ninja hip

on the way home from school today miles pulled out this piece of paper. on the side he wanted to show me was a "ninja hip". i guess hip is hippie, and hippie obviously means rock music, man. if you look closely you can see how the ninja's swords were erased, and then replaced with guitars. there are two plants in the foreground which are also holding guitars. miles is feeling a powerful love vibe, dude, good for him! must be all the marching and talk about schools needing money more than wars needing money.
on the reverse were some chinese characters, pathetically not a one of which i know. miles rattled them off as we walked down our oddly starting to hail block and then we were inspired to stop at lily's drycleaning shop (i have posted about lily before, our amazing tiny chinese senior citizen neighbor who survived a very violent assault in her little shop a few years ago and is back and perky as ever). i know miles was hoping for a treat as he read all the characters to lily, and maya sure was (she was actually looking around the little store and behind the dry-cleaned clothes for a box of cookies or stuffed animal, both of which she has scored in the past), but all he got were about 10 hugs, big squeezes, huge smiles and multiple suggestions to go home and read the characters to his daddy who would be happy he knew how to read so much. when we left miles mentioned how lily might have a treat next time, or the next time.

so, we will keep trying to be nice and communicate with our neighbors, and get treats sometimes and not others. it's all good.

peace out

p.s. oops, the characters are upside down