Chapter 2.6 | Rules for this challenge | Chapter 2.8
Generation Two: Brown Appearance: Brown hair, unkempt clothing style Traits: Loves Outdoors, Loner, Child of the Island Aspiration: Beach Life Occupation: Conservationist House Goal: 20,000 worth
Waking up to a dirty toddler is never fun, but waking up to someone else taking care of it .. well, let's just say, it's much better. This pregnancy was harder on me than I remember the last two being - at least, it sure was in these first few weeks. I've had trouble sleeping, and I've been pretty sick, too, so Alexi has been (thankfully) taking up the slack. Having two toddlers and a baby on the way made for a crazy house.
We had really lucked out on Jayce - he was so Independent, he tended to almost take care of himself. He was often content just to play by himself in the kid's room.
Kali, however, was still our little troublemaker. She took constant care and attention - but she was getting better behaved as she grew up, luckily. Don't tell Alexi I said this - but she's still my favorite. I love her spirit - she reminds me a bit of me.
After Alexi pointing out that the sink was filthy after he'd given Jayce his bath, I decided something needed to be done about it. And I really wasn't feeling up to cleaning it. So I spent the extra time needed to install some auto cleaning hardware on most of the bathroom appliances. Apparently, I needed to fix the toilet while I was at it! The kids were curious about all the noise I was making - and they both came toddling in to see if they could "help".
Noticing that I was foot-deep in a pile of laundry, Alexi went and cleaned up the whole house of it and started the Washer. Which left me trying to upgrade a sink and watching two kids at the same time.
Later, though, Alexi gave me some time to go "hydrate my scales", and I happened upon a dolphin. I remembered hearing stories of my grandmother and a dolphin she had befriended - so I spent some time to get to know this blue dolphin.
After a little while, we were great friends, and she had told me her name was Squirt. She let me rub her belly, and we splashed playfully until her pod showed up and she swam off to be with them.
On the way home, I found some turtles, and stopped to watch them. I wondered if any of them were the baby turtles I had observed earlier in the year. They were gorgeous, though, and seemed to all be healthy, which made my heart glad.
Alexi and the kids were playing happily when I got home, although my "mommy sense" told me the little tummies were going to be hungry soon - so I let them play and headed for the back deck.
I still needed a couple of grilled meals for my aspiration, after all.. and for some reason, I was craving baked potatoes. I covered them with cheese and bacon and the entire family enjoyed the treat.
Days passed, and, to my excitement, I started feeling the little mermaid or merman inside really starting to "swim around". I showed Kali and Jayce - who, predictably, had completely different reactions. Jayce could have cared less for the most part, whereas Kali had to ask a million questions - with the most prominent one being "Does this one have to be a little brother, too??" I stifled a laugh and told her we'd just have to wait and see!
Kali had finally succeeded at her potty training lessons, although being the one who usually cleaned out the potty made me slightly ambivalent about the whole process. At least I wasn't still changing a million diapers, I guess. Those got to be expensive.
Alexi still spent time working on commissions for clients, and his painting skills were really getting quite impressive. I tried to give him some kid-free time to work in his office each day, but sometimes they escaped and toddled off to try to find where he'd gone to.
My parents, and brother and sister in law made an excuse of bringing us some good island food to come over, and it was great to see them.
I kept the kids occupied while he and the rest of the adults had dinner. Kali and Jayce had already eaten, so keeping them out from underfoot was the best thing to do.
Everyone sounded like they had a great time, however, from what I could hear from the kid's room.
When my Dad came back to check on us, it gave me a chance to tell him the news about the new family addition. Apparently Mom overheard, and soon they were both in the kid's room with me, chatting excitedly about another new grandkid. Before long, I had to shoo them out to put the other two grand-kids to bed, though.
Alexi was multi-tasking and trying to finish up a commission that was due in the morning, but he did tell me later that after my announcement, that the conversation hadn't strayed very far from talk of the new arrival.
I tucked Jayce into bed and read Kali her nightly story, watching her little eyes try to stay open until the end of the book. She didn't quite make it, as usual, and I smiled and gave her a soft kiss before sneaking out of the room to get some sleep myself.
Chapter 2.6 | Rules for this challenge | Chapter 2.8
