Lucinda Gains a Digit, Or, This Calls for Curlers & Paint
This is a momentous year for Lucinda Hope. Ten years old! She requested French toast with freshly whipped cream, berry sauce, and maple syrup for breakfast. Her other request (since she's ten now) was to make the French toast herself.
...with a little help from her friends.
Someday, these pictures will be my tool to teach a teenaged Cadence why makeup is not necessary.
Skylark won't be looking for a perm in 12 years, either, I bet.
Here are the best buddies before birthday makeup application (although I think Lucinda had already darkened her brows at this point)...
And after.
Hoo boy!
It was so funny to watch Cadence apply her makeup and Zeke attentively painting Skylark into a thing of beauty.
After plastering Skylark's face, Zeke gave himself manly brows-- with a manly expression to match.
Oh, Cadence. Beauty unparalleled.
That afternoon, Grandma and Grandpa Owen came for a birthday visit.
Lucinda was spoiled beyond compare and received a Fancy Dress for her big day!
For those who don't know, the tenth year is when my mother makes her grandchildren a full-sized quilt to replace the quilt she made them as babies, said quilts being tattered and torn with a decade's worth of love and use.
Better pictures to come of the quilt someday. It is lovely and suits Lucinda perfectly.
Lucinda wanted a jello poke cake and (because she's ten now) also wanted to decorate it herself. Whipped cream pudding topping isn't the easiest thing to decorate, though! The Pegasus immediately sank up to its knees in decadent fluff.
Happiest of birthdays to our Little Light! We love you immeasurably, Lucinda Hope. May God grant you even more brightness in the decade to come.
3 comments :
Makeup artist in the making. So much sweetness in one post :)
Last comment for tonight, because wee babeling has fallen asleep in my arms at last and I need to head for bed (but I'll be back tomorrow!! That's a threat!!).
This is such a great post. The frills. The curls. The paint. The oh-so-pleased expressions. But best of all is the delightfully, wonderfully quirky and growing birthday girl herself. Ten!!!
I love that first picture of Luci by her cake. She is a special girl.
And by the way, Piper looks quite lovely in that dress! My, she's going to grow up fast if we don't watch out. ;-)
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