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kids say the darndest things

aww that title makes me think of my grandma.  she loved that show and would always comment on how cute the kids (and EVERYTHING they say is)


today i did painting for the family workshop (right up my alley).  i really enjoyed it (besides worrying about the interns all the time).  so children's memorial hospital is moving and they are having different cultural institutions around the city decorate different floors.  the adler got the nicu floor so we're having kids paint space pictures to decorate the floor.  so that was the family workshop.  painting.


one little girl came in alone (i don't know where her family was...)  but she painted the cutest picture.  
it says "we are here"
as kids finished, they brought their paintings to me (or just walked out the door with them).  if they brought them over to me i said "WOW THAT LOOKS AWESOME!  GREAT JOB!"  to all of them and inserted something unique applying to their picture.  one little girl kept saying, "i finished, i finished"  i was cleaning up at this point so i only vaguely heard it, but when i looked behind me she was standing right behind me waiting for my response she heard me tell so many other kids.  (she was there awhile.)


oh, and i made a girl cry.  not one of my brightest moments.  she came over to me bawling holding out her painting.  i quickly understood she didn't want to decorate the hospital with it.  so i looked at her parents and said, "she can take it with her."  so she turned around, but the bawling didn't end immediately...
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