We are still fine, but no new updates for 20 days already.
Next week, starting 2 March, Joseph will start infant care, and Esther will start day care in school. Grace will return to work on 4 March, and YowCH will be running about less.
Today, we had great fun hiking at Macritchie with YowCH, Grace’s dad, and Oliver bringing 6 children for a moderately difficult 7km hike, and up Jelutong Tower. The 45 photos can be seen here. We covered the distance with rest stops and a picnic in 4.5 hours.
Thank God for the good weather, the well-behaved children and the wonderful fellowship we had.
And a few days back, Joseph was sitting pretty well on the sofa:
YowCH’s parents and sister Loon is spending Chinese New Year in Singapore. They arrived on 24 Jan morning, and we had a simple but great dinner together. With everyone present, the table had 12 places (Joseph was on the bouncer next to the dinner table).
Yan and Ping Quen then left for Kajang and will return again on morning of 27 Jan (2nd day of CNY).
We had a trip to PJ on 16 Jan, hitching a ride with Swee Tong, as 15 members of TYLin SG went to KL for the TYLin KL annual dinner on 17 Jan at Cititel, Midvalley.
This was Joseph’s first trip out of Singapore. We had a great time at home. Esther and David played with Yen Yen, and we met with Chee Kean for shopping and food on Saturday, before YowCH went to the dinner.
On Sunday, we took train back to Singapore. It was a great trip. The children were not too difficult and we successfully travelled by train with all three of them. We bought 4 2nd class seats and Joseph slept in the pram at times.
Added a page for the TYLin Staff Club organised Southern Ridges walk held on 2 Aug 2008.
Yesterday, 2 Jan 2009, was Esther’s first day at primary school. She’s now a student of Gan Eng Seng Primary School, class 104. Here’s a picture of her in her uniform:
Today, YowCH took Esther, David, Isaiah and Nate to Macritchie for a 5km walk, the site is here.
Not to forget to mention Joseph’s first shopping trip at 29-days old here.
We had three parties for Joseph’s first month:
19 Dec 2008 evening for Cheong Hoe’s colleagues (T.Y.Lin):
21 Dec 2008 morning at Church, shared with Daniel Ng (born one week before Joseph):
21 Dec 2008 afternoon for church friends, neighbours and Grace’s colleagues (KKH):
Thank God for all the fun. And thanks to all Joseph’s friends for the gifts.
Having started the project on 10 Dec, Joseph’s birth video was completed on 18 Dec 2008 after many hours of very hard work.
Joseph is now 25 days old and looks very much like David at the same age.
There’ll be parties to celebrate Joseph’s birth starting from tonight until Sunday evening!
Here’s a recent photo of Esther, David and Joseph. Joseph is now ten days old.
His jaundice is fading and he is very active now.
Joseph is now at home, Grand-dad fetched Joseph home at about 1:15pm today.
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