A trio of videos from the past few weeks featuring young Nyan Thomas at dinnertime. Here he gently eats some yogurt – using both spoon and fingers – after what was clearly a delicious and messy meal of pasta with red sauce:
Here, just chewing and smiling as Daddy makes strange noises from behind the camera:
Last but not least, more chewin’ and digestin’ from that same photo session:
We had a four-day weekend for Easter, and it kicked off with Nyan having a good Friday on Good Friday. First we visited the museum/aquarium – as you saw in a previous post – and then later in the day, Nyan practiced his drawing skills with a box of crayons. Good times. The rest of the weekend was up and down – some good times, some not so good times; more on that in a later post. For now, please enjoy this video of young Nyan Thomas being an artiste.
Fun times after school the other day. First, Nyan Thomas has discovered a new toy: Mommy’s umbrellas! He’ll see them perched by the front door and demand that Daddy take them out and open them up. He then proceeds to try to carry them, or dance on top of them, for a couple of minutes before he gets bored and moves on to something else.
This next video is from later that same day. He’d just had a nice filling dinner and demanded that Daddy give him this plastic implement he saw on the countertop. It’s a syringe-like thingie that helps you get liquid vitamins, medicines etc. into a squirmy toddler’s mouth – a clear hollow tube with a small hole at one end and a bigger one at the other, and a smaller purple tube that goes into the hollow tube and acts as the plunger. Nyan started playing with the hollow clear tube and discovered that it easily turns into a whistle! Here he is showing off his new musical chops.
Sundays are all about fun, and this past Sunday was no exception. We had a great time in the swimming pool – the kid is really getting into it; he would sit on the edge of the pool and fall into Daddy’s arms in the water with no hesitation – but before that, we had some fun around the house. And we’ve got the videos to prove it.
This one shows Nyan checking out Mommy’s flashcards that show different yoga poses. And then – clever lad that he is – he shows off his own yoga pose! Pretty sure this is called the downward dog:
At the end, you can see one of his tricks: he knows there’s a dummy (pacifier) on the chest of drawers, and he wants it. We have been refusing him the dummy of late, because he doesn’t need it; just a habit that we need to break. But he wants it, but of course isn’t tall enough to get it. So what does he do? He goes to Mommy and asks for a cuddle, knowing that she’ll pick him up. And, sure, he loves cuddles – but in this case, it’s just a ruse to get closer to the dummy! The boy is no dummy, that’s for sure. (It didn’t work, by the way; we didn’t give it to him.)
A bit later in the morning, here’s Mommy strumming and singing to the lad, who then decides to add his own guitar stylings:
All in a day’s play for young Nyan Thomas (who, it should be noted, turned 20 months old yesterday!)
Just a collection of recent videos. First up, the boy playing with his mobile phone, which sometimes says ‘Uh oh’ which makes Nyan say…. well, just watch it:
Hanging out in the hallway, reading and running around, pressing his face into the wallpaper. What?
This is how we handle the paparazzi in this family:
And, playtime, including reading and learning the concept of ‘open’ and ‘closed’:
From a few weeks back, a slice of life at home: first Nyan helps Mommy unload the dishwasher; then he helps Daddy carry the groceries into the kitchen. Such a helpful little guy.
And just to prove that it’s not all toil and trouble ’round these parts, here we are after the chores are done, with Mommy singing and reading to the boy – fair pay for a hard day’s work, I’d say.
It’s no secret that our boy loves music. He also, it turns out, loves to shake his little booty and show off all sorts of dance moves. We’re not entirely sure where he gets his moves from – it sure as heck isn’t his daddy – but there’s no denying that his hips don’t lie. Check out the young man, groovin’ his thang to the fluid sounds of Rubber Ducky:
That wasn’t the only dancing he got up to this past weekend. He also cut a rug in Colchester, as you can see here (the real moves start around 30 seconds in; before that, he’s just running around, screaming ‘Go!!!’ and generally being himself):
More from that dance session (though he’s more interested in eating a potato chip than dancing):
And finally, here he is back at home, post dancing. No dancing here, just Nyan playing with his legos:
Nyan is at a pretty fun stage – he’s just happy all the time, exploring, somewhat independent (sorta), talking… just a joy. We’re taking plenty of photos and videos, even when the videos are not all that exciting. Like these two. Shot this morning, before we got him ready for school – partly due to this, Mommy and Daddy were both a little late to work, but so what? We want to remember, and chronicle these little moments, and the big corporations we work for can wait. Sappy, sure, but whatever.
Anyway, here we have him just sort of exploring the office, after throwing the package of swim nappies (swimming lessons on Sunday!) around a little bit.
(Gotta love how he doesn’t listen to Daddy, at all, when Daddy tells him not to mess around with the computer desk. But he snaps right to it when Mommy weighs in…)
And here, a bit later, playing a bit and then deciding that he just HAS to read a financial markets text book right now. Notice how he shoves stuff out of the way to get to the book. Kid loves his books, and we’re quite happy with that!
We have this great, deep, meaningful essay that’s mostly composed in our head, that we were going to flesh out in honor of today – our boy’s 19-month birthday. It was going to be all about how joyful and happy he is almost all the time; how we’re sure that most people get sick of hearing Mommy and Daddy wax on, and on, and on about how wonderful their little boy is. And how he seems to have entered some magical (and hopefully long-lasting) phase where he’s talking, walking, giggling, and just general being utterly adorable (oops, there we go again). And also we’d note how some of his recent changes have been so gradual that we hardly even notice at the time – like the way he now pretty much insists on feeding himself at all times (and he is eating quite well, we’re happy to report).
Yes, we were going to write all that, but, well, it turned into a rather busy day at work, and you know how that goes. So instead of writing all that, we leave you with a slideshow of a few recent photos of the lad, plus a video of Nyan from his visit with Mommy to the public library the other day. He went crazy for the books, of course – but he also spent a little time on one of the computers. Definitely a digital native.
Folks, to tell this story properly, we’re gonna have to get a wee bit scatalogical. Bear with us.
Long-time readers may know that we’ve struggled a bit, at times, to – how can we put this politely – keep things moving down there. You know: his poops are sometimes rather dry and painful. Not to mention infrequent. Over the months we’ve tried a variety of dietary changes, to varying degrees of success. Well, a few weeks back, after another extended period of less-than-ideal pooping, we went for the nuclear option: Read the rest of this entry »
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