Gym Time

This past fall, K-bao was a regular, twice-a-week visitor to a MyGym facility in the Dogpatch. K-Mum took her there to socialize, learn some structure and expend a few joules. Unfortunately during the sessions she mostly ignored her fellow toddlers, and the structure thing also didn't quite work out (instead of sitting quietly during circle time, K-bao would inevitably run wildly around the room like a little Tasmanian devil, with poor K-Mum chasing after).

K-Pop made the visit once and was pleased to find little K-bao getting a head start on her playground basketball skills. Here she is putting down a Dominique-esque two-handed jam. In the other two pics, K-Pop forced K-bao to "socialize" with some others on a tire swing, which K-bao quickly took over with her broncos-style swinging.

Habitot

We recently took K-bao to Habitot Children's Museum in Berkeley. This was K-bao's third visit, and she ran around authoritatively like she owned the place. She didn't hesitate in muscling aside some older kids at the makeup application corner to check out the latest cosmetics, and at one point unceremoniously snatched away a rake from the hands of a startled one-year-old while visiting the leaf raking alley. Later when she began painting a wall (below), a curator had to run up to explain that this was actually Gingerbread House Decorating Day, not Paint the Wall Day. K-bao reluctantly put her brush down (but not before starting to write "Live a Little!" on the wall). At her last stop, the Water Works station, K-bao wasted no time in dumping a bucketful of water down her own shirt before sharing the puddles with everyone else within splashing vicinity. Luckily K-Mum came prepared with some extra bundles of clothing, else it would have been a cold and miserable trip home for the Hu family.

"Say Cheese"

More Bubbles

While K-bao's bubble-blowing technique leaves something to be desired, K-Pop is somewhat comforted by the problem solving skills - first the attempt to delegate the task a more competent bubble-blower, and then attempting to figure out the engineering issue.

Godzilla

The below video neatly demonstrates the Second Law of Thermodynamics - order deteriorates to disorder, organization into randomness. And what accelerates this entropy? Agents of chaos, of course, such as Godzilla, the Incredible Hulk, or K-bao.