As our son recently celebrated his first birthday, here’s a look back at his first year in pictures…
Shortly after being born, he realised that being a baby can be really tiring work. As he hadn’t yet started smiling, I really liked taking photos and making short videos of his big yawns as they were quite expressive.
Within months of being born, it was clear that he had inherited my dress sense…
On my first Fathers’ Day last year, we went out for lunch and then on to a local pottery shop, he painted some mugs and plates using his footprints and handprints. I think that getting him to do so now might be a bit more challenging as it’s hard to change a nappy without him attempting to crawl away.
As a three month old, our son was already keen to go to his first music festival. We took him to the Gwyl Gardd Goll (Lost Garden Festival) on Anglesey, here in North Wales, on the condition that he wore these stylish baby ear protectors.
By the time he reached four and a half months old, we decided to start teaching him so basic IT skills. In this picture I reckon that he is thinking ‘so I just turn it off and then turn it on again, dad?’.
During a trip to France on our first holiday as a family last year, he started to show a real interest in food and spent a lot of time salivating over restaurant menus (…and occasionally throwing them on the floor!).
By the time he was six months old, he was already trying to have his say on what we watched on television. Six more months down the line, he still regularly tries to get his hands on the remote control.
As if to drop a hint about going on another holiday some time soon, he now regularly reads the travel section of the Saturday newspaper.
As I’m from Scotland, I was very proud to see him tucking into vegetarian haggis for the first time in January this year.
Our son recently decided to have his own say on which of his old clothes to keep and which to give away after they’d been neatly sorted out into bags.
Here he is a few days before he turned one, playing with a giraffe that we bought him as an early birthday present on a day trip to Chester.
If you are a parent, what do you remember most from your first year as a parent? Please 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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rcrown2
Apr 22, 2014 @ 18:26:14
Great photos and happy birthday to your son! She’s not a year yet, so I can’t comment on your question, but she’ll be half a year in 2 1/2 weeks! But who’s counting? : )
Hope you both continue to learn and grow together!
Jonathan
Apr 24, 2014 @ 19:44:04
Thanks, there are so many fun little milestones along the way!
Stephen Greene
Apr 22, 2014 @ 22:24:22
Happy 1st Birthday! There are some great photos there.
Our son is approaching 3 and I have been thinking about a post reviewing the time so far. From this point in time all I seem to remember is being dog-tired all the time. I’m sure other stuff must have happened, so perhaps I’ll go and check our photos to jog my memory.
Jonathan
Apr 22, 2014 @ 22:30:43
Thanks Stephen, I’ve certainly been getting used to increased tiredness over the last year!
Dada Mike
Apr 23, 2014 @ 22:27:57
Gorgeous post preserved for posterity. Mikey likes it!
Dada Mike
Apr 23, 2014 @ 22:28:43
Gorgeous post preserved for posterity. Mikey likes it!
Jonathan
Apr 24, 2014 @ 19:51:34
Thank you, glad you liked it!
Merlinda (@pixiedusk)
Apr 26, 2014 @ 07:21:24
Aww Such a busy year =) I wish I had chronicled my son’s development like this too =) #pocolo
tombriggs79
Apr 26, 2014 @ 08:28:48
Hasn’t he grown?! And he’s done loads in his first year too – we hardly ventured outside during our older son’s first year, haven’t had the courage to try festivals and are only going on our first family holiday this summer now he’s nearly four. Well played, sir!
Susan W
Apr 26, 2014 @ 13:44:51
Very cute! Thanks for sharing at the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop!
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Apr 29, 2014 @ 22:40:50
What fabulous photos and wonderful memories. This is one of the reasons I love blogs – you can look back on posts like these regularly. Happy belated birthday to your boy 🙂 Thank you for linking to PoCoLo.
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