My BIG boy!

My sweet Brayden is already 16 months old. We went to his well check-up last week and he weighed in at 23 lbs and 2 ounces. (25%) He was 33 1/4 inches long. (95%) So basically our little guy is tall and slim. I'm sure eventually he will even out just like his big sister. Brayden got a new toy this past week too and LOVES it! It's a little motorized 4 wheeler and looks like Lighting McQueen from the movie, Cars. He rides it outside and also rides around inside the house too. Brayden is growing and learning so many new things. He isn't talking much yet, but he doesn't have too. His sissy doesn't quit talking! haha He chabbers all the time. The words he does say are mamma, dadda, sish for fish, uhuuu for uhoh and shishy for sissy. He tries to say cat and other things. He will get it soon....I hope. I wanted to post some of his favorite things right now so I can look back and remember him at this precious stage in his life.

**Brayden loves eating meat. Any kinds, doesn't matter! He usually just eats chicken and likes it, but the other night Matt grilled steaks and I think Brayden ate one all by himself. Seriously. We kept cutting it into little pieces and we couldn't cut fast enough.

**Brayden LOVES to be outside. He loves to play in the back yard in his playhouse, but he also likes to play in the front yard with all the neighbor kids. They girls really like him and he likes it too. He's a little flirt already!

**Brayden LOVES water! Everyday, when I'm getting ready in the morning, he loves to go over to the bathtub and turn the water on and he will stand there and play in it. Usually he will find a cup laying around the house and he will go and get it and then dump water all over himself. I will put a towel down underneath him so he can just play. Sometimes I don't have the patience to deal with the mess, but he loves to do it so much that sometimes I just let him be a boy. But seriously the kid loves water and he would play in the water all the time if I would let him. It's funny because sometimes he will just disappear and we will be looking for him around the house and we always find him in the bathroom with the bath tub water on. It's pretty funny to see him high tail it to the bathroom because we know exactly what he is thinking...."Maybe I can get away before they see me!" haha

**Brayden loves to crawl and stand on everything.....including but not limited to the kitchen table! Yes, he loves to pull out a kitchen chair and crawl up onto it and he stands in the chair and colors pictures. He sees Payten doing it so he thinks that he needs to do it too. He will go and get a crayon and paper and he will stand on the chair and color. He also likes to climb onto anything he can. He is definitely a boy! You will see the pic below...the box that the 4 wheeler came on he was sitting on top of the box. Payten was in the box and Brayden was on top of the box. I had to crop her out because she was playing puppy and didn't have any clothes on, but you can see Brayden climbing! :)

**Brayden loves animals! He loves fish but he also loves birds too! In the pic below you can see him pointing at something....he was distracted because of some birds in the neighbors yard. Because Payten loves animals we record educational animal shows off of Animal Planet so Brayden also gets to watch the animal shows and enjoys them for the few seconds he can stay focused. :) He loves to just sit and watch the fish at my work and he has a lot of books that have fish pages and he will bring the book to me, sit in my lap and turn directly to the fish page. He knows exactly what page it's on and will sit there and try to say fish and point to it over and over. He says, "sish" for fish. It's pretty cute. He's trying to talk.

**Brayden loves dog pile time! Once daddy gets home from work and after dinner we have play time. Matt and I get on the floor with the kids and I will yell out, "dog pile daddy" and both Payten and Brayden will go and tackle Matt. It is so cute and Brayden just loves to play!