Soon, dear reader, we’ll start posting a whole treasure trove of photos, videos and stories from our recent sojourn to the heartland of the U.S. But for now, please enjoy this quickie, a photo from school a few weeks back. Just Nyan being Nyan. He sure loves to vamp it up for the camera!
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Our boy likes to climb into various closets and shut the door. He’s unique, I guess we can say…
One of Nyan’s favorite things to do is to grab Mommy or Daddy’s mobile phone and touch lots of buttons. It usually seems to be pretty random – but every once in a while, he shows off his artistic skills. Like the other day, when he grabbed Daddy’s phone which happened to have its camera function up and running. Fifteen pushes of a button later, Nyan had created his latest masterwork – a series of self-portraits, with a few shots of the ceiling thrown in for good measure. It’s art, man.
Our hero was in a silly mood this weekend. He found a handful of Daddy’s old baseball caps, and as you can see, proceeded to try them on. Often while wearing his sunglasses. (Click on any photo to make it big and start a slideshow).
And here’s a fun video. The backstory is that Daddy had plopped the Iowa hat onto the boy’s head as he was cleaning up the living room, thinking the boy would toss it aside. But no. He turned it sideways, then grabbed his sunglasses, and strutted into the kitchen to show off his look to Mommy.
We like to keep things pretty positive ’round these parts. This blog is meant, mostly, as a celebration of our little man, and all the charming things he does. That’s why you haven’t read anything here, so far at least, about how he’s now, at 21 months old, tip-toeing his way into the so-called Terrible Twos. Yes, Nyan has been testing boundaries, practicing saying ‘No,’ and figuring out the best way to throw tantrums. The tantrums especially were rather shocking when they first started a couple weeks back, and there has been a small handful of big ones. But for the most part, they’re pretty minor – some crying, some throwing of stuff, and the like – and I think we’re doing okay at responding to them. Or rather, at not responding to them, which I think is pretty much the key.
All this is a long way of saying that things ain’t perfect; our boy can be a handful, and not in a good way. But still, 95 percent of the time, he’s a complete joy. Okay, 90 percent of the time. Whatever; most of the time he’s sweet, charming, funny, inquisitive, loving… and goofy. Like in these two videos. The first one is, dare I say it, an instant classic. It was last Sunday, as we got ready to head to swimming lessons. He decided he would just basically run around the house, making noise, babbling and dancing and, well, being himself. Check it out:
Not bad, eh? (And no, we have no idea what he’s saying, or what language he thinks he’s speaking.)
Here’s a quick one the next morning, doing pretty much the same thing.
Ah, our boy. Yes, he’ll throw the occasional tantrum – you’re unlikely to see video of that, for which you should thank us – but overall? Yeah, the kid’s alright. We think we’ll keep him.
Why is he wearing those, in there, you ask? Simple. He found his sunglasses and wanted to wear them. We were on our way to the tub. Simple.
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This evening, in that window between bathtime and bedtime – indeed, between bathtime and getting dressed after bathtime – our hero was in a hyper, silly, jolly mood. Perhaps he’s excited for the four-day weekend? Or maybe he’s just being Nyan Thomas. Whatever the reason, he was being silly. And Daddy was right there with his camera to capture some of the silliness. Without further ado, we give you a slideshow of… Nyan Thomas being silly.
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.
In which Nyan Thomas sits in a drawer. Yes, he opened the drawer and climbed in. Then took off his sock. Then he climbed out and closed the drawer.
What can we say, the kid’s got skills!
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