He Grows Exponentially

Atticus has spent almost 10 days at my parents' house because Robby was gone last weekend for the ICA Conference & this weekend for a bachelor party. My, my, he has grown immensely from hanging out with his three older cousins (8, 5, & 3 years old).

Here are list of new things he can do now:

1. he can now peer over the breakfast table on tippy toes
2. he can say "po po" (title for mother's mother)
3. he can nod & shake head on command (in Chinese)
4. he comes down the stairs more quickly (backward on belly)
5. he likes to stick pointy things into electrical outlets and pull out plugs (all the clocks & lamps are unplugged now)
6. he takes hard things & bangs them into other hard things
7. he likes to feed himself using a spoon
8. he blinks when i blink at him
9. he really loves maya because she entertains him. mei mei can talk to him forever. she'd take his feet & pretend to smell them, then say, "ewww! stinky!" audra likes to watch him get his diaper changed because she wants to see if she has pooped. she likes to bathe next to him too.
10. he was clingy toward po po when i was gone over the weekdays.
11. all his teeth have come out, but he doesn't like to brush.
12. he has learned how to open a pen cap (already knows how to work the clicky pen)
13. he likes to draw with pencil.
14. he stands on empty boxes & climbs on stools.
15. he imitates animal noises that i read from a book ("whoo whoo, cheep cheep, mooooo, meow")
16. he says "ba ba" all the time. he misses robby. i think he is happiest when we're all together.
17. he has suddenly started preferring being held before he sleeps. oh oh. bad habit!
    

it's hard to capture his idiosyncrasies with a cameras. his fat little fingers just aren't as cute in a photograph.