Yahbi is 6!

Well, I guess it’s fitting that after a very long lag, this post follows the one from Caleb’s birthday. We celebrated Yeabsira’s big day last weekend. She wanted everything to be EXACTLY the same as Caleb’s, only green. Same people, same cupcake spread (but chocolate mint instead of red velvet), same balloon arrangement...you name it, it was the same. Life, for her, is about equality, and she walks with an inner “fairness micrometer” at all times. (No matter that she is half the age/size of her sister, she simply must have the same amount of oats in her bowl! This concerns us a little bit, but we’re treading lightly.) We did add a few things, though: Favorite-colored fingernails and fart whistles.

Yahbi only asked for one present: Green sunglasses, which weren’t so easy to find, but the spring season brought new inventory to our local toy store in the nick-of-time. A few weeks ago, we had brunch with some friends in Seattle and Yahbi had a terrific time playing Mommy to some baby dolls—dressing & undressing them, diapering them and swaddling them in blankets. So, the other birthday present was a baby doll that she has named Erin Leah. (Erin, I think, after a wonderful volunteer teacher who cared for her at the orphanage in Ethiopia, and Leah after Princess Leah—we’re working our way through the Star Wars Episodes, with some careful skipping of the scary parts. Yeabsira loves Yoda too, because he's Yoda, but also because he's green.)