being a dad

Zoë continues to amaze me as she grows. Last night after we'd had a bath and she'd got ready for bed, Zoë was showing me and her Mum how well she can count. Up until now, although she knew most of the numbers they didn't go in any particular order - apart from starting with 1. Well, tonight she was counting 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - SIX!!! yeah!!!

OK, so it should have been 5 but it seems to me that 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 6 is pretty good for an 18month old. Still, we'll concentrate on the numbers for a while longer then see what happens when we start with letters.

We were lazing around in the bedroom playing with Zoë enjoying our day off when she heard jingling bells outside and ran to the window asking to be lifted up to see what it was. Looking out of the window, we saw it was the Morris Men striding into the village.

Zoë is really growing up fast. She'll be 18 months old in a week or so and already she amazes me with her talking, her curiosity and her insatiable desire to learn - everything, as fast as she can!

Zoë's attention span is very short, so I guess she has to do a lot of different things at once, otherwise she'd get bored. But I'm surprised how much she manages to absorb - even whilst she's doing something else. She'll watch TV, be 'reading' a book, chase the cat, fart, pee, pooh, chat, point out the window at the birds (or more likely, the rain) all in the space of a minute - and somehow manage to tell me which of the Fimbles is on TV at that moment, what they're doing, etc, etc.

Whilst all this is going on, she's improving her vocabulary by around 7 words per day, learning to count, walking, running, trying new foods and tastes - and generally growing up fast. This, of course, makes it very difficult being a dad as I'm forgetting at least 7 words (or more) a day!