David is 6 today
Today, we celebrated David’s 6th birthday at his school with his classmates:
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Caterpillar is dead
Sadly, the caterpillar is dead, being immobile on the leaf for over a few days. It is probably at the stage where it changes from black to green, according to the Wikipedia reference here.
The life-cycle graphic here is very nice.
Trip to Pontian and Caterpillar
We had a short trip to Pontian with mum and dad. We left Singapore on 14 March (Sunday) at 7:30pm adn reached Ah Yee’s house at about 10:30pm after a quick dinner at the hawker centre.
The Pontian Trip page is here.
After the trip, we found that the caterpillar has grown to about 20mm long and 4mm in diameter. It is also greenish now.
Caterpillar update
A short update, another one died after a few days, but the last reianing one is growing very well. It is about 15mm in length now.
This micro-lens taken shot of it shows all the glorious details.
Caterpillars
Samuel and Hwee Leng had just passed 3 caterpillars to us from their lime tree, and we intend to watch them grow and metamorphosize into the cocoon and butterfly. Unfortunately, David had already accidentally crushed one. Let’s hope the other two grows up.
We used an old cookie jar as the tank, and covered it with a perforated aluminium sheet. The chopsticks frame serves as a form of ‘branch structure’.
Here’s a close-up on one of the caterpillars.
A short noontime swim
To escape the hoards of people on Saturday, we went swiming at noon time (actually 1pm to 2pm).
Joseph enjoyed the session more now that he is walking on his own.
That’s Esther and David underwater.
And we see Joseph being submerged in the pool by very cruel parents.
300m walk for Joseph
It may be surprising, but Joseph walked from where we parked the car in the multi-storey carpark back home all on his own two feet, carried only across the road once and walking one floor up the carpark stairs. That’s 300m or about a third of a km. All that in 15 mins, which is about 1.2km/h.
He even stopped over to greet the cats on the sidewalk, witnessed a rat crossing the path in front of him and waved goodbye to an old lady at our lift.
Just last week he wasn’t even walking on his own.
Joseph is toddling
At 15 months old, Joseph is now toddling.
He started trying to walk just after CNY on about 18 Feb. Last night, he covered long distances with some help from Esther and David:
Today, Joseph is able to walk unassisted for over 15m at each go, and steps right over the ‘threshold’ of our kitchen entrance.
