Aiu de-masks and tucks into his beef thing.

Rabka eats with her free arm while Cathei eats with her whole little self.

"How do you like the seasonings?"

"They're super yummy!"

"I'm glad!"

For the remainder of the meal he eats in silence and occasionally makes a frustrated or exasperated face into his cauliflower, apparently at nothing.

"Are you okay?"

" - Yes, sorry, I'm fine."

"...'kay." She will sing to her baby when she's done eating. Cathei eventually goes back to sleep.

"When she wakes up may I hold her?"

"'Course!"

"I should make her some proper clothes in the meantime.  Any requests for styles or fabrics?"

"It would be kind of cute if she had an outfit patterned like the teapot she used to be."

"I don't have fabric that matches already and was planning to make something more quickly than would allow for embroidery.  But I might have something similar, or I could coordinate with the bonnet."

"Coordinating with the bonnet would also be so cute! Or rainbow so she matches my hair. Or whatever's easy, it's not like she cares."

"Okay."  He produces a mostly white and a rainbow dress within the hour, both of which at least sort of match the bonnet.

And Cathei can be re-dressed.

"You're being so super nice."

"I guess."

"Did you want me to show you how to latch hook stuff?"

". . . Yes."

"Okay!" The glue on the grid has dried now so she can take a chunk of the thick yarn and squeeze it into her hook and - like so, voila.

"I see.  Would you like to keep going or should I try now, since you probably can't use most magic."

"I had to watch it done a few times but I was like three, so maybe you can do it after seeing it just the once!" She hands him the hook.