7 thoughts from my 7th month as a parent

December 9, 2013

Parenting isn’t just about big milestones, it’s also about the little things that bring a smile to your face or make you think. This is something that I touched upon last month in a post entitled Being a Dad: Celebrating the Little Things and it’s something that I’m going to make a regular feature on the blog (…as long as our son keeps doing funny little things, which we’re sure he will do!). Anyway, here are seven thoughts from my seventh month as a parent:

07/11/13 We’re raising our six month old son as a vegetarian but he’s been chewing a bright yellow duck during bath time quite a lot recently.

10/11/13 Baby son was in team baby grow for his 1st football match yesterday but pooped. We had to change baby grow and then team lost. Coincidence? After it was suggested that our son should be given a football banning order as our team lost the game that I mentioned above, I came up with an idea. Alternatively, we could just get him to put on a baby grow with the opposition team’s crest on it and feed him prunes.

11/11/13 We went out for lunch yesterday and our son spent more time playing with a beer mat than the plastic toy that we brought him. Moral of the story – kids’ toy shops need to sell fewer plastic toys and more beer mats.

12/11/13 After I blew out the candles on my birthday cake recently, our six month old son started crying. I hope this doesn’t happen every time someone in the family has a birthday. Does anyone else have kids who do this?

15/11/13 Must try to stop eating our baby son’s apple rings, but they’re so tasty! Mike Crider of Twin Dad Talks suggested that this was only right as kids often grow up to want to eat off their parents’ plates. As as our son was just under seven months old when I posted this, perhaps it’s a case of me getting the retaliation in first!

16/11/13 Our son and I had fun playing with stacking cups today. When he was in his little chair, I kept trying to see if I could put one on each of his feet and one on each of his hands before he could knock any of them off. It was a bit like Buckaroo! 🙂

22/11/13 Might get tablet soon but worried it won’t be as good as my laptop for playing peek-a-boo with son on days when I work from home.

Do any of these comments remind you of things that your kids do or used to do? If so, feel free to share your views in the comments section below or on the ‘Dad’s The Way I Like It’ pages on Facebook or Google+.

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Zeke
Dec 10, 2013 @ 03:51:11

I remember fondly always eating my son’s snacks when he was a baby. I also drank whatever Pedialyte was leftover after the times he was sick. Itvgotvto the point I would go buy it for myself. Bubble gum flavor of course.

Jonathan
Dec 15, 2013 @ 17:14:42

Thanks for sharing that! 🙂

John S Green
Dec 10, 2013 @ 07:24:57

Great fun with your son! Don’t start too soon with screens… wait until age 4+…… Light-hearteness and humor are critical to bringing up baby!!!

Jonathan
Dec 10, 2013 @ 18:12:17

Good tip, we generally try to keep him away from television and I’m trying not to have it on in the background when he’s playing.

memyselfandkids.com
Dec 10, 2013 @ 14:25:50

Not a veggie – hmmm. Clearly a diverse diet eating duck at such a young age.
Enjoy those funny moments.

Jonathan
Dec 10, 2013 @ 18:11:30

Thanks! Our son’s definitely got a quite diverse diet. Within the last week he’s tried risotto (which he ate with his hands) and today he had some bread dipped in soup, which he really liked.

- memyselfandkids.com
  Dec 10, 2013 @ 18:33:43
  
  Wow! That is a lot for a young kid. I hope he is a good eater and does not get so particular. It can certainly make things easier.

So This is Fatherhood
Dec 10, 2013 @ 16:08:28

Maybe you should just get your son another grow so he’ll have two! Although, I love the idea of having him soil the opposing team’s colors.

Jonathan
Dec 10, 2013 @ 18:10:41

Good idea! That said, I’d be worried about the consequences of our son pooping in his Bangor City baby grow affecting the result even if we managed to change him into another team baby grow. And as for if he repeated the feat in the new baby grow…

@ADadCalledSpen
Dec 10, 2013 @ 17:48:44

The beer mats mention. Same goes for boxes. Sometimes the boxes get more time than the toy that was contained within.
Ergo, stack up on boxes.

Love this post. For me, when I started blogging as a dad, the blog was purely to contain those milestones and events which one might forget in time. A chronicle of life as a dad, and the events we shared on a day to day basis.

Great post.

Jonathan
Dec 10, 2013 @ 18:09:34

Thanks for sharing this and your kind words!

A while ago, I was thinking that it was a shame that I hadn’t started keeping a scrapbook of firsts and dates when we’d been to certain places with our son. My mum did a really detailed scrapbook with this sort of thing for me (it might even have been more than one!).

After a while, I realised that this blog is in many ways playing a similar role as I’m recording big and little milestones in our son’s life (although it sometimes feels like it’s more about me than him). I’m going to try to find a way of saving the individual posts and pictures, maybe as word files, so as he can have a hard copy of it all when he’s older.

James
Dec 15, 2013 @ 13:11:16

I love post 11/11/13.

We have our recycling in the kitchen, our 9 month old would rather play with an empty milk carton than a $50 play Centre. Why oh why do we spend the money.

Jonathan
Dec 15, 2013 @ 17:02:03

So true. I’m thinking of picking up some beer mats from a pub this week and wrapping them up for our son. He’d love waving both of them about, I reckon.