My Seussical Life for 2004 February 19

Contents of Atticus' backpack (which he defends with ferocity): Two matchbox cars (with glow-in-the-dark features, from Grandma Matkin), a blue saucer, a top, Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb, empty Smarties box (Canadian choc. candies), two toucan birds, two giraffes, two lions and a lioness, a blue peacock, crocodile, 13 wooden alphabet blocks, favorite boy riding blue car, motorcycle, Nightwing action figure, rubber dinos (2 T-Rexes, 3 Brachiosauruses, 1 Dimorphodon), two plastic butterflies, a centipede, a scorpion, a millipede, a preying mantis, Spiderman action figure, a blue peg and green washer (these belong to his tool bench from loved one Jen Taylor), a suction cup, 4 pennies, a nickle, an ant, 4 turtles (gifts from Frances), and a small Cabbage Patch Kid figure (wearing a blue dress) that is a remnant of my own childhood.