Hug

"Let me show you what I wrote," said K-bao, leading K-Pop to her room.

"You are going to give me a big hug," she predicted. And she was right.

Friends

Even in hypothetical math problems, K-bao insists on K-Pop getting the right friends worked into the situation, and protests vehemently if too many boys are included. She also inevitably rewards her closest friends (and herself!) with any hypothetical extra cupcakes.

This video is from several months ago but the instincts - which have been around as long as the K-folks remember - persist.

Eeny Meeny

Who gets to be White?

That is the eternally debated question.

K-bao implemented her usual system of figuring out the answer. K-Pop was certain where this was going to end; somehow, and unsurprisingly, the advantage has always ended up with you know who.

So the outcome of this process was shocking.

Reunited

K-bao's old friend Gillian (subject of the now famous interview) is back in town! Here is a Sunday School pic from this past weekend of the two of them chaperoned by longtime guardian Reagan (who gave the two the bunny ears in this pic).

Too Much

A living room dialogue overheard by K-Pop:

   K-bao: You're having fun, right Mommy?
   K-Mum: Of course, K-bao, but mainly because I'm spending time with you!
   K-bao: Because you love playing with me?
   K-Mum: Well because I love YOU!
   K-bao: But I can be too much sometimes, right?
   K-Mum: Um....hahaha...now why would you say that K-bao?
   K-bao: Because it's true!

Caregiver

This past Saturday K-Pop was beset with a horrific case of seasonal allergies that had him sneezing and wheezing all morning. K-bao had observed her Pops' suffering throughout their long morning walk at Golden Gate Park, all the way until he collapsed on the couch at home.

Once home, however, the little one sprung into action. Without a word she dragged her little white chair into the kitchen, climbed up on the counter and took down a glass, into which she somehow managed to pour water from the heavy Brita pitcher without major spillage. This she brought over to the invalid.

Next, she rummaged around some drawers in the hallway and produced a plastic Ziploc bag of yellow facemasks belonging to Auntie Katie. "Here, Daddy," she declared, "if there are more than two you can take one." Where the rule of three came from K-Pop did not know, but lo and behold there were three facemasks, so one of them was promptly donned by the still-sneezing K-Pop.

K-bao wasn't finished. She headed back to her room and emerged with a blanket and box of tissues, which she arranged conveniently around the patient. Finally, deciding that K-Pop needed some entertainment to take his mind off his not-very-serious illness, she carefully selected an oldie but goodie from her shelf - "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," which for some reason she thought apropos - and began reading it to K-Pop in a melodious voice.

K-Pop was almost moved to tears by this completely voluntary and unsolicited act of filial piety, but managed to snap a quick memento of the moment for the inevitable future times when paternal patience is being particularly tested.

Part of Your World

Well on her way to being just as independent, strong-minded and adventurous as Ariel, K-bao picked her "third-favorite princess" as her 2013 Halloween character.