Gula

So after returning home Sunday and feeding Kayla her milk, K-Mum and K-Pop settled down finally for a quick take-out meal. We brought K-bao out to sit with us in the living room, thinking that she would be content after having a full feeding. Wrong-o. When she she saw K-Mum enjoying her hijiki and soybean salad, she turned as green as the lettuce leaves her mum was eating. Her little chops started to move in rhythm to K-Mum's chewing, and we could see a puddle of drool starting to form in her half-opened mouth. We knew what was coming but tried to ignore her. Then K-Mum turned to the spicy burdock root salad, and that was all the little one could take. Angry slapping of thighs. Mean, accusatory stares. We offered her a teether as consolation. She took one bite and realized she'd been tricked. Loud, angry wails ensued.

We didn't think we would be talking about the 7 Deadly Sins at this tender age, but if we were Catholic we would be having K-bao doing penance and saying Hail Mary's for gula, invidia, and ira.

A bit of this drama was captured on camera, starting with the teether debacle, and K-Pop was going to post the video but K-Mum summarily vetoed it as being too embarrassing for the little one. Above is a snapshot from the video, immediately after it dawned on her that the teether was a red herring, and again shortly thereafter.