Friday, 20 July 2018

Father Turns Two

His routine was to feed, cry and soil himself, but now he runs, jumps, expresses emotions, and mimick your every action. It pleases you when he does what you taught him to do, but it astonishes you when he does something he learnt on his own, and now that's a new thing everyday.

You come home tired, lie down in front of the TV with your right leg over your left knee. He walks in, calls you out, when you don't respond he lays besides you with the bottle in his mouth and his right leg over his left knee. In that moment you realise two things; one, your kids is amazing and two, you are not tired anymore.

His favourite thing to do, is to do what I do; answer the phone and role his eyes, ask for tea every five minutes and respond to every question with only one word ('Hmm' 'hmm?', and 'hmm!' it's our language)

He is not alone anymore, he has a younger sibling in training mode, who I guess will catch up real quick.

The number of achievement a child takes receipt of in the first two years of his life, feel like the the number of technological advances that humans have made in the past century. You can take credit for some of it being the tutor, but you have a little over three decades of experience, so perhaps it doesn't count.

Looking forward to the adventures life has in store for us.