15 months

Ryder is 15 months today and we've decided he's the coolest little boy ever.  Here are some highlights from the past month with our little monkey:

• Sleeping like such a champ.  No more night wakings (yay!  It only took 15 months to get him to sleep through the night.  Ha!)  Still taking a morning and an afternoon nap.  Tried pushing him to just one nap but it wasn't working.  He's sleeping at 10am and again around 2 or 3pm.  It's nice to get 2 breaks during the day and about 12 hours at night.
• Throwing food off his high chair tray.  I don't even know how much food he's actually eating because it seems he just throws it all and Muffin devours it before I can get it off the floor.  Like everything else, it's a big game and he thinks it's hilarious.
• We haven't had the 15 month appt. yet but I think he's grown taller in the past month.  His 12 month pants fit only in the waist, but the length looks like he's waiting for the flood.  I think he's about 21 lbs.
• Talking so much more.  New words include: hurt, light, all done, water, thank you, Papa, and what's that? 
• Still nursing.  Slowing down a bit.  Maybe 4 or 5 times a day, but I still don't think we're weaning any time soon.
• Like to color with his sisters.  He uses our stamp markers and he goes to town.
• We flipped his car seat forward for about a week because he's 20 lbs. and one year, but the day after we flipped it forward I saw a special on the Today show about leaving them backwards until they are two.  So, he's facing backwards again and he doesn't really seem to mind.
• He LOVES his shoes and we have plenty to go around thanks to Misty for some hand-me-downs.  He calls them 'Bahs'.  He carries them around and brings them to me to put on.  When it's time to take them off at the end of the day or nap time he screams and throws a mini tantrum.  It's pretty funny to watch.  
• He's climbing on everything as I wrote about in a post earlier this week.  It scares me but I'm hoping it's just a phase.  Yesterday I had to lay all the barstools on the ground so he would stop climbing.  It looked like a bomb went off in our kitchen.
• Loves getting dirty outside.  He's such a boy, playing in his sandbox with his trucks and cars.  
• His hair is getting really long and curly in the back and it's the cutest 'do ever.  We cut the girls' hair at 15 months but they had little mullets.  Ryder's hair is growing out nicely and Cory says we're never cutting it ;)
• And of course, he's still a Mama's boy.  Not really interested in anyone but me and Daddy when he gets home from work.  We love it.

Happy 15 month birthday, Ryder.  We love you to pieces.  You are such a special boy!