14 thoughts from my 14th month as a parent

May 20, 2014

Daddy dancing, high fiving and food throwing are have all been part of my 14th month as a parent…

1. Our son is barely a year old but already quite good at imitating how my wife says ‘oh dear’ and I haven’t been teaching him to do it either. I’m wondering what his first daddy impression is going to be like.

2. Just over a year into parenthood and my daddy dancing has been mocked for the first time. I’m surprised that it’s taken this long.

3. If you ever hear me use the phrase ‘speaking with my blogging hat on’, this is what I mean…

4. As our son is now one and quite good at doing a high five, we’ve decided that it’s time to try to teach him how to do our family fist pump. I was going to put a picture of this here, but our family first punch is top secret!

5. Our son recently blew a raspberry at me straight after I got home from work. We’ll have to train him to do this when cold callers knock at our door.

6. Fascinated about where I get all my jokes from, our son’s recently being trying to sneak a look at my book of dad jokes. If he thought things through, he’d have done this before he gave me this as a present for my last birthday. That said, he was not even seven months old at the time.

7. Raisins are one of our son’s favourite foods. It is now almost impossible to sit down to eat cereal topped with reasons without him coming over to inspect it and see how many raisins I’m prepared to give him (…or he can just grab!)

8. Our son has started throwing food a bit more recently but rarely throws raisins or blueberries. When he does, we know that there’s something not quite right.

9. Our son is too old to have a tablet or games console, so instead I occasionally take him along to our local supermarket to play with the touchscreen weighing scales in the fruit and vegetables section while I try to decide what sorts of dips to get.

10. In another recent supermarket trip, I bought our son his first football. I loved watching him cling onto it for most of the trip round the store.

11. On my most recent trip to the supermarket, I went without our son as I was on the way home from work. On the way out, I noticed that there’s a car wash near the store petrol station. I can’t wait to try driving our car through the car wash and seeing what he thinks.

12. Last month, our son discovered a new favourite game: throwing the plastic balls from his ball pool at granny and grandad. In the photo below, the grandparents are using their tablets to both take photos of this and also as protective devices faced with the onslaught.

13. Since our son’s got his ball pool, I’ve quite enjoyed jumping into when I get home from work in the evening. If I had a bigger office, I might consider keeping one in a corner for when I felt the need to chill out for a few minutes.

14. Our son enjoys sitting in a a red and yellow plastic car that toddlers are supposed to push with their feet. He can get it to move backwards but not forwards at the moment. I have already complimented him on having such great reverse parking skills for a one year old.

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rcrown2
May 21, 2014 @ 02:53:41

Wow, I feel like I was just reading about how your son turned one, and now it’s two months past! Time goes too fast as a parent!

These are great thoughts, and my wife and I have recently pondered the same thing about a local car wash with our daughter. We haven’t brought her through one yet, but can’t wait to see her reaction!

And I love the multi-use of the tablets; internet, taking pictures, watching movies, shielding from projectile balls…..

Great read, thanks for the post and hold on to those raisins!

Jonathan
May 24, 2014 @ 17:31:36

Thanks for dropping by and commenting, I also can’t believe that I’m in my 14th month as a parent.

ideas4dads
May 21, 2014 @ 11:19:22

Be thankful that he draws the line at lobbing raisins. There is nothing that is off limits to our 2yo she’ll chuck anything!

Jonathan
May 24, 2014 @ 17:33:01

At the moment, our son’s been throwing almost everything apart from raisins and blueberries. He’s getting better and better at food throwing, will have to see if there’s a competition for it at our local village show.

Merlinda Little (@pixiedusk)
May 23, 2014 @ 13:25:36

Haha This is exactly what my son is doing sans the raisins. He doesnt like them muhc. I always love how funny your post are. I think your son is going to be a very very happy kid =) #PoCoLo

Jonathan
May 24, 2014 @ 17:34:08

Thank you for your kind words, I’m glad that you like reading this.

Jill
May 26, 2014 @ 01:23:27

I love stopping by to hear about life as a Dad! Give that little sweetie an extra hug from me. Happy 14 months!

Thank you for stopping by the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop this week. We hope to see you drop by our neck of the woods next week!

Victoria Welton
May 28, 2014 @ 09:23:22

It sounds like Fatherhood is really suiting you – it does go so fast though, doesn’t it?! I love that ‘blogging hat’ photo!! Thank you for linking to PoCoLo 🙂

DannyUK (@DannyUK)
May 29, 2014 @ 08:39:42

I never thought of letting mine play with the digital scales at Tesco. That would have kept them amused for ages. Damn. Feel like I’ve missed out now! Thanks for linking up #FamilyFriday

Tom Briggs
Jun 11, 2014 @ 09:41:12