Our amazing and hilarious child is now 14 years old! A glorious end to her second cycle and a smashing start to the third. This Duende is fiery, smart, and creative. She’s empathetic and compassionate. She has a great sense of self and she’s not afraid to show it. And she’s very excited to try new things. She loves people and has a great gift of conversation. For her birthday this year she wanted — new clothes (of course, thank you Grammy & Nana!), her ears pierced, pork belly, candy, people to come share cake with her, and to go antiquing…we’re still trying to find a clean ear piercing place but check, check, and check!
10 Random Things Duende Loves (or loves to do):
- Ribbon (like a Victorian girl, and now she’s learned about a chatelaine)
- Pickles (for breakfast, lunch, and dinner), and popcorn (with nutr. yeast & nori)
- Little Cactus (though she struggles even keeping those alive)
- The Princess Bride (the book, the movie, the game, all the lines…)
- Dachshund’s and Bengal Cats (no and no)
- Roller Skating (esp. every Tuesday on deliveries and to the Frmr’s Mkt)
- Drawing (and all the other visual arts but right now, it’s with color shading)
- Dancing (acrobatically to dance-pop divas)
- Making her Dad laugh — they feed off of each other like crazy hyenas…
- And the rain — she loves the darkness of the sky, running in it, she is a water baby
We can’t wait to see what’s next. Happy Birthday, Big D!
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