Playgrounds are serious.

Today we took Jameson to the park with the swings. Our neighborhood, which we love for many reasons, has two awesome playgrounds. One is for kids 3 and under, but has no swings. One is for kids 5-12, but has swings, including baby swings. So you can see my dilemma when it comes to deciding which park to visit. We wanted to go to on the swings today, so we went to the big kid park. After a while on the swings, we tried the big slides, and Jameson was in heaven. I think we have some cute pictures of it on Mark's phone, so I will have to get some of those.

I love the look on his face in this picture. It says to me, "I know this park is for big kids, but I'm here, I'm fairly coordinated, and I can't look like a fool in front of all these people. I'm walking across the drawbridge, dangit, if it's the last thing I do."

Jimmy Jam is 16 Months Old

Without the monthly baby book updates keeping me honest about tracking Jameson's growth, I find myself slacking. This week, I have become so aware of how much he has grown and changed recently. Even though physically, babies don't grow as fast after their first birthdays, it's amazing how quickly they start learning new skills.

At Jameson's 15-month doctor's appointment, he was still in the 95th percentile for height, 90th percentile for head circumference and 50th percentile for weight. I think he is going to be built like Mark, but with a bigger head. He has 13 teeth.

At that appointment, he also had four words: hi, more, uh-oh, and no.

This month, he's added night-night, bye-bye, ball, block, apple, water, nose, tickle, daddy (not mommy),and all done.

If you ask him, he will show you his head, nose, toes, socks and shoes. He claps his hands when he does something good, he dances when he hears music and he spins around in circles.

 He is also somehow remembering signs for words I taught him months ago (well, tried to teach him for a couple of days before I gave up), as he learns the word. Suddenly when he learned to say "more," he was also doing the sign. Likewise with "all done." It's kind of funny, because signs are supposed to be used when the baby can't communicate. Either way, I get a kick out of it.

This kid loves a sandwich. I believe this is the first time I ever said "smile!" and  he complied.

Today I told Jameson we were going to go to the store. He excitedly went to the shoe basket and brought back one of his shoes for me to put on him, then walked right over to the door to the garage and tried to open the door. I loved it, because I could tell he knew the drill for leaving. I also loved that he only felt the need to put on one shoe.

Easter weekend, pictured with my dad and my Opa. Apparently it is too much to ask for anyone to look at the camera.

Over Easter weekend, my parents were in town, and my mom attempted teaching Jameson to blow kisses when they were saying goodbye. I thought it was so cute that I've been working with him on it. Today, I was prompting Jameson to say bye-bye to the checker at Lowe's, who was talking to Jameson. Lately he'll tell people bye-bye, in addition to saying hi to them six or seven times. Today, he just blew the guy a kiss! It was his first perfect blown kiss, and he chose to use it on the checker at Lowe's.

This poor pale kid has only had a handful of opportunities to play outside. He is a little cautious.