Chapter 2

Waking Teddy and Henry up, I make my way to my girls' room. First is Phoebe. I wake her up and guide her to her bathroom. As she is doing her morning business, I make my way towards little Sienna's room.

"Good morning sweetheart." I kiss her forehead as I collect her in my arms. She rest her head in the crook of my neck. Among all my children Sienna is most sleepy one. I leave her in her washroom and return to Phoebe's bathroom. With Gail's absence it is constant going back and forth between both my girl's rooms.

When I reach Phoebe's bathroom she is brushing her teeth. I quickly wash her up and go into her room to choose today's outfit. My girls' closets are bigger than mine and there is only one reason for that, which is my little sister Mia. If we thought she was a freak when Teddy was born, it was nothing compared to when we announced our third child (a girl) to the family. Mia was out of control. I thought the world's pinkness was in my home. Everything, from onesie to hair clips to the little socks, everything was pink. I had to put a restriction on her account, as she was out of control. Birth of Ava and Sienna distracted her enough to make phoebe's room the pink room of our house. Later whenever Ana shopped for girls she strictly avoided anything and everything to do with colour pink.

I select a pale pink frock (Mia's collection) and some black leggings for Phoebe today. After choosing same coloured socks with soft pink sandals I make her ready for the day and take her downstairs to our kitchen, where Ana is making breakfast.

"Good morning, mommy." Phoebe says sweetly as I put her down on the kitchen floor, dropping her sandals and socks besides me. As soon as I put her down she runs towards Ana for her morning hug and kiss. I got mine when I woke her up.

"Good morning, sweetheart. Aren't you looking beautiful? Did daddy choose your outfit?" She is smiling down at phoebe, but her face quickly change. She runs her hands through her long copper hair. Fuck, I forgot to do her hair.

"Ana, I am sorry. I totally forgot to do her hair."

"It's okay, Christian. Why don't you go and see what Sienna is doing. We don't have much time left." Ana says as she quickly turn back to stove. I run upstairs to sort my next angel for her day.

Choosing dress for Sienna is easy as I choose the same outfit as Phoebe. Ana make sure we have everything two for the girls, as they are so close in age that we always treat them as twins. The other reason is jealousy. With having so many kids, I got to know that the best of anything you can have is not yours but someone others. I still remember the time years ago when Sienna was going to born. Kids were with my parents as Ana and I were on a doctor's visit. It was the day we found that the baby was girl. We were so happy and wanted to tell kids about it in a special way. Well we wanted to tell Teddy and Henry as Phoebe was still very small. So we went to toy store and brought a cute little stroller set and swing set with a cute baby doll. We gave stroller to Teddy and swing to Henry to let them know their job. Before we can give them the doll so they can practice, they both started fighting for the stroller. Henry also wanted to play with it but Teddy was having none of it. Teddy pushed him around so he was the only one pushing the stroller, after which Henry started to cry and came to us. When I tried to make Teddy understand that Henry can also play with it, took stroller from him he started to cry and shout, due to which Phoebe woke up from her sleep and you guessed right, crying. So, at the end of the day I had three crying babies, one stressed wife, a swing set no one wants to play with, a stroller everyone wants and a doll no one gives a fuck about. Mom and Dad took Teddy and Henry out to play with, Ana took Phoebe to calm her down and I took the toys to store-room. After that incident everything comes in a set of two.

Mia helped us a lot when it comes to hunting down outfit for Sienna similar to Phoebe. Making sure Sienna is ready as I braid her long brown hair into pigtails I take her downstairs. Sienna is still in my arms and is still sleepy.

As I make my way into dining room all my three children are sitting at their places ready to eat as soon as their mother serve them. We are using booster seats so they can eat comfortably on the dining table. Ana comes into dining room and put the plate, full of pancakes on the table. She turns around and open her arms for Sienna.

"Christian, please serve them." She says as she kiss Sienna on forehead and place her down besides Henry. Older siblings sits beside them so they can help the younger one when needed.

I serve them each a pancakes and add strawberry topping on each one.

"Daddy, I want chocolate." Phoebe is looking at me with her puppy dog eyes and lower lip out.

"Sweetheart, you know we can't have chocolate in the morning." I sit down beside her with a pancake on my own plate.

I was never a fan of pancakes but Ana have made several rules in the house which I have to follow around children. One of them is to never throw tantrum about food. It will motivate them to do the same. Therefore, whatever everyone is eating I have to eat the same.

"But dadddyyyy…." Phoebe starts to whine.

"Phoebe, start eating otherwise we are going to be late." Ana sits down opposite to me after putting my coffee in front of me. Her tea and breakfast is already in front of her.

"Ok mommy." Phoebe starts eating her breakfast like nothing happened.

All my children have two modes, one in which they will try to defy me on everything, which I think is a trait they got from their mother, second in which they are sweet, innocent, obedient children who will do anything you say. But second one is only reserved for their mother, with me they acquire the first category traits.

After having the breakfast and chatting about their day it's time to say goodbye. After having their coats on and taking their bags we make our way to the front where Luke is waiting in Audi Q7. With girls being short they go onto last row where car seats are already installed. I fix them up and make my way outside to help boys in their seats. After confirming everything is set, I close the door and take their mother in my arms. I take her sweet face in my arms and put my lips on her soft ones. The kiss is as electrified as our first one.

"Take care." She murmur "And if you need anything just call me, alright."

"Ana, we will be fine." I kiss her forehead as she leave my arms and open the driver door of the car.

Ana wanted kids to have a normal life. After numerous fights, Ana wanted to drive her own car with children, with security following behind. So, she is first going to school, then office. Daily it is my schedule but today Ana is going to do that. One more change is that every day after school girls come back home as they leave early but today they will be going to Ana's office with her and will be back with her brothers in the late afternoon.

After saying good bye to my kids I return back inside home to wake up the little ones.

As I open their door, I can see they are sleeping peacefully. We have the room covered in thick foam of ocean blue colour on the floor as well as walls. On one side they have floor to ceiling window looking out at our meadow, covered by curtains. Instead of beds we have three mattresses on the floor by the wall surrounded by a fence so they can't roll out of it. Right now they are sleeping peacefully. William is on one side while Caleb and Aidan are sleeping on one corner sharing a single blanket.

I go into kitchen to reply some emails while they are sleeping. I can't go to my office as kids will have problem finding me when they will wake up. As whole ground floor is still baby proof we can't move much away from their room. I open their room's and living room's safety gates.

Time to do some work.

Thank you for reading. I'm really sorry for all grammatical mistakes. Please ignore them.