A short addendum on becoming and being a tiger on one’s fourth birthday.
[[image:2012-yaya4thtiger-09.jpg:Happy Tiger!:center:0]]
You know what to do for captions, right?
You begin with face paint and instructions to do what the face painter tells you to do (remember that listening isn’t exactly Yaya’s strong suit right now):
[[image:2012-yaya4thtiger-01.jpg:White goes on first:center:0]]
[[image:2012-yaya4thtiger-02.jpg:Then a layer of orange:center:0]]
[[image:2012-yaya4thtiger-03.jpg:Some yellow for depth:center:0]]
[[image:2012-yaya4thtiger-04.jpg:Painting in white above the lips:center:0]]
[[image:2012-yaya4thtiger-05.jpg:Blackening the muzzle:center:0]]
[[image:2012-yaya4thtiger-06.jpg:Finally the stripes:center:0]]
[[image:2012-yaya4thtiger-07.jpg:Transformed Tiger admires herself in the mirror:center:0]]
Tigers like to be at the zoo with other tigers.
[[image:2012-yaya4thtiger-10.jpg:Tiger with white siberian tiger in the background:center:0]]
[[image:2012-yaya4thtiger-11.jpg:Tiger communing with her own kind:center:0]]
[[image:2012-yaya4thtiger-12.jpg:Tired Tiger goes home:center:0]]
And most of all, Tigers love their fathers!
[[image:2012-yaya4thtiger-08.jpg:Happy Tiger and her Papa:center:0]]
