Yukata

sashagee's grandfather fought in the war and while stationed in Japan, met a woman and they got married. They later had a falling out and divorced and she returned to Japan, leaving her daughters behind. He remarried, to a woman ~15 years his junior, and that woman was sashagee's grandmother, but it means she has several half-Japanese aunts who are much older than her other aunts. I haven't met any of them, but one of them send us a present:

An actual smile caught on camera!

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It took some coaxing to get her into it--the first time sashagee tried, she wanted nothing to do with it--but when she was told she could keep on her pink "pretty dress" and the yukata would go on over the top, she was all in. She's definitely in a girly girl phase.