All About Braden

Can you believe that Braden turns four years old in about six weeks?!?!  With all of the monthly blog updates about Kellen, the big boys have been unintentionally neglected in the blog, so here is a post dedicated to Braden!

• Has an excellent and large vocabulary
• Has a very active imagination and comes up with the craziest stories to tell us
• Loves to read books
• Loves to watch cartoons and movies, but we do try to limit it.  However, it is helpful if we need him to sit somewhere and not move for an extended period of time :)  His current favorites are: Wild Krats, Word World, Daniel Tiger, Cars and Frozen.  Of course, he LOVES Ninja Turtles, Spiderman and Batman, but we find that he plays too rough after watching them, so we don't watch them too often
• Loves to play.  He is good at independent play as well as playing with others.  He struggles with sharing sometimes, but I haven't met a kiddo yet who doesn't struggle with that.  Sometimes his playing is too rough and he doesn't quite understand that he is capable of hurting himself or others.  
• His current favorite toys are: Paw Patrol vehicles, Batman and Ninja Turtles, airplanes, cars, Transformers and anything that can be used outside.
• He is still lingering in the whining three year old stage but has very much entered the bossy four year old stage.  He definately knows what he wants to do and doesn't like it when his brothers (or Mommy and Daddy) have other plans
• He is fully potty trained except for overnight.  He is such a sound sleeper that he isn't able to wake up at night when he needs to use the restroom.  So for now, he remains in Pull Ups at night.
• Wears size 4T clothes!  
• Is a great eater most of the time.  He loves fruit.  Veggies are more of a struggle.  He also insists that he hates potatoes yet he loves french fries.  
• He sleeps at night from 8 or 8:30pm until about 7am.
• He does still nap during the afternoon most days for about 90 minutes
• He also still LOVES Kellen and enjoys making him laugh

Had a dental check up last month and did great!

Loves preschool projects and learning

Showing off the airplane wings we made one day