brady has really turned out to be a great little kid. his main interests include sweets, sports, and growing up. he also loves anything to do with letters and numbers.
he likes to watch a show while elizabeth is napping and normally chooses a learning show of sorts. i would probably choose a magic school bus or thomas the train or rio, but brady almost always chooses a letter factory show or a show about numbers or sight words. today he chose to watch "what's in the bible?" so i guess he's not totally predictable. but he is getting super smart from all his shows (and we do practice with flash cards and stuff too) and knows all of his letter names and sounds and can read and sound out short words that follow the phonetic pronunciation that he's familiar with. also, he enjoys texting on my phone. it normally says something like "brady mom dad hi dad 0123456789" and then add about thirty emojis (aka "stickers") and repeat. he can read those flip a word books but doesn't love them yet because they're not super easy. it's hard for him to remember all the words in a sentence when he's sounding things out one letter at a time. he hasn't picked up yet on the concept of word families but we're getting there.
brady's favorite sport is probably baseball, although when you ask him his favorite sport, he almost always pulls out a random one that he doesn't even pay attention to. i think baseball is actually his favorite sport, but hockey is the one he plays most often at home. he likes to watch all sports and regularly (like several times a week) asks chris if they can go golfing today.
he also really wants to grow up soon. he's always talking about how he wants to be a dad when he grows up. why? because he wants to eat treats whenever he wants. the last few days he wants to be a dad and a cowboy. he always wants to be a dad and something else and gets stressed sometimes when i don't remind him that these things are not mutually exclusive. he gets excited when we go to sprouts because "yeay! i want to buy grow food so i can be big like a dad!!!!" and "yeay! i want to eat lots and lots of broccoli so i can grow big like dad!" i worry sometimes that he's too readily wishing away his childhood.
brady would probably tell you his best friends are bodie and talan. he plays with bodie when i volunteer at abigail's school and when my friend janel volunteers at her kids' school. he is also friends with marshall at church and likes the two next door neighbor boys even though we haven't been able to play with them for a few months because of life being busy.
brady is still the kid of ours requiring the least amount of sleep. he gets tired some days but i try not to let him nap unless his behavior is horrendous that day and i literally just can't take it anymore. because when he naps, he has a harder time falling asleep at night and i like lights out to be at 7pm. he falls asleep shortly after abigail at night and then wakes up during the night and sneaks in bed with me (seriously so annoying) or sleeps til 6am when he sneaks in bed with me (also annoying). except that when he sneaks in in the morning, sometimes he falls asleep, and sometimes he stays awake while gently rubbing my arm and back and gently giving me kisses on my face and arm. it's honestly the sweetest thing ever except that i hate it so much because it gives me about a 90% chance of waking up with a migraine. but seriously... who taught this kid to do that? he's not trying to wake me up... he's just gently rubbing my arm and giving me kisses.
brady still looooooves elizabeth. he's started getting annoyed when she gets into his stuff or ruins something he set up or was working on, but really, he loves her so much. he and abigail are like a divorced couple still trying to live under the same roof. it's very love hate. brady is so quiet and chill and mature when he's around just me, but the second he's also around abigail and/or elizabeth, he's crazy and immature. he's always trying to be silly and make them laugh. they love/hate it. i normally just hate it. whoops. but he has such a great heart. we left the doctor's office today and the nurse said he should choose a sticker for himself and his sister (elizabeth), but as he opened the sticker box, he got super excited to choose a sticker for abigail and was solely focused on finding the best sticker for her. i'm actually the one that found a sticker for brady for him to keep for himself.
so, that's brady. he is super driven and focused which is great when he needs to get dressed or get something done... drives me crazy when he's all "can i have a treat?" thirty times before noon. he's mature and sweet sometimes and crazy and annoying at other times. he's also started throwing abigail level tantrums in the last two months... wondering if this is connected with halloween (because it's since then that his candy obsession has become a problem) and wondering how it will progress. anyway, he's such a fun kid. he's turning out way better than what i would have guessed 4 years ago.
and brady's stats at his doctor's appointment today...
height 3' 3.25'' 28%
weight 33lbs 9.6oz 30%
weight 33lbs 9.6oz 30%
bmi 15.33 39%
he's a very proportionate guy... and finally starting to wear some 4T stuff which he is THRILLED about.
happy birthday little guy!
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