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. 

Sonoma

K-bao found herself in Sonoma this past weekend at a pool party with some school friends. Naturally, sister C-bao tagged along so she could share in some of the fun and sun.

Above, K-bao enjoys her first - of what, of course, ended up being far too many - mini-cupcake of the day.

While K-bao hadn't been in the pool in a while, she jumped in the water with gusto along with the rest of her peeps. Part of it of course was the allure of the numerous pieces of colorful equipment lying around, each of which K-bao insisted on trying (most of them at the same time).

The Velvet Cup

K-bao emerges the victor in the "First to 3" Chess Championship I and is awarded the coveted Velvet Cup(cake).

In K-Mum's defense, she didn't actually get to play a game before K-bao made it to Win #3.

That poor cupcake lasted about 20 seconds.

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.