Kyle Brandt is 16 Months Old

What?  How did that happen so fast?  This little boy is just getting bigger and bigger by the day and learning and growing so much that it is maddening some times.Seriously this week alone his vocabulary has skyrocketed!
-The boys taught him to say "beam" when they sing Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam.
-He says choo choo for the train sound, beep beep for the car sound and brooom for the truck sound.
-We love it when he says "ah oh" when he drops something or something falls.  We drop stuff on purpose just so he will say "ah oh".
-He says Connor's name by saying Con ah, and Caleb is "bub" or "bub bub".  We show him Cody's picture on the wall and he says Coey.
-He love grandpa and calls him papa.  Anytime the front door opens he runs to it saying "papa" whether it is grandpa or not.  He walks by the pictures in the hall on the wall and points out papa.
-He is trying to say Ella-his cousin's name- and it more like lala with his tongue coming out of his mouth.
-He likes "co coke".  He sees us drinking our sodas and comes and says "co coke" to us.  I really don't know how he knows it is coke but we must drink it way too much.
-He makes the sign for drink when he is thirsty.
-He know and makes the signs for all done, eat, dog, duck, thank you, please, more, and fish and he uses these regularly.
-He can say cookie and makes the sign too when he wants one.
-He is sort of saying sorry.
-We are trying to get him to say love you but he does the sign for thank you instead.
-He almost says Nemo-it's more like me me.
-We still have to barricade everything.  He opens drawers and cabinets and pulls stuff out repeatedly.
-He fold his arms and bows his head for prayers and he even makes a few mumble sounds like he is saying the prayer.
-He went to nursery for about 10 minutes by himself on Sunday because I had stuff to do for Primary and if he is with dad they are all in the hall and dad can't go to class because he is such a distraction.
-He gets right in the middle of his brothers when they are playing or wrestling.
-He is taking the fork or spoon from me when I am feeding him and putting the food in his mouth.
-He pulls himself up on the kitchen chairs and the couch.
-He gets off the beds and couch by himself.
-He is reaching up and almost tall enough to start working the doorknobs on doors.  Those will have to be baby proofed here soon.
-He goes up and down the stairs with complete ease.
-He runs runs runs whenever he can and he loves to play chase.
-When he has something that I want him to give back to me he will run away with it so I have to chase him to get it back.
-He knows where his nose, eyes, ears, mouth, hair, feet, belly button and fingers are.

Close up by Caydne.

Getting into the ice maker.

Peanut butter and jelly sandwich.  He takes the 2 pieces apart and eats from the middle.

Sleepy boy.

Keeping him out of the drawers.

Keeping him away from my nightstand because he loves that drawer and I don't know of any other way to keep him out.

Keeping him out of the fireplace.

-He knows how to put on mom's shoes or slippers and just today was able to walk around in them without falling down immediately.
-Christmas was quite a challenge to keep him out of all the decorations.  He really liked the trees and they had to be barricaded so he wasn't always pulling ornaments off them.
-He is getting way too attatched to his binkie.  I try to not let him have it during the day except when he is going to sleep but man he is loud sometimes and he has to have it at church so he isn't so noisy.  He know where the binkies are in the drawer in my nightstand though so that is why he is always getting into it.
-He loves pears, bananas and clementines but he does not like apples.  He likes to eat things in whole or bigger pieces and that is usually ok like with toast or sandwiches.  He will shake his head and push away things that he doesn't want.  He likes Diet Sprite-the first soda we have let him have in a cup.
-He still loves Baby Einsteins and now he like Nemo and any movie with dogs in it.  The old versions or Blue's Clues are much more to his liking than the new ones.  We can get those on Netflix.
-I have to try and not get frustrated with him and all his messes and exploring because he is just doing what he is supposed to do.  Don and I keep saying that we don't remember the other boys being such terrors but that was so long ago and maybe we blocked that out.  I am excited that he can go to nursery full time in 2 months but I don't want to be too excited about that because that means that he is getting too big.  It is just very hard on Sunday with him and with Don and I being busy with our callings.
This little boy is a very special part of our family and we love him so much!