Exercise Assistant

K-Pop's only exercise these days consists of a couple minutes of push-ups and sit-ups on the floor, the time for which can be further shortened with a little assistance from K-bao. The below clip from a few months ago demonstrates her helpfulness (though it also demonstrates her mischievousness).

Buh Boh

As you can see below, K-bao's personality veers towards the obsessive. Whatever she likes, she asks for multiple times a day. Whenever she asks, she repeats her request 5, 6, or 7 times, or if not fulfilled in a timely manner, 11, 12 or 13 times. Recently she's been on a bubbles kick. This has consisted of her running to the TV (behind which we stored her bubble wand), pointing, and with a pained look, crying out "Buh! Boh! Buh! Boh!" In the video, K-Mum is trying to teach her a little manners, so in addition to putting her hands together in supplicating fashion, she does a little half-bow / curtsy. Tough to resist.

Field of Dreams

On the weekends, K-Pop likes to take K-bao to a nearby park in Potrero Hill to pao-pao and train for her future athletic career. Here she is rounding the bases with her hat over her eyes, running on her Jennie Finch instincts alone.

Fashionable

K-bao with K-Mum's shades, one of her favorite accessories.

Now I Know

One trait we like in our little K-bao is that she doesn't do half-way. She goes full bore. We noted already the vigor in her art - the dramatic use of color, the bold strokes. Below, you can see her bring some zeal into her vocal performances as well, and in the second video, spice it up further with her patented Whirlwind Dance (though that particular maneuver didn't end well this time).

p.s. the "Now now now now" at the end is the K-interpretation of the "Now I know my ABC's" refrain, though we recognize that it sounds like she is scolding a naughty child, especially when accompanied by the dramatic arm waving.

Apple Addiction

With much fear and trembling, the K-folks have exposed K-bao to technology. This has consisted of letting her play some Fisher-Price games on the desktop, allowing her to monkey around with K-Pop's locked Blackberry, and yes, introducing her to some "educational apps" on the iPhone.

The result? Complete mayhem in the Hu family. A kid asking for - nay, demanding - her screen time 10 - 12 times a day. We are either shaping the next Marissa Mayer or creating a little technology brat emotionally dependent on Apple products.

The K-folks' only comfort is that this appears to be a commonplace problem. K-Pop came across the following GigaOm headline the other day: I Gave My 3 Year Old an iPhone: Have I Created a Monster?

And according to a Stanford University study, 25% of iPhone users reported the phone to be "dangerously alluring" and 41% said that losing their iPhone would be "a tragedy."

In the below video, shot with K-Pop's iPhone, little K-bao chants "iPhone" no less than 8 times before resorting to guilt-tripping her Dad with appeals to natural law and principles of selflessness.