We are Techie kids. We enjoy play, games, science, sports, and other activities that stimulate thinking.

Family Fun Park

When it's cold and you're tired of snowboarding, an indoor playground like the Family Fun Park is the next best venue! We come here often or when we are in the mood to sweat a lot. The playground offers a 3,500m2 of pure fun. There's a giant slide (below photo), a climbing tower (don't know the English equivalent but that's how it is when translated from German lol) for bigger kids. There are smaller slides for smaller kids but my younger son wouldn't want to be left behind. There are trampoline and bungee trampoline, a climbing wall for bigger kids and a separate one for smaller kids. There's a Go-kart track too; much to their delight, arcade games and a lot more. For now I'd be ...

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Sliding Puzzle

  If the kids got their liking to video games from their dad, I could fairly say they got the liking for mind games from me.  ^_^ I like these kinds of traditional games...well, you can play this too on a Nintendo DS but holding a puzzle slider in your hand is a lot different. My five-year-old started with these games before he was four and he can now easily solve an 8-cube slide. He is also able to finish one face and half of 4 faces of the rubik's cube, but I will show that later on. Below is a video of the little boy finishing up the puzzle: ---For: ...

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Tennis weekend

What we love to do aside from playing games is playing Tennis (well, we play that too - Wii!). For this week we played a real game at the gym across where we live. We had a trainer who showed us and taught us the moves, the right way of holding a racket and other tips. Well, since we play this every summer it was easy for him to teach us, he said. Little boy was not with us because he preferred staying at home with daddy, I tried convincing him but he said he wouldn't want to. After I showed him the photos he said he'd like to play tennis too! lol. Summer is definitely just around the corner, we look forward to the things that we're gonna be doing. We haven't planned on an out-of-town ...

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Little Big Planet 2

A few days ago, little boy saw an ad at the bus station depicting the release of Little Big Planet 2. So Daddy finally got the game and the kids were excited. Here's a clip of their first test run of the game. Little Big Planet is a direct sequel to the very-well loved 2008 title LittleBigPlanet and the third game in the series following the PSP version released in 2009. If you've played both you'll know that users can crate levels and of the more than 3 million levels created by users in the first game carry-over and are playable and editable in LittleBigPlanet 2. ...

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Sleepyhead : My Awesome Child That Sleeps Anywhere

I started taking photos of my younger son, D, whenever I see him sleeping in unexpected or weird places back in 2008 (above photos). I posted them on Facebook for my family and close friends to see (and for posterity's sake). The folder is, of course, titled "Sleepyhead." I  upload new photos if there are any, much to the delight of those who can see that album. In the future, my son would probably be embarrassed, but hopefully, he would forgive the whims of a mom who just wants to capture his cuteness. So far, I've never really encountered a confronting comment, although I was asked privately if he had narcolepsy. Thankfully, many reading materials on narcolepsy say the condition ...

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