Grace

Today the girls, while sitting side by side in a Costco shopping cart, got into a scrape, as sisters are wont to do. In the midst of it, however, young C-bao expressed her frustration in a highly unacceptable manner, and K-Pop was forced to intervene.

Pulling C-bao off the cart and after giving her a very stern talking to, K-Pop promised severe consequences for our 3-year-old after we returned home. C-bao walked meekly and sadly beside K-Pop as we came back to the cart.

That's when K-bao sprang into action. Though she was technically the victim in the altercation, she asked to come off the cart so she could comfort her little sister, who burst into tears as she ran into her older sister's arms.

Later, when we arrived home, K-bao intervened on behalf of her sister. "Please Daddy," she asked. "Can you not punish C-bao?"

This demonstration of grace and good sisterhood could not go ignored, so K-Pop took it easy on the little one, making sure to attribute his leniency to K-bao's advocacy. What started as an unfortunate conflict ended as an incredible relationship builder.

Later, when K-bao was getting ready for her shower, K-Pop observed little C-bao run into the bathroom to shout, "K-bao, I love you!" out of sheer gratitude.

#ASisterIsForever

Saturday

A typical Saturday for K-bao.

1. Wake up earlier than the household. Burst into sister C-bao's room, rousing everybody. Convince sister to jump out of bed and begin running around raucously.

2. Plead for sugary cereal for breakfast. Get turned down. Handed a bagelwich on the way to her soccer game.

3. Join her school club team, the Lions, for the first soccer game of the new season. Score a couple of nice goals. Enjoy a ton of snacks (madeleines, clementines, yogurts, juices) after the game, which appears to be the point of the whole thing for the majority of the girls.

4. Head to the chess club downtown. Play a couple of games with K-Pop. Lose game 1 due largely to watching every other game going on in the club other than her own. Dominate most of game 2 before losing concentration in the endgame.

5. Visit the mall for a late pizza lunch, followed by clementines and froyo. (After stuffing a half clementine in her mouth in one bite, exclaim loudly, "Don't think that's aggressive - I've had a whole clementine in my mouth before!")

6. Walk around the streets of San francisco. Create altogether too much noise with sister C-bao while playing with balloons and striking silly poses.

7. Shop for groceries. Serendipitously run into a kindergarten classmate. Create havoc (such as breaking into a spontaneous limbo dancing routine using checkout counter equipment).

8. Come home, quick shower, quick dinner and bedtime routine. Another full day tomorrow!