Kiddos July 2025

 

Walking Into A Bar

I was shocked when Meimei sent the photo. And I cannot comprehend how the bruise could look this bad. It seems he and Ana had turned their head to look at something when he walked into a handle bar. Haiz poor kid.  Meimei is thinking about bringing him to the children's hospital but there is nothing I can do to help since I'm in Bangalore. Hopefully it subsides in the next few days.

 

Elixir Haul #28

Got a Courvoisier VSOP for my 2 weeks in Bangalore. 

Gearing Up For Next Round

$35 to boost up my firepower for the next water play. Well worth it in my books. It hurts to be hit by the guns ... both physically and on my ego haha. No more little piss-piss pistol. 

The Beach Is Always Fun

A good day for the beach. The weather was good and there is a nice breeze coming through. The kids are always excited to play in the sand. It's a good experience for XY too. She used to dislike stepping on the sand but now I think she is doing better. We just need to come more regularly. I'm thinking maybe next trip I can bring the scooters and zoom around the park with the kids. We'll see :)

Lazy Afternoon Of Gaming

A terrific day of fun. Water play in the morning and now Mario World mini gaming in the afternoon. Glad Meimei is also a gamer hehe. I'm not too much into mini games so Meimei had to spend more time with the kids. My ego was already bruised in the morning massacre at the pool so I'm not about to subject myself to more humiliation in Mario.

Out-Gunned

I thinks its been 2 or 3 Christmas since 阳阳 first ask about a water gun. He must have seen other kids playing with them at the pools. And boys being boys ... it is surely exciting to be holding a weapon and shooting water to disturb whatever he can.

So recently we bought a set of 2 rifle type water guns. These are pretty powerful and it actually hurts when you get blasted in the face. Well ... I didn't know that before playing with the kids at Ah Gong Ah Ma's pool. Meimei had bought a pistol version and handed it to me to play with the kids.

Obviously I was over-powered and out-gunned by the 2 rascals. I had to complain to Meimei for putting me up to be slaughtered at the water fight. As a consolation at least she got a good laugh at my misery.

Screen Request Through iMessage

This came of the blue. I started receiving iMessages for requests for more screen-time recently. Not sure what happened. I asked Meimei if she changed any settings but she didn't. There must have been an iOS update that brought on this feature.

Man I love it! Their screen requests used to come an a banner prompt. And if Meimei rejected it I couldn't see it and may approve it instead. And we are always trying to recall how much time was already given.

With this new feature where the messages go to both parents through iMessage I can clearly see what was being approved or rejected. The kids were also trying to figure out what this new thing was.

I usually don't agree with the iOS updates that get into the way I do something but this I totally support. What's better than giving parents more control.