Today’a goal : getting him out of the house and working off excess energy.

7.30am (Only… Sigh…)

I did my 20 mins of swimming while they played catching or monkey or whatever in the pool. Then I was roped in to play Marco Polo, catching, piggy, one leg hop fight, monkey (a lot of animals here…practically the whole zoo).

We had the whole pool to ourselves until 9am when people started arriving to use it.

Ran home to avoid the crowd.

Only 9am. Shit… what else to do. 🤦🏻‍♀️

9.30am

The whole family took turns to keep him occupied in the morning.

姐姐 played a few rounds of Chinese chess with him. It’s so hard to post pictures of the tween nowadays. She refuses to pose and when she does, she bans me from posting it on social media. Sigh.

Very aggressive play… ate up many of 姐姐‘s pieces…

姐姐 needed to do her psle revision. Passed him over to Daddy. They played so many rounds that he got sick of the traditional one.
“Eh! Your pieces are not set up properly!”
“Haha! I just invented a new way of playing. We can set it up any way we want to counter the opposite player.” Ok…. #playuntilnothingtoplay 🤦🏻‍♀️

It’s not even lunchtime yet. This is going to be a looooong day!

Late afternoon… (his usual gaming/tv time)

Reality has finally set in! Now he’s 生不如死！Feeling very Cham and sorry for himself. #repentance

He’s happy again. No computer gaming + no tv = play board game. He’s generally a very happy kid. Figuring that there’s no way around his punishment, he decided that he might as well keep himself happy playing games. He’s occupied until dinner time…

I predict that we will go through all the drama again tomorrow. Meanwhile, happy board gaming!