Although sometimes chicken nuggets and french fries are also a part of his diet. We try not to give him junk food, but Little Nio sometimes gets foods like these from time to time. We don't allow him to drink any carbonated beverages, like Coke or Pepsi. It's plain drinking water, fruit juices and his milk formula, which he still drinks before his nap times and for his middle-of-the-night feeding. Or so I am told. I have to leave for work early in the mornings, so that feeding time is something that I tend to sleep through.
He spends at least an hour a day outdoors, even if it is only in our tiny garden or just around the neighborhood. He gets his recommended ten minutes of Vitamin E from sunshine and a wee bit of exercise. When he gets older, we will get him to spend much more time outdoors. We haven't been going swimming recently as the shared village pool is getting some needed repairs to the tile work.
Here he is trying to pull out the yellow leaves from the potted plants we've got lined up on our carport.
Little Nio sitting with his Mommy on our carport. She's planting a little flower on his head, and I think that he's attempting a smile. We're in the process of changing the surface of our carport to a washed aggregate finish (pebble wash), which should be a bit more attractive and more hygenic because of its ease of maintenance.
He also likes to wander around the house with a little hammer. The hammer comes as part of a gift from Lolo Mon and Lola Charing, and it is his favorite thing to bang things with. Here he is banging on our home entertainment system.
And here he is preparing to do a bit of banging on our Siamese cat, Samuel. The cat seems to know what's coming. Sam's got his ears perked up and he looks ready to run just in case he's going to get a hammering on the head.
Riding at the back of our family car, Little Nio is all buckled up sitting beside his Mommy.
My wife, Kanittha, still as charming and beautiful as ever.
Little Nio is buckled in and is intently watching his "Bob the Builder" videos from a monitor mounted on the headrest behind the driver's seat. He get's to watch a lot of educational videos, ranging from "Little Einsteins", "My Friends, Tigger & Pooh", "Dora the Explorer" and of course "Bob the Builder".
We try not to watch television shows with lots of commercial breaks and we don't let Little Nio watch the Cartoon Network as there is very little of educational value on there. It's entertaining and funny, but he's not going to learn much from watching that sort of thing. If the cable tv is on it will usually be on Animal Planet, at least there he can see animals in their natural environment.
Here's Little Nio back visiting KiDo. It looks like we will be starting him there again next year when we get back from Manila. We're scheduled to visit there for Christmas and will be back in Bangkok in time for the New Year celebration here.
