"Are we done shopping yet? Can we go get some lunch now, da da?" Alexander held up the bees as a pliable background prop
Mom was apparently more "cheese-ready" than Christine
French Fries? What is that? She only knows fries as 薯條
Finga' Licking Deliciousa Gooda!
(Our new camera amazingly focused on the chicken finger on its own)
Look at the following. See how former mechanical engineer Andrew allowed two 30 lbs weaklings to act as stoppers beneath a rolling 200 lb+ mass? This photo was shot by none other than the engineer himself. Can those two young men really stop me from rolling off gradient if I lost my footings?
Another ingenious solution. Andrew sacrificed himself as a stopper hopefully to be able to hold off one of the 30 lb toddler. See how he masterfully repositioned the toddler in the hat with a strap and floppy bills off the probable line of motion from the rolling 200 lb+ high-danger mass on the up-side and the poor 30 lb stopper in the baseball cap? In addition, the adults in the photo squatted down to lower the CG and, if necessary, would deploye their rear-ends as friction-stoppers. This snapshot was taken by a real civil engineer walking with us patiently to make sure we didn't fall off the mountains.
Shall we go hiking again? Ask Boy Boy and he will certainly nodd (as he seldom talks). Just need to work on some mountain safety engineering issues. See the rest of the hiking pics here.
See the kid with long pants, fisherman hat, and blue sneakers? See his mom and the cake-that-he-didn't-eat below. I never thought about it but hey, "what happened to the cake?"
Dora's infamous orange shorts have been floating around the entire homestead for the last few days in which Dora herself was nowhere to be found until this morning. Why don't we treat you to a nice pic of Dora "mooning" everyone? All Mui Mui's idea. Photo snapped by Mui Mui's Ma Ma. Da Da is finally getting into more Photoshop stuffs. We only have an older version of Photo Elements 3.0, but it works just fine. Here we have an original pic and then the Photoshopped pic with the background exposure auto-balanced.
Mui Mui just had her belated 2-years old wellness checkup on Friday. You're looking at a 34¾" tall girl weighing at 31 lbs.
【明報專訊】本港10來歲的初中生不少仍是十指不沾陽春水。家庭與學校合作事宜委員會調查發現，近六成半初中生從不洗熨衣物﹔逾半數從不煲飯煮菜，就算煮食僅限於即食麵及煎蛋。家長注重子女學業及社交能力，忽略讓他們學習生活技能，長遠導致子女缺乏照顧自己的能力。 家校會於4至5月透過電話訪問535名初中生家長，了解他們對兒女掌握生活技能的看法。結果發現，家長認為子女最重要的技能，是與人相處、控制情緒及整理儀容，子女懂做家務較次要。 初中生參與家務的比率亦相當有限，逾半數家長指出，子女從不煮食或洗熨衣物，三成半家長更指子女從未協助清潔家居。家校會主席黃寶財說︰「部分初中生就算曾煮食，亦僅能煮即食麵、煎蛋，可能連蛋都煎『噥』﹗」 不過，不足兩成家長採用「以身作則」的方法，教導子女提升各種生活技能。黃寶財說︰「不少爸爸叫子女做家務，自己卻從來不做，怎能教導孩子呢﹖」 自覺學習時間分配弱 調查亦發現，初中生自我學習能力較弱。六成以上家長表示，兒女從不或僅間中自行溫習，通常需要父母督促。近七成家長指出，子女只能間中或從不能好好分配時間玩電腦及傾電話。 黃寶財建議家長利用暑假，循序漸進引導子女做家務，從而提升初中生的多元智能、自信心、責任感和歸屬感。 新學期升讀中二的「孖仔」陳子賢及陳子浩是少有做家務的學生。他們在家政科學懂下廚，親手製作糯米及燒賣等小食，又在家「實習」掃地，養成做家務的習慣。父母也趁暑假，讓兩人多蹓狗、丟垃圾及盛飯，發現二人不但責任感加強，一家的感情也親密了。
Something I saw from Mingpao online today:
Alexander is going to swim class today. Mui Mui just stood alongside for the photo ops.
Da Da not too happy to see Alexander wearing "clothes" to swim class in hawaii. After all, we're living in a real tropical island. However, Ma Ma insisted on those wet-suit kine of swim shirt. Oh well.
Guess where is Alexander? Hint: double hair-spirals
Take a closer look...
Yep, that's him in the foreground alright...
All of the photos shown today were taken by mom. Guess that's how she posed her honey-boy: "Right arm up and hand behind the neck, please!"
Nathan was very glad that mom was going out with him today. He didn't like the rocking boat too much. Look carefully at the resemblences between the two faces though, same-shaped noses, lips, chins,... (beg your pardon, Andrew)
Brandon, Alex, Melanie, & Christina
Haruka is a really cute Japanese girl who liked taking photos with Alexander. Again, the same right-arm-up pose. Thanks, mom!
Class photo with Ms. Wanda
Going from left to right, I think they are:
Jun Yan, Melanie, Brandon, Christina, Haruka, Sujin, Nathan, Alexander, Ashish, and Jeffrey. Notice all the long pants on a hot summer day? Yes, they are all Chinese kids.
Ms. Becky said that the school doesn't go to the glass-bottom boat ride every year. Oh well, that may mean Christine won't be able to see the fish, the corals, and even a swimming turtle in the water. Sigh! Oh well, she will find her fun on other excursions, I'm sure.
Still bouncing up and down in his Chuck E Cheese head gear from yesterday. He really loved it!
Just a quick snap of Mui Mui after changing into her lovely Sunday dress.
Alexander showing me his pet muppet from his old sock
Lately, we let him put on the socks and shoes on his own... time. Really, it can take a while, a long while...
One more shot of the dressy Christine before we took off to church
Our church's front entrance
Tired. Exhausted. Definitely pooped out. However, not letting go the Chuck'E party hat. Sweet dreams...zzz...
Isaac Cheung invited us to his 2nd birthday party at Chuck E Cheese in Hawaii Kai. That was also our first time meeting with his little sister Riley. We had a blast and hopefully we'll see some more pics from them soon. However, let's take a "different" angle and see some footages from the party.
Michael da dad! Definitely video of the day materials here...
We had another 1pm through 5pm (almost 5:30pm actually) kinda nap time today. Solar was very chatty and giggly after Sunday school today, for some reason.
Both of them were put to bed at our normal schedule or 8pm. It's almost 10pm now, but Christine is still trying to talk to me from upstairs. Boy Boy and Mom are already sound asleep.
Italy Won!
No, Da Da missed the entire game and didn't know the results until around 2pm in the afternoon.
We are taking hostage of a Lauzone today.
Around 11am
See the hoplessness in his blank stare...
Taped interrogation by the LauLau...
Camera man struggling physically with the guards behind camera ready to jump on to "welcome" the hostage; hence, the shaky footage.
This has never happened to da da.
Joyce was changing the compact flash card earlier and all of a sudden Alexander asked mommy to take a picture of him. He actually posed and smiled for the camera and everything.
Annie 契媽 and Austin 哥哥 stopped by an hour earlier to drop off a kiddy table for Chrissy and her brother. We couldn't wait to pose them up for a quick snap.
Yes, those are real food grease on her face.
妹妹：「多謝 Annie！」
