Someone certainly woke up on the right side of the bed this morning. Check out our boy as he waddles drunkenly around the bedroom, plays with Mingster the panda, shows off his dance steps, and gets frustrated when he can’t open up a pencil case immediately. All in all, not a bad way to start of a Sunday morning…
Going back in time a few weeks for this one: Christmas Eve, at Grandma and Grandpa’s in Iowa City. Mommy is watching some movie or TV show on her laptop, while our hero shows off his prowess with all things digital, playing around with Daddy’s iPad. Also talking and pointing a lot.
The kid is 18 months old and he’s already figuring out how an iPad works, not to mention iPhones, telephones, TV remote controls… We will do our damnedest to make sure he gets plenty of non-screen time as he grows up – running around outside, reading books, connecting with people face to face. Happily, he’s already shown that he enjoys all of these things.
It’s Grandma L.’s birthday today, and in her honor, Nyan has asked your humble blog writer to post a few Grandma-related videos. Here we have the young man having a recent phone conversation, of sorts, with the birthday girl:
Here we have Mommy reading to Nyan, who then scampers over to pick up one of the books he has that features the voice of Grandma reading to him: Read the rest of this entry »
Nyan’s weekdays usually go something like this: Up at 7; a little bit of breakfast, a quick clean-up, dressed and out the door by about 7:45. Spend all day at ‘school’ (a.k.a. nursery, a.k.a. day care), get picked up by Mommy or Daddy around 6 or a little before, home by 6:15. Dinner is around 7, bath at 7:30, bedtime around 8. But those 45 minutes between getting home and dinner? That’s playtime!
It typically takes him all of about three minutes to make our once-neat family room look like a disaster zone, with toys spread everywhere and books scattered wherever there’s no toys. (Luckily, cleaning up doesn’t really take that long, but man, the place very quickly becomes a mess!) Here, then, we share a few videos from the past few weeks, just a couple slices of life of that magical hour when it’s all about playing.
Here is he riding his plastic dump truck around the room, learning a little espanol with the help of his laptop, and playing with one of his newest and most favored toys, the talking zoo.
In this next video, we see our hero alternating between walking around the room, and plopping down into Daddy’s lap.
Our boy’s officially a toddler now – no more crawling for this young man. We’ve been getting him as much walking exercise as we can, and today was a great day for it.
It was a chilly, windy, blustery February day – not the greatest weather the planet has ever seen, but then, this is London, so what do you expect – but there was some sunshine, so we bundled up the little man and took him for a stroll around the block and a little bit into the nearby woods. He absolutely loved it; he loved the feeling of being (sort of) independent, looking at the birds, feeling the flowers, holding Mommy’s hand, checking out the WWII tank that sits in the driveway of a house around the corner. (Yeah, a WWII tank. Don’t ask; we haven’t the foggiest). He got a little tired every now and again, given that he has tiny little legs so every adult step is like three or four steps for him; we’d carry him for a bit before he demanded to be put back down for more walking. He’s really getting good at it!
For our overseas viewers, I made sure that, while filming, I did a 360 pan so you could see what our street looks like. It’s a fairly typical street in a small English town, I’d say (no, we don’t live in a small town, but the neighborhood we live in definitely has more of a small town than big city feel to it).
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