Brycen at 19 Months Old

Brycen is 19 months old these days. He is a really funny boy and very happy. I'm not exaggerating when I say that any time we go to a store someone comments on how happy he is. He's very friendly with strangers (which MUST be addressed when he's older!!!) and he loves to talk talk talk. He just blabs. Every now and then we understand a word, such as ball, mama, or dada.

More things about Brycen these days:

He loves to color. We'd had a rough day at church since Brycen could start walking and he has really struggled during sacrament meeting. A couple of weeks ago I decided to bring a notepad and crayons with us. And he LOVED it! He lasted over 30 minutes before having a meltdown. Record! He only went out twice that meeting. Ever since then he has colored almost every day. I have a "Davey and Goliath" coloring book for him to use at church and a Disney one to use at home. Most of the time he sits on the living room floor to color, but every now and then he sits in his highchair for it.

And speaking of church, Brycen went to nursery for the first time two weeks ago. He did awesome! I filled in at the piano in primary that day so Tyson stayed with him. He ended up leaving though because Brycen was doing just fine. He played with the toys (he loved the kitchen), had a snack and dumped his cup of water all over him, and colored. He was confused when it was time to put the crayons away and move onto the next activity. Last week he left early because he seemed to be getting a fever and was really fussy. But he seems to really enjoy nursery. So far so good!

Brycen loves to stack things and take this off of that. In the case of the picture above, he was taking the little plastic lids off of bottles of liquid protein in the hall closet. He was thoroughly entertained for about 10 minutes.

After the cups were all taken off and put back on he'd clap. ("Yay!")


And a few more things about Brycen:

• When Brycen hears upbeat music he starts to dance. This dancing includes bending his knees and swinging his left arm like he's at a hoedown. He can really get that arm going! He also swings it when he's running. He's too funny.
• Normally we put our Christmas tree up the day after Thanksgiving when Christmastime officially starts. This year we will be in Idaho for Thanksgiving so we can't put it up after Thanksgiving. We wouldn't be able to put it up till the first Saturday in December (which is also a busy day) so we caved and put it up yesterday. It took Tyson and I three hours to do it and Brycen slept the whole time. Brycen woke up as we were getting the boxes put back out in the storage closet. He was in awe when he walked out and saw the lit tree and the lit garland on the TV stand, saying "ooh" as he saw it. Brycen loves the tree and likes to touch the ornaments. We're always telling him "no" and saying "Brycen...Brycen...don't touch. Brycen...no!" The whole time we're saying these things he's staring at us with a big grin on his face and his hand reaching out to touch. And we're not exactly using a nice tone either. Then he'll do one of three things: 1)Hit the tree a few times before we stop him, 2) grab one of the ornaments off and shake it, or 3) pull on one of the branches. And all three are done with a big smile. At this point he is taken to his crib for a one-minute timeout. He cries the whole time and screams. Then we take him out and he's back in his crib a little later for another one. He went in his room for a timeout six times yesterday. Today he's gone twice. The little turkey!
• Brycen is wearing size 5 diapers now. He's our growing boy!
• Brycen loves to stand on the scale. I hope this isn't a bad sign for his future! :) The last time I was able to see a number while he stood on the scale he weighed 27 lb. 6 oz.
• Brycen is saying a lot more words these days. He now says momma, dadda or daddy (last night Tyson came in the room and Brycen said "Hi, Daddy."), water, ball, balloon ("boon"), ow, grandma, and grandpa.
• He likes to pick up my phone and "talk" on it. He'll hold it against his ear and say "Hewo?" It sounds more like "Awo?" but we get what he's trying to do. He loves to talk to people on speaker phone when Tyson and I are talking to someone. He'll get really chatty and start pointing at stuff. He things our travel electronic Yahtzee is a phone too and he holds it to his ear and talks.
  

We are really looking forward to Thanksgiving this week! We can't wait to spend time with our families!