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A Month of Sundays (pics and videos)

Sundays are fun. Here’s a look back, through video and photographs, at three recent ones.

Last Sunday, Aunt Zuzu and Uncle Iain came to visit. It was a lovely warm sunny Sunday, so we headed down to the high street for a Sunday lunch at a pub. We’re quite happy to report that our boy ate very well (in fact, touch wood but he’s been eating very well for several weeks now – a great change from his tendency in the past to just not eat very much. Here’s hoping he keeps it up). Some photos from the pub:

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On the walk back, Emerald pushed the stroller, and Nyan demanded that someone hold not just one of his hands, but both of them. We were all happy to obliged, of course. Spoiled much?

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Later in the afternoon, Nyan showed off his latest dance moves, busting a rug to one of his favorite tunes:

Emerald and Iain stayed over and kept Nyan out of school on Monday, instead taking him on numerous strolls around the neighborhood, the back yard, etc. He had a blast, but by early afternoon he was completely tuckered out – so much so that he just passed out on top of his buddy Yum Yum, the stuffed elephant.

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A week earlier, young Nyan Thomas took a Sunday afternoon walk around the ‘hood with Mommy and Daddy from a week before:

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And was there a cat on the street? There was:

Finally, a video from just today – it was a cloudy, lazy Sunday, and Nyan spent part of it by hanging out with his books, listening to some tunes. Not a bad way to spend the day.

 
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Posted by on June 9, 2013 in Photos, Video

 

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Car! (Pics and videos)

On our recent trip to Iowa, we learned that one of Nyan’s favorite things to do is to sit in the driver’s seat of a car and fiddle around with the steering wheel, the lights, the horn, the radio, you name it. We shouldn’t be surprised; he’s got an engineer’s mind and loves all things mechanical. Nevertheless, several times a day during our stay, he’d toddle down to the kitchen and shout “Red car! Red car!” which was his way of saying ‘Let me out into the garage, I want to sit in Grandma’s red car and play.” Cousin Meema was more than happy to indulge him, as you can see in these photos:

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He also clambered into Grandpa’s car and somehow managed to turn the radio on, even though the keys were nowhere near. “I didn’t know you could turn it on without the keys,” said Grandpa. Here’s a fun video of the boy, rocking out and showing his dance moves to the car radio:

And some bonuses videos of Nyan, strapped into his car seat with Mommy next to him and Daddy behind the wheel, cruising down the highways of Iowa on our way to some event or other. Of course he’s pointing out each and every truck he sees on the road, and otherwise just happily babbling away.

 
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Posted by on June 8, 2013 in Photos, Video

 

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Shades

Soon, dear reader, we’ll start posting a whole treasure trove of photos, videos and stories from our recent sojourn to the heartland of the U.S. But for now, please enjoy this quickie, a  photo from school a few weeks back. Just Nyan being Nyan. He sure loves to vamp it up for the camera!

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Posted by on June 3, 2013 in Photos

 

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Road Trip: Leeds Castle

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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:

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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 »

 
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Posted by on May 21, 2013 in Photos, Video

 

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Self Portraits

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.

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Posted by on May 18, 2013 in Photos

 

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Nyan and Mommy, Through the Months

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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Posted by on May 12, 2013 in Photos

 

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A Boy and his Tractor (Pictures and Video)

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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Posted by on May 11, 2013 in Photos, Video

 

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Haircut (with photos)

Our boy’s hair seems to grow pretty quickly. Especially the bit above the middle of his forehead, which doesn’t take long to turn into a unicorn horn. So on Sunday, we skipped swimming lessons (he’d been fighting a cold, and had a slight cough, and as you may know we are very protective (overly so?) when he’s got even a hint of a cold) and headed to Walthamstow, a nearby neighborhood that’s home to an ugly brick 1980s-style shopping mall with a Supercuts inside. (The same place, as it happens, where he got his first official professional haircut back in November, and where he also took his first official (if tentative) steps).

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This time around, he was very dubious and withdrawn, almost shy, even though his stylist was a young blonde bird. Usually, of course, he’d be flirting up a storm. But this time he pretty much just sat there, looking concerned and grumpy. He squirmed just a little bit, but not bad, and mostly passed the time (all five minutes of it) by looking in the mirror at the woman sitting in the waiting area and feeding spoonfuls or something to her baby in a stroller.

By the end, Nyan was fine, and even gave his stylist a friendly bye-bye wave as we left. Here, a slideshow of pictures that Daddy took during the haircut – and after, a story about what happened after we left Supercuts:

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So we wandered around this mall for a bit, mostly to find an ATM to get some cash. We headed for a bookstore – Nyan loves books! – but just outside was one of those stalls they set up in the main walkway of shopping malls. This one sold toy cars, toy trucks, toy keyboards – all of it at toddler-eye-level, and cleverly and cynically designed to ensure that a toddler – say, a toddler who just had a haircut – would see the toys and not be moved until he played with all of them. So that’s what we did. Cars, trucks, helicopters, you name it. Finally Daddy was able to drag Nyan away (to be more precise, Daddy was able to carry a squirming, unhappy Nyan away) and into the bookstore.

We lasted about a minute in the bookstore before he toddled off, out of the store and back to the toy stall! Their ploy almost worked; Daddy was this close to buying a cheap electronic keyboard, but good sense won out. We managed to get him back in the bookstore long enough to buy a couple new books, and then Daddy carried and expertly distracted him as we walked out and passed the toy stall (‘Ooh, buddy, look in that store! Look at that – it’s a shoe store! Look at all those shoes! Oh, wow, and check this out: a woman’s clothing store! Isn’t that a lovely dress?”) Hey, you do what you have to do.

 

 
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Posted by on May 8, 2013 in Photos

 

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Hat (Pictures and Videos)

Our hero was in a silly mood this weekend. He found a handful of Daddy’s old baseball caps, and as you can see, proceeded to try them on. Often while wearing his sunglasses. (Click on any photo to make it big and start a slideshow).

And here’s a fun video. The backstory is that Daddy had plopped the Iowa hat onto the boy’s head as he was cleaning up the living room, thinking the boy would toss it aside. But no. He turned it sideways, then grabbed his sunglasses, and strutted into the kitchen to show off his look to Mommy.

 
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Posted by on May 6, 2013 in Photos, Video

 

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Out for a Stroll (pics and video)

Last Friday evening was beautiful and sunny here in London (yes, we’ve been quite blessed of late with a whole lot of sunshine of late!), and on our return home from school, the young man decided he would rather take a stroll around the neighborhood than going immediately inside. Daddy was happy to oblige, and we’ve got the pictures and video to prove it. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Posted by on April 30, 2013 in Photos, Video

 

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