Here’s a treat for all you Nyan Thomas fans. We’ve unearthed a bunch of videos from way back when, that have never before been seen. This one is just wonderful, methinks. From April 30, 2012: Nyan Thomas is fascinated by… Nyan Thomas. And by the camera.
Here’s one from Dec. 30, 2011 – more than a year ago. This was before he could even roll over onto his belly, let alone crawl or walk!
And two more videos, including one that is fantastic if you’re into babies giggling uncontrollably. Read the rest of this entry »
Here we have our hero (with his Daddy) going through one of his favorite books, all about colors. It’s got pages devoted to various colors (silver, brown, gold, purple, red, etc) and a whole bunch of pictures of things that match that particular color. He’s loved this book for months now, and never seems to get bored with it. It’s been great to teach him various items, animals, and whatnot; he’s still not quite grasping the concept of color itself, but I think he’s starting to get it.
His thing, as you can see, is to point to one of the objects and demand that Mommy or Daddy tell him what it is.
One thing that you don’t see in these videos is that he is, more and more, able to ID the items himself. For instance, I’ll say ‘Where’s the apple?’ and after a moment or two, he’ll point to the apple. It’s especially endearing with certain words; tell him ‘Show me the lion’ and he’ll point to a picture of a lion and let out a big roar as well. We’ll try to capture some video of that one of these days. For now, enjoy this second video of the boy and his colors (with a special bonus of a runny nose too!)
Someone certainly woke up on the right side of the bed this morning. Check out our boy as he waddles drunkenly around the bedroom, plays with Mingster the panda, shows off his dance steps, and gets frustrated when he can’t open up a pencil case immediately. All in all, not a bad way to start of a Sunday morning…
Going back in time a few weeks for this one: Christmas Eve, at Grandma and Grandpa’s in Iowa City. Mommy is watching some movie or TV show on her laptop, while our hero shows off his prowess with all things digital, playing around with Daddy’s iPad. Also talking and pointing a lot.
The kid is 18 months old and he’s already figuring out how an iPad works, not to mention iPhones, telephones, TV remote controls… We will do our damnedest to make sure he gets plenty of non-screen time as he grows up – running around outside, reading books, connecting with people face to face. Happily, he’s already shown that he enjoys all of these things.
It’s Grandma L.’s birthday today, and in her honor, Nyan has asked your humble blog writer to post a few Grandma-related videos. Here we have the young man having a recent phone conversation, of sorts, with the birthday girl:
Here we have Mommy reading to Nyan, who then scampers over to pick up one of the books he has that features the voice of Grandma reading to him: Read the rest of this entry »
Nyan’s weekdays usually go something like this: Up at 7; a little bit of breakfast, a quick clean-up, dressed and out the door by about 7:45. Spend all day at ‘school’ (a.k.a. nursery, a.k.a. day care), get picked up by Mommy or Daddy around 6 or a little before, home by 6:15. Dinner is around 7, bath at 7:30, bedtime around 8. But those 45 minutes between getting home and dinner? That’s playtime!
It typically takes him all of about three minutes to make our once-neat family room look like a disaster zone, with toys spread everywhere and books scattered wherever there’s no toys. (Luckily, cleaning up doesn’t really take that long, but man, the place very quickly becomes a mess!) Here, then, we share a few videos from the past few weeks, just a couple slices of life of that magical hour when it’s all about playing.
Here is he riding his plastic dump truck around the room, learning a little espanol with the help of his laptop, and playing with one of his newest and most favored toys, the talking zoo.
In this next video, we see our hero alternating between walking around the room, and plopping down into Daddy’s lap.
Our boy’s officially a toddler now – no more crawling for this young man. We’ve been getting him as much walking exercise as we can, and today was a great day for it.
It was a chilly, windy, blustery February day – not the greatest weather the planet has ever seen, but then, this is London, so what do you expect – but there was some sunshine, so we bundled up the little man and took him for a stroll around the block and a little bit into the nearby woods. He absolutely loved it; he loved the feeling of being (sort of) independent, looking at the birds, feeling the flowers, holding Mommy’s hand, checking out the WWII tank that sits in the driveway of a house around the corner. (Yeah, a WWII tank. Don’t ask; we haven’t the foggiest). He got a little tired every now and again, given that he has tiny little legs so every adult step is like three or four steps for him; we’d carry him for a bit before he demanded to be put back down for more walking. He’s really getting good at it!
For our overseas viewers, I made sure that, while filming, I did a 360 pan so you could see what our street looks like. It’s a fairly typical street in a small English town, I’d say (no, we don’t live in a small town, but the neighborhood we live in definitely has more of a small town than big city feel to it).
A slice of Nyan Thomas’s life on a Sunday afternoon, hanging out with Daddy. First up: Nyan helps Daddy sort the laundry, until he gets bored. Then he toddles off to the kitchen and proceeds to empty out the drawer, as he does.
Nothing all that exciting here, just a snippet of life with Nyan, showing one of his current favorite things to do: climb up onto the footstool in the kitchen, open one of the utility drawers, and empty it out. (And oftentimes examining each utensil closely.)
He also tries to do the same with the refrigerator, though we tend to discourage that, for obvious reasons.
Weekends tend to be a mixed bag for our hero. On the one hand, he gets lots and lots and lots of time with Mommy and Daddy – never a bad thing. On the other hand, we feel sometimes that he gets a little bored by the end of the weekend, since most of his days are spent with a dozen other kids, activities galore, and of course his bevy of lovely ladies at the nursery.
So we do what we can to keep things interesting – lots of playtime and books, errands, trips to Colchester, strolls around the neighborhood if the weather is good, etc. This weekend the weather was decidedly not good, including some seven inches (and counting!) of wet, heavy snow that has fallen today. We didn’t want to take him out in the cold and the damp — yes, we’re overly cautious when it comes to keeping him out of the elements, but that infection he got in September scared the bejeebus out of us, and plus he’s got a slight cold these days, and we don’t want to risk it — so it was a weekend indoors for the poor lad. We were all a bit out of it on Sunday — he napped poorly and just seemed a little restless, or maybe we were projecting? — but on Saturday he was certainly full of beans. Here’s the young man showing off his walking skills, his love of household appliances, and so forth.
And as an added bonus, here’s the winter wonderland that is our back yard today, as of mid afternoon. (Click it if’n you want to see it bigger)
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