Averi and I ran some errands yesterday. We purchased a package of brightly-colored, stretchy headbands for which she had an instant affinity and she was explaining to me how much she loved the bright colors, but she was trying to think of the “right” word for them.
“Neon!” She finally remembered. They were neon-colored! Oh, how she loves neon colors, she kept effusing while deciding which one or two to wear with her outfit.
“Did you know, ” I took her down memory lane, “that when your daddy and all your aunts were little kids back in the 80s, neon was a huge thing? They had lots of neon clothes and shoes and headbands back then!”
She was awed by this news.
“Really, Nonna? Wow! God must have thought all the little children wouldn’t know about neon unless He made it for them now. So He made some more neon so we would know!”
Her extreme gratefulness for God’s kindness in making neon known to her all these years later was evident as she adjusted her headband and sighed, with a very big smile on her cute little face, “I love neon colors.”
In other news….
A wonderful thing: I got $60 worth of kid’s Creatology Musical Instruments today at Michael’s for a little less than $12! Yay! I had been wanting them for the grandbebe playroom.
I can just hear a little {grandbebe} band making merry music in my very near future! In good, old-fashioned primary colors. ;)