Another teenager in the house!

We're up to four now - if I've done the math right, we'll only ever max out at five teenagers at once in the house in 2020 when Leah turns thirteen months before Bobbi turns twenty. But at the moment, it's Mira's turn to enter the ranks!

Last year we baked a cake and sang for Tsvetomira at Bobbi's big birthday party. This year we did something different - it was her sisters' idea to have a "spa day" for Mira with the help of their friend, Hope. The girls spent the first part of the afternoon getting everything ready:

They picked out a "new" shirt (from the boxes of hand me downs upstairs) for Mira to wear, wheeled her in, and the work began...

The slightly apprehensive look is appropriate here, though she's completely unaware of what's happening, and it's just a coincidence of the moment the camera captured.

Everyone was involved: Gloria and Evania worked with scented lotions, massaging her hands and up past her elbows, Leah was on her hair, and Hope and Rinnah worked on her fingernails.

Finishing touches with some face paint (a starry night sky), and an elegant indigo colored flower barrette, and the experience was complete.

Tomorrow (Mira's actual birthday), we'll eat ice cream after supper in her honor. She will, again, be completely unaware of any of the activity in her silent, dark, world, but we will choose to celebrate her life, and be grateful that, unlike last year, this year she gets to celebrate it at home with her family!