Kaden 16 Months

Kaden weighs 23 lbs 13 oz and is 65th percentile for height and around 35th percentile for weight (at his 15 month appointment since I forgot to ever write about that).  He is such a fun and smart boy. He is learning quickly each day and is starting to say more words daily.  He can now say cracker "ca-ko," bear "bay-ah," "boom," bonk "bon," blueberry "ba-bay-yee," in addition to words like Mama, Dada, Papa, and Nana.  He babbles incessantly and sounds like he's in a karate class half the time because his words make no sense but they sure are cute.

Kaden is getting better each day at manipulating things.  He loves to play with blocks and is getting really good at stacking them up high and making towers.  He loves to lift things and one of his most recent conquests has been our 8 lb. medicine ball in our exercise room.  He can lift it about 1-2 inches but not much more since it's about 1/3 of his body weight.  He loves to make baskets in the basketball hoop.  He loves climbing in the soft play with other kids at Kango (a soft play/bounce house type place) and loves the Museum of Play.  We go there a lot during the frigid Rochester winter.

Kaden loves tables and little chairs.  After Thanksgiving the MacBeths left their little kid table at our house for a few weeks and that was Kaden's favorite toy.  He absolutely loved pulling chairs out, sitting on them, eating snacks at the table, playing with toys that were on the table, reading stories, etc… It was a sad day for him when they finally picked up their table.

 Kaden has quite the little personality and he tries to do "sneaky" things like hide toys and snacks from us when we  tell him that he can't have them.  He'll grab them and hunch over them and run… like we won't notice. It's pretty funny!

 Kaden loves to play on moving toys like rocking horses or anything that is slightly unstable.

He loves little cars, bikes, trikes, anything that moves or rocks. We went to Kango (a little kid's bounce house and indoor play place) with our friends, the Hart's boys, when we babysat them for a few days in December and Kaden had a blast doing the little bikes and trikes and all the rides and climbing stuff there.  (The pictures are pretty fuzzy since they were taken on my phone camera and everyone who knows Kaden knows that he doesn't stay still for long…)

Kaden and Everett riding the car

Noah, Curtis, Everett and Kaden climbing in the play place area at Kango

At the MSP Airport playplace waiting for our airplane back to NY

 If Kaden can't find something that moves then he will jump up and down on things, for example his little red couch or the stairs.  We constantly find him sitting and then bouncing up and down, giggling and smiling and having a great time all by himself.  Or sometimes he just lays there...

Kaden absolutely loves to wear bowls on his head. It's like a right of passage at the end of a meal to signify he's done eating and ready to play when he puts the bowl or basket on his head. Restaurants are no exception.