Bella's POV:
"Mommy!" My daughter's crystal voice screeched between peals of laughter "Help me! Their gonna make me pee!"
I made my way around to the living room and was delighted at the sight I saw. Molly, now five, was pinned to the ground by all five of her brothers and Paul was tickling her merciless. In a sling around my torso was our newest addition, our second daughter, Trinity Marie.
"Boys," I scolded playfully "Let go of your sister this instant or I swear I will freeze you all so you can't have dessert."
In our house the threat of being frozen while everyone else ate dessert was more than enough to get my children to behave.
Since returning from Italy our whole family had grown exponentially. Alice and Rosalie teased us that it must be something in the water.
Sam and Emily were the proud parents of Sara, 6, Sam Jr (or as he insists the way only a 4 year old can Sammy) and Jason, 2.
Angela and Embry had welcomed their first child Casey around the same time Jason came into the family and we all insist that Casey and Jason have imprinted. Jason is absolutely enamoured with the dark haired, light eyed little girl.
Jared and Kim were rivalling us for the largest family in the pack with a set of identical triplet girls, Jamie, Natalie and Cassie, 4. They were like mini Kim's and we all teased Jared that he'd have his hands full with them. A year after the triplets they added Jackson and a year later Daniel.
Jacob and Leah now had three children William or Billy, Vanessa and Hayden. We were all heartbroken when Jacob's dad was killed in a car accident when Leah was pregnant but they chose to honour him the best way they knew how- by naming his first grandson after him.
Our own family had grown to include a second set of twins who were 4, Warren and Lucas, another little boy we named Tristin, 2 and last but certainly not least Trinity.
We discovered as our boys grew that they all had special powers like Noah and Micah. Each boy controlled a different element. Noah, fire, Micah, ice (water), Warren, air, Lucas, earth and Trissy can control metal. It's a little terrifying thinking that we are raising such powerful individuals. They each also have another gift as well.
Noah and Micah dream of the future and their dreams are usually very accurate just like Peter's gift.
Warren has a physical shield so it makes my threat of freezing him useless but it still makes him perk up. We discovered it when Sammy raced towards him one day while they were arguing and he went flying backwards breaking his arm in the process.
Lucas has a mental shield so like me his thoughts cannot be heard and we've discovered that Alice has a hard time seeing him when he's mad at her.
Through Alice's visions we have learned that Tristin is an empath like Jasper which explains a great deal about why he was such a colicky baby. He was picking up on our worry and anger and frustration and they were becoming his own. Jasper has been working with him lately in order to control it but at two his patience level is not yet high enough to really put it all to work.
Molly and Trinity haven't shown any semblance of power and we are sincerely hoping that they don't because we don't want to think of our little girls being the thing of prophecies.
"Momma!" Tristin let go of Molly's arm and raced to me hugging my leg tightly.
"Hey Trissy," I said playfully mussing his hair. "Dinner's almost ready guys. Noah, Micah it's your turn to set the table please." And like shots my oldest children ran to the kitchen. Today was roast day and they loved when we had roast.
"The rest of you start cleaning up, I'm just going to talk to mommy upstairs." Paul said grinning at me, a playful sparkle in his eyes and he headed up the stairs.
I followed behind him, careful on the stairs because while my balance had improved over the years the baby sling always threw me off kilter.
Paul kissed me passionately the instant I walked through our bedroom door and pulled away smiling. "I've missed you."
"Paul we haven't been apart in days," I laughed slipping Trinity out of the sling and laying her in the bassinet by the bed.
"Ya but with everyone sick with chicken pox the last week we've hardly had any time alone." He sighed in annoyance and moved to wrap his arms tightly around my waist.
"I know," I agreed resting the back of my head against his chest.
"You could have left Trin in the playpen," he teased nipping at my neck lightly sending shivers down my back.
"Nu-uh" I laughed loudly twisting in his arms "That my dear is how we got Trin in the first place! I left Tristin in the playpen and we got too handsy up here by ourselves." One thing we absolutely refused to do was get too affectionate in the first place.
Paul harrumphed and then gave me a bright smile "Do you think the Cullen's would take the kids this weekend?"
I nodded "Alice actually called suggesting it earlier I just hadn't had a chance to tell you."
"Momma! Daddy!" We heard Lucas and Warren shout in unison and I sighed.
"Better go break up the fight." I laughed. With five boys there was always a fight going on and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
I loved my children so much and they were our life. I could never get enough of them.
"Let's go do it together. Trinity is almost asleep anyways." Paul suggested gripping my hand. Even after almost 8 years together it was painful to be separated. His grey eyes were twinkling with un-adultered happiness.
"Together," I nodded and we left our baby laying quietly trading the solace and quiet of our room for the rambunctious, never quiet living room.
I just about killed myself laughing when as we entered the room Tristin and Molly came racing to hide behind me and I got a glimpse of the others.
Lucas and Warren were attacking Noah and Micah with pillows and the older two were fending quite well.
Paul too was gasping for breath and trying to find the will to punish the boys for fighting when there was the sound of glass breaking and shrieks of terror from upstairs and also from Tristin who was now sitting on the floor rocking back and forth begging "Stop!"