Church had Children’s Day, and the theme was Toy Story. We made 3D masks – Alien for Joseph and T-Rex for Samuel.
Both won best costume.
On Sunday, we skipped swim and football due to rain, but we still had a hearty Oktoberfest meal at Alibabar.
Samuel started using chopsticks at a restaurant at Tiong Bahru Plaza over dinner. Getting there.
YowCH has been attending night class, 14 sessions in total, with 2 exams and one group project submission, to be registered as a Qualified Erosion Control Professional. The classes started on 8 September and will end by 9 November.
Here’s a photo of Joseph and YowCH relaxing in the Sorrento pool.
During the week, David helped guide Samuel in constructing the 3D diorama of a T-Rex foam model.
On Sunday, we had friendly games for football at Clementi Stadium.
Here’s a photo of Esther, with her Deputy Head (Deputy head prefect in school) badge.
We took the Geotrax out for Samuel, and he really enjoyed the railway lines that we built. Joseph was very helpful to set up tracks for him.
We had some time over the Hari Raya Haji (Friday) break on 1 Sept to do some home re-organisation. we packed up old photo albums and shifted our display glass shelves to the dining area, and the Clavinova (piano) to the window to consolidate all our musical instruments. We actually started on 31 August (Thursday night) and completed all the shifting by Saturday 2 Sept.
The shelves at the dining area:
It was rather difficult to move them, even when empty, as they were really heavy. We borrowed our neighbour’s trolley to shift them.
Here’s the box of Transformers that we had to shift.
And here’s Esther playing the Clavinova by the Window, with the drums, the guitars, the violins, the ukuleles, and others (recorder, harmonica, cajons, etc.) all nearby. Much easier for jam sessions and video recording.
Today, 7 September 2017, saw Esther, David and Joseph taking their distance swim test. Grace happened to be on off today and she joined them at the pool, with Samuel, too.
At 10:15am, they were briefed by the coaches/examiners:
At 10:20am, they took off:
Joseph was doing the 1500m (30 laps) test while Esther and David were doing 2000m (40 laps) test, all within 1 hour. They did their 800m and 1500m tests earlier in April 2016. While they were swimming, Grace had fun with Samuel in the pool.
After about an hour, here are the results:
Joseph was swimming breast-stroke along with 2 other boys who are 2 years and 4 years older than him. For 2000m, Esther was the only girl and David was the youngest. Esther took 5 minutes more than the 60 minutes (probably due to lack of practice in both swimming and running) while David completed the fastest (free-style all the way).
Last photo, very tired children after the long swim.
Last Sunday, Samuel swam an entire lap by himself, with no floats, and he did that twice!
On Saturday, 26 August, Samuel and Joseph performed 2 songs in church for the Sunday School teachers for Teachers’ Day.
The children performed “You Never Let Go” and “The Lord’s Prayer”.
Sunday, 27 Aug, West Coast Wolves played friendly games against Choa Chu Kang CSC. YowCH was referee for the under-8 games. Joseph played in under-12 and then the adults played against WCW under-15.
Joseph:
David:
YowCH:
We invited the Yongs over for dinner to celebrate Si Wan’s birthday and we had Western food.
After dinner, the cousins had fun playing with each other.
We bought a set of ‘China made’ Abalone game (copy of the original):
Rather fun. You can read up at Wikipedia.
YowCH received a letter from Singapore Traffic Police, commending him for his 5 years of good driving (no demerit points)!
Last year, AA gave YowCH 1 year free membership for being a low risk driver.
Grace was on leave from 14 to 18 Aug, and she managed to reorganize the boys’ room for new shelves. She took Joseph and Samuel to IKEA on 17 and 18 Aug, and bought shelves which the whole family helped in setting up, completing on Saturday, 19 August.
Joseph was the tallest allowable height to enter the IKEA play area, and Samuel at the minimum height.
Firstly, Billy book shelves:
And we made a loft play area under Samuel’s bed:
On Friday night, we had cell-group (BCG) meeting:
And on Saturday, Joseph had a dip with YowCH at Sorrento:
Followed with closing session of term 2 of KFC:
The children rehearsed for Teachers’ Day celebration next week.
YowCH teaches the P5 class in church every Saturday, under Kids For Christ (KFC) from May to August. This is his class:
