Food, football and France. Read about these and more in my latest monthly collection of thoughts about being a parent…
1. Our son has got increasingly polite and sociable recently. Only last week, he helped to put out some rubbish and then said ‘bye bye wheelie bin, see you later!’.
2. The best thing about borrowing CDs of kids’ songs from the library to play in the car is that it’s usually time to return them just when they start getting irritating.
3. I think our son has inherited my dress sense. Here we are wearing matching outfits:
4. Within the last month, I’ve had a very proud moment as our son said ‘pêl-droed’ (football) for the first time.
5. Our son is still learning to play football, which probably explains why I won 15-0 in a recent game in our back garden. He is improving though, it was 28-0 to me the previous week.
6. Talking of football, one of my favourite things about being a dad is that it’s now a lot more acceptable to play football in the living room than it used to be.
7. Our son can make a bit of a mess at times, but is also very interested in using our hoover. 
8. It’s sometimes hard to know when our son’s saying ‘mamma’ and when he’s saying ‘banana’. I hope he doesn’t end up sending a Mother’s Day card to a piece of fruit.
9. However, our son has managed to recently say both ‘granny’ and ‘grandad’ on Skype.
10. Our son has been introduced to some elementary human biology in one of the books he’s been reading recently (see below). 
11. Our son is getting very enthusiastic about helping out with our two chickens. We’ll need to stop taking him out too early in the morning as he often ends up walking back across the garden towards the house shouting ‘look, eggs!’.
12. He is getting a bit more aware of noise though. When he comes back to bed after getting up during the night, he often shouts ‘QUIET’ just after coming back into the bedroom.
13. Not so long ago, I was somewhat disappointed that our son hadn’t really experienced playing in proper snow that I decided to make him a snowman out of play dough.
14. Thankfully, we did get some proper snow not long after I made the play dough snowman (…maybe there’s a link?).
15. As someone who teaches students French for a living, I was pleased to hear our son recently say his first French word. it was ‘voila’.
16. As our son is showing an interest in France at the moment, I’ve been telling him about how Marvin Gaye used to keep a sheep a vineyard he owned in the south of France. It’s quite well known that he’d herd it through the grapevine.
17. Our son may not be two yet, but he’s already decided that it’s time he has his own house (see below).
18. Our son recently told me off for lining up all his toy animals in order of size. Apparently it’s because he doesn’t like me critter sizing.
19. I’m glad to see our son showing an interest in healthy eating. When I got home from work recently he was taking this to a new level by trying to feed grapes to his toy giraffe.
20. Due to his interest in animals such as giraffes, we recently decided to make our bathroom look a bit like a jungle (see below). 
21. Coming up with over 20 thoughts about parenting per month is getting quite challenging. I’m going to keep this feature going until our son turns two and will then be replacing it with a new format. Watch this space!
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Feb 18, 2015 @ 21:51:34
The times are so memorable as kids grow, but they leave us so fast, lovely to see your 21 thoughts on it all.
Feb 18, 2015 @ 22:30:17
Thank you, it’s so true about how quickly kids grow up. I can’t believe how rapidly our son’s been changing over the last few weeks.
Feb 20, 2015 @ 21:49:26
Some brilliant dad jokes in there! I think I might need to try the playdough snowman, my 20 month old has yet to have a chance to build one 😦
Feb 20, 2015 @ 22:18:19
Thanks, I often get criticized for my unfunny dad jokes so glad to know you liked them! Our son did have an opportunity to build a snowman but didn’t really seem all that interested.
Feb 20, 2015 @ 22:11:29
My daughter is 22 months today. What a great way to remember each month as they grow so quickly!
Feb 20, 2015 @ 22:16:15
Thank you! I enjoy keeping lists of silly little things to mention in these posts.
Feb 21, 2015 @ 08:36:15
I want to have a word with you – have you been hanging round outside my house with play dough? Only we’re having a proper flurry of snow at the moment! Great round up as always and a fair few that remind me of the things my two got up to at that age. 🙂
Feb 22, 2015 @ 22:49:01
Don’t worry, I haven’t been stalking you armed with playdough. 🙂 Glad you enjoyed reading this.
Feb 21, 2015 @ 23:49:03
21 months?! Flipping heck! Where did that go? What a lovely round-up and your son sounds like he is full of character. Thank you for linking to #PoCoLo 🙂
Feb 22, 2015 @ 22:49:37
I keep asking myself the same question! There are so many new things happening all the time (…which is kind of handy when it comes to writing this sort of post!).
intentional parenting {family fun friday}
Feb 26, 2015 @ 08:01:09
Mar 01, 2015 @ 22:15:38
Amazing – thanks for sharing all these, and your other round ups with all your readers. I love that your son likes hoovering up that mess he has made in particular! Thanks so much for taking part in the Parenting Pin it Party.
Mar 18, 2015 @ 17:40:57
Being a parent is an amazing job.
I have two little girls and since they appeared my life is full of action and happiness.