He used a yellow pencil for the porch and green for the bushes under the window.

The roof was crooked on the paper, and he rubbed at one corner until I told him roofs could be fixed in drawings without tearing them up.

“I’m putting a chimney here,” he said.

“But no smoke.

We don’t have a fireplace.”

“That makes sense.”

I poured cereal into his blue bowl.

“Bananas?”