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Swimming Lessons

A few weeks ago, Nyan joined his school friend Oregon and a few other kids for some rather casual swimming lessons at a nearby condo. We did about four lessons or so, before dropping it (it wasn’t really structured enough to be worth the time or money). But before that, we managed to get in a lot of fun, much of which was captured on video and in photos. They show how far Nyan has come, given that he hardly wanted to dip a toe in the water when we first got here six short months ago.

Look at that brave boy, floating and kicking without a care in the world.

There was plenty of time for fun too. Here’s Nyan with Oregon:

Here’s Nyan, sort of walking/strutting along:

And here is Nyan the dinosaur. Or is it turtle? Sea horse?

Finally, some fun with his classmates.

 
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Posted by on November 5, 2014 in Photos, Video

 

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Playdate with Kyle, Part Two

After school the other day, Nyan invited his buddy Kyle over for a swim and supper. School is just across the street from Nyan’s apartment, so it was an easy trip. First, the two lads donned their swimsuits and hopped in the pool.

Kyle brought along some pool toys, including a battery-operated orca and a battery-operated whale shark. Nyan loved them, and didn’t exactly want to share:

It’s all good though. They still had a good time.

Later we went upstairs where the dynamic duo ate pasta while Nyan showed off his toys. Then he showed Kyle his room, including his books and the rocking horse that Uncle Scott made for Nyan.

 

Next up for these two: playing hookey on Friday and heading off to the zoo. We’ll let you know how that goes…

 

 
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Posted by on November 3, 2014 in Photos, Video

 

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Playdate with Kyle, Part One

Nyan’s best friend is a boy named Kyle. Kyle and Nyan go to the same school, and Kyle lives just down the road from Nyan. So last weekend, the two boys (plus the four parents) got together at Kyle’s place for an afternoon and evening of fun and food.

Kyle’s Mommy and Daddy were nice enough to pick us up in their car. Here’s Nyan while we were waiting:

Once we got there, the adults hung out chatting at the table while the two boys played with Kyle’s toys — his dragons, dinosaurs, sticker books, cars and trucks, etc. Standard boy stuff.

Kyle also has an electric car, and his apartment’s main space is big enough that there’s actually room to drive around in it. So off they went, with only a handful of fender benders.

We got video too:

Kyle has an electric train set, too, so Nyan, Kyle and their Daddies spent a little time putting it together and making the trains run.

And here are two boys and their two mommies:

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Yes, a very fun time – if it had an off note, it was predictably enough only at the very end, when Nyan did not want to go home, and Kyle didn’t want Nyan to leave. We addressed those issues, sort of, a couple days later, when Kyle came over to Nyan’s house after school for swimming and fun. More on that in Part Two of this post.

 

 
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Posted by on October 30, 2014 in Photos, Video

 

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Rainy Day

For a tropical place, it doesn’t actually seem to rain all that much here in Singapore. Or maybe it’s just that there’s a really long dry season. In any case, a few weeks back it was actually raining at pick-up-from-school time, so Daddy packed an umbrella. It had mostly stopped by the time we got outside, but that didn’t stop our hero from insisting that he use the umbrella.

Although,he didn’t exactly use it in conventional fashion…

 
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Posted by on October 27, 2014 in Photos, Video

 

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Photo of the Day: Close-Up

Just a shot of Nyan in bed one morning, cuddling Yum Yum the elephant and tapping away at Daddy’s iPad. (No, he doesn’t get much screen time at all – in this instance, Daddy was reading the news with a cup of coffee when Nyan marched in, climbed into bed, and commandeered the device.)

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Posted by on October 18, 2014 in Photos

 

Santa Claus and the Space Rocket Car

Over breakfast this morning, Daddy asked Nyan what he often asks him: what did you dream about last night? Daddy had to scribble down some notes during today’s telling, because it’s just too damn good. Here ’tis:

So what did you dream about last night?

“Santa Claus. And…a space rocket car!”

Oh wow. Who was driving it? Santa?

“No. Nyan.”

Ah. Where was he driving it to?

“To.. Iowa!”

Cool. Who did you see there?

“Grandma. And Grandpa.”

Oh okay. What did you do there?

“I got out of the car. And I saw corn.”

But of course. What happened next?

“Grandpa cooked corn for me. And for Santa Claus.”

Ah, that was very nice of him. Then what happened?

“Then, Mommy and Daddy came.”

Anything else?

“Yeah. Santa Claus got trains as a present for me.”

Not a bad dream, eh?

The kid has been on a Santa kick this week – probably something he picked up from a friend at school. So we’ve explained how Santa comes on Christmas, delivers presents, all that. Since then, he’s been waking up and asking most mornings, “Is today Christmas? Did Santa bring me presents?” No buddy. Got a couple more months to wait!

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Posted by on October 15, 2014 in Photos

 

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Mommy and Nyan

Here’s the latest and greatest in our occasional series of photos of Nyan and Mommy, showing how he continues to get taller and taller, bigger and bigger, and cheekier and cheekier!

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Posted by on October 11, 2014 in Photos

 

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Nyan Thomas Gets His Hair Cut

Just a few shots of Nyan Thomas in action – the action being, sitting still and behaving very well while he got a haircut. (The TV monitor helped, no doubt. Although Daddy was less than impressed they were showing Barney, the big purple dinosaur. Daddy had never seen that show before, but he certainly understands why it received so much vitriol and criticism back in the day for being so annoyingly dumb!)

 

 
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Posted by on October 6, 2014 in Photos

 

Napping

Our boy doesn’t always nap these days. (Which is fine, in one sense: when he does nap, he’s nearly impossible to get into bed before 9, and doesn’t fall asleep until nearly 10 – which means he doesn’t get enough sleep by the time it’s time to get up the next morning. When he doesn’t nap, he falls asleep shortly after 8pm – although he nearly always has several serious emotional breakdowns (i.e. tantrums) in the late afternoon/early evening because he’s exhausted. Can’t win!)

Where were we? Oh yes. He doesn’t always nap these days. But when he does, dude naps HARD. He does not mess around when it comes to naptime. He’s a serious hardcore napper. See?

 
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Posted by on October 4, 2014 in Photos

 

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New-Old Pajamas

Yesterday, we were rooting around in Nyan’s closet for something and came across a few pajama pants and shirts that we don’t have in normal rotation because they’re long-sleeve and/or more for colder climes, and we live basically on top of the equator. Daddy had the thought that perhaps Nyan might like to wear these after all – sort of a blast from the past. (Yes, we live in the tropics, but we do tend to keep his room rather cool at night, so it’s not like he’s going to overheat, don’t worry). So Daddy pulled out the pants from an old snake pajama outfit, and a long-sleeve dinosaur shirt.

Did Nyan appreciate it? Well, check out these photos – they’re mostly blurry because the young man was so damn excited about his new-old PJs that he could hardly keep still!

He’s already asking for the ‘snake shirt’ – that is, the PJ top that go with the snake pants. It’s a long-sleeve shirt, but whatever; we’ll get that out for him. Anything to make the boy happy, right?

 

 
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Posted by on October 3, 2014 in Photos

 

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