It’s time for another monthly list of thoughts about parenthood. This month’s compilation covers topics such as food, children’s television and monkey impressions.
1. Our son is currently conducting an experiment. He’s trying to find out how many blueberries he needs to eat before he turns into a blueberry himself.
2. Today I got slightly annoyed while watching a television programme for kids as a shape singing ‘I am a rectangle’ was clearly a cuboid. I tried to explain this to our son, but I’m not sure if he understood.
3. I think it’ll probably be a few years before my son and I have problems telling our shoes apart.
4. 16 month old son has been walking around front room touching his nose and going ‘beep’ recently.
5. My son and I recently managed to keep ourselves entertained for about 20 minutes just by throwing a green sock at each other. It was a very enjoyable 20 minutes.
6. Our son’s been getting to know our two chickens a bit better recently and enjoys collecting the eggs from the chicken house (see picture below).
7. I think our son had even more fun running around a furniture shop recently than he did last time we took him to a soft play centre. I think we’ve now discovered a new local free outing option for families for toddlers. Local parents – let’s try to not all go to the same shop at the same time, OK? 🙂
8. Despite being 17 months old, our son still hasn’t worked out that it’s best not to try to eat porridge using his hands.
9. I really don’t want to be an overly competitive dad but I recently convincingly beat a five year old in a game of ‘Guess Who’ despite trying my best to lose.
10. Our son has a lot of bath toys, but his favourite one at the moment is a light blue plastic spoon.
11. We’ve cut our son’s fringe twice but he hasn’t had a proper haircut yet and his hair is getting quite long at the back. Given that he has quite a few tie-dyed baby grows, he could soon end up looking like an early 1990s Andre Agassi.
12. One of our son’s favourite things at the moment is climbing up steps. Sometimes he puts on his frog trousers and hops all the way from the bottom step to the top step.
13. Our son is getting good at copying animal noises and I had a real proud dad moment when he copied my chimpanzee impression.
14. Working at home is a lot harder than it used to be now that our son is getting so active. His new tactic is to start putting his toys on the table next to me when I’m busily working away. He recently tried to distract me with a knitted dinosaur while I was in the middle of marking a dissertation.
15. I have now decided to put 50p in our son’s money box any time that I swear while he is within earshot. I hope that this doesn’t make him rich and that he doesn’t try to get me to swear in order to receive more money from me.
16. Our son recently got really excited about a new dustpan and brush that we bought. Goodness knows what he’ll do if we get a new hoover.
17. It’s not just the dustpan and brush that our son’s fascinated by, it’s also our paintbrush and paint rollers. We’re going to be painting the front of our house soon, so maybe he’ll help us out 🙂
What do you mean I’m too young to be allowed to help paint the house?
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Aug 19, 2014 @ 19:51:25
These are awesome! I love reading the dad perspective and seeing how you bond with your boy.. even if it is just throwing socks and making monkey noises at each other!
Aug 20, 2014 @ 22:20:47
Thanks. There are a few other things that my son and I do to bond in addition to making monkey noises and throwing socks 🙂
Aug 20, 2014 @ 03:39:32
#9 killed me. I am totally the same way on that one. Congrats on 17 months!
Aug 20, 2014 @ 22:19:55
Thanks, good to know that I’m not on my own when it comes to winning games against kids! 🙂
Aug 20, 2014 @ 09:13:47
Ah yes, who said entertainment during the toddler years need be expensive!! Apart from the blueberries – which my younger child has always loved and still eats all year round (our one small bush is not adequate – we need to expand).
Aug 20, 2014 @ 22:13:29
We’re moving house soon and really looking forward to being able to grow more fruits and vegetables in our garden.
Aug 20, 2014 @ 12:08:07
When number 3’s time comes you’ll tell yourself that you’ve grown old my dear. 😀
Aug 20, 2014 @ 22:12:55
Think it may be a few years yet 🙂
Aug 21, 2014 @ 05:11:26
I would think it might be hard to have a list of 17 things, but then again, kids give us hundreds of things to ponder, don’t they? I love all of these, and if he keeps at #12, you’ll have yourself a wonderful athlete indeed!
Aug 21, 2014 @ 08:37:48
Thanks! I keep wondering how long I’ll manage to keep going with these monthly posts. I reckon I’ll do it until my son turns two and then find a new way of doing some sort of monthly reflections post.
Aug 22, 2014 @ 10:49:55
LOL what a brilliant post. Amazing how much fun can be had with a sock isn’t it. We too just trimmed the boys fringe for his first 3 years and he looked awesome. He recently had his first ‘proper cut’. I wept.
Aug 22, 2014 @ 10:50:33
Thanks for sharing with the #pinitparty btw 🙂
Aug 22, 2014 @ 13:22:54
hahaha! Brilliant!! Great list!!
Aug 22, 2014 @ 19:14:11
Don’t you love that, no matter how many toys they have, they will always love the simple things like plastic spoons the best? 🙂
Aug 22, 2014 @ 19:20:03
Yes, it’s great. Love that his favourite toys at the moment are a plastic spoon and a dustpan and brush. He does also have some proper toys 🙂
Aug 22, 2014 @ 20:39:47
If I had a swear jar, I’d be bankrupt! Great post, Thanks for linking up again #FamilyFriday
Aug 22, 2014 @ 23:34:15
These are great! Happy 17th month!! xx
Aug 23, 2014 @ 19:49:51
Thanks, glad you liked them!
Aug 23, 2014 @ 05:15:59
I love these posts, my personal favourites are: the cuboid point, how very true, my wife tells me off for correcting kid’s tv all the time; the sock game, I’ve played this with my daughter, it’s brilliant; Guess Who, I had a similar victory at a game of snap, it was very convincing; and finally the money box, what a great idea but as you say it could turn into a very expensive game!
What a great read, I look forward to the 18 thoughts.
Aug 23, 2014 @ 19:22:27
Glad to know I’m not the only person who plays and enjoys the sock game! Thanks for dropping by and commenting!
Aug 23, 2014 @ 08:04:18
I’m with Danny here – a swearbox would ruin me! We had one for a little while, but it just got too much. I would have been better off setting up a Direct Debit to my kids’ bank accounts!
Aug 23, 2014 @ 19:08:09
I made my first weekly payment into the swear box today. I wonder whether it’ll have much on an effect on me, or if our son will start trying to provoke me into swearing so as he gets more money from me !
Aug 23, 2014 @ 08:18:43
Love the post. Laughed along to lots of similarities. Our 22 month old has just about worked out that porridge with a spoon is more efficient.
Aug 23, 2014 @ 19:07:03
Thanks for dropping by and commenting. Sounds like we’ve got about 5-6 months left until our son works out how to eat porridge then! 🙂
Aug 23, 2014 @ 19:09:22
No worries. Have enjoyed looking around. Are you going to keep this going every month or do you have a cut-off in mind? 48 things on his 4th birthday feels a bit intimidating 🙂
Aug 23, 2014 @ 19:19:42
I keep wondering how long to keep going with this. At the moment, I reckon I’ll go up to 24 thoughts from my 24th month as a parent. After than, I’ll probably do some other sort of monthly feature.
Aug 23, 2014 @ 14:42:20
It will take long before he outgrow the nose-beepbeep antics. Like when he is a teenager! You are a funny Dad and I am sure your son will have an awesome sense of humor =) #pocolo
Aug 23, 2014 @ 19:06:08
Thanks for dropping by, it’ll be interesting to see how long the beeping nose antics continue!
Aug 24, 2014 @ 18:34:18
Great post. The 50p in his money box for each swear is a good idea!
Thanks for linking #LetKidsBeKids
Aug 25, 2014 @ 21:32:23
Thanks, glad you liked the swear box idea! I made the first payment last weekend.
Aug 25, 2014 @ 01:32:52
I really enjoyed this post! I like him putting toys next to you when you’re working, very clever! #BabyBabble
Aug 25, 2014 @ 21:35:25
Thanks for dropping by and commenting, glad you liked this post!
Aug 25, 2014 @ 16:48:46
Ahh this is so cute. I love the idea of lists of thoughts for each month. That’s awesome. #sharewithme
Aug 25, 2014 @ 21:43:56
Thank you for your kind words, glad you liked this post!
Aug 26, 2014 @ 21:38:05
Great post, and they sound oh so familiar 🙂 #familyfriday
Aug 26, 2014 @ 22:38:53
Thanks, glad you liked it!
Aug 29, 2014 @ 00:16:35
So trying when they become so active! I always get annoyed with anything portraying dolphins as fish, and Curious George routinely annoys me since he is obviously an ape! Good luck with the swearing!
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