Singapore and Jakarta

Hi all, long time no see!

We just had nice visits to Singapore and Jakarta during our Spring Break (our second in SE Asia).

Some highlights included:

Singapore-

-Gabriella’s 2nd through 5th flights completed (all went mostly smoothly!)
-Gabriella had a ‘All looks great!’ check up from her neo-natal doctor and is now 5.99 KGs/13 lbs. and 58 cm long. She gained 500g/1lb and 2.5 cms in just 2 weeks!)
-Jill got a root canal!
-Jeremy had his shortest and cheapest dentist visit in history! ($20!)
-Iza said she liked Singapore (impressive after the previous 2 month hell there!)
-We got to reunite with Robin (big saviour during pregnancy with Iza!) and Joel and Rachel again. All shocked at how big and healthy Gabriella was!
-We shopped like Dooms day was approaching. Grocery/baby stores love us here!
-The whole family got to go to the awesome Singapore Zoo. White Tigers are GORGEOUS! Manatees are HUGE! Howler Monkeys are LOUD! And it’s weird to see a Flying Fox (bat) pee up close! There’s an awesome water park that Iza loved, too!

Jakarta-

-First real visit to the ‘Big Durian’! We had a relaxing stay with the Schwartzkis, whom we worked with the whole time in Warsaw. They’re kids have grown a ton and were excellent playmates with our then sickly Iza. Ask Kat to sing you any Queen song. Any!
-Taman Mini. Hard to describe this place in so few words... it’s a humongous indoor/outdoor Indonesian museum/theme park which represents every major island/culture group in the massive archipelago. A MUST SEE!
Biggest highlights there were the finger biting fish, religion-row, the bomb shelter toilet slide that Iza was a champion at climbing and sliding, the very well organized Insectarium (Indonesian bugs are FREAKY and HUGE!). There 4 hours and maybe saw 1/40th of the place! And only 90 cents to get in! :)
-Jeremy played Risk! for the first time since high school against Ken, his son and his friend. Jeremy crushed them all! Ha, ha, ha!
-Jill got to spa it with Rhonda and Kat. She has a lovely, first ever, dark red set of toe nails. Sexy!
-Iza got rainbow-painted toe nails!
-Gabriella and Iza got absolutely mauled by mosquitoes in their house. Hopefully no Dengue mosquitoes got’em!

Other notes:
-Gabriella’s eyes are still blue.
-Gabriella is smiling and cooing lots, and is starting to giggle more!
-Gabriella just did her first roll today! (Tummy to back, in a big cotton diaper!)
-Iza can reliably count to 10 and sometimes 12 and has been singing her ABCs for 2 months!
-44 days until school is out!
-Iza starts school in August! WOW, does time fly!