A birthday celebration for Audrey!

The celebration

A very happy birthday to Audrey! Sarah and Dan shared three years of video memories and a well-loved book. This was followed by presenting Audrey with her special birthday gift, thoughtfully created by many children who participated in the making of it. Lochie, Nora, and Reed were primarily behind the idea of a creating a "tablet" as Nora put it, which if we know Audrey, we know that the digital language comes naturally to her. So the gift idea of making her an iPad/laptop/tablet just made sense. Inspired by a sparkly blue box, Nora proposed the idea, Lochie supported it, and Reed added to it by suggesting the accordion folded paper for the keys on the keyboard. 

The Gift

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, pink, tan, grey, black silver - the rainbow expands to twelve colors.

From start to finish: 

"I like kitties. I like the whole entire rainbow." -Audrey

"Then we'll make a rainbow kitty." -Nora

"You could draw pics of kitties for me. One each of the color go the rainbow and don't forget indigo; indigo is a dark purple. ... Each of you will do one or two or three colors of the rainbow. One or tow or three, even Melanie has to do now." -Audrey

"A cherry blossom tree, that's what I can do." -Reed  ... "I made a green kitty floating in the sky." -Lochie

Instead of adding all 26 letters plus symbols for a complete and accurate keyboard, we created a message that symbolized the gift in a sentiment which reads: " Cats love Audrey, Happy Birthday." Below that is a space bar of cats. The rest of the gift was remains equally, or more so, interactive with replaceable backgrounds and moveable cats for Audrey to pretend Google search her "rainbow cats."

Twelve monochromatic cats was a lot of cats so more people, friends, were recruited to draw cats giving Audrey a plethora of cats to play with on her analog iPad. Thank you to all who contributed. We love you Audrey!