Jacob was using his favorite orange color drawing a sun. Other dry erase markers were for the face and eyes, he was decisive.
At first, the eyes were vacant so I put in black orbs. He immediately
wiped them out with a fingertip.
That was NOT the plan! Red was.
Then he wanted to know how to make a nose.
Well, I don't draw. I know a little, a very little, so I showed him a curved L.
He was happy.
His sun was happy, too.
Thinking this is a celestial being
I made some planets and some stars overhead.
But, no! That was just not right!
He informed me, sternly, this little preschooler,
sitting under the crook of my arm, that,
"GrammyPam, there's no stars in the middle of the morning!"
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We went to lunch.
We went to Wendy's;
21 - kids and friends and parents.
Jacob and his cousin Noelle piled into my car
and we headed out lickety-split.
To facilitate speed, on the way over I asked them their food choices.
They were the same - cheeseburger and apple slices and soda pop.
Somewhere, someone, I didn't catch who,
gave Jacob a little tub of ketchup.
As he was sitting next to Noelle, they're the same age,
I overheard him say,
"Did you taste the ketchup?" He talks so matter-of-factly, manly,
"Well, you should,
it tastes pretty good!"
