Us On Christmas Day...

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indi n Sarah at Christmas Day

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... a visit to Elly and Herman...

We're back in good old 'betawi' for Christmas. One of the things we do is visit Elly and Herman whose family is visiting from Holland.
We saw Thies for the first time - Thies is Madelon's son. He's one year younger than indi, but he's bigger already... :-)

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Emily and Ben Visits

Emily and Ben are the couple renting our old rented house. They were in Singapore for a week-end and we went out for brunch and a bit of sight seeing. We visited the famous hotel that starts with R... Here are some pictures of Indi goofing around with Em and Ben...

Posing...

Along our walks Indi would stop and play with things that he found, took some shots of him playing or rather jumping around this thing...







He loves to pose doesn't he... ? :-)

Strolling...

Went strolling with Indi and Ike... and for Indi it really means "strolling" - playing with his stroller. He'll push his stroller around, sometimes he'll bumped into others, and many times he'll make people smile. Well, just imagine this... what will you think if you see a stroller strolled by itself.... it's because Indi is still shorter than the stroller, and when he pushes it you can't really see him, so you'll think that the stroller is moving by itself.... We've seen a lot of people smile or laugh because of it...

See You Oma...

Indi doesn't like to say good-byes... but he sure likes to kiss... :-) Here's pictures of him saying good-bye to my mom....

Oma's Visit

My Mom was here from October 20 to November 2 for a short break/ holiday. But instead she had to take care of both Indi and I that was down with flu or something like that because of the haze. In the end we got to do only a bit of shopping (books, books and more books... :-) ....) no sight seeing done. She's seen most of it anyway, and we'll save the rest for her next trip.
Here's a picture of Ike and my Mom at our favourite place "Dempsey's Hut"...

Halloween

I'm behind with my posting... :-) so here's the halloween pictures... The compound where we live had a trick or treating for the kids... I bought a Super Hero costume for Indi. I don't think he enjoyed it much though... he's afraid of the ones with scarry costumes (witches, ghosts, monster, etc). These days he's just scared of the black things... and he's also scared of a lot of people... It will take some time before he's back to normal again, and not afraid of those things...

Stephen's halloween costume... cowboy!

Indi with fairies...

Super Hero enjoying his treats with Daddy.

More Water Works...

Here's more pictures from Water Works...




Here's a picture of Indi and Stephen:



Stephen and his brother Hayden:

Water Works - Science Center

Water - indi just loves water! Loves to swim, loves to take shower/ bath, splash around, basically he loves to play with water. Early October we went to Science Center with our neighbour and their sons, the oldest - Stephen - happens to be Indi's "buddy". He loves spending time with Stephen... playground time, racing their car/ scooter, watching the movies, anything... Well, that day we let them have a blast at the Water works... They had a lot of fun!

Nan n Pa (n tricicle)

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The Young Ones...

Indi and his cousins....

He loves playing with them... they're very good with him, very patient and caring...

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Robert's Birthday...

It has been some time that Robert celebrates his birthday in Australia. This time he's got three celebration for his birthday...

First at Trevor and Jenny's, at Mark's house, and at Mum & Ted's place.... isn't it grand?

That night we went out for dinner with Mum, Ted, Brenda and Matthew. And had the birthday cake which Brenda and Matthew brought at home...

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... with Mark...

Mark has kindly let us stay at his place, and Indi loves Mark. Why? Because every morning Mark will take Indi out to the playground!

Even when we got back home Indi can easily spot Mark on the pictures, and ask to see Mark's pictures again and again. Yes, he remembers the guy who took him to the playground...

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Barbeque at Trevor and Jenny's....

Trevor and Jenny invited us over for Barbeque...

Their kids are just adorable... especially the girls... they take care of Indi and play with him that he feels at home and not bored...

He even went on the trampoline...!

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Miniature Railway..

We went to the Miniature Railway at Eltham... it was fun for Indi, Daddy and Mama, too...

You buy the ticket, queue to get into the train, go round the track, stop and let other trains pass, go thru the tunnels, crossings... It even has the steam coming out! Just like the real thing... the only thing is it's mini...

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...at the fair with Darren...

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Melbourne Zoo (photos from)

Here's more photos from our Melbourne Zoo visit...

Not much of the animals... maybe I'll post them later... or not.

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Indi - Stroller - on the Street... what he'll do...

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Tabblo

I noticed Tabblo has changed their system... they don't post the whole picture in the blog, you have to double click (or is it only click) at the "see more at tabblo".... which I think is fair.... they should encourage people to visit their website, not only peek thru 'blogger's'. .... the process in creating the tabblo is easier though... so in general I think they're doing a good job...

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Keeping In Touch

What I want to do was to post more individual pictures from our Melbourne trip, but seems like it's not going to happen. There's a lot of photos to share and stories to tell, and yet so little time.

Since we got back Indi has caught a cold which turns to bronchitis that leads to ear infection, was well for a few days and then now he's got his bout of coughs again ... and Asthma.
The doctor has confirmed that he's asthmatic... good news is it'll get better with age... He's now using the puff/ inhaler, and in the future if he starts 'coughing and wheezing' he will be on puff again.
Let's just hope that it's not going to turn to bronchitis again.... my fingers are crossed.
(There's a few kids in our condo that has the same thing.... with kids it's just contagious... well, they see each other at the playground every day....)

And then there's the HAZE... that's also the trigger for his asthma... we never thought that we will say this, but at the moment 'air quality back in Jakarta is better than here!'....

Robert starts to travel again ( a LOT of travelling between last week and our Christmas holiday!).... but this time I have my cousin and my mom staying and keeping us company. It's a great help to have someone else here.... only when he's sick or sleepy would Indi look for me. And when he does, all he wants me to do is carry him.... I'm beginning to have a bad back because of it.... :-)

We're really hoping that the Haze will be gone soon... both my mom and I has started to cough as well.... we're popping ourselves with vitamins and supplement.... need to be healthy...

Well... that's the news for now... we'll keep in touch, and I'll put more tabblo's up... that thing helps me post the pictures a lot!

Hope you're all well and missing you all...

Love,

Sociable Indi

Indi is a very social person... well, sometimes... nope, most of the times...

We went to Melbourne Zoo and he'll just start making contacts with other kids, join their group or just hang out with them...

We wonder what language he's using... :-)
I guess smile, sincerity and enthusiasm speaks for itself...

That's our little boy!



(all pictures taken at Melbourne Zoo)

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Indi and Rides

Whenever Indi sees a kiddie ride, he'll run and hop into it.
If someone's there, he'll patiently wait... (my not that patient)...

Here in this tiny little island, when he founds a dollar coin, he'll say 'car!'... ... See my Tabblo>

Warrook Farm

Here's the rest of the photos from Warrook Farm...

It was a great visit for all of us, we spend 5 hours of exploring...

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Sheep Shearing

Part of the tour is to see a demonstration of sheep shearing.


And here's how Indi and Robert's face look like when the demonstration was going on...

Whip

We got a chance to learn how to crack the whip... everybody that is, excluding me... :-)
Indi tried very hard and you can see people smiling at his determination... :-)

Roo...

The staff at Warrook Farm was very friendly, especially to young children. Indi got a special treatment.... he's allowed to enter the baby kangaroo area and help her feed baby Roo....

Milking the Cow..

We got a chance to milk the cow and drink the fresh milk (how much fresher can it be?)...





... indi's hesitating to drink the milk, while Robert's hand still has some drops from milking the cow...

Feeding Time....

The first tour was to feed the calves and lambs. Indi loves feeding them. The sheep is his favourite, after we finished feeding the calves and lambs (or at least i thought we were finished)... Indi ran back and feed the lambs again (that's the last picture).

Horse - Warrook Farm

The first animal Indi encountered was a horse. At first he's afraid to touch it. Needs daddy and mama's encouragement before he finally touch the horse.
They don't let visitors ride the horse anymore, the insurance is too high and complicated for it.... a pity.