We have slowly moved the books, clothes and toys for the boys’ room, and managed to shift everything nicely into place on Sunday afternoon.
Now, David, Joseph and Samuel share one room.
We had dinner with the Yongs at Sichuan Dou Hua, a Sichuan restaurant, at Parkroyal, Beach Road. The food was good.
Our four children are now in 4 different schools, and here they are in their uniforms:
Today Samuel is three! We thank God for looking after him and giving him growth in age, wisdom and strength.
We bought some kazoos as gifts to his class mates, and here’s the strawberry cake that he specifically ordered.
We celebrated at his class, with David and Joseph joining the fun (Esther had afternoon choir class).
The children had a great time making lots of noise with the kazoos.
For dinner, we had ribs at Morganfield’s, Vivocity.
When we got home, Samuel got to open his presents. The Yongs gave a box of Lego, David and Joseph gave a toy spider-monkey, Esther and us gave two Thomas the Train sets.
Here’s Samuel with his wings. Inspired after watching Falcon in action in the movie Captain America: Winter Soldier, David and YowCH built this for him.
We got ourselves some 2nd hand foam sheets to enjoy in the Sorrento pool. Most other people use these for yoga or children play area. These are good one-inch thick ones, most are only half-inch.
We also got ourselves another inflatable ride to accompany the Crocodile, a new Shark.
Grace found a used Takamine EG531SSC 12-string guitar on Carousel for sale at $800.00. We bargained down to $700, and picked up the good buy on the night of 24 Oct 2016 (Monday).
The fret-board was good, the pick-up working well and comes in a nice padded (furry) case. The strings are rather rusty and one G-string was missing, but we need to re-string the guitar anyway. Bright and sharp sounds typical of a Takamine, with nice reverbs. But the 12-string needs harder strength to play and Esther may not be playing this until much later.
This 12-string is most probably the last guitar to add to our line-up.
Here’s Samuel sharing instant noodles with Joseph for breakfast. He is trying to use the chopsticks but has not fully gotten the correct technique and doesn’t have much strength yet. We will continue to train him.
On Wednesday, 21 Sept, Esther got her new phone, an iPhone7 32GB, rose gold. Here’s the new phone, in a black Spigen case. She bought it partially with her own savings.
Here’s the phone, taking a dip in the swimming pool, it is waterproof.
We borrowed the float board from the coach and had some fun on it after the swimming lessons.
Samuel has VERY good balance standing on the float board!
Re-contracting at about 10 months since the HTC One M8, YowCH ordered a new phone on 18 July and it was delivered to by 19 July. The Samsung Galaxy S7 (non-edge) came with a free Samsung Gear VR for $288.00, where the street price is $785. The phone is glass on both front and back, and black in colour. YowCH bought a jelly case, also black, which fits well and looks great. This is the first non-HTC smart phone that YowCH is using since Nokia days. The QuadHD screen is nicely bright and has great contrast. Being waterproof, the camera can take underwater photos and videos up to 1m depth. It is about the same size as the HTC One M8.
The set unboxed:
And the Gear VR:
Samuel brought home his bean sprouts, and they are growing very well!
After sending Esther and David to church, YowCH brought Joseph and Samuel to West Coast Park for playground fun. Grace was working.
On the evening, Samuel played with his toy car, which he has to assemble with a little help from YowCH.
Esther played the guitar while David played the cajon as musicians for church Kids for Christ worship leader Ezra on both Saturday and Sunday.
That afternoon, as we prepared to go for football, we hung out at the playground for a while:
Samuel had a nice hair-cut, very short hair now, very ‘boy’.
We had dinner at Star Vista on Wednesday night, Portuguese food at Nando’s. Samuel was very amused by the hanging food.
