My Seussical Life for 2004 March 7

Atticus can now recognize the letter "A". He is quite excited when, driving down the street, he notices the letter "A" in an advertisement, or on a street sign. He announces every time he notices an "A," "Hey, there's an 'A' for Atticus!!" For Dave and me, this new awareness of letters is thrilling. Now I am kind of grasping for ideas to make letters more interesting. Any ideas out there??

The other new development in our household is "why questions." Atticus extends all of our conversations to their limits by asking why. For example, tonight I told Atticus it was time to brush his teeth.

"Why," he asked.

"So that your teeth are clean."

"Why?"

"So that they are healthy and don't fall out of your mouth."

"Why?"

Etc., etc., etc.

Today, while loading up the car, I noticed Atticus was putting twigs and sticks into the muffler. That "why, Mom" conversation went on and on, too.