Daniel is Nyan’s pal from the apartment complex. He’s about the same age (I think they were born a week apart) and they get along great. Daniel’s a sweet kid with a very vivid imagination that’s full of witches, dragons, and the like.
In this video, they are apparently using Daniel’s inflatable pool shark to form some sort of bulwark against an invading army of dragons. Or something like that. See for yourself:
Here we have the two lads randomly running around the playground and making random noises:
And a bonus video, Nyan on his own, building up a head of steam and then… jumping through the rope jungle gym. Sort of.
The shopping mall down the road from our place has a small water park up on the roof. Pretty standard amenity for Singapore, frankly. Here’s the boy a few weeks ago, splashing away without a care in the world.
Nyan took Daddy, Grandma and Grandpa to the Singapore Zoo last week. We happened to get to the giraffe enclosure right at feeding time – and for a few dollars, they handed us some carrots and let us feed the critter. Nyan was… well, he was less than impressed. And who can blame him, really – I mean, take a look at that long, black, snake-like tongue. Kinda creepy to a three-year-old.
Bonus: later, we came across a strange hairy monkey – seriously, dude was like a giant mustache that was swinging thru the trees – who jumped onto a fence post and checked us out. Nyan was still a little leery, but less so, and even managed to give a wave to the little fella.
Our boy, like most kids, loves Legos. And Daddy, of course, loves to take videos of our boy. Put them together and we’ve got a trio of recent weeks showing Lego-playining best. First up, the artist builds an airplane that’s great until it crashes:
Next, relaxing after a long day at school by taking off the shorts and building a Lego model of Mommy’s building:
And finally, here we are with another loud airplane. And a special surprise at the end…
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?
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…
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:
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.
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…
Nyan at school, “drawing” with his friend Joseph at the end of a long day. It’s all fun and games and giggling until Adrianna – who’s unquestionably the alpha female of the class – tells them off for being “very noisy!” Does that admonition keep our hero from his art? Click and find out:
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.)