We’ve been teaching Nyan how to throw and catch a ball lately. This is a good thing; he needs the work! Here we can see his throwing skills, such as they are, a couple weeks back.
(Of course, Nyan being Nyan, he also wants to show off his skills at throwing his toys and other things. So clearly we need to teach him some limits as well…)
We’re back in London after a week-plus in America; more on that later. Nyan was, as always, a great flyer, and even managed about three hours of sleep on the redeye flight, which was three hours more than either Mommy or Daddy got. So we all passed out when we got home, sleeping from about 9:30 until 3:30 or 4. This evening, Mommy and Daddy are dragging. Our boy’s asleep at the moment, but earlier, he was certainly not showing any signs of fatigue or jet lag. See here:
We’ll see what happens overnight, of course; chances are good he’ll wake up at 2am, or 4am, or god knows when…
Our boy likes to climb into various closets and shut the door. He’s unique, I guess we can say…
Every few months, we get an in-depth assessment from Nyan’s daycare/nursery about his progress. We got one back in early March, and I typed the notes up, and am finally getting around to sharing it here. These notes are from when he was about 19 months old, and he’s actually developed quite a bit since then, especially when it comes to talking. But here’s the notes from early March, for posterity if nothing else. It makes for a nice snapshot of how our boy was acting, and what he was doing, at about 19 months old.
(The notes on ‘developmental stage’ refers to what the ‘normal’ range for when a kid does certain things. He was right on schedule.)
Personal, Social and EmotionalÂ
Self confidence and awareness:
Nyan is a bubbly, confident boy. He loves coming to nursery. He always comes in with a big smile on his face. Nyan is very good at finding his own nose, eyes etc and is also able to identify them on his carers. Read the rest of this entry »
A few weeks ago, the United Kingdom celebrated what’s called the Early Spring Bank Holiday – a public holiday, held on the first Monday of May each year. (Most of Europe closes down on May 1, May Day, but England I guess didn’t want to be associated with that socialist day, so changed that public holiday to a few days later. Something like that.)
Regardless, it ended up being a lovely warm-ish early Spring day, so we loaded up the car and headed for the county of Kent, also known as the Garden of England, about an hour to the southeast. Our destination: Leeds Castle, a beautiful thousand-year-old castle on several hundred acres of land and lakes. Here’s Nyan after we strapped him into the car, clearly excited:
  
We weren’t the only ones with the bright idea of visiting Leeds Castle that day; the parking lot was packed with hundreds of cars, and the line to get tickets was about 45 minutes long. Read the rest of this entry »
One of Nyan’s favorite things to do is to grab Mommy or Daddy’s mobile phone and touch lots of buttons. It usually seems to be pretty random – but every once in a while, he shows off his artistic skills. Like the other day, when he grabbed Daddy’s phone which happened to have its camera function up and running. Fifteen pushes of a button later, Nyan had created his latest masterwork – a series of self-portraits, with a few shots of the ceiling thrown in for good measure. It’s art, man.
We’re off on another transatlantic adventure. Someone was getting a little bit excited…
Check out this video of young Nyan Thomas as he wanders around the backyard, also known as the garden, a couple weeks back. He checks out the birds, looks at the airplanes (he tends to call them all helicopters, for some reason), examines the ants (or ‘spider’ in Nyan-speak), nibbles on a cookie, enjoys the sunshine… well, here, just watch:
But wait, it gets better, in a post-modern sort of sense. Later that day, we were showing that video to Nyan, who was watching it on the camera screen. As he watched, Daddy shot a video of Nyan watching himself on a video. Weird, right? Or something. In any case, here it is:
The latest in our periodic look at how Nyan Thomas has changed. He’s gotten just a wee bit bigger since summer of 2011, eh?
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Some time ago, Uncle Scott sent Nyan Thomas a beautiful old metal toy tractor. It’s probably an antique; certainly it was around when Daddy was a boy. It’s been sitting inside a display cabinet in our living room for a while. The other day, Nyan noticed it, demanded it, got it – and has been playing with it pretty much non-stop ever since. Here’s a slideshow of photos, followed by a few videos of the boy with his tractor, and playing with a few toy trucks as well. Yes, our boy is definitely a boy.
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