The F1 Spanish Grand Prix this past weekend featured a epic strategic masterstroke by Mercedes in surprisingly pitting Lewis Hamilton from second. On fresher tyres for his final stint, Hamilton managed to hunt down Verstappen and take the lead with 6 laps to go. The kid, who recently got the ability to iMessage, sent me the following:
It's so amusing receiving messages from him. :D
We watched Mulan as a family. During one scene where the Emperor gave the edict to require one male per family to join the war effort:
Wife: You know what that means for Mulan's family?
Kid: ....
Wife: The Dad has to go to war...
Kid: Oh.
Me: Good thing I have a son!
Kid: ðŸ˜
Later on, during the bootcamp training, I got lots of ideas to train the kid, and make sure he's ready for battle!
While watching the epic scene from 楚喬傳, we noticed that towards the end, tears had welled up in the kid's eyes. Then after the mom's sacrifice towards the end/start of the next episode, he was literally balling. Took about 20 minutes before he's able to calm down. Didn't realize a proper tragedy could evoke such emotions from the kid!
Greyhound, starring Tom Hanks, came out recently on Apple TV+. We decided to watch it, and introduce a bit of WWII events to the kid. During the scene where the Canadian corvette, HMCS Dodge, codenamed Dickie, came up... the kid grinned and said: "Dickie? You know... " haha
We've recently picked up Valkyrie Chronicles for the Nintendo Switch, making our way through the various operations. Incidentally, kid and I were excited to see the Sherman Tank on display outside the Haliburton Branch #129 of the Royal Canadian Legion!
Me: "Hey, look at that!"
Kid: "Enemy tank spotted! It's the Edelweiss! No wait, it's not blue!!"
Good times! :D