My Seussical Life for 2003 October 26

Atticus was so proud of his bathroom success today that he called Dave saying, "Papa, come see my new poop. It's like--ultra."

Yesterday we went on quite a tour. We visited Kansas City, and had intended to visit the Crayola store at the Crown Center among other things, but the kids were sleeping really well. We didn't want to wake them, so we drove around areas where Dave lived while on his mission. It was pretty wild. Then we went to meed Ken, a friend from Dave's master's program, at the Liberty Jail visitor's center. After that and some great bar-b-que at Gate's and Sons, we came home exhausted. I wish our sons had remembered daylight savings and slept in this morning.

We like to tease Atticus while we are driving to church on Sunday, passing jayhawk sculptures along the way. "Don't look out your window or you'll see a jayhawk." And he covers his face with his hands until he knows we've passed the site of the jayhawk (there are 30 large jayhawk mascots throughout the city--"Jayhawks on Parade"). Today our friend, Ken Baird, asked Atticus if he likes jayhawks. With a strong defensiveness in his tone he replied, "I like jayhawks. I'm a jayhawk man."