who lives in the kitchen cave?
Tokyo, 2010.09.09
As I took The Boy into the kitchen to pick up his two toothbrushes this morning, he pointed to the space between the washer-dryer unit and the storage room and said, "Scary" because it was dark.There's an "ogre" who sometimes scares The Boy—usually the icemaker, washer-dryer, anything that makes noise in the night. Mari pretends that it's coming to get The Boy when he refuses to cooperate (usually with having his teeth cleaned). I play the ogre, stomping about in the kitchen and making noise.Thinking of the "ogre", I asked The Boy, "Who lives here?"He looked at the washer-dryer and said, "Mari-chan."