These two friends share a birthday and they recently turned nine. I had a delightful morning watching them together, discussing like old ladies how time flies.
These three also discussed how they look forward to having their own children one day. When I asked them what it was about having children they looked forward to they all said playing with them and one said sending them to school! While another looked horrified and exclaimed she would definitely be homeschooling her children. The other shot back with, "Oh no it's way too much work."!!!
Thankfully they are not too grown up yet to enjoy crazy dress ups.
Gracie choose a GAPS friendly lemon meringue pie as her birthday cake which turned out well despite being left in the oven too long.
They all love party poppers on their birthdays ...except usually the youngest who find the noise way too scary.
We gave her this lovely book which tells the story of a little girl who was taught to stitch a decorative bread cloth by her Grandmother. The book came with all that was needed for Gracie to make her own cloth.
The rest of the family went out one afternoon and we took the opportunity to read finish the book and begin the project.
It was such a lovely time and Gracie learnt up the needed stitch very well and has done an excellent job on her cloth. Now she is hemming it up and when it's complete I'll post a photo. I love to see her sitting her self down with her needle work and she loves creating all sorts of items as gifts or to put to use herself. Delightful.
