Birthday gal

A few weeks ago K-bao celebrated her 8th birthday. Xiao Ah-yi and Jiu-Jiu joined her on the special day along with the rest of her family.

As usual, K-bao asked to go to her favorite Japanese restaurant, where she gobbled up numerous orders of unagi.

Afterwards, she enjoyed fruit and cake, while wearing a self-made birthday crown.

Uncle Calvin had also given her a Dubs shirt, which she sported proudly.

By the way, for the record, this evening was only the first of quite a few "birthday treats" that K-bao enjoyed over the course of the week. The celebration went on for a bit, which seemed perfectly fine for our little. 

Birthday

Happy birthday K-bao! Our not-so-little-one has turned 7.

K-bao had an active day. The morning was filled with a basketball game with her team, The Cats. Here she dribbles the ball upcourt before handing the ball over to a teammate for a blown assist.



After a big brunch, she and the fam were joined by Uncle Calvin for an afternoon of bowling.

Checking out the scoreboard with a concerned look

Check out that professional bowling stance

After dinner at a local Vietnamese restaurant, where she enjoyed garlic noodles, the family had a modest celebration at home with some of K-bao's favorite desserts, courtesy of Uncle Calvin. (We won't mention on these pages how much of these desserts she was actually able to partake in today due to other dessert consumption choices earlier in the day, of course).

Thanks for the sweets Xiao Jiu!

Sharing some hugs with K-Pop and K-Mum below.

Sweet

K-bao and sister C-bao helped K-Pop celebrate his birthday recently. 

With the promise of chocolate goodies ahead, all of our jovial natures came out quickly.

K-bao also wrote K-Pop a sweet note to go along with his sweet cake.

Happy 6th!

Happy birthday K-bao! Our little one has turned six.

May this year be filled with the wonder of learning, the joy of friendship, thanksgiving at the abundant blessings God has blessed you with and an ever increasing knowledge of Him!

We are so blessed to have you in our lives!

Love, K-Pop, K-Mum & C-bao

Banana Bread Deluxe

Never one to waste perfectly good (albeit somewhat overripe) bananas, K-bao sprung into action last weekend, donning her baker's apron and recruiting sister C-bao to help her create her patented Banana Bread Deluxe.

Here is the completed batter, replete with chocolate chips galore. No Trader Joe's shortcuts here! Eggs, flour, baking soda - this was made from scratch.

And here is the finished product.

K-Grandpops in Taiwan (a.k.a. Gong-Gong) got wind of this Banana Bread Deluxe, and naturally lamented that he wasn't around to take a bite. Upon hearing this, both granddaughters extended a fork, hoping their grandfather could take some satisfaction in their act of virtual sharing.

Birthday Politics

Happy birthday sweetie! It was K-bao's 4th birthday yesterday and here she partakes of her favorite dessert (also known as, "Oh my goodness, chocolate cake!!")

It must be recorded for posterity that K-bao achieved new levels of political behavior on her 4th birthday. K-Pop was late in arriving home due to a delayed flight, and rather than demonstrating her filial piety and self-control by waiting patiently, K-bao declared at 7 p.m. to K-Mum, "It's ok, let'sjust have the cake with you, me and Aunt Chris. I can't wait anymore!" After some heated negotiation, K-Mum talked the little one into holding on just a little bit longer.

Then, upon arriving home, K-Pop was greeted with the following: "Daddy, look, I picked out the chocolate cake for you because I know that chocolate is your favorite!" Left unsaid of course was the fact that (1) chocolate happens to be her favorite too; and (2) the cake would already have been eaten had K-Mum not intervened.