Just a couple of random recent photos of the boy…
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Six Months: Happy Half Birthday, Nyan Thomas!
Six months ago today – at 8:27 a.m. on Tues., July 26, 2011 – young Nyan Thomas was born. Wait, what? Six months?! How’d that happen? It’s very much a cliché, yes, but where does the time go… Here’s a series of photographs of the boy through the months, each of them taken at roughly the 26th of each month…
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Another Adventure: West Mersea!
On the last Friday of 2011, we headed down to the seaside town of West Mersea in Essex County with brother Sean for some delicious oysters and fish-and-chips. (The oysters, it turns out, led to a bout of food poisoning for at least one of us, but let’s not focus on that; they were delicious at the time!)
Here we are inside the West Mersea Oyster Bar:
Afterwards we strolled the overcast, blustery waterfront, taking pictures of the boats, the oyster beds, the shoreline at low tide, and the lovely little English cottages overlooking the sea.
Outdoor Activities: Parks and Zoos
A few more pictures from our trip to the UK last month.
The weather wasn’t too cold, so late one afternoon we strapped him into the stroller and, with Noel and Lisa, headed to a nearby nature preserve:
The flash and the angle makes this next one look like Nyan and I were photoshopped into the scene. Nope.
Another day, we decided to take the boy to his first-ever zoo, the Colchester Zoo. It’s a fine mid-sized zoo with a decent selection of animals, though it was colder and more windy than we expected. Nyan was less than impressed at first, as he was in his stroller and couldn’t see much. So Daddy started holding him. He was ever so slightly more interested, but let’s be honest: five months old is a bit young for a kid to enjoy a zoo. Still, it was a fun family outing, and mom and dad certainly enjoyed it.
A pair of red pandas up there near the top:
Burmese python!
Some sort of vulture or California condor, maybe. About to munch on a dead rat. We stepped away before it got gory.
Wolves!
And finally, Colchester Zoo has a pair of lovely (if elusive) tigers. Here’s one:
Nyan with Pho Pho, Phwa Phwa, and more
A few pictures from our boy’s time in England over the holidays… Mostly our boy with Pho Pho (grandfather) and Phwa Phwa (grandmother):
Here he is with Pho Pho and cousin Poppy:
Christmas Day (Daddy was, at this point, passed out asleep after flying over on the red eye):
And finally with Phwa Phwa near the end of the trip…
Today’s photo: monthly update
Here’s the latest in what’s turned into somewhat of a tradition: Mommy holding Nyan Thomas at roughly four-week intervals.
Today’s photos: selections from Colchester
Here are a few photos from recent days here in Colchester. Today, young Nyan Thomas came face to face with wolves, tigers, a couple of Burmese pythons, and some iguanas. Yes, we went to the Colchester Zoo! Photos on that trip coming soon (sneak preview: mom and dad were more impressed than their son, five months being a bit young for a child to really enjoy a zoo, but hey…). Here are a few from recent days, with more coming soon:
Check out this sequence of the boy doing his newest trick: rolling over! Actually this series misses the part where he goes from his usual on-his-back post and rolls onto his belly and lifts his head high and proud; this gets the tail end of that sequence, in which he flops back onto his back. It’s quite a sight to see, regardless.
And here’s the young man after a bath:
And just loving life:
Finally, we’ve posted some more photos on Facebook; just click here.
Happy Boxing Day!
Hello from a sunny and mild Essex County, England, where Mommy, Daddy and young Nyan Thomas are enjoying a relaxed Boxing Day with mommy’s side of the family. Daddy arrived on Christmas morning after a sleepless redeye flight from New York, and we’ll be here through New Years for family, relaxation, and Sharon and Chris’s wedding!
We’ll be updating this blog more frequently than we have been of late; at least that’s the plan. Without further ado, a trio of photos from NyanThomas’ first Christmas…
Our Boy is 21! (Weeks)
Just realized our boy is 21 weeks old today. Wow.
In honor of reaching that milestone, a couple of snapshots from recent Skype convos…
Yesterday:
And today:
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