16 Months (and one week)

So my boy is now 16 months old. This is a pretty typical picture of him . . . one shoe on, one shoe off, brought the chair into the kitchen to stand on in order to reach the buttons on the stove better - and getting busted for it! Sam is such a wild man these days. He's still not really saying much as far as real words go, but boy can he tell you what he wants! He's doing great adjusting to his new big boy bed. Sometimes he wakes up once during the night (I just hold him for about 30 seconds and put him back in the bed and he's fine) and sometimes he doesn't wake at all. He is getting up earlier now (before 7:00!), but we're trying to work that out. He wants to do everything Jack and Anna do and if they are willing to let him join in, he's pretty successful (sometimes he gets the bedroom door shut in his face because they don't want him messing up their stuff). He loves music and LOVES to play outside. He will go to the back door and whine to go out. When I say no, he brings me his shoes and whines even louder. He claps for the "more" sign and uses the same one for "please" as well. Guess I haven't been as consistent in teaching those correctly. He surely is a mess and makes us laugh every day. We love our little guy!