They say "A happy family is but an earlier heaven". Come have a look around and immerse yourself in our brand of heaven! Join Pamela & Matthew and their three kids Isaac, Asher & Shawna in their adventures duly logged in The Tan Family Chronicles!
Yes, our dear hero Mr Isaac Tan.
Catch the hero in action!!! :) pushing books at the library...
Yay!!! Little Charlene agrees with Auntie Pam that Isaac should have more pix with his Mummy!!! :) So after much nagging by yours truly, hubbs is actively taking more pix of us both - well, as actively as can be, given his previous state of 'inactiveness', still leaves much to be desired but improvement is almost 300% (due to the small denominator HAHAHA)
Anywayz, hubbs claims that when he wanted to take pix, I often say I don't look "nice enough" - as in, I feel underdressed, or unkempt, or oily, or whatever. Hmmm... fair enough. So! I've decided not to reject photo taking coz of these reasons wherever possible (read: whenever not so jialat kekeke...) I figured my toothy smile would cover all bases ;p
But then, now, my complain is - how come I can always manage to catch Isaac and hubbs in pictures where BOTH look nice, smiley and all, but hubbs doesn't?! sob sob. Isaac always don't smile in pix with me one. hummmphhh... WHY YOU SO LIDAT?! ;p
pix above taken on 21st September 2008
Here're some vids of Isaac walking pretty steadily without us holding on to him for balance, when he was 13 and a half months. Pretty quick for a boy to start walking, we're told. He could more or less walk at 12 months or so, except that he couldn't balance himself.
Guess who came to play? Jor-el!!! He's hubbs secondary school friend's son (and it's a female friend too, even though hubbs came from Catholic High which is all male school. When confronted with that fact, hubbs admits that Jor-el's mummy's from a group of gals that he and his group of friends got to know during secondary school... tsk tsk tsk... see lah see lah... kekeke...)
Well, for those of you who are into Superman, and wondering... yes, Jor-el apparently was named after the character of the same name in Superman... Jor-el's Daddy's a Superman fan, as you can tell by now. Jor-el's a nice name though... more cool than Clark. And certainly, Isaac is a waaaay coooler name than Peter Parker ;)
pix taken on 20th September 2008
This is a series of nice pix showing Isaac reading :) we're really glad that he likes books and all.
Though we're feeling a bit guilty that we haven't been reading to him much lately, been busy and all... *mental*note* must read more to Isaac...
Isaac likes to take our finger to point at stuff. Sometimes it's to remind us to point out stuff and tell him about them - coz sometimes we forget to do so, we just yak away without pointing out stuff to him.
However, sometimes, it's like when we tell him not to touch something coz it is dirty/hot/cold/whatever undesirable - then he would take OUR FINGER/HAND to touch that thing!?!? hahahaha... then I'd say "No, Mummy also cannot touch!" then he'd grin at me. sighz. hahahhaa...
pix taken on 20th September 2008
So this time, hubbs wanted to leave two tufts - one on each side of the head. Which I was soooo not in favour of. Oh, why? Coz look like those china babies of old, where they have either the tuft in front, or the two tufts at the side, or all three tufts.
I felt that the two tufts would look awful, but hubbs insisted. So I shaved Isaac down the middle, and while he was bawling away, I looked at hubbs and said:"So how? Still want to leave the 2 tufts?" coz it was really very ugly!!! hahahhaa luckily hubbs finally saw for himself that it was awful looking, and gave me the go ahead to just cut Isaac's whole head of hair short...
Number 1 all the way. Short short short...Quite cute also lah, huh... :)
See the side of his head, not much hair still... Hope more will grow out... :p
Here's Isaac trying to give hubbs a hand in marking his exam scripts! kekeke... We're just thankful he didn't tear any up!!!
Look at Isaac in shoes and all. Really makes him look like a big boy already yah. A colleague of mind just commented the other day, that she was surprised to see Isaac in person and see that he is quite small sized - coz he looks quite 'big' in the pictures. hahaha...
pix taken on 20th September 2008
This is actually near the place where we always meet my dad for breakfast on Saturday mornings. We go there to eat kuay chup :p yum yum...
So while we eat, usually one of us would have to entertain Isaac. Walk him around or something. Look at the birds, look at the cat, look at the plants & flowers, look at the ants, look at aunties and uncles eating breakfast :)
This is also the first time Isaac's wearing the Crocky shoes. He loves them! They're kinda huge for him still, but coz he was wearing this cute one piece pyjama suit which had leg coverings as well, these were the only shoes that could fit over them! hahaha...
Here he is having a go at the dvd drawer again... He'd take out the remote controls, and unload the drawer of its contents. A few times, he even wanted to climb in and sit in the drawer!!! Luckily we managed to pull him away in time - before the whole drawer breaks!!!
And when Isaac is tired, here he comes, to Mummy, for a little sip... ;p
Kekeke... this is Meanie Mummy Pammie's doing... I pasted the sunkist sticker on Isaac's face... kekeke... he didn't notice at all... So now I have a sunny Sunkist Boy! hiak hiak hiak...
We participated in the Mid Autumn Festival celebration that was held at the park near my parents place. Just went there to soak in the atmosphere basically...
Hubbs was playing with sparklers and all. Isaac wasn't frightened by the sparklers and even wanted to hold them.
He was pretty okay with the crowd too. Here, look below to see him walking amidst the crowd... with mummy stalking him... :)
Isaac still usually sits in the bathtub while being bathed. This is one of the rare occassions where he prefers to stand.
See how hubbs pours the water on Isaac's head? We usually do this when we bathe him coz we want him to get used to having water down his face. This is from our experience of Becca and Isabelle - both of them do not like to have water down their face. But think they should be better now, after taking swimming lessons and all.
Our smiley loves the water. Now, during the school hols, hubbs still has to go back to school everyday for meetings and stuff. But occassionally, he gets to end early, like at 3pm or something, so he'd bring Isaac swimming! Isaac loves swimming! :)
Isaac's dexterity's pretty good. Here's a pic of him using the container to scoop water on himself. After seeing us do that all the time, he would wanna take the container and do it himself.
Enjoy the vid! :)
Here's Isaac channel surfing at my parents' place. And when the channels don't change after much pressing, he slowly edges towards the tv.
Of course, secretly, we're happy that the channels don't change - coz we wanna watch!!! hahaha see the Couch Papatato in the background...
You see, Isaac doesn't realise that he's pointing the remote at his tummy!!! The worms in his tummy must be wondering who's changing the channels! kekeke...
Bored with channel surfing, Isaac proceeds to play with Becca & Isabelle cheh chehs artistic creations!!!
pix taken on 14th September 2008
Here's our hero. Strutting around topless, while we prepare his bath water.
Sometimes, Isaac doesn't want to wear his clothes at all. He'd struggle and make complain noises when put on his clothes for him.
This time, this he wet his onesie drinking water or something, so we wanted to change him outta it - and he refused to put on clothes after that. So we said:"Ah.... pong pong!!!" hahahaha...
He's a big boy now, ain't he? Quite tall and relatively slim. Just like his Papa. Okay lah, good to get this from his Papa... rather than be a short fat bom bom like me, right? sobz ;p
pix taken on 14th Sept 2008
