yankee Blankie
Made him some play dough. He wasn't sure about the whole experience.
Watching the snow. He says uh-oh when he sees snow because he thinks it's messy.
He spends half his life on this counter top. He was "Sleeping".
We had snow dump on us through February. Atticus loved it.
He'd go down the super slippery slide and land in the snow.
Thought it was hilarious.
Love his little personality
His glasses, eating some spaghetti sauce, and showing me "his most handsome face".
Little model, snuggling his "Yambies", pleased with how he dressed himself.
More modeling.
Monster!
We are surprised.
Shoulder rides for all.
Love.
