1.7 Real Life Dolls

Did I mention live became quite hectic? It seemed like all we did was revolving around the children. Little did we know that our family was about to get even bigger, without either of us having a say in it. Sometimes you can't help but wonder who pulls the strings in the family. It sure as hell ain't the adults.

And I swear that Maddie wasn't always happy with me either. At times she must have felt like I only added to the chaos. I'm just happy she knew just what to do with fires. So it was around this time my son decided it would be a good thing to add to the chaos.

Luke had a thing going on that provided him with the "gift" to just know how things will work. I never knew how he did it, I still don't, but he just looked at something and knew how to make it do what he wanted. So even though it took him almost his entire childhood, he managed to create a potion for his friend.

When the potion had done its work, Luke's friend had turned from a doll into a girl. And when she hugged Luke to thank him for creating that potion, Levi stood there and watched the accomplishments of his twin brother.

When decided to go and find out what all the commotion was about, I walked in on the three of them discussing what had happened. At first I thought the girl was the newspaper kid, that still came by every day. Perhaps she needed children her age before she was opening up to talking. But it became quite obvious that she wasn't. 


"What did you do Luke?" I swear the boy sounded jealous. I never noticed sibling rivalry between the both of them, so this was a surprise for me to hear Levi talk like this. "I told you so didn't I? I told you I could make her real! You just wouldn't believe me." Luke's response made it clear they had been bickering before and I started to feel guilty for not noticing this before. Perhaps we had been to busy with the youngest twins to pay any real attention to the boys. Levi didn't respond to his brother, he just stood there, glaring at Luke and his real life doll and I was wondering if I had to step in. But when I was about to say something, Luke started to talk again. " Look, it's no big deal really, if you want to I can create another potion just like it for your doll." I could see the tension dissipate from Levi's body, "Could you do that? For me?" Relieved that the boys were able to solve their quarrel without me having to intervene I walked on, pretending I never payed any attention to their conversation.

It took Luke a few days to recreate the potion, but when he finished it he was very happy to give it to Levi. Thinking back to those days sometimes made me wish I had indeed payed more attention to our boys. 

I often wondered what the boys must have went through, they were very attached to the dolls, and it was quite a risk they were taking by giving them this potion to drink. What if something wasn't right, it could have gone wrong quite easily.

But everything went just as it should, and it didn't take long before Levi could give his real life doll a hug as well. 

With the arrival of both girls we were happy with our backyard. All the worries we had at first about the girls tearing up the brothers, having them separated, not spending any time together any more faded away within a few weeks. The girls fitted in perfectly and weren't to shy to spend some time together without the boys either. It took some adjusting from our side, but soon enough we went on as if we didn't know any better.


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So...YAY! ehm...6 children.... :D


In response, yeah it gets quite busy, but I just give them enough to do one at a time, or not...it sure helps they don't have to be anywhere at certain times :P like school, or work...