San Luis Obispo

Here is K-bao at a park in San Luis Obispo, shoving Baby down the slide (if you turn up the volume you can hear her saying "1-2-3, Go!"). It's unclear whether she is (i) trying to show Baby a good time, or (ii) sending Baby ahead as an advance scout /sacrificial lamb in case of possible danger.

GeGe Baba

There is a currently obscure, previously famous, Taiwanese folk song entitled "GeGe BaBa," the first line of which is "Brother and Father are great men." You can actually find it on Amazon here (yes, the long tail of the Internet. You can even see some white kids dancing to it here). As this is obviously sound doctrine which should be internalized early - nevermind the fact that K-bao doesn't have a brother - we made it our business to ensure that it was one of her first songs learned. You can see her recital below. Musicality needs a little work.

Sea World

On K-bao's last day in San Diego, she had a tour of the outrageously overpriced Sea World. Here she is taking in a dolphin show and saying hello to Mr. Penguin. She was also able to check out the Shamu show, ride on Elmo's Flying Fish (below), and feed a few stinky fish to the barking sea lions, though in the latter activity K-Pop and K-Mum had to jump around like wild kangaroos to ward off the evil seagulls who were perched around the feeding area ready to swoop in and steal the fish. However, her favorite part of the day? Running through the sprinklers at The Sesame Street Bay of Play. Turns out we could have just turned on the faucets at home.

Zoo

K-bao spent the day today at the famed San Diego Zoo checking out whether it lives up to the hype.

First, a power breakfast of oatmeal and fruit at The Broken Yolk:


Making faces by the Zoo entrance:


Talking to the elephants, and then offering them a blueberry:



Waving to every Tom, Dick and Harry passing us on the Skyfari aerial tram:


Deciding where to go for dinner:


Finishing up the day with the Word:



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San Diego

K-bao's spending a few days in San Diego, her first visit to the sunny city of Saint Didacus. She spent the afternoon checking out Old San Diego and the Gaslamp Quarters, sampling savory crepes at the Cremerie Chocolat and breathing in the salty sea air. She ended up at the Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner, where she polished off a plate of pasta with grated mizithra cheese and browned butter ("More!"), topped off with apple sauce and a few bites of K-Pop's ice cream. Good times.



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LA

K-bao has been overstaying her welcome this past week in LA with Da A-Yi and Da Yi-Zhan (Aunt Carol and Uncle Will) and Cousin Justin. Here she is below trying to ingratiate herself with Aunt Carol in order to win a few extra days. One of her key objectives of course is more rides with Baby on Cousin Justin's elephant.





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Bball

K-Pop has been slowly introducing basketball to K-bao. This time, however, he was waylaid by Cousin Justin, who succeeded in both personalizing and emasculating the sport at the same time.

Happy Hollow

The K-fam stopped by Happy Hollow Park and Zoo in San Jose with the hopes of helping K-bao work off some of her remarkable energy ahead of a long day's drive. K-bao had a good time, to the point where the K-folks have a feeling that they will be padding the wallets of Disney and Six Flags shareholders for many years to come.

At the carousel, K-bao insisted on taking turns on both the elephant and the alligator (and with the help of a speedy K-Mum, managed to beat out other kids who were eyeing the same animals). Coming off the Pacific Fruit Express Roller Coaster - where K-Mum took a concededly aggressive interpretation of the minimum height requirement - K-bao was already shouting for more even as K-Mum emerged from the ride looking rather green in the face. And on the Redwood Point play structure, K-bao insisted on going down the long slide chute alone but then would mischievously stop in the middle until K-Pop went in after her.

We were well rewarded for our hard work though; K-bao napped for two hours in the car.






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Location:Pismo Beach,United States

Travel

We took K-bao on a little trip over the holidays to southern California to see some family over a couple days, figuring it's be a nice practice run before putting her on a longer flight in February during a real vacation.

Suffice it to say, we're rethinking the vacation.

Little K-bao was a little terror on the flights, thrashing about like a fish out of water, and screaming bloody murder as if she was being attacked by highway robbers instead of being asked to sit still nicely. In the process K-Pop was somehow punched, kicked, slapped and almost deafened, and frankly was lucky not to have been bitten.

Strong Chinese woman. Runs in the family.

Ironically, before the flights at the airports in both SFO and LAX K-bao was nothing but a friendly little cherubin. Here she is below clowning about in LAX, intruding on strangers' conversations and then popping up suddenly in front of Daddy to say "hi" at the top of her lungs.

Fruit

K-bao's favorite verse is Galatians 5:22. Here she is ushering in the new year with a recital of the fruit of the Spirit (in Chinese). Slight mix-up of love (ren ai) and patience (ren nai), but given that the concepts are pretty close the K-folks are letting that go.

By the way, we're not sure why she keeps giving us the "hang loose" sign. Maybe suggesting that the K-folks lighten up on the pre-2-year-old Scripture memorization bootcamp.

(The little "ten" at the end is an inside joke: she insists on asking for the tenth fruit despite knowing full well that there are only nine)