Zola 8

Bailey 6

Ellis 3

Christine 3

Luke 2

Leia 2

Living with six children is never easy but it's never impossible to love them. But the one that can cause most of the frustrations on a mother like myself is my daughter Ellis. Derek thinks she's an angel, but I think that he got used to being out of work from multiple surgeries from his accident and was able to bond with Ellis a little more than he did with the twins. Raising 6 children under the age of 9 is hard but I wouldn't trade it for the world.

"Mommy have you seen my doll?" asked Zola. "No honey I haven't but I do think that you should be getting to bed it's late and you know how you are if you don't get enough sleep." I said to my daughter. "Mommy I made a doodle in potty like big boy." Luke explained. "Good boy Luke!" I praised my 2 year old son. "Mommy I don't feel good where daddy?" asked Ellis. "Oh Ellie daddy is still at work how about I help you get ready for bed." I explained to my 3 year old daughter.

Ellie doesn't really like when Derek isn't home because he can't spoil her and I refuse to spoil her when I have 5 other children to love equally. Sometimes spoiling the child causes more problems in the future, which I see Ellie just walking all over Derek and fighting with me constantly. Derek and I have been trying to limit the amount of attention that she gets, so that we don't have that issue.
"Mom Leia and Ellie just threw up everywhere in their room." Bailey said. "Okay I'll be up in a second hey is Christine sick too?" I asked him. "No I think she's playing tea party with Zola." Bailey said. "Chris are you okay sweet girl." I asked. "I'm fine mommy I just playing with Zola." Christine said. "Oh poor Leia, and Ellie are you feeling better girls." I asked. "I fine Momma I no sick I just fell in Ellie's mess." Leia replied.

I guess she really was telling the truth about not feeling well. Once I got the twins, Christine, Bailey, and Zola to sleep I brought El in the bedroom with me as she was running a fever and complaining of her right side hurting. I wanted to wait for Derek but her pain got worse I called a babysitter but no one was available, I woke up the children and drove them to the hospital where I met up with Derek.

"Meredith what is going on?" asked Derek. "It's El she might have appendicitis." I said crying. "Honey she's only 3 almost 4 how can such a little girl get so sick?" Derek asked. "I don't know I just know that she is sick and we need to find out why." I said in a panic

It must of been the stress of my daughter being sick that landed me in the Emergency room bed where people were doing all kinds of blood tests, and other tests. I kept telling the doctor that it was impossible for me to get pregnant because Derek and I haven't been having intercourse for about 5 months. The test came back positive that I was pregnant. I didn't want to have this baby because I already have 6 kids and this one would make 7. I had an ultrasound done with Derek in the room. That's when we found out that we were having a baby in 4 months a boy to be exact. We were thrilled but also panicking because we already have 6 kids. But another boy wouldn't hurt as long as he wasn't a twin or triplet.

We decided to tell the children about the baby boy and how there was going to be another baby living in the house. Zola was excited as was Bailey, but Christine, Luke, and Leia didn't know what to think. El returned from the operating room and we were thrilled to tell her but she was still sleeping. The next day we told her and she had the same response as Christine, Luke, and Leia. After we got home with our children we talked about names for our baby boy. Zola liked Patrick, Bailey liked Kevin, Derek liked Henry, and I liked Thomas, and George. It was hard to think of this one's name when the rest of the children were easy, well minus Zola, and Christine because they are both adopted.

A/N: Welcome to the sequel to Life as he knows it. I had this idea for awhile and wasn't sure if it was going to go in the original story or in a completely new story. Originally they were done having children but as the story progressed I decided that another child would complete the family.