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262 Monday - May 14 - 8:45 P.M. My Darling Tinker: No mail from you today, but we did receive a box from M containing the “fixings” for Wendy's birthday party. I'm going to save whatever I can, and send them on to you with a piece of birthday cake. We had drizzles all day, but it cleared off about six this evening, and it looks as if it is going to be clear tomorrow. How do you like the little scrap of blue material? I bought a yard and a half to send you for a kimono for Wendy. To be on the safe side I'm decided to get another half yard, and mail the package off to you tomorrow afternoon. Material is [pg 2] still very scarce, but I thought this was so pretty - it's a washable [?] faille, and it's a perfect color for little sweetie. As for size - it wouldn't do any good to send her measurements, because they change so fast. Would suggest having it made one or two sizes larger than the white one- Helen had two U-mails from Walter today - one was a Mother's Day greeting, and the other a note written before he was wounded. Helen still hasn't received the telegram. Picked up an interesting book at the library this afternoon - The New Sun - Taro Yashima - have you heard of it? Its all sketches with one or two lines of the narrative under each one [pg 3]. I haven't done more than just glance thru it casually, but it looks like something out of the ordinary. Darling, we shall have to get a movie camera as soon as we can after the war, so that we'll be sure to have pictures of our next baby. Wendy has changed so from the tiny mite she was when we first saw her. She's so big! I love to watch her figure things out for herself, and she does so almost constantly now. One thing I'm very pleased about is that she doesn't burst into tears every time she bumps herself - and that's often now - She seems to cry mostly when she's sleepy, or when she wants to be played with. Most [pg 4] of the time she is content to amuse herself- Sweety, I wish you could see our little garden - its really doing very well - there isn't any order, because I've just stuck plants in wherever there was room, but there are always a few flowers to stick here and there about the house. The rosebush over the roof is blooming again, and its lovely. I still have the ivy and African violet you sent me, and they are both doing well. Am going to walk to the P.O. tonight - come home and bend the hair - then to bed and I hope sweet dreams of you - Lots of loving from your big and little sweetie- Bobby
