Ballet

As if to remind us how quickly this year has gone by, K-bao's annual ballet performance at the Palace of Fine Arts sprung up this past weekend. Last year, as we recall, she was a dancing monkey. C-bao, then under one, was too young to sit through the performance, and K-Pop spent pretty much the entire time other than the 3 minutes of K-bao's actual dance entertaining C-bao in the hall outside.

This year, C-bao, trooper that she is, actually sat inside the hall and was reasonably well-behaved through the entire performance, which includes close to two dozen ballet classes and lasted almost two hours. Here is the young one striking her ballet connoisseur pose.

Here is K-bao getting ready to go onstage.


And here are the post-dance hugs after a wonderful performance by K-bao:

And here is the full performance:

I Wanna Be Like You

After a season of rigorous ballet practices, K-bao had her ballet recital today at the Palace of Fine Arts.

Given this group of energetic little monkeys, the piece they danced to was, naturally, The Jungle Book's "I Wanna Be Like You" (sung by King Louie, an ambitious orangutan, in the original). Outfitted in an expensive monkey suit - complete with tail sewed on lovingly by K-Mum last night - little K-bao pranced around the stage happily with the rest of her troupe. Here she is monkeying around with a few friends before and after the act.

And here she is on stage (on the far left), "dancing her heart out" per K-Mum's instructions.