YowCH & Grace

Last Saturday, while Esther and David were at Chinese class and Grace at work, YowCH coached Joseph in cycling. He can go for a short distance and balance better now, but still not yet cycling.

Then on Sunday, we went swimming again. Esther can now do breast-stroke and free-style, and started on back-stroke. David is able to breast-stroke now, but needs more training to go long distance. Joseph is still playing about, he needs to get serious about learning to swim.

The coach also taught Esther and David to get into a life-jacket while in the water, and both can do it nicely.

Samuel is quite adapted to the water, and enjoys his dips in the pool.



Seriously, he doesn’t even choke or cry after we dip him into the water!

Samuel will get his PR paperwork done at ICA tomorrow on 6 May, and we took a recent coloured passport photo of him, as required.

Well, we also took the other children.

Here are a few of the outtakes of Samuel’s photo taking.

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A short update on our terrapins, they have grown rather large, twice the length they were when we got them. The colour has also gone rather dark, and they eat much more than before.

The tank will probably have to be upgraded someday, but we won’t have the space for them…

We had dinner at Far East Square and here are the children posing with some bronze sculptures of Ching Dynasty children playing.

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Samuel starting pushing himself to sitting position, but he still tends to topple forward, the back is not strong enough yet.

On 25 April 2014, a day short of his 6th month, we started him on rice cereal mixed with breast-milk.


Everyone fed him a little. He ate up the whole of that in the first photo above, and had another half more!

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On 18 April 2014 evening (Good Friday), we joined the Leongs for the church 24-7 Prayer Rally from 6:00pm to 7:00pm.

This was followed by a dinner at their place.

When we got home and parked the car, we took a stroll along the newly opened Rumah Tinggi Eco-park behind the carpark. Click on photos below to go to the dedicated page.



The next day (Saturday) we went again for in-line skating.

Here are some updates on Samuel:
He can hold his milk bottle on his own now:

He can sit like a king:

But he will take off his sock and suck his toes:

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We had a Saturday photo shoot outing to Botanic Gardens on Saturday morning organised by the TYLin Staff Club, with YowCH as one of the instructors. Clink on the link below for the dedicated page:

Esther went for Maths Olympiad and David went for Chinese class, so only the two younger boys went along, and this is Samuel’s first trip to the Botanic Gardens.

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Samuel is now able to sit for a long time, with some support from the seat. Grace got him the foam baby seat and he is OK to be in it.

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Today we went for a swim, Samuel’s first swim!



The underwater dip!

It was very hot!

You can refer here for Joseph’s first swim.

Actually, we went to the pool to attend swimming lessons for Esther, David and Joseph, starting today on every Sunday from 11:30 to 12:30. We got to the pool earlier at 11:00 to play first.

Esther is able to swim breast-stroke, so she started on free-style. David picked up the last bits of breast-stroke and at the end of the lesson, he can swim already (having learnt the basics a few year ago). Joseph is just starting off, but doing well as he was obedient and serious about swimming.

Some other photos of Samuel:
This is YowCH playing the guitar, while carrying Samuel!

And this is Samuel, able to lift his head already.

Samuel is now able to smile and laugh.

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We thank God that the childcare centre has a place for Samuel. The queue was rather long when Samuel was born in Oct 2013 (about 20+ waiting) but due to those dropping out from the queue and some infants being promoted, Samuel joins Learning Vision on 10 Feb 2014.


This is his locker (highest level!) and his bed (nearest to the door).

Joseph was very helpful in carrying bags of stuff to the centre.

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Here are some photos of Samuel at 12 weeks old. He is still underweight but certainly fleshy and active.

Nice smile and developing bad habit of thumb sucking.

He is also into mixed-martial arts, starting with boxing-while-lying-down.

We got Esther a relatively cheap ($135) Aria STG Mini electric guitar (travel-size, but just the right size for her). Sound reasonably OK for the price. In the photo, the Aria is the smaller sun-burst coloured one standing next to the full-sized Ibanez that YowCH uses.

Some details:

And here’s the rocker girl.

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Greetings of a happy and blessed new year ahead from the Yow minions.

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