18 Months Old

My baby is 18 months old today, but I guess he's a toddler and not a baby anymore, huh? At his check up last Thursday he weighed 24 lbs! He is in the full blown tantrum phase - shrieking, throwing himself on the ground and flailing around, "bulldozing" around the living room (crawling on all fours with his head down, while sobbing). However he can be very sweet and compliant when he is in the right mood. He is mostly well behaved, especially when he gets the sleep he needs. Here are some recent pictures:

Happy to play ball with cousin Kolby and Aunt Betsy on Saturday 4/7

Playing with is Easter Bucket from Grandma Dianne

Sporting his cool tie-dye onsie from Grandma Dianne

He learned a new word today - "no." . . . Grandma: "Clayton, try the hotdog" Clayton, shakes his head and says "no"  . . . Mommy asks: "Clayton, do you want more peaches?" Clayton says "No" It begins. . .
His vocabulary is constantly growing although there are no sentences yet, and until today he seemed to mostly be just be repeating what he heard or naming what he saw. Like if  he sees a ball, he says ball. When he hears the train, he says "choo choo." Occasionally if he is bored he will go to the door and say "outside" as if to ask to go outside, but he's not insistent that he gets his way, yet.
Here's a list of his vocabulary, it's probably incomplete, but I'll try!
Dada
Mamma
Reese
no
shoes
go, or "let's go"
outside
ball
uh-oh
choo choo (as in a train)
vac (as in vacuum)
truck (sounds like cruck and I believe he is referring to wheels)
cracker
banana (except he pronounces it with out the B, and it's only two syllables) 
wash
stuck (he uses this to tell me when he is stuck, or a toy he wants is stuck somewhere he can't reach)
Elmo (with out the "l" sound though)
jump
shh (to the cats when they meow or to Reese when he cries, because that's what we do!)
whoa, whoa
wee (when swinging or going down slides)