Narrative
OmegaDotter drawing a picture for Grandma Julie:
“I’m putting the sun up here…Now I need some clouds, but not a lot, because I don’t want to hide the sun.”
“Grass…I need grass down here.”
“And a spider! I like spiders. In pictures! It has one…two…three…four…five, six, seven, eight legs.”
“This is a tree. I need a tree to hang the web for the spider from.”
“Oops! Two branches for one apple! Oh, well!”
“That’s a bee hive. And these are bees, and they’re flying to the apple.”
“Oh! And I need a flower here. The bees are flying to the flower, too.”
“This is Grandma Julie. She always has a pony tail. I’m drawing her with a dress and high heels because that’s how I always draw women.”
“And this is me, next to her.”
“Now what should I draw? A house? Okay!”
“I think I need another flower over here! And the bees are flying over to this flower, too! And they’re flying over Grandma Julie’s head, not behind it!”
“We need an envelope. No, Mommy, I used up all my envelopes. What should I do? I know! I can get a piece of paper, and we’ll make an envelope! No, I’ve used up all the paper up here…I’ll go get one from the printer! Here it is, Mommy! Oh, the scissors are to cut the paper–”
“Oh, okay. I guess I don’t have to cut it. Yeah, we’ll fold it like that! And then we have to tape it up the sides, like this. Oops, I need more tape. Mommy, can you untangle the tape for me? Okay, now we need another piece.”
“How do we fold up the letter, Mommy? It’s not going to fiiiiiiit!”
“Oh! Yeah! Let’s do it that way!”
“How do you spell ‘Grandma’ again?”
“Puh…lllll…ay….essss.”
“How do you spell ‘Prescott’?”
“I’m going to draw a label here. I’ll put our phone number on it!”
“Why not? I want to put our phone number on it, for Grandma Julie!”
“Oh, okay…I know! I’ll put Oh…em…ay…guh…ah…duh…aw…tuh…r in there. See! And some hearts. No, no, Mommy, I need to put more hearts on it!”
“I’m going to draw a stamp right here.”
“Why not? Oh, okay, but let me put the stamp on.”
“Now don’t forget we have to take it to the mailbox!”
Note and drawing on its way to Grandma Julie’s house. Although I seem to recall that I forgot to put a zip code on your address, so it may take a while…
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