Along with all of the celebrations of Eastertide we've recently had two jolly birthdays as well. My big girl is fourteen!
Lydia's birthday was on Easter Sunday, a lovely but busy day for a birthday. We kept talking about making her a cake but by the evening it was becoming clear it wasn't going to happen, so the dear girl just had a candle stuck in her poppy roll for singing purposes:
Being a jolly sport, she didn't mind. We finally got around to making her a proper cake on Easter Thursday. I had envisioned a bird cake with lovely depictions of various species alighting on branches, but this was all Josiah and I could muster:
Again, good sported Lydia didn't mind. But it was partly a relief when every one of our sad attempts at birds was neatly removed by the precise frosting-swiping fingers of the two little girls.
Fourteen must be a special year as Lydia received some very generous gifts from her Nana:
This young birder was thrilled to get her very own pair of very nice binoculars!
They have been put to good use daily,
and Lydia now does most of her school work sitting on the front porch like so:
She also received a very nice set of colored pencils to fuel the other part of her avian affections - drawing birds:
And moving along to my littlest birthday girl-
She insisted on a dolly on her cake, so Raggedy Ann it was. For her present she requested a pink pig that she intended to name Housie Housie Housie. Lydia obliged and crocheted said pig with much love -
And Housie Housie Housie has been Kateri's trusty companion ever since:
I could just eat her (Kateri, not the pig). And for one more final indulgence of cuteness and to thank Nana for all the wonderful gifts, I present Kateri enjoying her new CD:
