Kaia broke her arm and the kids made cards to cheer her up. Nathaniel wanted to make a musical card that played the Star Wars Emperial March like the one he had. He put together 2 pieces of construction paper and glued them. He opened the card and heard nothing. "mom, why doesn't it go...hmmm....hmmm... (singing the march)?"
Before I could answer he said, "Oh, I know it needs that white paper!" (you know, the white strip of paper that activates the music on the real cards.) So he added a white strip of paper and left the card on the table for the night. It still didn't work. I told him those cards have batteries... He immediately ran down to the basement to get some AA batteries which he taped to the card. When it still didn't work I told him he needed the technology to have recorded music in the card that the batteries played.
Very seriously, he looked at me... "Is glue technology?" He doused the thing in more glue. It's a wonder it opens at all.
He must have thought the card fairy would appear last night. This morning he went directly to the card and expressed great disappointment when it didn't work. He asked me again why it didn't work. I just said, "I don't know."
He gave up and gave the card to Kaia as is. She appreciated it all the more when I told her the story.
Rebekah (almost 7) and Nathaniel 5 1/2 years old
