September 11th, 2004
Week 16

Week 10

Stefanie felt so huge. Who cares if this was her sixth pregnancy. She felt like she was gaining too much weight.

"Do you think it'll be a boy or a girl?" Clark asked. Stefanie sighed.

"I really don't care, Clark. I just want the baby to be healthy. It's too early to tell anyway." Stefanie said. They sat in their doctor's office to check the baby out today.

"I know." Clark said. Stefanie reached over and patted his leg tenderly.

"Another girl would be nice." She said as the doctor stepped out of the office.

"Mr. and Mrs. Deveraux, you may come in now." Dr. Summer smiled softly.

"Help me." Stefanie said. Clark took her hands and helped her to her feet. Dr. Summers looked her over.

"Sixteen weeks?" She asked.

"So, says my calculations." Stefanie replied.

"Well, we'll see how the ultrasound goes." Dr Summers showed her to the table. "How are you feeling?"

"I'll tell you this pregnancy is so much different than the others." Stefanie said, "I'm lot more tired."

"And cranky." Clark smiled. Dr. Summers chuckled.

"Had there been a lot of activity?" She asked. Stefanie nodded.

"A little I guess. A lot of little rumbles." She said. Dr Summers nodded as she looked over her chart.

"You want to try to see if we can find the sex out?" She asked.

"Give it a try." Clark smiled. Stefanie lay on the table.

"What do you have already? I see Dr. White delivered a girl who passed." She said. Stefanie nodded.

"Besides her we have two girls and three boys." She said.

"A nice houseful." Dr Summers smiled as she pulled Stefanie's shirt around her belly, "Then another girl would be nice."

"Yeah." Stefanie smiled. Dr Summers applied the cool gel. Stefanie giggled softly.

"This is so cool." Clark said as Dr. Summers started the ultrasound.

"All right. Nice uterus." Dr. Summers chuckled, "Hmmm…"

"Thanks." Stefanie smiled.

"Are any of your children multiples?" She asked. Clark nodded.

"We have twin boys who will be five in November." He said. Dr. Smiled nodded.

"I thought as much. Guess what?" She asked. Stefanie's smiled faded.

"We're having multiples again aren't we?" She asked. Dr. Summers nodded.

"Right here you can see Baby A's spine. Right here is Baby B's Head." Dr. Summers smiled, "And here is baby C's spine." The color drained from both Clark's and Stefanie's faces.

"Shit." Clark whispered. Stefanie burst into tears.

"Do you want to know the sexes?" She asked.

"Y-Yes." Stefanie said between sobs. Dr. Summers Smiled.

"Well, Baby A is a girl, B is a boy, and C is a girl." She said. Stefanie wiped her eyes.

"Really?" She asked.

"Really. Very healthy too but I do recommend that you take it easy. "She cleaned off Stefanie's belly, "Come in for another ultrasound next month because boy parts do tend to drop later. Were you on bed rest with the twins?" Stefanie shook her head.

"No, but they were two days late." She said.

"Expect the triplets to come early. This is a high risk pregnancy so keep that in mind." Dr. Summer said.

"Thank you." Stefanie sat up and looked at her husband, "Clark?" He looked at her with wide eyes.
"Eight children." He whispered. Stefanie slid off of the table.
"You said you wanted a large family." She said.
"I know but this is ridiculous." Clark said, "How will we afford it?"

"We'll manage.' Stefanie wrapped her arms around him. Triplets. Eight children under nine! God! This was going to be hell!

September 25th, 2004

Week 18

Week 12

Ella just turned three. Richard couldn't believe his youngest was growing up. Time sure did fly.

"Daddy, it's too cold to swim." Cecily said. He chuckled gently as he led his girls down the shores of the beach.

"We're not swimming, Pumpkin." he said, "I wanted to show you where Uncle Mike worked."

"One eye Wee Wee." Ella giggled. Richard nodded.

"Uncle mike brought up one eyed Willie's boat an brought it over there…Sort of." He pointed down the shore line where the sunken ship now sat.

"He Wee Wee." Ella said.

"He's not there anymore Stupid." Cecily said.

"I not 'tupid." Ella moaned. Richard smiled at his girls. It was so nice when they couldn't talk.

"There's Uncle Mike." Richard pointed. He waved to his friend. Mike looked up from a pile of Artifacts.

"What are the three of you doing here?" he smiled.

"Ella and Cecily wanted to see where you worked." Richard said. Mike picked Ella up.

"Okay, Let me show you girls the anchor." Mike said.

"You look like shi…..I-t." Richard said. Mike chuckled.

"Maybe you have forgotten what its like to have a newborn in the e house." Mike put Ella down. The girls squealed when they saw the anchor.

"Thankfully I have." He said watching the girls carefully. "They were very impressed with what you do." Michael chuckled.

"And what about your job? Do they care?" He asked. Richard Laughed.

"Hardly. They could careless what Jaida or I do." Richard said.

"That's how it usually is with kids." Michael said, "Well, I really should get back to work. We're on the ships kitchen now."

"Well, Have fun." Richard turned back towards the girls. Cecily was staring intently at the anchor. Richard walked up to her and knelt down. "Do you like that?"

"Oh yes." Cecily said, "That thing was strong enough to hold an entire ship?"

"Yes. Amazing huh?" Richard smiled. Cecily Nodded.

"Is archeology a hard profession to get into?" She asked.

"Yes, but you're very smart and I know how much you love history." Richard said, "I think it's a nice profession for you." Cecily smiled.

"You wouldn't be angry if I wasn't a scientist?" She asked. Richard chuckled and hugged his daughter.

"No way, I would be proud of you." He kissed her cheek and glanced at Ella, "Let's go home and have some dinner." Cecily nodded and took Ella's hand. It felt good to see Cecily so interested in something. Maybe there was hope for her after all.

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