Doesn't he look like he's grown a ton? I know he's kinda scrunched over from last month's picture, but he just looks SO much taller in his new picture! He just looks so grown up, such a little man!
So here's our new Braden stuff for month 16:
- can open all of our doors now, but he's getting pretty good about learning not to do it
- he is wearing 24 month onesies but STILL doesn't fit his 18 month pants! He fits Gap/Old Navy 12-18 month pants, so I bought him some Gap jeans in that size but I still had to roll them up!
- he runs. Everywhere. Just like his cousin Luke, and he's getting a little jump in his step
- getting really close on saying more words and said "tractor" for the first time yesterday! (video to follow)
- rides like an angel in his car-seat which is now forward-facing. I had a lot of positive advice and support from everyone in making the decision to forward-face him vs. keeping him rear-facing for up to 2 years like I had originally planned. I chose sanity!
- he loves the outdoors. He would be outside all day, every day if we let him.
- loving all animals. He loves to get kisses from Kihei. She'll be lying on the floor and he'll crouch down to her mouth and she'll give him a kiss, they did this about 20 times in a row the other morning and I have a video of it to post later.
- getting too busy to eat! If we have some finger foods like pizza or grilled cheese he's a pretty happy camper, but if we have to feed him a meal he gets very restless. But he does really well if we help him eat with utensils now - it's adorable and he's doing really well. We're also getting at the age where we'll have to be very picky and choosy about eating out with him, I just don't think it'll be worth the fight of him not wanting to be stuck in the restaurant high chair for up to an hour!
- still sleeping 12 hours a night, before our trip when he wasn't feeling good he was back up to 14 hours!
- will rarely do 1 nap a day, still pretty set on his 2 two hour naps a day, which is fine by me! Last week he did have an almost 4 hour morning/early afternoon nap but still needed a 1.5 hour nap in the afternoon, that was the day he started getting sick
- has 6 teeth on the top and now 3 teeth on the bottom, 9 all together. I'm pretty sure he's going to get at least 1 bottom molar soon, it's pretty swollen.