7th heaven, where the heart is…..
Eric and Annie had seven children, but their order was different from what the showed had expected. Now there are eight children and two adults, could this really work out or would they be out numbered by their children.
Matt 16
Mary 14
Lucy 12
Simon 10
Sam 8
David 7
Ruthie 05
Libby 2
Eric
entered the younger boys bedroom, pushing the door open was a task
that had difficulty all over it. There on the
floor laid out was a train track, following it with his eyes, the man
did not notice where the children were. He looked up between the two
bunk beds and smiled, seeing his son Simon sitting on one side of the
bed facing Matt, between the two boys laid cards, "go fish" one
voice said. The 10 year old blonde haired boy looked over to his
father and smiled instantly on seeing him. "we just playing…want
any help to set up dinner?" Simon asked.
This made Matt turn
around "Dad can I talk to you?" he said with a pleading tone. The
dark haired boy could read Eric's expression and pointed towards
the other bunk bed.
Eric's eyes went to where Matt was pointing
and out popped one of the younger boy's heads. "Come Sam…your
train's gotta come out of the tunnel" David said, the made a
train noise and crawling on his stomach, he came out. His eyes met
his fathers and he giggled.
Eric had known by what David had
said, that bed was used for a tunnel for the trains. Smiling Eric
looked at Simon and Matt. "Well I think your mother would like to
have helpers down there" He answered to Simon.
Looking over at
Matt he nodded with a concerned look that now was expressed on his
face. "Sure..well" He was cut off by Matt, "Dad we can talk
after dinner" he said and with that Simon and Matt left the game
and making their way through the train mess, they went past Eric and
down stairs.
As Eric was about to shut the door, one head popped
out from under the bed. The 8 and 7 year old were now still playing
oblivious to Eric.
As the father shut the door, he turned
around to be greeted by Ruthie. "Hey sweetie" he said hugging
her. When he saw the sad expression on her face, Eric frowned, going
down to her level, he pulled in his daughter closer. "What's
wrong princess?" he asked as he smoothed a strand of hair behind
her ear.
The 5 year old girl bit her lip before starting, "How
come Libby got to not help out?" she asked.
Eric smiled softly,
he knew that Ruthie had a problem with jealousy, that he had hoped
would have passed A sigh excpaed his mouth and he knew that Ruthie
never seemed to understand that Libby was only still very little and
it was something that he and Annie had been trying to teach her for a
long time.
Holding her close now in his arms, Eric smiled gently,
"Sweetie, Libby is to young to know about helping out, I was
hoping that you would help me and your mommy out by making sure Libby
would be a good girl while mommy get's dinner ready"
This made
Ruthie think, she felt it was much better than washing plates or
other things, but still she found her little sister to be hard work.
"Suppose sooo" she said still not with a smile, "but I getta
sticker?" she asked Eric now with her hands on her hips.
This
made Eric want to laugh, but instead he picked up his 5 year old
daughter walked with her in his arms, down stairs into his
study.
Coming out of the room, the little girl now beamed, her
brown curls bounced as she skipped into the living room where Libby
had recently woken up. "Look Libby…I gotta sticker…you don't"
she said to her two year old sister.
The baby of the family sat
on the couch rubbing her eyes, she just looked at the tv screen and
pointed at it. "Tat" she said as she pointed at Cat on the
screen.
"It's Tom and Jerry silly" Ruthie said with her
arms folded, she kept looking between her sister and the tv.
Eric
was now in the kitchen with his wife. He knew the two boys were
setting up the table and after that going into the living room to
keep an eye on their sisters.
"I think another talk with Ruthie
would help the sister bond" he said as he started to stir the
gravey.
Annie sighed and nodded, "I thought she would have at
least understood by now….I don't know, we didn't go through
this with Mary or Lucy" she said with a soft tone.
With the two
names mentioned, the two girls came in from the back door. "Dad
after dinner could you drop me off at basket ball pratice?" Mary
asked as she pushed a stand of her long dark hair behind her ear.
The nodd from her father made the girls smile and together they
entered the living room to join their siblings.
"DINNER" was
a word that brought down to two youngest boys from upstairs. 7 year
old David was the first to sit down, continued with Sam by his side.
Lucy sat opposite her sister and next to Sam, Matt and Simon sat next to Mary. By Eric sat Ruthie on a cusion so she could reach the
table, and by Annie was the two year old baby in the highchair.
"Let
us prayer" Eric said. With that Ruthie piped up. "Rub a dub dub,
thanks for the grub" She looked finished with the prayer and a
small satisfied look on her face.
Annie and Eric looked up and
linked eyes, mortified by their daughter's words, the siblings
though all tried to hide their laughter and sniggers.