Kyleigh, my sweet 2 1/2 year old grandangel, recently spent one very special Saturday with me while her mommy and daddy painted her new house. When I arrived to pick her up, she was dressed like a doll from head to toe and was eager to share her goodbye kisses with Lynsey and Jon so that we could begin our Saturday adventure! Our car conversations included some helpful tips from her Hunny(me) about what ceramics was, and how it was the same and yet different from watercolor painting. She listened intently for a brief few moments, and then I giggled to myself when she very confidently assured me she already knew how to paint! From the moment we entered the store, she was in awe and a little overwhelmed with all of her choices for a project. She decided to pick a puppy and selected her colors to match Jazzy, her beloved Australian Shepherd. What joy and happiness she sparked in me over the next hour or so as she carefully painted and talked about her paint colors of black and white, with green for a collar! As she began to blot on her finishing touches, it dawned on me that I had not explained beforehand about firing a ceramics piece so I anxiously launched into tentative lesson on what would happen over the next few days with her new treasure. Surprisingly, she kissed her puppy goodbye and told "it" she would see him next week without shedding a tear or fulfilling my dreaded anticipation of a two-year old tantrum! Our Hunny/Kyleigh date ended with a picnic on our breezeway, and then snuggling together while we napped the afternoon away!
Simply enjoying my sweet girl,
Linda
