our growing boy...

Brody turned 15 months old at the end of June and now is almost 16 months old...I can't believe how fast time is passing by, how big he is getting and how smart he is. Brock and I marvel every day at what an amazing little person he is. I took him into his 15 month well visit last Wednesday and even Dr. O'Leary was amazed at how active he is and how verbal he is for his age. On his developmental test we do at every well visit, he is doing things that 23 month old babies would be doing.

Here are Brody's stats at 15/16 months old:

• he is just above average in height (31.75 inches long)
• he is just below average in weight (23.13 lbs)
• he LOVES music...he loves to dance whenever he hears music and he loves to be sung to
• he loves playing games with you...favorites are Itsy-Bitsy Spider, This Little Piggy, and Peek-a-Boo...the usuals
• he is very verbal now...words he uses pretty consistently: mom, dad, ball, go, ga (dog), pop, hi, bye, woof (when asked what a doggy says) ***They say a baby his age should say maybe 6 words, but also boys maybe less than girls.
• he signs to help communicate with us: please, sorry, more/again, and we're still working on thank you....hmmm?
  
• he understands pretty much everything we say to him now...for example, if we tell him it's time for a bath, he runs to the gate and says, "ba, ba" and makes splashing motions
• he loves to be read to...his favorite books are "Goodnight, Gorilla" and "Jamberry"...when he knows it's bedtime, he'll go to his books and grab either one or both of these books and will giggle, make "ooh" sounds and pay attention throughout the story
• he's had a loss of appetite in the last couple of weeks, but Dr. O'Leary says that is normal for a boy his age, as he is not growing as much right now
  
• he still drinks milk from a bottle and we know we need to break him of that, but we're not quite there yet
• he loves balls, especially when he's also got a golf club...you can usually find him around the house with a ball of some sort in one hand and a golf club in the other...he's got many plastic golf clubs, but insists on finding and then playing with Maddi's REAL irons
• he also likes playing with blocks, preferably stacking them or having you stack them as high as he likes just to knock them down
• he's in a mommy phase, where he needs me and all of my attention ALOT of the time...I'm trying not to get so frustrated about it because I know there will come a day when he'll be too busy to want any of my attention, but it proves to be really hard when I have things I need/want to get done
  

Overall, he is an extremely active boy. We cannot turn our head for a second (literally) otherwise, he will be climbing from one thing to another or grabbing at something he is not supposed to have. Despite him not really ever giving us a break, we love him SO unbelievably much and I find it hard to ever really get mad at him, no matter what he does.