Jamie picture/16 months update

I'm so behind in posting pictures from grandparents and other family, so this post is a big catch-up one. (And it STILL won't let me get in ABOVE the picture to type. Blogger, how you torture me! ;))


This was yesterday. I'm SO glad I took his shirt off before feeding him lunch. See the mac 'n cheese in his hair?

At the park last night. The weather was PERFECT!

These are from today.

These are from 5/8.

5/4, I think? I know. They're all mixed up.

Too bad you can't hear the cute little grunts that accompany this kind of thing.

And my little guy was 16 months on Friday!

• Jamie loves to shut doors.

• He's over being so excited to eat "big boy food" that he'll eat anything, and has started to get picky.

• He's pretty much saying "Daddy"--it sounds like "Dai-ee."

• He loves his new friend Jina, our good friend from college who just moved here and is staying with us until she gets her apartment. (She already got a job just days after arriving!)

• He loves to shut doors and tries to squish me into the laundry closet when I'm trying to change loads.

• He walks most of the time now.

• He has TONS of teeth.

• He can often point to or reach for what he wants.

• He may be starting the terrible twos early. He has learned how to whine and screech incessantly. Jason calls him the little banshee.

• He's doing very well having Jina as a roommate. He's hardly had any problems sharing his bedroom with her.

• He loves to throw things, especially food, on the floor. I've been praying for extra patience.

• He loves to carry things around with him while he walks around. Favorites are things with handles he can easily get his little hands around, like a toy hammer and the toilet brush (which has never been used and apparently never will be, because he won't leave it alone).

• Clingier than ever. Mommy and Daddy are his favorites, in that order, and he wants us right in front of him all the time. I was AMAZED yesterday when I left him downstairs while I went to the bathroom (one downside to this place is that both bathrooms are on the second floor) and he DIDN'T start screaming.
• Also, he is weaned from his binky. He kept throwing them all out of the stroller and getting them lost, and by the time we bought more he seemed fine, so we figured he (and we) are probably better off if he quits now, before he can argue with us. :) But I do miss seeing the sweet little suck-suck-suck.
  

I know there's more that I notice each day and then can't remember when I get on here to do this. I'll try to add things when I think of them.