Last Sunday morning Akemi helped Silvina make some pancakes. She worked up an appetite mixing the ingredients and checking the texture of the flour, so after her work was done she sat at the table waiting for the fruits of her labour.
The Diego DVD was still playing in the adjacent room and she was twisting her head around to steal glimpses of his rescue mission. I took the opportunity to throw a pancake on her plate and holler "Wow, did you see that?".
She saw the pancake flop on her plate apparently out of no where. Silvina was still in the kitchen cooking the rest of the pancakes and there were no other pancakes to be seen. Surprised, she asked "Who did that?". I answered "I don't know, it just flew there". She got so excited and repeated "Wow, did you see that! The pancake flew on my plate!". Then somehow she decided that it must have been a unicorn that put the pancake on her plate.
Later, Silvina made a pancake shaped like a star and a duck and told her that a fairy made them for her. She was beside herself that these magical creatures were treating her so kindly. The true magic for me is her innocent belief and genuine appreciation that anything is possible.
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