A bit of background

So here we are...Jack is one years old! wow did that year ever go by fast. So many milestones have come and gone...I am almost forgetting when things happened exactly! I will give a brief recap of Jack's milestones to get you caught up.
First 3 months we figured out how to nurse when to nurse and worked hard to set a sleep schedule.
3 months - first laugh
4 months rolled over
5 months started crawling
6 months said dada
6 months sitting(yep, crawled before he sat)
6 months started eating solids
8 months pulling self on furniture
8 months cruising along furniture
8 months clapping
8 months peek a boo (this was his favourite game for about 2 months)
9 months first tooth
9 months said keeya (for Kita our dog - still no Mama)
10 months taking a few steps on his own
10 months and 3 weeks walking!
11 months stopped nursing
12 months he is attempting to climb everything - can climb out of bath tub if I am there for him to grab a hold of
12 months - 1 week, mastered sitting on his little push cars and bikes, still unable to move himself along while he is on them.
Pushes Mr. Bear (his closest companion) and other things on the bikes and push cars as well.
Standing on his tippy toes and can reach things that are on the dining room table and allllllmost reach objects on the edge of the counter if they are slightly hanging over the edge!
Jack loves to "pretend feed" Mommy and Daddy and Mr. Bear with his pretend dishes. I gave him a set of plates, forks, knives, cups and some plastic food which he took to right away. He loves the forks. He has been carrying them around for the past two weeks. He really wants to try and eat with them - but it is super messy so I am not ready to let this happen yet. I will buy him a real fork with silver prongs and see how he does with those. (I know I should be encouraging him to eat with cutlery- a bit too messy at this time). Perhaps in the next two weeks we will be ready for it.
He has mastered sliding down off our Mommy and Daddy's bed - I showed him a few weeks back how to get down off the bed and couch (turning around and sliding down on tummy) and well this week he started doing it on his own!