Drawings on Pebbles / Crteži na kamenju

We've been collecting pebbles at the beach for days now. At home we play with them and observe their beauty. They are all so simmilar, yet, as leaves on trees - there are no two pebbles that are the same. The differences are tiny, but they appear in color, shape and size. V loves when I ask him what does a pebble remind him of.

We also collected some flat stones which we used to make some fish drawings on them. And so he got a beautiful toy to play with! He plays with it for days now, talks with the stone-fish, feeds them with some leaves from the garden, puts them in a bowl with water, counts them, sings to them, etc. Every time I see him playing at the terrace - diving into the play so deep and enjoying it totally, without the need to be entertained by anyone, and every time I hear his tiny little voice changing in the attempt to imitate different characters of his play, when I see that he doesn't see or notice anything and anyone out of his play, completly soaked in by it, and that he can stay there for very very long time as if in a dream, I feel happy and calm and fullfilled completly, because I know that he is capable of doing the most important task in his life and that is to - play!

Danima skupljamo oblutke na plaži. Kod kuće se igramo s njima i posmatramo kako su lepi. Vrlo su slični, ali, kao i lišće na drveću - ne postoje dva ista. Razlike među njima su male, gotovo neprimetne, ali ipak postoje: u nijansi boje, veličini ili obliku. V najviše voli kad ga pitam na šta ga svaki kamen podseća. I njegova mašta potom putuje...

Sakupili smo i malo pljosnatih kamenčića koji su prosto mamili da ih iskoristimo kao podlogu za crtanje. V je nacrtao - šta bi drugo nego - ribe - i to na svakom kamenčiću! I eto nove igračke za njega! Danima se igra sa njima, priča sa njima, ređa ih, peva im, hrani lišćem iz bašte, stavlja u kanticu sa vodom, itd. Svaki put kada iz sobe čujem kako se na terasi odvija njegova igra - potpuna predanost i uronjenost u igru u kojoj apsolutno i 100 posto uživa, bez potrebe da ga bilo ko zabavlja ili animira, kada čujem kako "razgovara sam sa sobom" iz različitih uloga menjajući boju i ton glasa, kada vidim kako nikoga i ništa ne primećuje oko sebe i kako u tom stanju može da ostane dugo, dugo, kao u nekom snu, osećam se potpuno srećno, spokojno i ispunjeno, jer znam da je u stanju da radi ono što je najvažnije u njegovom životu sada- a to je - da se igra!