A week ago, as a friend who has no children and I were walking through the icy streets, I pulled her into Purl Soho with a specific fabric and color in mind.  My girls had set me to whipping up a pair of Little Pink Riding Hood capes for them, and the body and the shade of this hot pink canvas, I knew, would be just the thing.

When I pulled out the bright, bright pink from among the other fabrics in the store, my friend Lisa raised her eyebrows and commented, “That certainly is pink.”

What she does not understand is the Power of Pink.  The dearness and fabulousness and the joie de vivre!

Pink is once more the reigning color in our household now that Genevieve is 2 and Mira has gone through her too cool for pink  stage- no matter that we saw her secretly loving pink all along.  Liev will even wear it once in a while to make his sisters happy.

Each girl got to choose her lining fabric for her Red Riding Hood Cape from Oliver + S’s Little Things to Sew, and while Mira took nearly a week to decide, Gigi knew right away, with a sweep of her tiny finger what she was choosing: one of the prints from Sarah Jane’s Children at Play.  She was already letting us know who each girl and stuffed animal and baby doll on the print was.  This way she can have all of her best friends traveling along with her when she wears this.  How smart is that?

We’re still working on Mira’s cape, but Genevieve put on and styled her look with some hot pink rhinestone-accented sunglasses.  She instructed me to go get my camera and take a picture of her, “look”.  I mean, who wants to be Little Red when you could be Little PINK?