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Chapter 14: Crazy birthdays and a blond's clan

August 9, 2019 (Friday)

MPOV

Ok, Mia, breath.

Holy shit, yes!

So, my period is like a week late. Jamie has been so disappointed the last couple of months, even though he tried not to show it. I've been attempting to get pregnant since Easter. I had to remind him more than once that it's not that easy to get pregnant. But, honestly, I was beginning to panic and think I couldn't get pregnant again.

Ok. Wow.

Before telling Jamie and getting his hopes up, I should buy a pregnancy test. When is my next appointment with my doctor? Hmm…

"Yes! Yes, yes, yes, yes!" I scream from our ensuite bathroom.

"What was that? What's wrong?" Jamie asks, coming in running. I shake the positive pregnancy test in front of his face. "What's that?" he asks. With one hand he grabs my wrist and with the other he takes the little stick. He looks shocked for a second, but then he smiles and hugs my waist, lifts me up and spins me around. Then he kisses me and I can feel his love and his… his absolute adoration. I can't help it, tears begin to fall down my cheeks.

He kisses my cheeks and takes the tears with him and then he kisses my lips softly. Next, he bends down and kisses my belly a thousand times.

August 10, 2019 (Saturday)

Jamie's POV

I was scared of the idea that maybe Mia couldn't conceive any more. I'm glad baby number two is on the way. I wonder if it's a boy or a girl. It's probably a baby girl. A spoiled little princess. But who knows?

Anyway, it's time to tell Kyle a baby sibling is on the way. But maybe we should tell him after we return from Fifi's fifth birthday party. I cannot believe that little girl turned five two days ago and is weeks away from going to kindergarten. Well, Kyle is little more than three years and a half already and he's in preschool. I wanted to wait until next year for him to go to class, but he's a "big kid now" and he wanted to go to preschool, as his older cousins do.

APOV

This must be the craziest birthday I've ever seen. It's like every time one of our children has a birthday, Christian decides to roll out the red carpet. He rented out an inflatable castle. We already have one, but it has the colours of the rainbow, and when Mia pointed out it would be the coolest thing ever for Fifi to have the Cinderella Castle for her birthday party -one that looks just like the one at Magic Kingdom but is inflatable -he decided to rent one. My sister in law needs to have a daughter of her own and stop spoiling her nieces.

He also rented a ball pit. And he finally bought the trampoline he's been talking about for like six years.

All of Fifi's school and club friends are here. And the family, of course. This means she has a ridiculous amount of presents. But her favourite is a wooden doll house Christian and I gave her. I'll help her paint it in any colour she wants and when she gets bored of that colour we only have to sand it down and paint it again. I think it will be a great activity to keep her down to earth and remind her not everyone is rich and that sometimes she will need to work hard to get things done instead of relying on an employee. After all, it involves some manual work we'll have to do on our own.

Of course, she says she wants a pink house. Her favourite colour is pink. Her bedroom has three white walls and a pink one, but her courtines, bed sheets, bedspread, stuffed toys, and everything else you can think of are pink. Candy is obsessed with pink, too. Well, in fact, with fuchsia. She also has one pink wall, but the other three ones are fuchsia. And all of her things are fuchsia. When she joined us, we had her whole bedroom painted in lilac but when we offered to change it to fuchsia a month ago, taking into account that she loved that colour and that all her belongings are fuchsia, our blond baby girl accepted immediately.

Anyway, this is a crazy, awesome birthday party. Everybody is having the time of their lives. The children are running around and playing, and the rest of us are sitting outside on some couches, laughing until we cry. Dad, Mom, Bob, Grace, Carrick, Kate, Elliot, Mia, Jamie, Amber and Liam (Joanne and Eponine's parents) and Abby and Travis (Mike and Bob parent's, from the club) are here. The grandparents look very proud and Mia and Jamie look unusually excited for some reason. Maybe things are going better than expected at their restaurant or something.

JPOV

When we arrive home, Kyle looks more than ready to have a bath and go to bed. After all Fifi's friends left, the family stayed to have dinner. We've been at their place for about six hours and Kyle is exhausted. But before he goes to bed, we need to tell him about his sibling.

"Hey, Kyle, guess what?" I sit down on the couch and place him on my lap. I love the fact that he is blond, as me. Mia sits next to me. "Now that you are a big boy, how do you think about being a big brother, too?"

"A big brother? Awesome!"

"Well, that's cool, because we are going to have a baby and you will be his or her brother."

"And where's the baby? When will I be a brother?"

"Well, the baby is very little now and it's in Mommy's belly. You'll have to wait until it's Easter to meet him or her" I explain him, and he places his little hand on Mia's belly.

"Hi, little baby!" He says and Mia smiles excited at me.

September 10, 2019

APOV

I get woken up by someone kissing me. I fidget keeping my eyes closed and I hear a lovely laughter. I open my eyes and my husband whispers "Happy Birthday, Love" and he bends down to kiss my lips softly. He tells me to get dressed really fast because there's someone out there that wants to say hi and I hurry to the bathroom and then to the walk-in closet. Yesterday, he made me wait until it was 12:00 to wish me happy birthday, gift me a beautiful necklace with five hearts on it -as we are a family of five -and then make sweet love to me before letting me sleep. I'm worn-out.

When I walk out of my closet, back to the bedroom, the children are here and there are trays of food all over the bed. "Happy birthday, Mommy!" They scream and then Teddy, Fifi and Candy run to me, hug me and kiss my cheeks. I love the family Christian and I got to build during the years. My husband and our children are my world.

"Like it's your thirtieth birthday and it's a very special day, nobody's going to work or school this afternoon and we'll spend the day together since lunch" Christian tells, smiling.

"And on Saturday we're having a great party!" Fifi screams excited and Candy claps. Then, we sit on the mattress and have breakfast together… on bed. What a great way to begin one's birthday!

At 11.30 Christian comes to look for me in Charlie Tango and he gets us home. The helicopter has accompanied us for way too many miles after all this years, and it looks as though it may need to be replaced by Charlie Tango II or something along those lines. Once we arrive to our house by the sound, Taylor drives us both and Candy in our limo to NW school to look for Teddy and Fifi.

I can't help but remember the first time we came here with Teddy. That was so long ago. Many things have changed since then. The family has grown and the children have grown. Now, Teddy can play the piano and swim and last Friday he had his first Rugby class at the club. Fifi decided to quit piano and once she got her cast removed, she began to play the violin, and she's doing awesome. To be honest, at first it hurt our ears to hear her play and we were glad we have a soundproof music room, but now she's pretty good at it. She says that next year she wants to do another sport aside from swimming, as Teddy does, so I guess this summer we'll have to see what she'd like to do.

Once we arrive home, Gail serves my favourite lunch and then she brings a chocolate cake with thirty candles of different colours on it. The girls helped her place them. Then we go downstairs to our small cinema. As I'm the "birthday girl", I get to pick the movie. Christian, who has more money than sense, surprises me with a 10x10 ft2 mattress that is placed in the middle of the room, in front of the screen. There's enough space for the five of us to cuddle and watch the movie.

After the film finishes, we go to the indoors pool and play until we are worn out. After showering the kids and taking a long bath with Christian, we have dinner and eat more cake.

After being pampered all day long, Christian gifts me a new charm for my bracelet. It's a mattress with five people cuddling in it. That's so sweet!

I can't wait till Saturday.

October 26, 2019 (Saturday)

MPOV

Today it's family meeting day at our place. My parents, siblings, siblings-in-law, nieces and nephews are here. I'm twelve weeks pregnant already and even though we don't know the sex of the baby yet, it's time for the family to know "grandchild number seven" is coming.

I noticed earlier this week that we always tell the news of the pregnancies in our family after lunch. Why? So today we'll make things different and give the surprise before lunch.

Once everybody is home and comfortable in the living room and the chicken needs to be another ten minutes or so inside the oven, Jamie and I have the time of our lives surprising everyone.

"So, as we bought this house in Florida, about 20 minutes away from Disney World, we were thinking of going there for New Year's Eve. And maybe all of us could go. After all, Candy and Rob haven't been there yet."

"That's a great idea!" Elliot says.

"Yeah, we thought that maybe it would be fun to go there for Easters. I bet they get the place all tematic and such. But Mia is due to the third week of April, so that trip won't be possible next year."

"She what?" Grace asks. I'm smiling so wide it hurts and Mia is not doing much better.

"Congrats! You're going to have another grandchild!" she says. Everybody stand up to hug us and then they give us advice of how to deal with two kids at the same time, and jealousy and blah, blah, blah.

April 18, 2020 (Saturday)

Teddy's POV

Today, while Candy and I were in our swimming classes, Ian was born and now we are inside the hospital, headed to meet him. I don't remember coming to visit Fifi or any of my cousins, but Mommy and Daddy say it's normal I don't. Fifi doesn't remember it, neither.

Ian is a very little baby, but I think he is bigger than Candy when she came home. As he's a baby he doesn't do much, but Kyle is very excited. Auntie Mia and Uncle Jamie are very happy, too. I can't wait until we know for sure the baby's hair and eye colour. All the adults say it's crazy how much Ian looks like Kyle, but I don't know what they're talking about, and neither does Fifi.

When they say that if Ian is blond, he'll join the blond's clan I ask "Blond's clan?" They really confuse me sometimes.

"Well," Auntie Kate explains, "Kyle, Rob and Candy have similar ages and are all blonds. So they're like a blond's clan. And Ian is close to their ages, too, so if he's blond, he'll join the clan."

"I want to be in a clan, too" Ava says.

"You, Teddy and Fifi are our own golden trio. That's kind of like a clan, too" Uncle Lelliot says.

"You've been reading Harry Potter lately?" Mom asks and laughs.

Everybody's happy to see the newest, smallest baby of the family. Grams says she can't wait for her "grandchildren number eight and nine" and Uncle Lelliot says he won't be having more babies. I don't understand why Grams wants more of us, but whatever. Auntie Mia says it's the last time she's giving birth to a child and Auntie Kate says Mom and Dad should have more babies. I don't know what is it with them and the babies. Babies can't do nothing at all! But you can play with kids. Hmm… the thing is that for being a kid first you need to be a baby. And I wouldn't mind to have a brother to play with. When I say this last thought out loud, Daddy laughs and tells me " I'd love to give you a brother, but you'd have to convince your Mommy first, buddy."

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