We went out to have a Sunday lunch over at Coffee Beans by Dao with my good friend, Trevor and his girlfriend, Khun Nok. Trevor is my financial advisor and has been helping me manage a very tiny portfolio that I started for our family. Here's Nio right at home with his new Auntie Nok.
And here he is with his big Uncle Trevor.
Not all of Little Nio's new friends are a lot bigger than he is, he already has started making acquaintances more his own age. Here he is with Nong Pet, the son of one of my wife's friends, Khun Cake. (Don't ask me why she's named "Cake"... but my wife has another friend named "Gift" as well. Must be some kind of a party theme.)
Little Nio is two and a half months old in this photo and Nong Pet is almost nine months old here. Either our son is big for his age, or the other kid is a bit tiny for his. Or it could be foreshortening in perspective? Or maybe the broad horizontal stripes just make him look fat?
From left-to-right, we have my wife, Kanittha carrying Little Nio, then my sister-in-law, Khun Kut in the middle, and then finally Khun Cake and her son, Nong Pet. They came over to visit with us.
An even smaller friend Little Nio has got is this stuffed toy dog we've named "Blue". No shortage of imagination in the naming department.
Aside from the new faces there is at least one new place that Little Nio absolutely enjoys. This was handmade specially for him by my father-in-law, and brought down 12-hours by pick-up truck from Sakhon Nakorn all disassembled.
It's like a baby hammock, which in the Filipino vernacular is known as a duyan.
Don't click on that duyan link unless you really want to know more about a traditional swing hammock made out of rattan. The poor MIDI rendition of Freddie Aguilar's "Anak" on that site almost drove me insane.
This version made for Nio is made with a simple bolt of soft fabric, but all the supports are self-contained so we didn't have to look for any posts to hang it to. And the awesome thing about it is that it is fairly easy to move from room to room. The entire piece was lovingly constructed by Nio's maternal grandfather.
Here's Little Nio with his Daddy, trying on a new look, accessorizing with a hat. Notice the resemblance?
We haven't put it to a vote yet, but it is still undecided on whether or not the outfit works better with or without the hat. Personally, I tend to favor sans accessories.
Any resemblance on this last photograph is unintentional.
