The Chronicles of the Tay Family: (Oct 18) Tong's graduation ceremony and camp at Seletar Aerospace camp and misc kids' photos

Our little tong was all grown up and ready to go for his first overnight camp. Mama was very grateful to the school for arranging such a unique experience for the little ones. Here they were, listening attentively to the staff at Seletar Aerospace.

Was wondering why Tong was holding a red sleeping bag when the one we borrowed from xiaoshen was blue. Turned out that he was helping his buddy, Nathan, as the sleeping was so huge that it was hard for him to carry. What a little caring sweetheart.

ooooo bento dinner. They watched half of the movie "Planes" and went to bed as it was pretty late by then. Heh, tong mentioned that he woke up earlier than the stipulated time and chatted with his best friend, Nathan, who was up too.

Playing at the playground. They saw the rainbow twice during the camp. Told tong to be reminded of God's promises when things got tough. How lovely of God to affirm their new journey to the primary school by displaying two rainbows!

Tong was so chirpy and gushed about the wondrous time he had when he came home.

Yay, our little sticky tong survived his first overnight camp!

Other misc. photos of the children

Ah ma took this. Deceiving photo for they were pretending to be asleep. However, Mama and Papa were very comforted by the fact that you two were really chummy and sticky to each other in real life. so much so that the two of you would gang up against Jie!

woah, Wai po and Aunt Ah Hoon brought the three of you to Botanic Gardens by the DTL, what a blessing to be living near the MRT station, so everywhere in Singapore can easily be our playground!

Oh, on the airport shuttle from T2 to T1 to fetch papa home!

Another ordinary day, it was drizzling and the three of you shared umbrellas.

The littlest one was holding on to his darling gor gor so tightly.

I could not fathom how the three of you managed to end up in these sleeping positions. How totally inexplicable. ahhaha...but it was a funny shot and tickled the three of you when I showed it to you.

We were on our way to the library and the three of you picked this bouquet of lalangs for me as a birthday gift! Ha.

Our peas in a pod in dinosaur wear. Your favourite outfit was the faded blue tee with the blue-green shorts. The two of you really enjoyed wearing matching clothes.

The triplets gave us the very last card that completed the Book Bugs 2 collection. Hurray!

In matching PJs, the radical boys in the family. I hope you would be radical testaments to God's grace and be glorious in whatever you do.

Our sleepy head

More sleeping shots

Well.. you all were a bunch of lazy beans

We were packing our luggage for the UK trip. Ah the prudent and shrewd mama bought this really pretty winter jacket from Taobao and Jie LOVED it.

Mama's friend, Sandra, was visiting us, so Tong was tasked to do some chores to spruce up the house. Ha, he was going to bathe and recalled that he had not vacuumed the console. So he came out, half naked, a serious man is a sexy man. Our little househusband in the making. Ha, Mama always teased him about how he would make a very good hubby in future as he was good at doing chores!

With our lovely friend, Sandra. She bought presents for the kids. Christmas came early.

Oreo bingsu at the Hillion Mall Food Court. BAD choice. Pricey and not delectable at all.

Mum being an inventive solver again. The leather on the massage chair was peeling off soooo badly. Hmmm saw this sticker wallpaper and did some DIY, presto, looked chic, didn't it.

Yay, our second book was out! What an amazing journey. Mama hired an illustrator from Azerbaijan and the whole process was so serendipitous. I googled online and from a Singaporean illustrator who was using this freelancer website called Upwork. I put a job posting for a sample drawing, thinking that I was only inviting that illustrator and many applied for the job. I went through their portfolio and found this illustrator who had such beautiful and whimsical drawings. We LOVED the second book! Hmmm...I mentioned to the big kids that I was running out of steam to write two more books for the younger ones. I remarked I could write the story and Jun could choose to find someone to draw and print it when he was older. Ha, both of you retorted that it was unfair!

Went to the zoo when papa was back in town.

Tong was reunited with this toy when we were clearing out drawers in the kids' room to prepare for Emmelyn's arrival. Tong asked for a photo of the crazy figures they had each made.

My cute little peas..who were growing up too fast...

Tong's graduation

Check out the dapper brothers.

I bought the formal wear from Taobao, I did not know what got into me, but I thought I ordered the suit but it turned out that I chose the vest option. Well, tong liked it anyway. Heh

Tong went in earlier so we had time to kill. Went to play at the grass field near the school.

Jun was scared to climb up the grassy slope at times..it really depended on his mood on that day...

Well, with jie around, one felt braver!

Our little gor gor was all grown up! He gave all the staff in school a copy of his book and even autographed them. Ha, apparently, he had to write the teacher's name so it was a customised message. He complained that it was hard work and his hand was tired.

The intrepid, ok usually scaredy-cat, explorer who went up the slope and asked for his photos to be taken on another day when jie was not around to give him courage.

Playing at the library, our little Marshall!

Our little Jun turned 3!

Farewell to mama's favourite P2 class on Sat. Well, they were a bunch of bright and rambunctious kids. As we were travelling to the UK in early Nov, I had to say an early farewell to them.