Babies 10 and 11

No sooner had they been born when the twins birthday came around.  Jordan and Peyton started to blow out their candles when I started to smell something burning.  I looked down and jumped back, the cake was on fire!  I quickly ran outside and told the other kids to do so too but they didn't go.

I guessed that they couldn't hear me over my screaming and their screaming.  Only Flora had was quick on her feet.  She grabbed the fire extinguisher, which was fortunately nearby, and put out the fire.  With her quick wits, there was hardly any damage.

Both Jordan and Peyton, , were able to grow up well.  Jordan had brown hair (that was not his father's) and his father's gold eyes.  He looked the most like Deshaun.  Peyton had her father's brown hair and my dad's green eyes.

One day, I left the children with the older kids and went out to play my guitar to earn some money.  As I was biking to the park, I noticed a big crowd of people outside of city hall.

They seemed to be protesting against animal rights, particularly llamas.  That's when I saw a very bright blue head of hair in the crowd and I had to stop. 

His name was Brian Quinn.  He had bright blue-green hair and blue eyes that were very similar to mine.  He and I started talking and I asked him if he knew about 100 Baby Challenges and would he like to participate in one.

Astonishingly, he told me that he was the first baby of a 100 Baby Challenge currently being pursued by a beautiful young woman named Christy Quinn.  I immediately recognized the name from some articles I had read in the newspaper.  She was about 1/3 through her challenge and still going strong.

Brian said that he wanted to participate so that he could tell his mother all about it.  He knew she would be proud for being a part of a challenge.  We hugged.  Then he drove to my house.

Being very absent-minded he spotted the sculpting station and started to work on a clay sculpture.  I got kind of annoyed but he said that he would be ready after he made the sculpture.

Almost done.  I stood there and tried to guess what it was going to be.

"A fountain... a bench... a CHAIR!!" I exclaimed.

Finally he finished and it was nearly midnight.  I was right, it was a chair.  A very lovely chair at that and he presented it to me so that I would always remember him.  It was a present to my family and his future children in dedication of my 100 Baby Challenge.  I thought it was very sweet of him.

Then we embraced each other and went to the bedroom.

Afterward, I studied the intricate design on the chair.  It was simple, yet unique in its own way.  I brought the chair outside.  I set it right next to the umbrella in the playground so I could use it to sit and watch the kids while they played.

After Brian left at nearly five in the morning, I went to visit my new grandchildren, Maggie and Lola, and it was their birthday.  Maggie had her mother's black hair and her Walter's green eyes.

I was so glad that dad's eyes were being passed down.  I guessed that a lot of my children and grandchildren would have his eyes and probably his hair too.  Lola looked exactly like her sister, Maggie, especially since their hair was in the same two ponytails.  Neither of the girls had inherited their dad's bright red hair.  They were definitely identical at this stage of their life.

The teens and Elvira were growing up.

Flora, baby 5, cut her long hair to donate to Locks of Love to make into a wig for people who don't have hair of their own.  That was so kind of her and they said that she had given enough hair to make 3 different wigs!  She mentioned that she also wanted a new look now that she was going out of the house.

Saffron, baby 6, was a very sporty guy.  He kept his hair short so it wouldn't get in the way once he started to train at the academy.

Elvira, baby 7, as a teen.  She had a short mohawk hairstyle.  She liked it but personally, I didn't, although I think it does fit her style.  Her eyes were becoming more and more like her father's.

I potty trained Jordan.  He looked up at me with the cutest little face and those beautiful gold eyes of his.

Afterward, I decided to go for a new look with my hair down instead of tied up
I watched T.V.  I didn't really want to watch kids shows.  I had watched plenty of those and I knew I would have to watch more.

As I sat down again, I became mesmerized with the show that was on.  It was all about how to feed your kids healthy, easy meals.  I soaked up the information like a sponge.

Once Elvira's older siblings had left she was quite unsupervised and she started to tease and have her version of "fun" with the toddlers, today the victim was Peyton.  She came up to Peyton and got so excited at what she was doing that she started clapping her hands and rubbing them with glee.

Then she stole a lollipop from Peyton that I had given her to calm her down from a painful fall down the stairs she had taken earlier.  Poor Peyton, I immediately rushed to her when I heard her screams and warned Elvira not to do that again.

"Don't you remember what you promised me when you were a child?" I asked.

To help her become nicer to her brothers and sisters I made her in charge of Peyton for the whole day.  Peyton was nervous at first and did not want to go in her highchair, let alone have Elvira hold her.

But when Elvira gave Peyton a big bowl of soup, Peyton gradually got more comfortable.

Elvira even made Peyton laugh afterward.

This must have put Elvira in a good mood because I didn't hear her mutter a single bad word as she went back downstairs to clean the mess Peyton had made.

Elvira really seemed to enjoy being an older sister and without me telling her to, she played with Peyton with the peg box.

I thought Elvira had been transformed but one day she could not resist being evil just once.  She admitted to me that she had snuck up into the empty older boys bedroom to troll on forum on the computer.  At least she was honest.

After a very short labor I came out with Phineas Quinn, baby 10.  Right behind me came Brian with Ferb Brian, baby 11.

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FAMILY UPDATE

Baby 5, Flora, met a very excitable man named Raines Clement.  He had striking pink skin, bright blue eyes, and purple hair. 

After a few months of dating he proposed to her, and of course she said yes.  More grandchildren on the way.

Also, my brother, Noah, had a baby girl named Kenyatta.  Strangely, Vita and Nick, Noah's in-laws, were reaching their old age and they had a new kid too.  They named their new girl, Sylvia (Sorry, I have no pictures of them but you can see them on the family tree).

My other brother and sister, Owen and Sophie weren't going to have anymore kids, but Lydia and Prescott Long were.

Their daughter Lane got a new brother named Terill.  He had strange black hair and weird dark green eyes.  Terill looked nothing like either of his parents, even his eye color was not the same shade of green as his mother.

Also, my other sister, Alicia, and her husband, Kendall, had twin girls named, Diana and Kate.  Diana looks like Alicia with her blond hair and green eyes.  Kate had Kendall's red-brown hair and Alicia's green eyes.

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NOTE

Thank you Christy Quinn for letting me use Christy's son, Brian Quinn, as a challenge father.

Also, the names of the twins were suggested by my younger sister who was with me when I was writing that part of the post.  They are from Phineas and Ferb on the Disney channel.