Happy birthday, Joseph. Seven years old now.
YowCH brought Joseph for a birthday lunch with David at MacDonald’s (Bukit Merah Central).
Esther was at school for choir practice, Samuel in childcare, and Grace at work.
Later in the evening, after Chinese lessons, we had a special ‘cake’ with candle for Joseph.
We celebrated Joseph’s birthday at eCG meeting with a simple salted caramel cheese cake (very nice), together with Sonja and Eli, on Friday night.
Today is TYLin Family Day. We reached the zoo at 8:00am to mange the TYLin staff and walked the zoo from 9:30am until 2:15pm. We saw the newborn giraffe! Click on the photos below to get to the page.
After the zoo trip, we went to church, and Samuel started attending the toddlers’ class today.
Samuel was dedicated to the LORD on Saturday, 14 Nov 2015 in church by Pastor Beh Soo Yeong. These are photos taken during the dedication service, thanks to Quincy for helping take the photos:
Esther, David and Joseph were all at the service, too!
We stayed home on Deepavali (Tuesday) but Grace had work. While Joseph and David were having violin lessons at home, YowCH brought Samuel to the playground.
On Wednesday night, we arranged to meet the violin teacher, Joyce, at Johann Strings and with her expert guidance, bought a full-sized Johann violin (model 200) for David. This will be used until he complete his lessons, hopefully all the way to Grade 8.
This unit costs $380, there are cheaper and more expensive ones, but as a start, the sound is good and the teacher liked this unit, too. Here’s David playing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and Variants, his practice piece.
With Grace’s parents having moved to West Coast, we have been preparing our own dinners after work, here are some examples:
Grace has been busy with her revived hobby, knitting:
She has made some beanies, pull-overs, and soft toys, here is Esther with her pull-over and a bear in progress.
On Sunday, after the weekly swim, David played a friendly game of soccer against ACS Barker Road. He was the goalie (given his basketball training, he was the best candidate). It drizzled for about 30 minutes during the game.
Joseph had his regular soccer training.
In the evening, we went to Bishan Park to meet up with YowCH’s sister for dinner. Samuel was happily rolling about on the Y-glider, although he is not really driving it yet.
Joseph was really fast on the Y-glider!
Dinner was at Cornerstone, we had a great time with the Yong family.
With David and Joseph agreeing to committed lessons to learn the violin, grace contacted a teacher from on-line adverts and found Joyce, a Singaporean-Korean lady, to teach.
We will need to get a 1/4 violin for Joseph, and a full-size for David (currently, we have a 1/2 size and the full-size is electric, not suitable).
Our family band will be richer once the boys are able to play well.
