Alarming

Mom: "Sweetheart, no we are not going to do that."
3 year old Kayla: "Sweetheart, yes we are going to do that."

Favoritism

In an effort to prepare K-bao for her impending big-sisterhood and to introduce her to a world where there is more than one center of attention, Little Aunt Christina (Xiao Ah-Yi) recently gave K-bao a second baby doll, identical in all ways to her first one except for her newer clothes and bright blue eyes.

K-bao promptly named the second doll Baby #2, and renamed her first baby Baby #1. Furthermore, while she welcomed Baby #2 into her crib, she pointedly favored Baby #1, including only giving a blanket to Baby #1 (while letting Baby #2 shiver), only taking Baby #1 on road trips, and only showering Baby #1 with kisses and hugs.

As if we weren't getting the message loudly and clearly that the firstborn deserves special, favored treatment, she recently loudly declared: "I love Baby #1. I do not love Baby #2." Rendering the K-folks speechless - and much afraid of all that will come in a few months time.

Streams of Praise

K-bao's personality veers towards the compulsive. We introduced the Streams of Praise album Covenant Under the Rainbow to her a few weeks ago. She quickly established that her favorite tracks were #1 and #2 - largely because we never got past those two before she asked to go back and listen to them again - and since then has essentially had her finger on the repeat button. In fact, she trucked her CD back and forth between home and the car so many times we were forced to burn the CD and create a playlist just on this album.

A very similar pattern to how she approached Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman's Time to Say Goodbye and more recently Beauty and the Beast's Belle. 

Below you can hear her following along to Track #2, Searching.

Slide

Slipping and sliding down the slides at Coyote Point - from one vantage point and then another. K-bao has loved doing this by herself from when she was barely able to walk.

Uncle Buzz

K-bao and I were talking about Shu-Shu's new buzz cut, which caused her to ask to view old videos of her uncle. Listening to Uncle James' rendition of Happy Birthday (in both Chinese and English) for Grandma, she couldn't help but join in.