Joseph in-line skating
Joseph tried on the skates again, and with some guidance and help from YowCH, Esther and David, he can now stand up from ground, balance and move along a little. Holding his hand, he can actually turn. Wow!
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More in-line skates, children golf and ukuleles
With Esther and David doing well on the in-line skates, we gave Joseph his birthday present in advance – his own pair of in-line skates. You can certainly see his joy.
Well, YowCH and Grace got a pair each too, and here you see us practising. Grace has never been on skates, and YowCH only played around a little about 10-plus years ago.
YowCH saw a good deal on a set of junior golf clubs ($99) and picked it up for them to try out. Consists of 1 driver, 2 irons and 1 putter, all in a bag. Looks like Esther and David can join YowCH in the driving range.
Meanwhile, Grace ordered and picked up 3 more ukuleles, rather fruity ones, from Groupon at about $28 each. From left to right – YowCH’s, ‘glitter’, ‘kiwi’, ‘watermelon’ and our first. The new ones are very colourful. They will be used to start off church juniors (7 to 11) on ukulele-playing.
Cycling, soccer match and golf
On Saturday, 6 Oct, while Grace was at work on afternoon shift, we went cycling at the MOE carpark near our house. Esther and David practiced cycling with one hand, weaving in-and-out and making very tight turns at high speed. YowCH practiced jumping the kerb.
On Sunday, David played futsal soccer competition at Hougang from 8:00am to 2:00pm. The rest of us attended church for Children’s Day event, then went to the stadium to join David. The Lims brought him to Hougang after he spent a night at their place.
Trophies were given to every child as encouragement, but the truth is, the Jaguars did not do well.
Today, 8 Oct, YowCH went to Marina Bay driving range with his colleagues to practice golf swings. This is the second round, the first was last Tuesday.
Trip to the zoo without YowCH
Today is children’s day and YowCH had to work. So the children went to the Zoo with Grace. We arrived at 8:00am by car (YowCH dropped the family off) and left by cab at 6:50pm.
Bicycle full-face helmets
The helmets (XS size) looks very large on the children’s heads, however, the fitting is nice and correct. They can hear, breathe and the helmets are not too heavy, good for off road!
You can see the ugly monster art on YowCH’s helmet (S size), probably that’s why this model is on clearance sale.
Joseph is not having a full-face helmet, he was just trying on, and way too large and loose for him.
Food, soccer, food and bicycle gear order
On Sunday, after church, we had lunch at The Pizza Slice, in West Coast Plaza, very nice authentic Italian pizza on rectangular slices.
In the afternoon, David went for soccer training again, and received his official T-shirt.
Joseph went playing with some other boys.
In the evening, we had an earlier Oktoberfest with Yan and family at Brotzeit Vivocity. We enjoyed one large pork-knuckle, a fried platter, a platter of various sausages, a bowl of roasted potatoes and one serving of emperor’s cake, with apple juice, cola and one shot of Schnapps.
We cleared all the food!
We ordered 3 full-face bicycle helmets (as follow up from Esther’s accident), 3 speedometers (on Esther’s wish list from day one of biking) and 3 water bottles with holders from www.ChainReactionCycles.com, a British bicycle company, on 9 Sept. The stuff were dispatched on 11 Sept, and reached on 17 Sept in good condition, very nice!
Update of Esther’s injury, David’s soccer game cancelled
We updated Esther’s injury page again, noting that the healing of the chin is going very well.
Today, David’s soccer training was to have a friendly match with Bukit Batok Community Club, but cancelled due to rain (only slight drizzle) and lightning risk (not one flash was seen at the field). With the team mostly gathered, YowCH took an informal group photo.
And with the children from both sides sitting on the benches for close to 1.5 hours waiting for clearer skies, the game was finally declared cancelled. They coudn’t hold back anymore and just rushed to the field to play informally until the stadium keeper chased us out for fear of damaging the damp ground.
We bought Joseph a pair of yellow soccer boots yesterday from Queensway, the smallest size we could find that’s not more than $40 (they are Toppers, not expensive brands like Nike, Adidas, Puma or Lotto which are all $55++). He is very comfortable running with them on the field.
David starts soccer training
With our friends’ recommendation, David started soccer training at Queenstown Stadium today. This is where Enoch, Ezra, Sonya, Kenan and Joash are also training, every Sunday 3:00pm to 5:00pm. The children are generally divided into three groups, 8 and below, 10 and below and 13 and below.
Joseph was also playing along, very good at dribbling and kicks to the right direction, too.
We signed David up for the training, paid the yearly fee, registered for the team jersey and shorts. David was assigned “40″. They gave out free training T-shirts and a free football! After training, we went to Tiong Bahru Plaza and got David a set of boots, socks and shin guards, plus some training cones to practice with.
YowCH also bought a pair of soccer boots (but rubber base and no studs, to use a general sports shoes).
Hiking at Macritchie
We hiked at Macritchie this morning while Grace was at work, covering 6.5km.
The page is here.
Children cycling
Today, the children went cycling around the neighbourhood.
Joseph went quite fast.
Esther and David learned to cross drains, jump kerbs and Esther could actually cycle along on the kerb for about 8m!
Then we went off to get a drink at Ronnie’s chicken rice shop.
