Happy Birthday Star Shine wITH Illustration and Mini story.

[RaphLuna]

 

 

Yawn, still tired from being up late last night with his daughter,  waiting until she fell asleep, so he  can finally bake a cake , Night Wing, quietly gets up early, checks on his daughter in the nursery,

'' Thank goodness,  still asleep.''

He quietly goes down the stairs, and heads straight to the kitchen, yawns '' Now where did I put the frosting I made for the cake. ' he opens the fridge shifts around and finds the bowl behind a carton of milk.

walking to the counter  , cupboards above his head, he  gets 3 bowls, places them in front of him. shifting through a drawer full of utensils he finds the cake decorating kit... separating  the frosting, adding colors coral, purple and pink...  to each bowl. he grabs a spoon and mixes the color in each bowl..

He opens the cake decorating kit, and with great care, proceeds to decorates the cake...

chirp chirp, Star Shines ear perks up,  opening her eyes looking in the direction of the sound, she sees a bird perched on her window..'' birdy, cute birdy. me catch...'   stands on her hind legs reaches for the rail of her crib, she tries to push her body up over the rails

carefully putting the final touches Happy Birthday Star Shine.

CRASH !

Night Wing, quickly exits the kitchen,  into the living room, and headed to the stairs, racing to the top.
Opens the door to the nursery..

Crib tipped,  covered in a blanket,  Star Shine scrambles free, turns around, smiles ''Daddy ''

relieved that she was not hurt in the fall, smiles back, ''look like you are getting too old for your crib. '' with his muzzle he lifts up the end of the crib, back in standing...

''so what do you think we should  have for breakfast,'' turning into the direction of where his daughter was last standing.

Gone...

"Oh you like to play hide and seek, first we eat breakfast, then we can play.'  walking out of the nursery, into the hallway, looking for his daughter, her peeks into his room, not there. Moving forwards in the direction of the bathroom, he quietly opens the door, not here...

proceeding towards the stairs,  hearing faint giggles coming from below, walking down coming into view of the family room, yet still not seeing her in there, as he walks towards the kitchen the giggles grow louder, leaping out Shouting ''I found you.''

Sitting on the counter, Front hoofs covered in frosting , covered in cake,  scattered from mane to hoofs, she sees her Father, face splashes in frosting, she smiles ''Daddy''

Thinking to himself (  I just finished decorations that cake,)  emotions overwhelm him,  just wanting to cry. However quickly,  coming to his senses, It was Star Shines Birthday, I don't want to ruin it.

Going over to the sink, he reaches for a washcloth ''Looks like someone needs a bath,'' he replies, as he wrings it out and turns to wipe the frosting from her muzzle.

Star Shine frown '' No bath'' in protest.

"No bath No Playground'' Night Wing replies as he takes, the messy cake away.

Star Shine, sitting on the counter, licking the frosting off her front hoofs , ''Playground''

cleaning the counter, and wiping off the last chunks of cake and frosting off his daughter,  he picks his daughter up by the end of her tail.

Star Shine, dangles upside down,  giggling ''Weeeee'' as she swings  from the end of her tail, as if she was on the monkey bars at the playground,

her father takes her up the stairs, heads to the bathroom. puts her down on the soft rug on the floors.
Star Shine,  laughter and giggles, wanting to play ''Again''

'' Stay here'' he turns over to the bathtub, twist the tap, waster rushes out, he put out his hoof to check the temperature, adjusting the hot cold knobs, until warm,. leaving the water running as  he rummages though the. bathroom bottom counter under the sink,  finds the bubble bath.

Star Shine pouting ''No bath, playground, playground,''

''After,'' Night Wing reply's, trying to keep focus, on what he had to do.

twisting off the cover, adding a modest amount of bubble bath to the tub, putting the stopper back on, and putting back in the counter under sink.

keeping an eye on the tub.

as the water rises. to the right height., full of fluffy white bubbles,   he quickly turns off the tap. checks the temperature again with his hoof, perfect.

he turns over to Star Shine, bits of frosting  in her Mane and fur, smelling as if she came out of a pastery bakery,  grabs her by the tail, lifts her off the ground. turning over to the tub and carefully putting his daughter in the bath tub,.

Star Shine, sitting in the bath water, surrounded by bubbles, front hoofs crossed with a grumpy expression on her face... frowning.. ''NO bath''

Nigh Wing turns to the sink reaches for her rubber duckey, and places it in the tub...

Mesmerized by the floated toy, she quickly forgets about the playground and  plays with the floating toy.

distracted by the toy, Nigh Wing Quickly reaches for the shampoo, taking a modest amount of shampoo in  his front hoofs, he turns over to wash the frosting from his daughters mane

 

 

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