So again it's been a couple of weeks since I've posted anything. And I let the 4th of July and one of Jason's birthday parties pass without even getting out the camera. UGH. I am so bad about that! I did however take a few photos on Jason's actual b-day. These were taken at our neighborhood park (Jacob's favorite spot!). Jacob can now go down the slide unassisted and as you can see, he loves it.

He likes to explore around on the equipment and likes to climb, but he can't yet climb down stairs, so I'm still a total nervous nelly with him at the park.

Here is Jacob enjoying a birthday cupcake. He is a HUGE cupcake fan. If he even sees one he points and grunts until he gets it. Needless to say, I won't be making any more until Halloween. He had trouble eating every meal of the day when he saw the cupcakes sitting there because that's all he wanted. Very annoying.

Other tidbits:

He's become proficient with the sippy cup. He uses ones with a straw and he does really well with those. The ones with the spout he does ok, but hasn't quite mastered that he needs to tilt it at an angle to get the milk out so I have to help him. The only annoying thing about that is he's all to happy to just let me hold the cup for him, so we've been sticking to the ones with the straws that he can hold himself.

He's walking very well now and is almost running. He trips occassionally, but will usually jump up. He likes to push around his Fisher Price corn popper.

He's still getting into the cupboards everyday. Grr. He likes to get out treats, especially crackers. Lately he's been getting out the Ritz crackers.

We went to the peditrician last week for his 15 month well-baby check-up. (Although he was almost 16 months old.) It was pretty routine although he did test low for iron so we have him on iron supplements. She said his picky eating was normal and his development and growth was healthy and normal too. Yay!