16 Months!

Our Mr. Jackson turned 16 months on Friday!  He just gets more and more fun every day!  He has also become quite the little handful as he is now climbing up onto everything and cruising around furniture.  At 16 months, Jackson ...

- says "mama" (all the time :) ), "dada", "bup" (book and up), "baba" (bottle), "ba" (ball), "bu" (blue, for his towel), "bat-bat" (buckle, for his car seat), "buh-buh" (bye, bye), "pu" (yes, that one is poo), "haha", "uh-oh", closes his book and says "the end" (which is more of a sound that means "the end"), and tries to repeat lots of other words that usually come out sounding like "bup" or "dat".  He is getting great at watching our faces as we say words so he can repeat them.

- blows kisses to daddy in the morning when he leaves for work, and whenever we leave somewhere or finish Skyping with grandma and grandpa.  He has also recently started giving kisses on our cheek, which is really more like him eating our face, but we'll take it!

- loves to make silly faces and noises.  He especially loves when daddy makes an elephant noise and has started trying to copy him.  He is quite the little ham!

Jackson and mommy on Mother's day.
We couldn't get him to look and smile, he just wanted to be silly :)

- loves to open and close doors, cabinets, cupboards, containers, and basically anything he can.  He also loves to put things in containers, put the lid on and take it back off again. 

- absolutely loves to read books.  I'm pretty sure they are his favorite thing to play with.  He just loves turning the pages!

- has started building towers with his mega blocks.  He has a great time stacking things!

Jackson's first ever tower with mega blocks!  He built it all himself :)

- has kind of an unhealthy obsession with Mickey Mouse.  He gets so excited anytime he sees anything that has Mickey on it. 

He got so excited when he saw that the chicken nugget bag had Mickey on it that I couldn't put the bag away

- loves to climb on anything he can.  His favorite places to climb are up to the tub, the piano, and on the couch to play with the blinds. 

Pretty pleased with himself for just clearing off the table

Caught red-handed

Is now tall enough to climb up his ball machine and put the balls in the top slot!

Jackson figured out how to get his paci from his crib without mommy and daddy's help :)

- loves to be outside!  Now that the weather is nice we have been looking for opportunities to enjoy it.  Last weekend we did an easy hike near our house to a little waterfall.  Jackson was fascinated every time we crossed the river!

Yay for being outside! 
Jackson wouldn't wear his hat so daddy tried it on.

Jackson loved watching the water

At the waterfall

Jackson wasn't a huge fan of the loud noise coming from the waterfall