Samuel walking
Sometime along this week, Samuel started taking a few steps on his own, unsupported. At age close to 15 months, a bit later than the norm, but we will start him on hiking trips earlier…
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Weekend activities
On Friday evening, we joined Esther for the Secondary 1 end-of-orientation performance at Queenstown Secondary School. That’s Esther with her classmates:
She was assigned a middle-row locker:
On Saturday, we noted Samuel climbing up the front gate:
He has also started walking a few un-supported steps.
Our church, “The Bible Church, Singapore”, celebrated the 57th anniversary in a simple service and dinner at church.
After church, we invited the Ngs to our place and we had a movie night, Guardians of the Galaxy.
Sunday was busy as ever, with our swim at noon-time. Samuel is now able sit on the back of a swimmer
Then, Esther went for ballet, and David and Joseph played soccer, in the rain.
After soccer, we met Grace’s parents and Gene for dinner at Sin Hoi San.
First day of school
School starts on 2 Jan (Friday). Here are photos of Joseph and Esther in their new school uniforms. Esther at Queenstown Secondary School, and Joseph follows his sister and brother to Gan Eng Seng Primary School.
And here are all three school children all ready for 2015:
YowCH first dropped Esther, at about 7:00am, and then brought the boys to school at 7:05am. David led Joseph into the school.
Thank God that Joseph is so independent and David can lead him; the rest of the P1 students and parents were very much queuing to register and get into the school. Car and school bus traffic was very heavy, too.
UPDATED: 3:30pm
YowCH drove over to pick Esther, then the boys as they all ended at about lunch time. You can see that all three are very happy with day 1.
New Year dinner with Grace’s parents
We had a nice New Year’s dinner at Brotzeit Star Vista with Grace’s parents. Nice food and beer.
Happy New Year!
End-of-2014
31 Dec was a busy day. Grace went with Esther and parents to renew their phone contracts, and got away with new phones.
Dad took an iPhone6+ (huge!), so Esther gets the older iPhone5 that dad was using.
Grace went for the Samsung Galaxy S5 4G+ (16GB) for $168 with contract.
The S5 comes with a free Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Lite (7.0″, Wi-Fi) tablet, which we will redeem later, and sell, probably about $150. Her old HTC One SV LTE went to David.
In addition, having gotten a new line for David, we got a ‘free’ blue HTC Desire 610. Nice. We will sell this phone.
After buying phone the phones at Singtel Com-Centre and setting them up at home, and after a day’s work for YowCH, we went to church for the year-end Thanksgiving Bi-lingual service. After service, we went for supper with the Leongs, the Lims and the Behs. We had great frog porridge at Sin Ma (Cheong Chin Nam Road, off Bukit Timah Road).
Thank God for a wonderful 2014.
Update 6 Jan 2015: Collected the free Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Lite (7.0″, Wi-Fi) and sold it to a friend.
The HTC Desire 610 is also sold to a buyer from internet.
Last weekend of 2014
The boys got to climb a tree after lunch. Tree climbing is good, overcomes fear of heights, builds physically, learns to grab and push, and fun.
After church, we had our church Care Group, eCG, Christmas and year-end dinner at the Leong’s place, fantastic food.
The desserts were great! The Wees made cake with salted-caramel sauce, and the Leongs made Rainbow Cake.
A little update on the terrapins, they have grown really large!
On Sunday, the children had some time to play at home.
Then we went to Vivocity for lunch at LeNu 樂牛 (of Paradise Group 樂天):
And after some shopping, we had dessert at Madam Kwan’s before heading home
Church carolling at hospitals, Christmas dinner, Samuel standing
Our church has annual carolling at Alexandra and National University Hospitals. This year, YowCH was with David and Joseph at AH, and Esther was at NUH. YowCH played the electric guitar in the entrance hall, with David on cajon and Joseph singing and tambourine, while Esther was playing the ukulele with the youths at the lobby.
After carolling, we had Christmas dinner with mum, dad and Gene at Cedele, Great World City.
Upon reaching home, Samuel stood up by himself – the toy handphone must have been very exciting for him!
Esther’s Sec Sch registration, Dad’s birthday dinner
Esther is now registered with Queenstown Secondary School.
We had parents and students briefings today, and bought the school books. Uniform will be another day where is no crowd.
For dinner, we ate at Tunglok Signatures at Vivocity, to jointly celebrate Grace’s dad’s birthday and Christmas (both in advance!)
Among the many good food, we ordered fish-skin fried with salted egg yolk, duck’s tongues, roasted pork belly, and referring to he photo below: “Dragon’s Paw” (crocodile hand), fresh scallops (3 sets), and Kurobuta (black pork from Japan) with brinjals. Samuel was really enjoying himself eating fancy food.
Dinner with the Lims at Fat Boy’s, Samuel updates
We had dinner with the Lims on Sunday, at Fat Boy’s. We ate lots of burgers and onion rings.
Some updates on Samuel, he is still not yet standing and walking, but he eats biscuit by himself, and likes to read car magazine Torque.
Samuel is also very attracted to music, he will join the rest of the family when we practice our Christmas carols.
Trip to PJ 141213-16
We had a short 4-day trip to PJ to visit YowCH’s parents. Here’s the page.
