We got a second hand play yard (like an animal pen, or cage) for Samuel to confine him in the living area so as to not attack our hi-fi, DVDs, books, bicycles, and other items within his reach.
He seems happy enough in it for a while (about 30 minutes) and then he’ll ask to be carried out.
We went to Resorts World Sentosa on 8 Nov 2014 for T.Y.Lin’s Family Day, and had good fun at the SEA Aquarium and Trick Eye Museum.
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Samuel still cries, but his cry is so fake that it is obviously seeking sympathy or trying to get his way. Nevertheless, his voice is now hoarse due to excessive crying.
YowCH later on brought him to the playground, and Samuel likes the rocking horse. He is able to sit and rock (very gently) by himself.
Today is Samuel’s birthday, he has just turned one. We thank God for blessing us with Samuel and we celebrated with a small party with family and friends. Grace’s parents and sister came, so did YowCH’s sister and family, and even Chee Kean and Ming Meng came all the way from PJ. A large contingent of our church care group members came, too.
This is the boss of the day:
The entire family started working on the lunch party from 7:30am. Esther cleaned the house, David helped prepare garlic, Grace made porridge for the children, Joseph bought coffee and chilli (from chicken rice shop).
The Goldhill chicken rice guys gave Samuel a birthday drumstick!
Grace’s mum made great yam cake (salty) and water chestnut cake (sweet) for Samuel’s party. Very nice!
There was much to prepare, Esther chopped mint for mojito drink, YowCH fried macaroni Cantonese-style, Joseph prepare the petai and David made great sardines (with lime and chilli).
Here’s God’s blessing to us in our lunch spread. We had Cantonese herbal soup, baked chicken and grilled prawns, too.
Here are photos of Samuel’s family and friends.
The girls led by Esther were busy making lots of great drinks.
We then had the birthday song over the water chestnut cake, and a black-out candle:
This is Samuel in his suit for the day:
Grace and YowCH got him a size-zero Adidas football.
Happy birthday, Samuel.
For YowCH’s Facebook “Close Friends”, you can watch this video of Esther, David and YowCH doing “That Thing You Do” with Joseph handling the video camera.
Grace gave YowCH a surprise e-bay buy – Dinobot Snarl.
Now the set is complete with Grimlock (brown), Strafe (blue), Slash (cyan), Slug (purple), Scorn (red), Slog (silver) and Snarl (green):
We went for swim again today, and took a pair of goggles from swim coach for Samuel. Matching colours with his swim suit.
He really didn’t like it.
Here are some photos of Esther, David and Joseph in the pool during lessons:
And that’s coach Francis Tay, nice guy.
We noted that some condensation formed inside the underwater casing of the camera, but it wasn’t a leak. Probably due to moisture trapped in the case when we sealed it, and then the heat from the camera body cause the condensation to happen at the coolest point, that is the lens area which is furthest from the body.
Today is Esther’s baptism. Total of 13 candidate on Saturday and another 13 more on Sunday. Esther’s the shortest one on the left.
That’s Asst Pastor Alan Tay and Lead Pastor Beh SY baptising Esther.
We took some family photos after baptism.
Esther’s friend Nadya came to witness, too.
After baptism, we went out with the Lims, the Tans and the younger Leongs to NUS Guild House for a fellowship dinner.
The food was good, but the fellowship was much better.
And you can see our young friend, Esher Leong, much larger than Samuel while only 3 weeks older, eating a huge pot of food while Samuel gets a measly tub.
We went to a small French restaurant in Thomson V Two, Black Sheep Café (Café Les Muitton Noir). The food was nice, not too expensive (but not cheap either) and we had a great lunch as a family celebrating mum’s birthday and Esther’s upcoming baptism.
Then we put Samuel on the car…
We took leave on the first day (of 4 days) of PSLE marking holidays (14 Oct 2014) and went to Sentosa. In a day full of actions, we had fun on the Luge, Merlion Walk, Trapeze, MegaBounce and MegaClimb.
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