Tea Party

To celebrate our little one's 6th, Aunt Christina (Xiao Ah-Yi) took K-bao out to a tea party at the famous Crown & Crumpet. K-Pop was one of the few esteemed guests of the birthday girl, along with sister C-bao and Aunt Leslie.

K-Mum was unable to make the event, but did extract a promise from the little one that she would limit herself to one sweet.

As soon as K-bao arrived, she picked out her one sweet - naturally, the one with blue and purple colors.

Throughout the afternoon K-bao spent an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out how to put only "one grain" of sugar in her tea, per K-Pop's orders.

Overall, it was probably the most high-society party our little one has attended, much less been the center of. Thank you Aunt Christina!

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

Happy Recessional

One of the more touching moments of our trip to Singapore recently for XGG (Aunt Catherine) and WZ Shu-Shu's wedding occurred at the end of the ceremony.

Once the marriage was officially declared, the music coordinator started blasting Pharrell Williams' hit "Happy" and the happy couple began leading the wedding party recessional, dancing down the aisle toward the exit. The flower girls, K-bao, C-bao and Cousin Elizabeth, were also supposed follow along.

Little sister C-bao, though, was unsure what to do. The wedding party was moving fast, and once some separation was created, she felt even more hesitant to move forward.

That's when K-bao sprang into action. Looking back, she motioned for C-bao to join. When that didn't work, she came back up the aisle part-way, and demonstrated more actively. Finally, seeing C-bao still rooted to the spot, she came all the way back, took her sister by the hand, and led her back to join the group.

Leave no sister behind!

Lucky 13

Over Christmas and New Year K-bao got to spend some time with K-Mum's side of the family. Indeed, with K-Great-Grandmum in the house, along with all the cousins, there were 13 happy campers in all. It was a festive gathering which extended over many days.

There was plenty of lounging time...

...but also some intense activities. In the below "friendly" Bocce ball match, the judge (Uncle Calvin) had to resort to taking off his shoelaces to measure the distance between the balls in order to resolve a dispute between the teams. (One can also see contestant Aunt Christina - clearly not fully trusting in the process - on the ground closely inspecting the measuring activity.)

"Pull that string tighter! Tighter!"

A highlight for K-bao was of course spending time with her cousins, particularly J-Cuz, i.e. Cousin Justin. The two built Magna Tile castles, read Bible stories aloud and even tested their arm strength against each other (refereed once again by Uncle Calvin). K-bao and sister C-bao also had fun playing with Justin's younger sister, Cousin Kaitlyn, who is a few days older than C-bao.

"Don't let my expression (or my 2 hands) fool you, J - I'm only using 30% of my strength"

"Don't try this at home, kids"

As usual, K-Grandmum, saint that she is, spent most of her personal time cooking up great heaps of delicious food to feed the hungry crowds.

Happy new year!

Happy new year everyone! Thanks for a great year and look forward to an even better 2015!

"Looking hot, sis!"

Christmas Tree

"Hold on everyone! I'll decide what goes on the tree."

It's Christmas! For the first time in K-bao's almost-six years, the family decided to put up a real, live Christmas tree in the house.

K-bao and fam took a trip out to Home Depot to pick out the tree ("At least 7 feet!" insisted K-Mum. "Go big or go home!"), and also stopped by a few retailers to find lights and ornaments. K-bao's good friend Aunt Leslie and Xiao Ah-yi (Aunt Christina) then came over to help decorate the tree and drink hot chocolate.

"Blue is definitely my second favorite color" 

Sister C-bao also joined in the festivities.

Lights! Camera!

Naughty or nice? You decide

Fresh pine! But also fresh ants. And lots of pine needles everywhere. The K-folks will have to decide whether all of this becomes a family tradition. But it was fun while it lasted!

No Foodie

Upon arriving in Singapore:

• K-folks: "Now that we're in Singapore, K-bao, there are all sorts of new foods to try. What would you like? Singapore is about 3/4 Chinese with significant minorities in Malay, Indian and Eurasians. They have great noodles, seafood, curries, and soups." 
• K-bao: "Pizza."  

K-bao is normally a dawdling eater, but put a pizza pie in front of her and she becomes focused and efficient. Three slices is a bad day. Indeed, generally K-Mum is lucky to finish half as many slices as K-bao.

Here she is anticipating her pepperoni pie.