This Father's Day my kids and I did some shopping from the ThinkGeek catalog. I love stuff from there, it gives me giggles. (I have two maternity shirts of theirs, one that says "Loading, please wait" with a bar across my tummy and one that says "geek inside" that looks like "intel inside". Very fun.) We found all kinds of things we could get Daddy but settled for a magnetic poetry kit in Chinese. Now, ~Lu-Kout speaks pretty fluent Cantonese but has always lamented his Mandarin is less than spectacular. So we agreed the Mandarin magnets were a good idea, because then he can improve and we can learn a little too.

That night, Jed opened his presents and enjoyed all the kids drawings and writings on his behalf. Then when he got to the magnets, we opened them and started going through them. Jed got to one he thought the kids should know and read the character in Cantonese to the kids.

Daddy: "Here, this one means happiness...faai lok"
Aidan: "OH! So, what does num lock mean in Chinese?"