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Sunday fun: running, rabbits and more

It’s the waning days of summer here in London – the sun is coming up noticeably later, and setting noticeably earlier. The mornings are chilly. It won’t be long until we’re all vitamin D-deprived and despondent over the never-ending winter. But we here at Nyan Thomas World Headquarters like to live for today, so we’re just enjoying the last of what has been a brilliant summer.

To that end, here’s a whole slew of videos from a recent sunny Sunday afternoon as Nyan and Daddy hung out in the green space around the corner from our house — it’s less a ‘park’ and more just a grassy field with lots of old trees in it — and looked at a nearby pet store. Six videos in all, about a minute or so each, well worth the viewing.

Here’s Nyan and Daddy, setting off on their big adventure. In other words, walking down the street, with Nyan dragging his ladybug “bike” behind him.

Here’s the young man, running running running. And yelling: Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Posted by on September 1, 2013 in Video

 

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Birthday Party! (plus bonus video)

Nyan’s buddy James, a.k.a Pickle, had a birthday today, and a birthday party as well at his house just down the road. They brought in Jo Jingles, which is a woman who comes to the nursery (daycare) once a week and leads them in a bunch of songs. Here’s our hero, doing a song called Head Shoulders Knees and Toes:

Yeah, he was having a bad hair day today…

And here he is, just being extra-exuberant. The boy loves balloons:

Plus a bonus video, from earlier this morning. Just Nyan being Nyan. Dancing and so forth.

 
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Posted by on September 1, 2013 in Video

 

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Soccer in the Park

(Sorry British readers, but your American blogger just can’t bring himself to call it ‘football.’)

Nevertheless, this past Monday was a public holiday here in the land of ‘football,’ and it was a lovely warm late summer day. We took the young man to the park a few times, trying (and succeeding!) to tire him out before bed. Here’s a trio of videos of Nyan, budding footie star. (The first two are rather short, as we were having minor technical difficulties, but worth a quick watch.)

Yes, he needs to work on some, or all, of his skills. But the kid’s got heart!

 
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Posted by on August 28, 2013 in Video

 

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A Visit to the Farm

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A couple weekends ago, Nyan took Daddy, Grandma and Grandpa to a place called Mudchute Park and Farm. It’s a pretty good sized area just south of Canary Wharf — that is to say, pretty much in the heart of London — that’s got acres and acres of forest, hills, and grazing land for a bunch of animals. Nyan had been to a farm or two in his day, but he’s getting more comfortable around the animals. Not entirely so, but getting there.

Here he is, feeding the goats with Daddy. Note that Nyan won’t hold the grass himself, but rather guides Daddy’s hand Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Posted by on August 17, 2013 in Photos, Video

 

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Nyan in the Morning (Video)

Not unlike his parents, our hero is, how shall we say, not always at his best in the mornings. A little grumpy at times, a little touchy now and then, usually takes a little while to get going.

But not today. This morning, we thought he was sleeping late when we suddenly heard a noise through his closed bedroom door. Not crying, or calling out for a morning cuddle. We tip-toed to the door to have a listen:

He was singing.

Nyan was quietly singing “Frere Jacques” (one of his current faves) to himself. We listened for a minute, then gently, quietly, opened the door. He couldn’t see us because of a blanket draped over the side of the crib, but we could see part of him: he was on his belly, butt up in the air, just happily singing to himself. Then the door hit the wall and made a little noise; he instantly stood up, saw Mommy and Daddy, and burst into a big smile. “Cuddle!” he said. He got plenty of ’em.

So he was definitely off on the right foot. And it only got better. Here, a few minutes later:

That’s Nyan pointing out Mommy and Daddy’s car, parked in the street below, to his pal Bo the Cow. Nice way to start the day, for all three of us.

 
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Posted by on August 13, 2013 in Video

 

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Vacuum! (or, Hoover!)

Long-time visitors of this blog – and we have one or two – may recall some videos from way back in the day that showed young Nyan Thomas getting extremely excited every time we’d turn on the vacuum cleaner (a.k.a. hoover, for our British readers). Well, tonight he took it to a new level:

Yes, while we were vacuuming up the kitchen floor – where someone, not naming names here, had thrown a bunch of noodles and other food bits — Nyan cried out “Help! Help!” That doesn’t mean he needed help; that means he wanted to help. The kid’s got skills! Now if we can only teach him how to unload the dishwasher. (Actually, he does try to do that, every time the dishwasher is open. Sadly, we can’t let him do that, what with the knives and all. Maybe someday.)

 
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Posted by on August 13, 2013 in Video

 

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Dance Party! (Videos)

Our boy loves to dance. Here he is, out in front of our new house the other day, dancing and snacking, as Grandma works on the flowers:

Remember a few months back when he was dancing to the Rubber Ducky song? Here he is dancing to the same song, but with a whole series of new moves. And singing along a bit too:

He bumps his head toward the end there, but no harm no foul:

And finally, a bonus video. He’s not dancing, just playing. But still a fun little video:

 
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Posted by on August 10, 2013 in Video

 

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Today’s Videos: Yoga

A couple weeks back, when we picked up Nyan at school, he mentioned something about yoga. He babbles a lot of words, so we thought nothing of it. But when we got home, he showed off…. a yoga move. The downward dog, to be precise. We were certainly impressed by his skills, and figured they must have done yoga at school. (Yoga at a daycare/nursery? Pretty progressive, thought we! Well done, nursery.)

The next day, we casually mentioned his moves to the ladies at the nursery and said how cool we thought it was that they were teaching yoga to two-year-olds. They looked at us like we were crazy. “We didn’t teach him that. He just started doing it the other day, and saying ‘yoga.’ A couple of the other kids followed him and started doing it as well. We just figured you had taught him that at home.” Uh, what?

We figure he must have seen Mommy do yoga once, and instantly picked it up. Nothing gets by that kid… in any event, he has been doing it quite a bit lately, and we caught it on film:

Okay so he’s easily distracted. But hey, he’s two. You’ll notice in that video that Mommy and Daddy (Grandma and Grandpa too) are encouraging him to close his eyes and say “Ohmmm,” the universal sound of meditation. Here we are doing it again, as he sits in his high chair:

And finally, here we have Daddy and Nyan doing some yoga poses together, followed by Nyan being Nyan, strutting around the place, being silly, and stalling because he knows it’s time for bed. (The lighting is quite poor at the start; it improves a little ways in, once we flip a switch and turn on the light.)

 
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Posted by on August 7, 2013 in Video

 

Today’s Video: Birthday Boy

It’s been a busy week here at Nyan Thomas World Headquarters, but rest assured that our hero is having a blast being spoiled by Grandma and Grandpa L. Plenty of pictures and stories to come, including plenty from his birthday extravaganza last week. For now, a quick video of the young man and his birthday cake.

 
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Posted by on August 2, 2013 in Video

 

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Birthday Preview: Year in Review #12 (July)

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Finally – finally! – we got some real-time summertime weather in these parts. In fact, it rained on July 2 – and then, not a drop for the next 20 days! Warm (and even mid-90s hot on a couple of days). All the residents of Nyan Thomas World Headquarters were quite pleased by this. Including our hero, who thought it a fine way to celebrate his last month as a one-year-old.

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Posted by on July 25, 2013 in Photos, Video

 

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