life in singapore … with baby (and new baby)
Posted in baby stuff on Jan 29th, 2012
Following a serendipitous meeting in a bar, I was invited to join the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race crews in Marina at Keppel Bay during their stopover in Singapore. Sandy, the kids and I went aboard the Visit Finland yacht and were amazed at the sheer scale of the 68-foot-long racing yacht. The boats [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Jan 20th, 2012
[Click Charles Dickens to visit the official Charles Dickens 2012 website]
Dickens 2012 is a worldwide celebration of the life and work of Charles Dickens to mark the bicentenary of his birth. In Singapore, the British Arts Council is putting on a number of events in early February. For more information, click here.
One of Monsoon’s authors, [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Jan 20th, 2012
I returned home on the eve of my wedding anniversary to find my son sucking green ink from a colouring pen, my daughter in the bathroom trying to pee standing up – “But this is how you pee, Daddy” – and my wife making dinner plans with a girlfriend for the following evening because she [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Jan 5th, 2012
Oh, the dilemmas of a parent … This morning’s dilemma — there are several a day — is concerning sweets or candy. Olive has just started at a new preschool and now takes a school bus to kindergarten. It’s a small bus, actually an MPV, and she has close friends on the bus, and a [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Jan 3rd, 2012
This morning Olive donned a new school uniform and caught the school bus for her first day at Maris Stella Kindergarten. Located opposite the Botanic Gardens at the entrance to Dempsey Village on Holland Road, Maris Stella is a Catholic preschool established by Franciscan missionaries in 1954. Olive has been so excited about taking a [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Jan 1st, 2012
Happy New Year from Phil, Sandy, Olive and Leo. We celebrated the final day of 2011 with barbecued sweet potatoes and sparklers and we spent the first day of 2012 with old friends at Singapore Zoo.
Posted in baby stuff on Dec 28th, 2011
Daddy (reading from “You Can’t Eat a Princess”): I like [eating princesses] on toast with a bit of ketchup.
Olive (laughing): That’s not right!
Daddy: What’s not right, Olive?
Olive: You can’t put ketchup on toast!
Posted in baby stuff on Dec 23rd, 2011
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Best movie of 2011:
Best dining experience:
The highlight of the year was walking up through a forest with Phil, Susie, Jaques, Rose and Pomme to a medieval chapel at the top of a hill in Alsace, France, where, on weekends, a medieval-looking lady serves starters of local toxic cheese, wild boar jambon and [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Dec 21st, 2011
Olive is in the centre of the screen wearing a pink raincoat.
Posted in baby stuff on Dec 15th, 2011
Olive’s dreams were realised last night when she played in her very first fake snow.
Posted in baby stuff on Dec 15th, 2011
Olive: Daddy, will Mummy get new boobies for Christmas again?
Daddy: Again? Did she get new boobies for Christmas before?
Olive: Yes.
Daddy: Well, I guess I could buy her some new boobies, yes. What are boobies, Olive?
Olive: We wear them on our nipples.
Olive: Daddy, I wish I could live in Grandpa’s house.
Daddy: Why, Olive?
Olive: There are so [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Dec 14th, 2011
Posted in baby stuff on Nov 20th, 2011
Above: Olive chilling at Vivo City with Daddy and Leo while Mummy does the weekly shop-up.
Above: Olive, Leo and Daddy sneaked into a nearby condo to use the playground.
Posted in baby stuff on Nov 11th, 2011
We took Olive back for a second check-up a week after the accident and the doctor said he wasn’t sure about the ‘viability of her fingertip’! Evidently the tip is not as pink as he had hoped for and he’s concerned that the whole fingertip may fall off. Obviously that’s the worst case [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Nov 6th, 2011
The telephone call I always dread: “Phil, come home now. You need to take XXX to hospital.”
It’s Leo who balances on window sills, hangs off table edges and sleeps in the oven but amazingly this time it was Olive who took a tumble. In a freak cooking accident, Olive toppled from a chair while preparing [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Oct 31st, 2011
Happy Halloween from Olive, Leo and Lucy the dog!
Posted in baby stuff on Oct 31st, 2011
Do you almost faint every time you open your utilities bill? We do. We’re paying S$400 (GBP200) a month for electricity and water. That seems way to high. Unless the neighbours are secretly hooked up to our juice then we’re doing something wrong. Sandy eventually contacted the Public Utilities Board and they sent a guy [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Oct 31st, 2011
‘Mummy’ by Olive (3 1/2)
Posted in baby stuff on Oct 31st, 2011
Posted in baby stuff on Oct 22nd, 2011
We’re dog sitting Lucy, a friend’s 10-year-old spaniel, for two weeks. She’s taken to sleeping with Olive, which is a little unhygienic. I wouldn’t want her infected with lice from the kids.
Posted in baby stuff on Oct 12th, 2011
This morning, while putting Olive’s shoes in the shoe rack at her daycare centre, I noticed that the neighboring shoe ‘pigeonhole’ belonged to a Trident Tan or Trident Lim. Now, I know Olive and Leo are unusual names, but to name your child after a deadly submarine-launching ballistic missile is really quite freaky.
‘Hello, have [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Oct 11th, 2011
Olive the disco queen groovin’ on an al-fresco dance floor at Esplanade, Singapore.
Posted in baby stuff on Oct 11th, 2011
Not only does Leo look like Phil, he’s even wearing Phil’s old t-shirts. Below are photos of Phil and Leo wearing the exact same t-shirt 40 years apart. Phil is 2 and living in Papua New Guinea, Leo is 16 months old and living in Singapore.
Posted in baby stuff on Oct 11th, 2011
Olive pointed out a Sikh gurdwara from her vantage point on the upper deck of bus 196 as she travelled to Esplanade to watch The Nutcracker ballet with Sandy.
“Who are those men, Mummy?”
“They are Sikh men, they wear turbans on their head,” explained Sandy.
“Oh, they are sick,” said Olive. “I think they bumped their head, [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Oct 10th, 2011
Olive and Leo spent the afternoon playing hide-and-seek with 10-year-old neighbour Jia Wei today. Olive and Jia Wei would hide and little Leo had to find them, which he always managed to do. Leo is so short he can see under the table and cot without crouching down. When it came time for Jia Wei [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Oct 8th, 2011
As requested by Granny in England, here are some photos of Olive’s ballet class.
Posted in baby stuff, home, school on Oct 2nd, 2011
The Tatham family blog is back by popular demand. Well, not that popular. Only granny from England said she wanted to see some photos of the kids! This probably will become a photo blog, not that it was ever anything more, as I have no time to write anything and I’ve stopped bringing my laptop [...]
Posted in baby stuff on Jun 9th, 2011
Hooray! Leo has taken his first steps one week before his first birthday. And he’s sleeping through the night. Tonight he’s in with Olive. Three cheers for the little man with the large head.
Posted in baby stuff, food on Mar 27th, 2011
Olive and Phil celebrated Shrove Tuesday with mini chocolate pancakes. Olive cracked the eggs and whisked the ingredients, Phil flipped the pancakes.
Leo, who is now crawling, made a beeline for Olive’s pancake and had to be wrestled to the floor.
Olive emerges victorious and covered in chocolate.
Posted in baby stuff on Feb 25th, 2011
I opened today’s Straits Times to see a photo of my son, Leo, endorsing products for Cold Storage. Admittedly he does use some of the products he was pushing — such as Pampers and Kodomo — but I’ve repeatedly warned him not to sell out like other celebrities endorsing products and to concentrate on his acting [...]
