YowCH & Grace

We managed to get the Skids and Mudflap Ice-cream Truck from Robinsons on 25 July 2009! YowCH noticed the saleslady clear a row of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen shelf, but paid no attention. Then, when Grace reached the toys section, YowCH went back to have another look and saw a few packs of the Ice-cream Trucks. He grabbed one, showed to Grace and confirmed the buy. Then, looking back to the shelf again, all the others were GONE! Wow! We couldn’t even get another for friends!

Here’s the blister pack:


Details of the words here:

Ice-cream Truck mode:

Skids (left) and Mudflap:

Really cute.

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Joseph is now starting to cruise. He can readily pull himself to a standing position and starts to ‘walk’ while clinging onto a support. His meals has diversified to include chicken, fish, potatoes and he is as smiley as before.

Esther is doing well in school, but always a little too little sleep. David has started speaking in Mandarin and Cantonese, which is a good sign. He is also starting to read words.

24 July 2009: We add a photo taken on 23 July 2009 here:

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We had another trip to PJ for Grace’s cousin Ai Ling’s wedding.

We left Singapore at 2:30pm on 26 June and reached home in Singapore at 10:10pm on 28 June 2009. YowCH’s colleague, Goh Wei Yon, hitched a ride with us on both ways.

Photos are here.

Joseph is now crawling very steadily, and he prefers cereals and biscuits for meals now.

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Nothing much to update, but just within this past week, Joseph started sitting up by himself and creeping on the ground. Won’t be long before he really crawls and nothing on the floor will be safe from him.

We have moved the play-pen out of our room as he grew too big for it, and now the baby cot is in our room.

Earlier on, on Saturday afternoon 13 June, Esther and David was most helpful in cleaning the car. They each cleaned two rims. Esther cleaned the insides with the vacuum cleaner and David helped YowCH in the windows cleaning.

We’ll be heading North again to PJ this coming Friday for the weekend.

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Yesterday was Esther’s seventh birthday, and that’s a seven-year-old girl:

We didn’t buy a cake, but we had Sakae Sushi the day before with grandparents and ah yee, and Fish ‘n’ Co yesterday with kookoo and koojiong.

We are now looking forward to yet another trip to PJ at the end of the month, over the weekend for Grace’s cousin’s wedding.

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We drove up to PJ on Friday afternoon, 29 May, with Grace’s parents and sister for Harris’ wedding on 30 May morning. It was a pleasant drive, and the walkie-talkies we had was very good for communicating between the two cars. Esther and David finished two movies in the car!

Then we spent time shopping, and time with family. Esther then followed the grandparents to Port-Dickson for church camp, and they left for Seremban on Sunday morning. Unfortunately, we forgot to pack Esther’s passport with her, so we drove down to Seremban on Sunday afternoon to meet them.

On Monday morning, 1 June, we left PJ home at 9:15am and reached Singapore home at 3:30pm, with 3 breaks of 30 minutes each. It was a very pleasant but hot drive, and the NS highway was pretty much empty of cars. The two boys behaved very well, especially David who napped, sang songs and looked at cars along the road.

All-in-all, we travelled 1030km and burnt about 90L of petrol (11.5km/L). The Isis handled reasonably well, and had enough power and speed for the highway.

We will see Esther again when camp ends on 4 June 2009.

Details are here.

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Today Joseph is 6 months old, and this is him eating his first solid food – plain rice cereal. He doesn’t really like it; maybe soya sauce will help improve the taste!

Yesterday, Esther and David helped YowCH wash the car. David and Esther cleaned the rims, Esther cleaned the insides with the vacuum cleaner, and David helped with the window washing.

The family will be back in PJ next weekend. Hopefully a nice road-trip on the North-South Highway.

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On 15 May 09, Esther and David visited the TBSE addition ramp site (LTA’s Contract ER251), which is YowCH’s job. The visit was for YowCH to have one final check on the structure and rebar prior to casting the first span of the new ramp.

Then, TYLin’s Staff Club organised a Family Day Trip to Malacca on 16 May 2009, called ’1-day trail of the Little Nyonya”. You can see photos from the trip here.

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Here it is, Joseph’s 1st tooth. He is now five and a half months old.

He rolls over easily and pulls himself along the bed or floor to get to his toys. He now sits well in the car seat, and often falls asleep in the car, even over short distances.

The whole family will be having a one-day fun trip to Malacca thanks to TYLin’s family day organizing it. This coming Saturday, 16 May 2009. More reports after that.

Today is also the 1st anniversary of our blog! Hooray!

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Wow, what an adventurous day. We started off helping Samuel and Hwee Ling move home.

Then we went home for the children’s nap while YowCH went to fetch Grace, who had finished 3.5 hours (11:00 until 14:30) checking duty for the H1N1 flu virus at KKH. Later in the afternoon, we took a long drive to Tampines IKEA and visited the newly opened mall, Tampines 1.

When we got home at 11 pm, we found our lock stuck and had to call in the $60 locksmith to cut the lock. Well, this Yale lock lasted 8 years, not too bad.

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