{"id":14048,"date":"2011-06-17T19:30:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T11:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=14048"},"modified":"2011-06-17T19:38:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T11:38:48","slug":"hannah-jacob-ballas-childrens-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/06\/17\/hannah-jacob-ballas-childrens-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah @ Jacob Ballas Children&rsquo;s Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last several months now, Hannah\u2019s getting steadier with making longer outdoor trips. We\u2019ve brought her several times now to Punggol Park, and there was the zoo outing the other month. My department organized a family outing where staff were to bring spouses and kids along, and to a fairly recently opened kid\u2019s park beside Botanic Gardens \u2013 the Jacob Ballas Children\u2019s Garden. I haven\u2019t been here before, but Ling has heard great things about it.<\/p>\n<p>The occasion went very well; and what was real pleasant for us was to see Hannah mingling very easily with the other children. Though by the time we\u2019d been there for 2 hours, she was visibly getting tired and perspiring in the humid weather. Pictures below. =)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-tp-OLYP0829-get-outing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-tp-OLYP0829-get-outing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-tp-OLYP0829-get-outing_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-tp-OLYP0829-get-outing\" width=\"275\" height=\"413\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The kid&#39;s worksheet became a scratch pad for her.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-tp-OLYP0846-get-outing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-tp-OLYP0846-get-outing_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-tp-OLYP0846-get-outing\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soon figured out that it&#39;s loads more fun to just draw on daddy&#39;s head.=)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-tp-OLYP0867-get-outing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-tp-OLYP0867-get-outing_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-tp-OLYP0867-get-outing\" width=\"275\" height=\"413\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With my colleague&#39;s son. The two are about the same age.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-tp-OLYP0874-get-outing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-tp-OLYP0874-get-outing_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-tp-OLYP0874-get-outing\" width=\"275\" height=\"413\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It was quite a cute sight - watching the two of them hold hands and traipsing through the foot path. Funnier still was the boy led Hannah on the first trip. But on the return journey, Hannah was pulling the boy along.=)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-tp-OLYP0939-get-outing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-tp-OLYP0939-get-outing_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-tp-OLYP0939-get-outing\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With two of my colleague&#39;s children.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-tp-OLYP0982-get-outing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-tp-OLYP0982-get-outing_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-tp-OLYP0982-get-outing\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking real tired and perspiring by late morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-tp-OLYP0989-get-outing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-tp-OLYP0989-get-outing_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-tp-OLYP0989-get-outing\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holding onto mommy for dear life!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-tp-OLYP1011-get-outing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-tp-OLYP1011-get-outing_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-tp-OLYP1011-get-outing\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">She was the shortest and probably youngest kid at the water fountain play area. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last several months now, Hannah\u2019s getting steadier with making longer outdoor trips. We\u2019ve brought her several times now to Punggol Park, and there was the zoo outing the other month. My department organized a family outing where staff<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/06\/17\/hannah-jacob-ballas-childrens-garden\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Hannah @ Jacob Ballas Children&rsquo;s Garden<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children-blues","wpcat-7-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}