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Another terrapin died, Joseph on booster seat

After struggling for 3 weeks with the eye-infection, the terrapin finally died.

The problem is that they won’t eat when they can’t see, and they will then die of hunger. Terrapins only eat when there is light. The eye-infection, causing swelling, shuts off the eye, effectively making it blind.

Joseph has upgraded to booster seat without the back-rest. He is large enough now, able to buckle himself into the seat and the booster is smaller and easier to store in the car.

Car seat and pram

The car seat from the Ngs really comes into good use now. We are using the Graco Snugrider without the base, as the base takes up lots of space in the Isis (a relatively small MPV).

Samuel is happy in the seat, no crying while he is in there!

Samuel is home

Grace discharged from the hospital today at 11:30am.

Samuel is home.

Samuel’s birth page is updated with a few more photos.

Samuel updates

We planned to bring Grace and Samuel home today after church, but it seems she needs to remain for observation, so they are still in KKH.

YowCH’s parents arrived in Singapore this morning, and visited Samuel after lunch.

Baby 4 born!

Praise the Lord!

Yow Bak Hak, Samuel (游百赫), born on 26 Oct 2013 at KK Hospital, 2.45kg.





Both mother and baby healthy and fine.

Click on the photo, or here, to get to Samuel’s page.

For reference, Esther and mum made this graphic:

Washing communion cups, dinner with mum

Today, we started our duty in washing the Holy Communion cups. Esther did most of the washing, with David drying and Joseph helping with arranging.

Some friends in The Well also helped, and Grace did the final checks on cleanliness.

Later in the evening, we had dinner at Sin Hoi San with mum (and dad and Gene, of course) to celebrate mum’s birthday.

We ate a grand feast of great food:
Coffee ribs, tofu-mushrooms-spinach and garlic fried mantis shrimps.

Ginger fried bull-frog and Hong Kong style steamed Green Wrasse (青衣). The fish is very tender and sweet.

Finally, the dish-of-the-day, Alaskan King Crab (2.5kg, split into black pepper fried and cheese steamed). Very expensive but tasty and nice meat.

Trip to Chek Jawa under ACES-YPC

ACES-YPC, which YowCH is a member, organised a trip to Chek Jawa at Pulau Ubin today from 1;30pm to 5:30pm. YowCH brought the children along.

Please click photos below to get to the page.



Terrapin eye infection

One of the terrapins suffers from eye infection causing the eyelids to swell. You can see the ‘white’ covering the eye while a healthy terrapin has nicely opened eyes.

We bought some anti-bacteria medicine and added to the water, and we separated the infected terrapin into a small tank.

Baby clothes drawers, YowCH’s injury, pancakes for lunch

We prepared the baby’s clothes and drawers next to the cot.

YowCH’s head injury is healing very well after 6 days, some bruise still visible, but the wound has fully closed.

Yesterday, the naked chef made pancakes with his sister, while the younger brother set up the table. Pancakes for lunch was a great idea, tasty, filling and nutritious.

Oktoberfest dinner and baby cot

We had dinner last night at Brewerkz (Riverside Point) after soccer and ballet. We were really in the mood for Oktoberfest – beer, pork knuckles and sauerkraut. We ordered some drinks (virgin mojito for David and Shirley Temple for Esther, with a Honey Apricot Ale for sharing), the Massive Pork Knuckle, Black Angus Rib-eye 300gm, Beer-batter Onion Rings and Sautéed Mushrooms.

As the beer (Honey Apricot Ale) was a fruity-tasting fresh-brewed hand-crafted ale, the children each got to taste it (and so did Grace). The beer was not too harsh on YowCH (who reacts to hop with bad skin swelling).

Joseph and Esther liked it, David hated it and Grace felt that it is still too bitter. This was the beer that ran the fastest among 5 types when YowCH organised a beer tasting party last month for ACES-YPC.

Here you see David and Esther cutting the very delicious rib-eye.

At home, we have just set-up the baby cot, the very same one we picked up from the neighbourhood dump almost 12 years ago for Esther.