This <pause for effect> is an old drawing Rockstar did of his parents when he was maybe 33 months old.
It’s Rockstar’s favorite drawing from school and we save a lot of these to turn into artwork around our own home or little gifts for the grandparents… My mum wants to do a wall collage in her guestroom (my old bedroom – my dad already turned the study portion of it into his gym)…
So I have a box of these I was sorting through, and Rockstar says he likes this one, so I ask him what it’s supposed to be.
Rockstar says proudly “Daddy And Mummy!”
Rockstar’s the only 3 year-old I’ve ever been around, and I’m thinking He’s totally putting me on, like all the smart-ass I’ve been getting for the last few weeks – but then I remember the school label saying it’s a picture of daddy and mummy. Rockstar can recognize some words now, but he definitely doesn’t have those two words down yet.
So I ask him to point out “Daddy” in the picture. Then “Mummy”. I cover part of it up. I turn it sideways. Then upside down. He always picks out the same spot where Kings and I are supposed to be in that picture.
For some reason I feel… humbled. There’s a lesson in there somewhere, even if I can’t quite say what it is.
