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Well, we knew this day would happen. Ever since Nyan started walking, Daddy has tried to steel himself by saying, ‘There’ll be some day when he just runs into a table or something and hurts himself.’ The kid just has one gear – full steam ahead – and not always the best coordination.

It took longer than we might have thought, but the other day it happened: Nyan hurt himself (only slightly!) by running around. It happened at school, when he and his class were playing outside in the enclosed area behind the nursery on a gorgeous spring day. Nyan was running around, of course, and what happened next was so quick that no adult actually saw it happen – but Nyan went up to one of his carers, holding his head. They asked what happened. “I fell into a tree!”

Seems the young man was running and either tripped and fell into a tree, or just, um, ran into a tree. Either way, he ended up with a little abrasion above his right eye, which later swelled up a bit. They treated him with cold compresses and lots of cuddles, and that was that.

As it happened, we had a scheduled check-up with our neighborhood doctor that evening. Just to be sure, Daddy had the doc check out Nyan’s forehead: nope, no serious damage, no damage to the eye socket, no nothing. Just a scrape and a black eye. His first mobility injury, but probably not the last. Let’s just hope it’s the worst one he suffers.

A couple weeks back, Daddy got a rare few minutes to sit down and play some random notes on the piano. Nyan actually allowed it! (Usually he’ll either join in or demand that Daddy stop playing and go play cars with him.) This time, though, Daddy played on as Nyan grabbed Daddy’s camera and tried to take photos with it. The rest… well, just watch this video.

As you saw in the last post, Nyan Thomas had an unexpected trip to Colchester over the weekend while Mommy and Daddy got over their flu-like symptoms. He came home this evening, exhausted and very happy and – so far – still showing no signs of any illness himself, though we will monitor him closely.

In any case, he was one jolly little fella this evening, as you can see here. (Mommy and Daddy were doing something down the hall, in the kitchen, when we heard his voice…we snuck down the hall, camera in hand, hoping to catch him doing whatever; but we live in a 130-year-old house and the floorboard squeaked, dammit, so he knew we were there…)

I love how he gets up from his comfy seat when Daddy can’t get the lighting just right… Actually there’s a lot to love in this video.

(No video exists of the massive tantrum he threw when it was time for a bath; when the little dude gets tired, he gets *really* tired and nothing will console him. Not pretty. But after a few minutes of screaming, bawling, crying, and slapping at Daddy, he’s over it and he’s giving cuddles and kisses again. But no video of that either.)

It’s the end of 2013, of course, so it’s time to take a quick look back at, yes, the year that was. Remember this time last year? The little man had just started to take his tentative first steps and he was hardly speaking a word… and now: We can’t keep up with our boy, in word or in steps. It’s fair to say it was a very active and eventful year.

With that in mind, we’ve grabbed a video from each of the past 12 months and share them here. Enjoy this look back at Nyan Thomas in 2013!

January: Starting to walk. And falling down.

February: Getting better at the whole walking thing. Dancing too!
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Our boy is two years old today.

(Click the picture to make it bigger and see how he’s changed. July 2011, July 2012, July 2013)