Popin’ Cookin’ with Maile Girl

I this counts as a milestone – Maile has introduced us (or at least me) to the first trendy thing that I had no idea existed until she discovered it. A couple weeks ago, YouTube released a app for kids that contains kid-friendly videos. Maile has been watching lots of videos about drawing and play-do creations – but one of her favorites is watching kids from Japan open these mini-Japanese cooking sets and watching them make them. It’s kind of like an easy bake oven-type thing.

(Dad note: incredibly there is not a wikipedia entry for this yet. We’re really cutting edge here. Maybe Maile and I will write one. This was the best site I could find with some details.)

She devours these videos. Here’s what one looks like:

(That video has been watched more than 16M times!!!)

Seriously – she would watch that all day long if we let her. (And she could – there are 202,000 on Youtube!!!) Luckily, we live right near Japantown so we went down and picked up a kit to try ourselves.

Here’s Maile getting some practice in making her own “popin’ cookin'” video:

(Click here for the video.)

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