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could you maybe do a little finn moodboard?? :)) or little marley plspls i would love it so much :D
little! finn moodboard
headcanons:
regresses down between 3-5
his caregivers are usually quinn or sam, rachel and lurt are available if nobody else is (they like to do babysitting together)
loves any petname, his favourites are "big guy", "buddy", "sweetie" and "finnie"
big naps!! loves to be rocked to sleep, then usually sleeps for a few hours
often wears diapers, finnie can get quite energetic as a little
absolutely loves when his caregivers make food fun!! usually cut into shapes or anything animal related will make him smile
quite curious whenever he's little, usually finn will bite and chew anything.. meaning he's constantly stuck with a paci in his mouth
doesn't have a preference for caregivers, quinn's more soft spoken and helps finn nap, sam's a little more energetic and loves playing around with finn
tries hard to pretend he's not sleepy, hearing a soft "you sure baby?" from either one of his caregivers makes him fall asleep immediately
I'll be making a marley one too!! dw, just may take me a few days :)
Sorry for not being active like- at all- ive been interacting from my main occasionally but i havent really had the time to get into this acc and post :[
℘ ⠀ ⠀valentines day puppyre moodboard ⠀ 𓂃 𓈒𓏸
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Me and some of my friends were doing hunger games disability headcanons in our discord server a few days ago and we had a lot of thoughts on chronically ill Effie so here are some of the headcanons we came up with! Credit to @witchy-shortcake and @pinkrepo for helping me brainstorm, some of these headcanons are theirs!
🐇 Effie has Osteoarthritis, (a specific type of arthritis that causes the protective cartilage cushion that cover the ends of bones to wear down over time, this most commonly causes joint pain specifically in her knees, back and hips) she started developing it in her late twenties due to her physically demanding job as the district twelve escort as well as her genetics. Almost everyone in her immediate family has some type of arthritis.
☕️ She also has Hyperadrenergic POTS ( or postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. It causes her dizziness and/or fainting, stomach aches and fatigue. Hyperadrenergic POTS is caused by an overactive sympathetic immune system) Effie has already had minor symptoms of POTS but she was diagnosed in her early twenties after she passed out from heat exhaustion during a particularly hot july reaping. With age her symptoms unfortunately have only gotten worse.
💕 Both of Effie's conditions combined clearly doesn't stop her from being flamboyant and independent. However like with all chronic illnesses there are better days and there are worse days.
🐇 A better day for Effie consists of almost no pain, besides the occasional back, knee and hip pain as well as random spirts of dizziness, nothing she can't handle though.
☕️ A worse day consists of either one or multiple areas of joint pain. Constant fatigue as well as occasional dizziness, on worse days, Effie normally brings a cane with her to both help support her body and signify to others that she is not at one hundred percent today.
💕 A worst day consists of whole body pain and/or aching, dizziness basically whenever she increases her blood pressure as well as high levels of fatigue. When she's having a worst day, Effie is unable to leave the house and often needs someone to care for her.
🐇 Effie's main caregiver is Haymitch. However she lives in the Capitol so if a worst day happens out of nowhere and Haymitch is not able to make it all the way to the Capitol then either Flavius, Venia, Octavia or Tigris will help to care for her.
☕️ Most of the time Effie can tell that her symptoms are getting worse and that it'll be harder for her to get around by herself. When she feels it coming on she closes her fashion boutique for a week and travels to district twelve to be with Haymitch. She often has her chauffeur drive her because she's in no condition to drive when she begins to feel sick.
💕 Haymitch is unemployed. Due to his winnings from the Hunger Games, he has more money than he knows what to do with. So whenever Effie comes over he can drop everything and focus on her and what she needs. (With the exception of Katniss of course).
🐇 Effie uses a cane for support when she's having a worse day. But does she use any old fancy cane? Of course not! She uses top of the line canes bought from specialty shops in the Capitol. She practically has one for every outfit. The one nice thing about being disabled in the Capitol is that most people use canes as a fashion accessory so it's nothing out of the ordinary that people will gawk at.
☕️ Every disability aid that Effie has is pink. Heat pads? Pink. Medicine organizers? Pink. Braces? Pink. She loves feeling stylish so if something that helps her comes in a more appealing color than she will absolutely buy it.
💕 Effie is very extravagant with the way she dresses. When shes having one of her worse days she still tries to dress well. However when she's having a worst day she simply doesn't have the energy to dress herself up. When she's being cared for by Flavius, Venia, Octavia or Tigris she often covers her hair, applies a bit of makeup and still dress presentably. But when Haymitch cares for her she couldn't care less what she looks like because she knows he won't judge her. When in Haymitch's care she will often just wear her nightclothes and have her natural hair down. It's not uncommon to find her in one of Haymitch's shirts or hoodies as well.
🐇 At Haymitch's house Effie keeps many pink bedsets and pillows for when she's feeling ill. Haymitch absolutely refuses to let her put the pink bedspread and blankets on his bed unless she's feeling really sick. In that case he'll make the bed for her. Pillows really help her when her body hurts because it's something soft that she can position herself against. Haymitch also dresses up the couch with pink pillows and blankets incase Effie is feeling well enough to come downstairs.
☕️ Whenever Effie is having a worst day and she can't leave her bed, Haymitch will bring her meals directly to her bed. He even learned how to make her favorite Capitol cuisines to help her feel better. Everything from lamb soup to chocolate filled croissants he has learned to make for her. (With the help of both Peeta and Katniss of course).
💕 One of Effie's favorite things to do when bedbound is design new outfits for her boutique. She draws dresses and suits until she finds the perfect design to add to her collection.
🐇 Her other hobby is watching old movies with Haymitch. She loves old movies like White Christmas, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Gone with the Wind. Haymitch has an old vhs player and television that he watches movies and t.v shows on as he refuses to use any new technology. He has all of Effie's favorite movies and t.v shows on vhs. Whenever she's sick he'll bring the television into their bedroom and set it up so they can watch something together.
☕️ Along with old Hollywood movies, Effie particularly enjoys old Disney movies. They give her a really nice sense of nostalgia. Her favorite is definitely the aristocrats. She's forced Haymitch to watch it with her so many times that the tape came unraveled and Effie had to purchase a new copy.
💕 Effie is always apologizing to Haymitch, telling her that she feels like a burden and that he doesn't need to do all of this for her. Haymitch obviously takes none of this and tells Effie how much he loves her and that she's never a burden. He hates it so much when she talks about herself like that.
🐇 During one of Effie's first worst days, Haymitch went out to the market and bought her a pink bunny rabbit plush. Effie was so moved by this small act of kindness that she sleeps with the rabbit almost every single night. She named the bunny Opal.
☕️ Whenever she's sick, Haymitch cuddles in bed with her until she falls asleep. Effie weakly holds his hand and tells him how terrible she feels while he kisses her head and tells her that he knows how bad it feels and it's not fair that she has to go through all this
cg!jackie taylor moodboard with a birthday theme <3
a/n: this is for da dearest birthday boy, gavin @pinkrepo !! <3 i hope ur having da best birthday ever !! more under da cut !!
- cg!jackie, who gets so excited about your birthday! waking you up with breakfast in bed && all ur stuffies ready to celebrate
- cg!jackie, who lets you bake ur cake & decorate with her if that’s something you want! she lets you have some batter, and allows you far too many sprinkles >_<
- cg!jackie who spends the few weeks before your birthday, listening extra carefully for any potential birthday gift opportunities :3
happy birthday, gavin!! i hope you’re having da best day ever :3 ive been wanting to make you a moodboard, do you have any specific character and a specific role/theme :3?
Hi hi dino!! Thank you very very much :3
Ooohhh dats hard hmmmm- maybe someone from my fictional cg list!! Your choice though on the character and theme cause i do love a good suprise
℘ ⠀ ⠀big brother ! spinner mason moodboard ⠀ 𓂃 𓈒𓏸
𑁍ࠬܓ a gift for @pinkrepo.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GAVIN!! 🎉🎉 i wanted to make something for your birthday! i saw spinner on your fictional cgs list and got excited at the degrassi mention. i haven't got to watch unfortunately in a long time so i apologize if this is super ooc, but eek! ^_^ i hope you have the bestest day.
Peeta tirelessly tries to get the house ready for his birthday party. When Effie arrives early, things go a bit haywire.
This fic is a birthday present for my good friend @pinkrepo! I wrote this kindof based off his birthday moodboard on tumblr!
Being a birthday present with a deadline, this fic is a bit more fast paced than my others are, however it's still super cute and fun!
Recipe credit: Easy vanilla cake allrecipes
Also, I suck at writing from the male perspective so if this is a bit out of character, I deeply apologize
Per usual NOT A KINK IF YOU FIND THIS SORT OF STUFF KINKY GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME AND MY FICS
Peeta frantically runs around his house, trying to put the finishing touches on the decorations while simultaneously tidying up.
He's attempting to do all the work now to make the house nice so he can relax and let himself regress later.
So after hours of cleaning, hanging up streamers and blowing up balloons, Peeta is almost done. The only thing he has left to do is bake.
Peeta perks up his head when he hears a knock at the door. He glances up at the clock. It reads 11:30. 11:30? Nobody was supposed to show up until 2:30 at the very earliest! Now I won't be able to finish all my tasks because there will be another person in the house and….I'll go answer the door.
As Peeta walks over to the door, a million anxieties fill his head. But they all disappear as soon as he opens the door.
“Effie!” Peeta's whole body relaxes as he lets out a sigh of relief.
“Good morning!” Effie pulls Peeta into a tight embrace.
Peeta has no idea how it's possible to feel so safe and loved from something as simple as a hug. Despite not understanding it he's definitely not the first one to let go.
“How are you doing puppy?” Effie asks, breaking away from the hug.
Effie throwing in his favorite nickname only caused him to slip further. “I'm doing pretty well, how about you?” Peeta fights to try and keep his big headspace.
“Absolutely lovely!” She trills. “By the way, where do you want me to put the presents?”
“Presents?” Peeta asks, confused.
Effie picks up the large bag full of presents from the porch that she put down in order to knock on the door and drops it on the kitchen floor.
“On the living room floor I guess?” Peeta escorts Effie inside and into his living room.
Effie kneels down and takes the presents out of the bag. The presents are wrapped in baby blue paper with dogs wearing party hats. She arranges them in a neat little pile next to the wall.
One specific present caught Peeta's eye; A larger present that wasn’t wrapped in a box. It was clearly a stuffed animal of some kind.
“Can I open one? He asks, clearly losing the battle to his little headspace.
“Of course love, which one?” Effie asks.
“That one” Peeta points to the present.
Effie picks it up and hands it to him “I knew this was going to be the one you picked”
He tears the wrapping paper away to reveal a chocolate lab stuffie.
Peeta squeezes the dog tight in his arms. “Fank yew!” He exclaims. Almost a second after the words leave his mouth he lets out a sigh.
“What's wrong love” Effie runs her fingers through his curly hair.
“I don't wanna be small cus I have so much baking to do still” Peeta manages to get a broken sentence out.
“Oh puppy, it's okay, you can be small whenever you feel the need to” she reassures.
“But baking” Peeta reminds.
“I can help you with that love. I used to bake all the time when I was younger” Effie takes Peeta's hand and helps him to his feet. “All I need is the recipe!”
Peeta brings Effie back into the kitchen where he pulls out a binder from a drawer. The binder is full of recipes. “All the ones I have are in here”
“Do you know what you want to make?” Effie asks, flipping through the pages.
He shakes his head no.
Effie sits down on the kitchen floor and pats her lap.
Peeta does what he's told and sits on Effie's lap.
“Let’s decide together” she says, opening the binder to page one.
Together they flip through puddings and pies, cookies and cupcakes until Peeta decides on the recipes he wants.
“Okay” Effie starts, spreading out all the chosen recipes out on the ground. “Sugar cookies, apple pie, chocolate cupcakes and vanilla cake. Does that sound right?”
“Mmm-hm” Peeta mumbles.
“Well in that case, why don’t you go wash up while I get out the ingredients”
Peeta obeys and goes to wash his hands.
As Effie gathers the ingredients she can't help but feel bad for disrupting Peeta's plans. Her regret melts away when she hears the pitter patter of little feet walking into the kitchen. Whether he'd admit it or not Peeta needed this break.
“Mama” Peeta calls out.
“What is it my dear?” Effie responds.
“Does Doggy have to stay in the living room?” Peeta holds out the new dog plush he got to show Effie.
“Yes he does, I'm sorry love. We really just don't want him to get messy”
Peeta sadly walks into the living room to put his Doggy on the couch. When he comes back, the poor boy looks more remorseful than Effie can ever remember him looking.
“Do you want to go get your paci instead?” Effie asks, trying to help him to transition into the new activity.
“Yes!” Peeta runs off to his room to go retrieve his paci.
Effie preheats the oven to the recommended temperature for the first recipe. She takes the muffin tin out and sets it on the counter.
When Peeta comes back, he has a blue pacifier in his mouth. The pacifier has a paw print on the shield and the phrase “Lil Pup” engraved on the ring. Effie got this pacifier for Peeta after he first told her about his regression.
Since Peeta is already wearing his work clothes so Effie doesn't bother to try and get him out an apron on. She'll just help him change into party clothes later.
Despite him being taller than Effie, Peeta drags a dining chair over to the kitchen counter and kneels on it. “What's first?”
“Well, since the takes the longest time to bake, I was thinking we start with cake”
“Vanilla?” Peeta asks.
“Vanilla” Effie confirms. She gets out all the bowls and measuring cups necessary for the recipe.
The recipe reads;
2 1⁄3 cups of flour
1 ½ cups white sugar
2 ¼ teaspoons baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
3 large eggs
¾ cup whole milk
¾ cup vegetable oil
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F
Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt together in a large bowl. Add eggs, milk, vegetable oil, and vanilla; mix by hand or beat with an electric mixer on low speed until cake batter is smooth. Pour into the prepared pan.
Bake in the preheated oven for about 45 to 50 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert cake carefully onto a cooling rack. Let cake cool completely.
Use a long serrated knife to slice the cake horizontally through the center. Spread frosting or filling between the layers and replace the top half of the cake. Frost the top and sides as desired.
With Effie's help, Peeta puts the measured flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into the bowl.
Effie lets him mix the ingredients together while she grabs the next ingredients. She puts 3 eggs, vegetable oil, milk and vanilla extract next to the bowl.
Peeta very carefully measures the ingredients and pours them into the mixture. Effie doesn't allow him to crack the eggs because she isn't very confident that he won't get eggshells everywhere.
He continues to mix the batter as Effie goes to throw away the shells and wash her hands.
Once the batter is smooth, Effie helps Peeta pour it into the cake pan.
Effie makes Peeta stand back as she puts the cake pan in the oven to help avoid any curious little hands getting hurt.
They repeat the same process to make the chocolate cupcakes, only replacing the vanilla with cocoa powder and the cake pan with a muffin pan.
Once the chocolate cupcakes are ready to go in the oven, the vanilla cake is done baking.
Effie removes the vanilla cake and places it on a wire rack. She then puts the chocolate cupcakes into the oven.
–
After hours of baking, everything is finally ready to be frosted.
The last thing Effie takes out of the oven is the apple pie. She sets it on the dining table to cool as Peeta picks his frosting colors.
“Orange and blue” he finally decides.
Effie gives him a bottle of orange food coloring and a bottle of blue food coloring. She instructs Peeta to put a few drops of blue in the first frosting bowl and a few drops of orange in the second frosting bowl.
Peeta adds drops until he's satisfied with both the colors. He then helps Effie scoop the frosting into piping bags.
The chocolate cupcakes get blue, the vanilla cake gets orange and the cookies get both.
Peeta squeezes the piping bag while Effie helps guide, making perfect swirls on top of all the cupcakes.
She gives Peeta a butter knife and allows him to scoop the remaining frosting out of the piping bags in order to smooth the frosting on the cookies.
While Peeta is busy decorating the cookies, Effie whips up a new batch of orange frosting to frost the cake with.
“Sprinkles?” Peeta asks Effie as he frosts the last cookie.
Effie walks over to the cupboard where Peeta keeps all his baking supplies. She grabs a box full of candles “Which kind? We have rainbow sprinkles, stars, dog bones, paw prints, dinosaurs and hearts.”
“Bones and paw prints!” Peeta exclaims.
“That's exactly what I thought you'd say” Effie grabs the two sprinkle bottles and slides them over to Peeta on the counter. She also places the box of candles on the counter before she goes back to frosting the cake.
Peeta contently decorates the cookies until they look exactly how he wants them to. Once he's done, he watches Effie frost.
“Are you having a good birthday?” Effie asks while she attempts to squeeze the rest of the frosting out of the piping bag.
“Mmm-hm” Peeta nods.
“Do you want to pick a few candles for the cake?” Effie puts the candle box within Peeta's reach.
He digs through the box eagerly. There's numbers and animals, Mickey mouses and Cookie monsters. Eventually Peeta settles on 2d candles with pictures of puppies on them and a candle that says Happy Birthday with paw prints on the letters.
Effie lets him place the candles on the cake. For being regressed, Peeta still has very good spatial orientation when it comes to baking.
–
Once the kitchen is cleaned and all the treats are ready, Effie places them all on the dining room table in a neat array. “It looks like we're all ready!” She says with a sigh of relief.
“Nap?” Peeta walks back into the living room, picking up his Doggy.
Effie glances at the clock. After all that baking it was already 1:50. “Why don’t we get you into your party clothes first, then we can take a quick nap”
Peeta takes Effie's hand and leads her into his bedroom.
She goes to his dresser and looks through it. All that's in there is grey and black shirts and pants. “Puppy, where are your…fun clothes?”
“Closet” Peeta murmurs, fighting to stay awake.
Effie opens his closet and scans up and down until she finds what she's looking for; a banker's box with a drawing of a dog on it. She carefully pulls out the box and opens it. It's full of shirts with cartoon characters, onesies, cute socks and chew toys. Effie picks out a shirt with blue from blues clues, blue socks with pawprints on the bottom and a pair of brown shorts from his dresser. “Good?”
“Good”
She helps Peeta into his new clothes and walks with him back to the couch. Effie sits down and Peeta lays on her lap.
–
Effie doesn't remember falling asleep, she's almost confident that she was awake the whole time, but when someone knocks at the door it startles her awake.
Peeta who's in her lap jumps when she startles awake.
“It's okay baby, someone just knocked on the door and it scared me a bit” she runs her fingers through his curly hair.
Only when there's a second knock at the door does Effie realize that it's probably their first party guests. She moves Peeta off her lap and gets up to answer the door.
Peeta sleepily gets up and follows Effie.
“Happy birthday kiddo!” Haymitch exclaims.
“Uncle Haymitch!” Peeta rushes to the door and gives him a hug.
“You've gotten so big, my goodness” Haymitch teases, letting go of Peeta and walking into the house to greet Effie.
Katniss meekly follows Haymitch into the house. As soon as she steps foot inside Peeta pulls her into a tight hug. “Hi Peeta” she giggles.
The two run off into the living room.
“Good afternoon darlin'” Haymitch pecks Effie on the cheek. “How long have you been here?”
“Since eleven thirty this morning” she responds.
“You must be exhausted” he chuckles.
“You have no idea”
–
The next guests are Cashmere and Gloss all the way from district one.
Cashmere runs into the living room to go play with her friends while Gloss follows her and sits on the couch to supervise after greeting both Effie and Haymitch.
The group plays for a while until the last guests arrive; Annie, Finnick and Johanna.
“Sorry we're late” Annie apologizes to Effie.
“It's perfectly fine, I know how hard it is getting out the door with one, I can’t imagine how hard it is with two!” She responds.
Annie tells Johanna and Finnick to go play in the living room with the other kids.
Effie, Haymitch and Annie talk for a bit while the regressors play with each other (and Gloss supervises.)
–
After about twenty minutes, Effie goes into the living room to tell everyone it's time for cake. She finds all five of them on all fours. She assumes that they're playing some sort of animal game but sometimes it's better just not to know. “Everyone, cake!” Effie chitters.
Peeta gets up and leads everyone into the kitchen and sits at the table. He made sure to put a party hat of each attendee's favorite color where he wanted them to sit at the table. He specifically did this so Johanna and Finnick weren't fighting the whole entire time.
Katniss sits next to Peeta, a green party hat on the table in front of her chair.
Finnick sits on the other side of him, a blue party hat on the table in front of his chair.
Johanna and Cashmere sat across from him, red and light blue party hats in their space.
All the adults stand around the table and watch.
Effie very very carefully lights all his candles.
The group sings happy birthday to Peeta and he blows out the candles.
The rest of the night was honestly just a blur of games, snacks and stories.
While he can't exactly remember much of what happened. Peeta does remember that this was his best birthday ever.
Peeta tirelessly tries to get the house ready for his birthday party. When Effie arrives early, things go a bit haywire.
This fic is a birthday present for my good friend @pinkrepo! I wrote this kindof based off his birthday moodboard on tumblr!
Being a birthday present with a deadline, this fic is a bit more fast paced than my others are, however it's still super cute and fun!
Recipe credit: Easy vanilla cake allrecipes
Also, I suck at writing from the male perspective so if this is a bit out of character, I deeply apologize
Per usual NOT A KINK IF YOU FIND THIS SORT OF STUFF KINKY GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME AND MY FICS
Peeta frantically runs around his house, trying to put the finishing touches on the decorations while simultaneously tidying up.
He's attempting to do all the work now to make the house nice so he can relax and let himself regress later.
So after hours of cleaning, hanging up streamers and blowing up balloons, Peeta is almost done. The only thing he has left to do is bake.
Peeta perks up his head when he hears a knock at the door. He glances up at the clock. It reads 11:30. 11:30? Nobody was supposed to show up until 2:30 at the very earliest! Now I won't be able to finish all my tasks because there will be another person in the house and….I'll go answer the door.
As Peeta walks over to the door, a million anxieties fill his head. But they all disappear as soon as he opens the door.
“Effie!” Peeta's whole body relaxes as he lets out a sigh of relief.
“Good morning!” Effie pulls Peeta into a tight embrace.
Peeta has no idea how it's possible to feel so safe and loved from something as simple as a hug. Despite not understanding it he's definitely not the first one to let go.
“How are you doing puppy?” Effie asks, breaking away from the hug.
Effie throwing in his favorite nickname only caused him to slip further. “I'm doing pretty well, how about you?” Peeta fights to try and keep his big headspace.
“Absolutely lovely!” She trills. “By the way, where do you want me to put the presents?”
“Presents?” Peeta asks, confused.
Effie picks up the large bag full of presents from the porch that she put down in order to knock on the door and drops it on the kitchen floor.
“On the living room floor I guess?” Peeta escorts Effie inside and into his living room.
Effie kneels down and takes the presents out of the bag. The presents are wrapped in baby blue paper with dogs wearing party hats. She arranges them in a neat little pile next to the wall.
One specific present caught Peeta's eye; A larger present that wasn’t wrapped in a box. It was clearly a stuffed animal of some kind.
“Can I open one? He asks, clearly losing the battle to his little headspace.
“Of course love, which one?” Effie asks.
“That one” Peeta points to the present.
Effie picks it up and hands it to him “I knew this was going to be the one you picked”
He tears the wrapping paper away to reveal a chocolate lab stuffie.
Peeta squeezes the dog tight in his arms. “Fank yew!” He exclaims. Almost a second after the words leave his mouth he lets out a sigh.
“What's wrong love” Effie runs her fingers through his curly hair.
“I don't wanna be small cus I have so much baking to do still” Peeta manages to get a broken sentence out.
“Oh puppy, it's okay, you can be small whenever you feel the need to” she reassures.
“But baking” Peeta reminds.
“I can help you with that love. I used to bake all the time when I was younger” Effie takes Peeta's hand and helps him to his feet. “All I need is the recipe!”
Peeta brings Effie back into the kitchen where he pulls out a binder from a drawer. The binder is full of recipes. “All the ones I have are in here”
“Do you know what you want to make?” Effie asks, flipping through the pages.
He shakes his head no.
Effie sits down on the kitchen floor and pats her lap.
Peeta does what he's told and sits on Effie's lap.
“Let’s decide together” she says, opening the binder to page one.
Together they flip through puddings and pies, cookies and cupcakes until Peeta decides on the recipes he wants.
“Okay” Effie starts, spreading out all the chosen recipes out on the ground. “Sugar cookies, apple pie, chocolate cupcakes and vanilla cake. Does that sound right?”
“Mmm-hm” Peeta mumbles.
“Well in that case, why don’t you go wash up while I get out the ingredients”
Peeta obeys and goes to wash his hands.
As Effie gathers the ingredients she can't help but feel bad for disrupting Peeta's plans. Her regret melts away when she hears the pitter patter of little feet walking into the kitchen. Whether he'd admit it or not Peeta needed this break.
“Mama” Peeta calls out.
“What is it my dear?” Effie responds.
“Does Doggy have to stay in the living room?” Peeta holds out the new dog plush he got to show Effie.
“Yes he does, I'm sorry love. We really just don't want him to get messy”
Peeta sadly walks into the living room to put his Doggy on the couch. When he comes back, the poor boy looks more remorseful than Effie can ever remember him looking.
“Do you want to go get your paci instead?” Effie asks, trying to help him to transition into the new activity.
“Yes!” Peeta runs off to his room to go retrieve his paci.
Effie preheats the oven to the recommended temperature for the first recipe. She takes the muffin tin out and sets it on the counter.
When Peeta comes back, he has a blue pacifier in his mouth. The pacifier has a paw print on the shield and the phrase “Lil Pup” engraved on the ring. Effie got this pacifier for Peeta after he first told her about his regression.
Since Peeta is already wearing his work clothes so Effie doesn't bother to try and get him out an apron on. She'll just help him change into party clothes later.
Despite him being taller than Effie, Peeta drags a dining chair over to the kitchen counter and kneels on it. “What's first?”
“Well, since the takes the longest time to bake, I was thinking we start with cake”
“Vanilla?” Peeta asks.
“Vanilla” Effie confirms. She gets out all the bowls and measuring cups necessary for the recipe.
The recipe reads;
2 1⁄3 cups of flour
1 ½ cups white sugar
2 ¼ teaspoons baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
3 large eggs
¾ cup whole milk
¾ cup vegetable oil
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F
Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt together in a large bowl. Add eggs, milk, vegetable oil, and vanilla; mix by hand or beat with an electric mixer on low speed until cake batter is smooth. Pour into the prepared pan.
Bake in the preheated oven for about 45 to 50 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert cake carefully onto a cooling rack. Let cake cool completely.
Use a long serrated knife to slice the cake horizontally through the center. Spread frosting or filling between the layers and replace the top half of the cake. Frost the top and sides as desired.
With Effie's help, Peeta puts the measured flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into the bowl.
Effie lets him mix the ingredients together while she grabs the next ingredients. She puts 3 eggs, vegetable oil, milk and vanilla extract next to the bowl.
Peeta very carefully measures the ingredients and pours them into the mixture. Effie doesn't allow him to crack the eggs because she isn't very confident that he won't get eggshells everywhere.
He continues to mix the batter as Effie goes to throw away the shells and wash her hands.
Once the batter is smooth, Effie helps Peeta pour it into the cake pan.
Effie makes Peeta stand back as she puts the cake pan in the oven to help avoid any curious little hands getting hurt.
They repeat the same process to make the chocolate cupcakes, only replacing the vanilla with cocoa powder and the cake pan with a muffin pan.
Once the chocolate cupcakes are ready to go in the oven, the vanilla cake is done baking.
Effie removes the vanilla cake and places it on a wire rack. She then puts the chocolate cupcakes into the oven.
–
After hours of baking, everything is finally ready to be frosted.
The last thing Effie takes out of the oven is the apple pie. She sets it on the dining table to cool as Peeta picks his frosting colors.
“Orange and blue” he finally decides.
Effie gives him a bottle of orange food coloring and a bottle of blue food coloring. She instructs Peeta to put a few drops of blue in the first frosting bowl and a few drops of orange in the second frosting bowl.
Peeta adds drops until he's satisfied with both the colors. He then helps Effie scoop the frosting into piping bags.
The chocolate cupcakes get blue, the vanilla cake gets orange and the cookies get both.
Peeta squeezes the piping bag while Effie helps guide, making perfect swirls on top of all the cupcakes.
She gives Peeta a butter knife and allows him to scoop the remaining frosting out of the piping bags in order to smooth the frosting on the cookies.
While Peeta is busy decorating the cookies, Effie whips up a new batch of orange frosting to frost the cake with.
“Sprinkles?” Peeta asks Effie as he frosts the last cookie.
Effie walks over to the cupboard where Peeta keeps all his baking supplies. She grabs a box full of candles “Which kind? We have rainbow sprinkles, stars, dog bones, paw prints, dinosaurs and hearts.”
“Bones and paw prints!” Peeta exclaims.
“That's exactly what I thought you'd say” Effie grabs the two sprinkle bottles and slides them over to Peeta on the counter. She also places the box of candles on the counter before she goes back to frosting the cake.
Peeta contently decorates the cookies until they look exactly how he wants them to. Once he's done, he watches Effie frost.
“Are you having a good birthday?” Effie asks while she attempts to squeeze the rest of the frosting out of the piping bag.
“Mmm-hm” Peeta nods.
“Do you want to pick a few candles for the cake?” Effie puts the candle box within Peeta's reach.
He digs through the box eagerly. There's numbers and animals, Mickey mouses and Cookie monsters. Eventually Peeta settles on 2d candles with pictures of puppies on them and a candle that says Happy Birthday with paw prints on the letters.
Effie lets him place the candles on the cake. For being regressed, Peeta still has very good spatial orientation when it comes to baking.
–
Once the kitchen is cleaned and all the treats are ready, Effie places them all on the dining room table in a neat array. “It looks like we're all ready!” She says with a sigh of relief.
“Nap?” Peeta walks back into the living room, picking up his Doggy.
Effie glances at the clock. After all that baking it was already 1:50. “Why don’t we get you into your party clothes first, then we can take a quick nap”
Peeta takes Effie's hand and leads her into his bedroom.
She goes to his dresser and looks through it. All that's in there is grey and black shirts and pants. “Puppy, where are your…fun clothes?”
“Closet” Peeta murmurs, fighting to stay awake.
Effie opens his closet and scans up and down until she finds what she's looking for; a banker's box with a drawing of a dog on it. She carefully pulls out the box and opens it. It's full of shirts with cartoon characters, onesies, cute socks and chew toys. Effie picks out a shirt with blue from blues clues, blue socks with pawprints on the bottom and a pair of brown shorts from his dresser. “Good?”
“Good”
She helps Peeta into his new clothes and walks with him back to the couch. Effie sits down and Peeta lays on her lap.
–
Effie doesn't remember falling asleep, she's almost confident that she was awake the whole time, but when someone knocks at the door it startles her awake.
Peeta who's in her lap jumps when she startles awake.
“It's okay baby, someone just knocked on the door and it scared me a bit” she runs her fingers through his curly hair.
Only when there's a second knock at the door does Effie realize that it's probably their first party guests. She moves Peeta off her lap and gets up to answer the door.
Peeta sleepily gets up and follows Effie.
“Happy birthday kiddo!” Haymitch exclaims.
“Uncle Haymitch!” Peeta rushes to the door and gives him a hug.
“You've gotten so big, my goodness” Haymitch teases, letting go of Peeta and walking into the house to greet Effie.
Katniss meekly follows Haymitch into the house. As soon as she steps foot inside Peeta pulls her into a tight hug. “Hi Peeta” she giggles.
The two run off into the living room.
“Good afternoon darlin'” Haymitch pecks Effie on the cheek. “How long have you been here?”
“Since eleven thirty this morning” she responds.
“You must be exhausted” he chuckles.
“You have no idea”
–
The next guests are Cashmere and Gloss all the way from district one.
Cashmere runs into the living room to go play with her friends while Gloss follows her and sits on the couch to supervise after greeting both Effie and Haymitch.
The group plays for a while until the last guests arrive; Annie, Finnick and Johanna.
“Sorry we're late” Annie apologizes to Effie.
“It's perfectly fine, I know how hard it is getting out the door with one, I can’t imagine how hard it is with two!” She responds.
Annie tells Johanna and Finnick to go play in the living room with the other kids.
Effie, Haymitch and Annie talk for a bit while the regressors play with each other (and Gloss supervises.)
–
After about twenty minutes, Effie goes into the living room to tell everyone it's time for cake. She finds all five of them on all fours. She assumes that they're playing some sort of animal game but sometimes it's better just not to know. “Everyone, cake!” Effie chitters.
Peeta gets up and leads everyone into the kitchen and sits at the table. He made sure to put a party hat of each attendee's favorite color where he wanted them to sit at the table. He specifically did this so Johanna and Finnick weren't fighting the whole entire time.
Katniss sits next to Peeta, a green party hat on the table in front of her chair.
Finnick sits on the other side of him, a blue party hat on the table in front of his chair.
Johanna and Cashmere sat across from him, red and light blue party hats in their space.
All the adults stand around the table and watch.
Effie very very carefully lights all his candles.
The group sings happy birthday to Peeta and he blows out the candles.
The rest of the night was honestly just a blur of games, snacks and stories.
While he can't exactly remember much of what happened. Peeta does remember that this was his best birthday ever.
℘ ⠀ ⠀laura lee paci edits ⠀ 𓂃 𓈒𓏸
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i have not done paci edits in 5ever, so these are rather messy. i much prefer doing animated characters as it becomes easier to play with blending and color picking, and there is no possible way to overstep a real person's boundary, but this was a sweet idea and posed a nice challenge for me. in the process of making these, i found some perfect images for a regressor!laura lee board, so if anyone would like to see that then 👀👀👀.
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