Pretend play

A few days ago, I noticed he is up for a pretend play - we were throwing a ball to his plush toy dog (something Teodor is very familiar with as Charlie loves chasing balls, not to bring them back, though), scratching the dog behind ears, etc. and he loved it. 

Yesterday I felt like we needed some real time-in together, so I suggested to play a shop. For the first time, he had no idea what was going on. He also didn't seem to understand me because I used formal language he never hears as I am the only Czech he is in contact with. Second time he started to enjoy it and third he loved it and we played it over and over again. I also learnt he understands the concept of "two", not "three" though.

So now I want a playkitchen for him so badly. It might entertain him for long. Generally I'm thinking about dumping those "educational" toys and just have mostly those which support free/pretend play. 

I saw this one in Kaubamaja today, but I'm bit afraid it's too small...I've seen so many teeny tiny wooden kitchens which would be ideal just for a one-year olds, I wonder why do they even produce them...

Btw. we also started taking the doll for walks, we used to take the plush toy dog or his trains, but from the moment I told him that the doll I'm sewing is for Anastasia, he started paying attention to his own doll. He also puts the doll in her own bed, I might introduce feeding the doll, rocking the doll and I don't know what else..

A totally new period of childhood is ahead of us! So exciting!