Wednesday, August 27, 2008

"That's a note to Dad. That's me and Dad eating cupcakes. There's one more for Dad and I'm on my last one. Dad came in after I finished eating one."
Translation of lettering on the picture: "This is an Army airplane"

"The people in the window are armies and the one by the door is a pilot."
"Family of scribbles. Lots of scribbles with a friend scribble. I only draw scribbles right now."
"Kids hiding under the table and that one (pointing at the second from the left) is whose birthday it is."
Translation of pencil writing on picture, once it's reorganized so the words are in the order the artist intended: "Buy this for me. Marianne. Buy this for all the little kids even me."

In other words, she wants roller skates just like these for her birthday. And when they saw the picture, so did Elizabeth and Ruth.
"A flying cat and a flower garden."

On the small blue lines over the fence: "That means there's a cat deep in the garden you can't really see."
"Dandy's wings fell off. The people from that boat slipped into the sea. And that's a Notre Dame flag and the sea."