If you may recall, we gave you a tour of our very small kitchen. We can now announce that we have an update to the decorations of our kitchen, courtesy of one of our very special neighbors.
We like to call him “the wee one.” He’s about six years old and is the son of our next-door neighbors. And he’s quite the precocious child: once he stopped by the sliding glass door to our apartment (we share a common balcony), opened the screen, and threw in a paper airplane. We retrieved and unfolded it, and found an invitation…to meet his baby sitter, who would be watching him the next day while his parents were out of town.
We accepted his invitation, to the puzzlement and delight of his baby sitter (and his parents as well). This young man has quite the outlook and vision on life, as we discovered a few months ago.
Again, he stopped by our sliding glass door and asked Kathy if she would like some “things” he had created. “I’ve made a lot of them,” he said, “and these are the ones left over.” Curious, Kathy said, “Sure, we’ll take them. Thank you!” The wee one excused himself, went back to his home, and returned with a stack of what looked like construction paper. He solemnly gave the stack to Kathy and left.
When we examined what he had brought us, we were shocked and delighted. The stack contained drawings in multiple media and paper assemblages. They are all very clever, creative, and delightful. We knew we had to display this art somewhere, and then the thought came to us: Why not decorate the archway that leads into our kitchen? And that’s what we did.
Check it out: artwork by “the wee one”.
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