Here at OMF Intl HQ in Singapore, we are right across the street from the beautiful Singapore Botanic Gardens. It is a huge park and gardens that is lush, green, full of beautiful flowers, and wonderful for going for a walk with baby. Although lectures and other business take a lot of our time, we've managed to go a few times and take oodles of photos. Here are a few.

Here are a few pics of Joshua visiting with his friend baby Connor at Grace PCA's Reformation Day Picnic shortly before we left the States. Connor is the son of our friends Matt & Kathy.

Joshua is sleeping quite well in his new tropical environment. We were so busy in the weeks before we left the States that it was difficult to get him into a regular sleep routine but now that we have a more regular schedule (and more free time), we have found much success with the Ferber method. The first night, he screamed for more than an hour but since then he will go down to sleep in about 10-20 minutes, or sometimes 30 minutes. This is awesome because rocking him to sleep for an hour multiple times a day gets old really quickly. We praise God that he is sleeping well. Other than a bit of heat rash, Joshua is adjusting quite well. Thank God for a happy baby.

Karl's parents came out from the East coast to visit and we all went for a trip to the San Diego Zoo. When we got there we realized that baby would be in the sun all day so we got some little baby sunglasses and a baby baseball cap from the gift store. Joshua was super cute in his new digs and we all had a great day at the zoo.

When Karl's brother James came to visit, we all went out to Joshua Tree National Park for a couple of days and had a wonderful time in God's good creation. Baby Joshua was a real trooper through it all and it is too bad that he will remember none of it except for what we tell him and the following pictures. We'll go there again someday when he is older and will get more out of it.

Karl's brother James came to visit for a few days and got a chance to meet his new nephew. Joshua was very non-chalant about the whole meeting but Uncle James took a little while to adjust to baby handling, to which he is otherwise unaccustomed. Here are some pics from the meeting of the minds.