We had a short trip to Pontian with mum and dad. We left Singapore on 14 March (Sunday) at 7:30pm adn reached Ah Yee’s house at about 10:30pm after a quick dinner at the hawker centre.
The Pontian Trip page is here.
After the trip, we found that the caterpillar has grown to about 20mm long and 4mm in diameter. It is also greenish now.
A short update, another one died after a few days, but the last reianing one is growing very well. It is about 15mm in length now.
This micro-lens taken shot of it shows all the glorious details.
Samuel and Hwee Leng had just passed 3 caterpillars to us from their lime tree, and we intend to watch them grow and metamorphosize into the cocoon and butterfly. Unfortunately, David had already accidentally crushed one. Let’s hope the other two grows up.
We used an old cookie jar as the tank, and covered it with a perforated aluminium sheet. The chopsticks frame serves as a form of ‘branch structure’.
Here’s a close-up on one of the caterpillars.
To escape the hoards of people on Saturday, we went swiming at noon time (actually 1pm to 2pm).
Joseph enjoyed the session more now that he is walking on his own.
That’s Esther and David underwater.
And we see Joseph being submerged in the pool by very cruel parents.
It may be surprising, but Joseph walked from where we parked the car in the multi-storey carpark back home all on his own two feet, carried only across the road once and walking one floor up the carpark stairs. That’s 300m or about a third of a km. All that in 15 mins, which is about 1.2km/h.
He even stopped over to greet the cats on the sidewalk, witnessed a rat crossing the path in front of him and waved goodbye to an old lady at our lift.
Just last week he wasn’t even walking on his own.
At 15 months old, Joseph is now toddling.
He started trying to walk just after CNY on about 18 Feb. Last night, he covered long distances with some help from Esther and David:
Today, Joseph is able to walk unassisted for over 15m at each go, and steps right over the ‘threshold’ of our kitchen entrance.
eFG had a CNY dinner at the Leongs’ place, with the tradition 鱼生to start off:
Here are the children having fun and watching TV:
We also celebrated Enoch’s 8th birthday:
We welcome the year of the Tiger as both YowCH and Grace are tigers, too.
Look, the family has grown with Siu Hei’s arrival:
That’s the family in 2008 for comparison:
Here’s the link to the Chinese New Year page with more photos.
On 3 Feb, Esther’s ears were pierced and she now wears a pair of nice deep blue ear-studs:
This morning, eFG had an outing to Botanic Garden and the children had lots of fun running around the Symphony Lake.
We drove up to PJ on Saturday morning (30 Jan) from 6:30am arriving at PJ at 11:30am for lunch. then we went to TYLin Malaysia’s Annual Dinner at Sime Darby Convention Centre. The children had lots of fun with Zi Yen.
Sunday was spent with YowCH’s parents and sister Loon. We went shopping and then had dinner with the Lims (YowCH’s aunty’s family).
We left PJ at 6:30am and reached Singapore home again at 11:00am, just in time to send Esther to school after a comfortable lunch at home.
