I just realized that I missed this, for it rarely happens anymore. For ... well probably years from three until just recently almost everytime we would sit down to eat, Grace would start the meal by gleefully pointing out the patterns in our seating arrangement..... It goes something like this (with plenty of pointing to clarify whom she was speaking about... pairing up each in turn... and it only works orthogonally): "Girls next to girls, boys next to boys, wearing blue... not wearing blue, light skin... dark skinned, kids... grown-ups, short hair.... long hair"
