Back Home, January 2009

After all the excitement of traveling to Manila for a visit, and the stress of studying for the exam... and the relief from passing it... and then getting sick, then getting better and then sick again... it's slowly starting to feel like we're back home in Bangkok.



Here's Little Nio back in front of the computer again, visiting one of his favorite websites. He really enjoys spending time in front of the computer and browsing the internet for interesting things.





On the floor of our kitchen, enjoying some chocolate ice cream with his Daddy. Little Nio sometimes makes a big mess when he eats, so why take chances? It's also easier to mop up a tiled floor then worry about some fancy carpets. Not that we have anything fancier than a few fluffy door mats.



This is the same series of images that my wife, Kanittha, took for the comic strip on the chocolate cows.





When we were visiting in Manila for Christmas, one of the many many gifts he received from Lolo Jun was a little toy car. He really liked that toy car, which came in a box labeled "Unborn Flyer" — a very creepy name for a toy car. I suspect this is one of those peculiar transliterations from the Chinese language. Unfortunately, we were unable to bring it back with us because of all the other stuff we had. When we got back, we bought him something very similar.





Here he is enjoying the replacement little toy car. He probably won't remember that this red car isn't the same one as that "Unborn Flyer" that his Lolo Jun gave him when we visited.

Little Nio Comics Update, January 2009

Rather than put all the latest comic strip installments up in one go, I decided to split the updates up into manageable chunks to help with upload times.



This series of photographs was taken a few weeks ago and it shows our son, Antonio, playing with his toy car. This one is called "Little Nio and the Toy Car". More and more I'm finding that I can insert some subtle environmental messages in these comic strips.



This is actually an older series of photos taken by my wife, Kanittha. Antonio loves eating yogurt and it's usually the first course before he eats a proper breakfast. His expressions here are priceless. This one is "Little Nio and Yogurt".



We took these series of images in August of last year, when we went up country to visit with my wife's family. This comic strip is called, "Little Nio and Football". He really enjoyed running around in the sunshine on the dirt ground with a dilapidated old football.



This one is entitled "Little Nio and the Balloon Flower" and the images here come from an activity day of our village some time last year. They had balloons and painting, snacks and ice cream for all the kids. It was good fun.

Latest Little Nio Comics, January 2009

It's been a while since I've posted any "Little Nio" comics. Here are the latest installments in this series.



This one is entitled "Little Nio and Natural Gas". There's a small swimming pool next to the clubhouse in our little village and our son, Antonio, enjoys the water. This was taken summer last year, when it was nice and warm.



This one is "Little Nio and the Elephant" and was taken in Ayutthaya when my cousins were visiting us. We were feeding the elephants and every time that the elephant took the bananas from our hands Little Nio would clap. He loves animals and is not the least bit afraid of them.



It's very difficult to get Antonio away from computers. I guess he gets that from me. This comic strip is titled, "Little Nio and World Domination". It seemed appropriate given his expressions and the intensity of his concentration. This was done from a series of photographs taken last year.



This is a more recent comic strip, entitled "Little Nio and the Chocolate Cow". Like me, he's got a sweet tooth and a weakness for chocolate ice cream. My wife, Kanittha, captured these images as we were sharing a quick snack on the kitchen floor. It's more practical to eat on a tiled floor when you're eating ice cream with a little boy.