Thank God, Esther got Merit for her Grade 3 piano. Probably lost most points in the sight-reading section.
We lifted up the bed, saw a nest of bugs and eggs, and proceeded to steam them all to death! At least 95% cleared, sleeping in peace now.
Our bed bug problems are not yet over, although the intensity has gone down. Esther’s room is cleared, Joseph’s bed (upper bunk) is cleared and David’s bed (lower bunk) has some. Samuel’s bed has one or two every now and then, but the worst is our bed, and we get numerous bites every night.
After a few round of poisoning, we moved on to buying a $100 steamer:
This is a typical clothes steamer, used for steam-straightening of clothes, but works well on the bed bugs. You point the steam at them, they breathe the 100°C steam and cooks themselves to death. Cooks even the eggs.
Here you see Grace, Esther and David hunting bed bugs. Nice to see the bugs dropping dead when we apply the steam.
Hopefully, we eradicate the bugs within the next few days.
We had some in-line skating fun at the Eco-park today, but Grace missed it as she was at work in the morning.
They can all jump and skate now, and practicing 180° turn while skating.
Joseph fell, and David had a nasty big scratch on the knee when he fell at high-speed at a slope area.
In the afternoon, we all attended Esther’s piano recital at a nice home at Everton Road (rented home of another student of the teacher, Aaron Goh). Aaron and his wife, Grace, prepared very nice snacks.
Here’s Esther playing Haydn’s “German Dance in C: No. 4 from 12 German Dances” followed by Dave Stapleton’s “Blue Sky Blues: No. 1 from Jazz Jazz Jazz”. She played rather well!
Then while another student, Lauren, was playing accompanying chords, Esther was asked to play the melody to “Give Thanks”. With no prior coordination, no scores and only started practicing, it wasn’t very good, but acceptable.
After all 8 students performed, Aaron played and sang a duet with his wife the song “For Good” from the musical “Wicked”. Nicely done.
Samuel is now able to crawl all over the house, and he can pull himself up to stand supported. He is also taking first steps towards cruising.
And his teeth have started erupting, lower front, and that means time to start brushing.
On Saturday, for Church life-story at the Kids for Christ (Junior Sunday School), YowCH impersonated Benny Prasad, who is the world’s most travelled man having visited all countries, and a Christian gospel witness. You can Google “Benny Prasad” for more info.
David took this nice photo.
Here’s a nice photo of the children on the slide at the playground downstairs of our flat.
We had a dinner at Cedele, Great World City to celebrate Grace’s birthday, with Grace’s parents and Gene. She’s 40 now.
Yesterday, we at ate dinner at Paradise Inn, Thomson Plaza with Yan’s family.
Samuel’s development is really quite nice, he is now sitting up by himself, even in the bath tub, and he pulls himself up to stand.
We collected some stuff that we handed to YowCH’s sister’s family, and they are now Samuel’s:
This morning, we went to Science Park Drive to open the newly constructed extension road to Normanton Park, linking Queensway flyover into Science Park which should relief South Buona Vista Road significantly.
And after the opening of Science Park Drive extension, we visited the Science Centre before church. Please click on the photos to go to the page.
We have finally opened the Dinobots and they are now standing proud in our glass cabinet.
Our insurance agent under Prudential threw a movie outing for their clients, and we had 5 free tickets to watch Transformers 4 at Lido Theatre, Shaw House, Orchard Road. This is therefore Samuel’s first movie outing and we are pleased to report that all our children sat nicely and quietly throughout the entire 3 hours of the movie! Even Samuel, who slept for half the show and had some milk and crackers snacks when he was up.
The movie was not much of good story or dialogue, but the effects were fantastic. Factual errors are plenty, particularly the driving distance between Beijing and Hong Kong.
This afternoon’s lunch was the first time we gave chicken to Samuel, he likes chicken+potatoes.
A little update for early-July:
Samuel’s teeth is erupting, and he feeds happily on durians!
Learning Vision KKH is moving to Alfa Centre (across Bukit Timah Road) as KKH needs more hospital space. They had already moved several admin departments away, and now the childcare has to go. The Centre is on ground floor, and only 350m away but without covered walkway, it can be tricky during rainy days. Taxi is also a big concern. Driving distance is about 2.0km more!
Here are some views of the inside, Samuel is already using the facilities during the open house on 5 July, that’s Joseph in his new classroom, the new toilets and an underground (basement) playground.
After the Learning Vision open house, we had lunch at Tekka Market, nice raw-fish porridge and Sri Lankan rice.
Lastly, our friend, Paul, brought back from the USA our Transformers orders, the Transformers4 Dinobots (Grimlock, Strafe, Slug, Slash and Scorn), Bumblebee and Drift. Half the price compared to buying in Singapore, and some of the models are not even sold here yet.
