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!
See, after spending some time alone with my parents, Isaac is now okay with them holding his hand. Which is quite an achievement coz Isaac's quite particular about such things, and he would not hold hands with people he is not familiar with.
pix taken on 7th February 2009
Was nice to meet up with my JC classmates, haven't seen them in awhile.
Here's Zhen Zhen carrying Isaac! :) nice laughy pic!
pix taken on 7th February 2009
E.T. had problem holding his neck straight, coz his head is so heavy! He used to be able to stand on his own without toppling over. But we now had to prop him up.
Subsequently, we haven't been very prompt in taking E.T pix for Isaac on every 6th of the month. I'm thinking we should have a new gauge. Hubbs perhaps? Since he's so tall! :) Hahaha... we shall see...
pix taken on 7th February 2009
pix taken on 5th February 2009 
As you can tell, Isaac's pretty active and likes physical play. Here he is engaged in one of his favourite activities - climbing Papa!
Hubbs would hold Isaac's hands and let him walk up the length of his leg - literally!
Isaac enjoys this a lot. Even till today at 28 months plus, he still enjoys doing this.
Wanted Isaac to bond with my parents more, especially since now my mum has the capacity to look after Isaac since the girls are in Stanford.
Also, my in laws have been taking care of Isaac since I went back to work 12 weeks after he was born. So, think they needed a bit of a break also.
Besides, my mum was only back for a few months - she'd be going back to Stanford to help out my sis with the girls after Chinese New Year. (My sister's mother-in-law is there to help her while my mum is back in Singapore - take turns! haha!)
So, we took this opportunity to give Isaac some one-on-one attention from my mum during this period of time. Think it really matters. They were pretty close after Isaac spent some time with her alone by the end of this period.
Here are pix and vids of Isaac enjoying himself at the playground near my parents place :)
Isaac and his Papa! :) Hubbs looks like a giant, standing beside Isaac like that!
pic taken on 31st January 2009
Orginally, we wanted to carry the bike back home ourselves, check it in as a piece of luggage (see the big brown box in the background?). However, thanks to my own boardgame purchases (I ordered a lot online and sent them to my sister's place), we had quite a lot of luggage to lug back already. Thus, thankfully, hubbs' friend Zhenguo agreed to bring it back for us when he came back to Singapore for Chinese New Year. So... hubbs was eagerly awaiting CNY... and it's not for the joy of giving ang pows...
So on the 2nd Day of CNY, after Isaac slept, we took out the pieces of the bicycle and set to work putting it together. Hehehe... I must claim credit that I was instrumental in helping hubbs put the bike together. He has the brawn... I have the... kekeke... fill in the blanks yourself. HAHHAHA...
pix taken on 27 Jan 2009
Well, according to the rules, each player takes their own coloured cones, and you're supposed to launch into the same coloured area in the target box. Then you score points for those cones that end up in your colour, but not for those that land outside your colour.
But of course, at Isaac's age, it is an accomplishment to just be able to launch cones from the launchpad. The game box puts it this game as "For Age 5+" but here is my Isaac, playing this game at 17 months.
They enjoyed it so much, that they played the game quite a few times that day.
27th January 2009
On this Day 2, I managed to get more smiley pix from Isaac - helps that hubbs' auntie's place is not as hot as it was at my parents' place.
But as usual, can't get Isaac to smile nicely in family pix.
Isaac with my in laws - who absolutely adore him. And my sis-in-law in our family picture below too. Think this picture looks much better than the 2008 family pic - I was so much fatter th
27th January 2009
Here's Chloe, my cousin Valerie's daughter, and Isaac :) Chloe is older than Isaac by about 2 months, if I recall correctly :p 
We tried to have Isaac wear the chinese threads which I thought looked quite cute on him. But then, he got very hot, and so we later took it off.
Nice pic of Chloe and Isaac :) hehehe... after many tries!!!
pix taken on 26th January 2009
pic taken on 25th January 2009
