Beach Weekend

Back in February K-bao enjoyed a couple of days at the beach with sister C-bao. The weekend was sunny but not particularly warm, so as a precaution K-Pop insisted on the girls wearing their full winter coats.

Not exactly beach attire

K-bao led her sister in singing, dancing and digging ditches. Finding water under the sand was met with as much excitement as one might expect in a discovery of fine pearls.

The presence of the ocean brought to mind of course one of K-bao's favorites, Rachel Platten's Fight Song, and she quickly broke into the relevant lyrics: "Like a small boat, on the ocean...sending big waves, into motion..."

Here she demonstrates how to create a tower of sand, and promptly delegates the task to sister C-bao.

Overall, the first day was fun enough that the sisters made a return trip the next day to do pretty much exactly the same thing.

A Duet

K-bao has shown remarkable progress since taking up the piano about 6 months ago. She can now handle basic tunes, and while we can't say that practicing through the hard pieces has been entirely devoid of whining, the K-folks are proud of her pluck and persistence to date.

Here she is playing a simple version of Bach's famous Minuet in G with K-Pop.

Flexible

K-bao has shown herself to be exceptionally limber and flexible from birth, and has shown a bit of talent for gymnastics. Even on the soccer fields over the last couple of seasons, whenever there wasn't much action going her way, we might see her do a cartwheel or two off on the side to pass the time.

Her flexibility is a trait inherited squarely from K-Mum, by the way. K-Pop has trouble enough trying to reach his own ankles from a standing position.