November
31, 2003
“Rei!” I cried as I ran to get the crawling infant before she managed to dump the entire can of paint on
herself. But it was too late.
“Oh boy, “ I sighed glad that I had put all of the infants into old
clothing. She had been gluing herself to me lately and that was the only reason
that she was in here while we were working on this.
“Mamma! Look at Timmy!” I looked up hearing Elliot’s
voice. Just in time to see Timmy with squirt bottles filled with paint.
“And WHAT are you
planning to do with that?” I asked seeing the mischievous look in his eyes. He
pointed it to the walls we had just finished painting a navy blue shade, and
fired black and red shades all over. The way it looked when he was doing this
was so neat. I had no idea that my children had such interesting ideas about
something. They were all very different that’s was for sure. I had to laugh at
that as I walked into see what Tanni was doing. She
and Skyla and Elliot and Shanda were throwing glitter into the bright yellow
paint, I knew that she collected it, and had bags, and shelved of the stuff.
Now she was using some of the smaller stuff as part of her room.
“I think the glitter
is a nice touch Tanni.” She grinned as she turned
back. As I turned to go check on the others and see how they were doing, I
almost ran into Joy,
“Mamma, I was wanting to ask, you think Charity would like to come and
see my room?” I smiled as I answered
“I probably, if she
likes art the way you do.” She was talking about the little girl that had come
in with a friend that helped try to figure out what had happened to the
triplets, when they first came in. Both the young girls had hit it off pretty
well at least what I thought.
“Did you get
everything the way that you wanted?” Joy nodded.
“You ready to get
your bed in there, are you?” Joy nodded. I had hand made new beds for each of
the children so that they had their own and so that we didn’t have to try to
drag the other ones down the stairs. After helping her get the things in her
room, I left her to make the bed, and get that, and her personal activities
room done the way she wanted.
Each of the children
have their own personal rooms now as well as bedrooms, they could use them for
anything that they want. Timmy for example had turned his into a new workshop,
and training area says he’s going to keep practicing what Ursa’s been teaching
him. And wanted to be ready when she started training him in the
summer. Darcy had turned hers into a study. Skyla turned hers into a indoors jungle gym which was fine with me. Kennie turned hers into a playroom, Shanda did the same
thing, although she had hers a little different, Tanjia
turned hers into a room that she could keep all her small pets. The Triplets
combined theirs, and Joy she turned hers into an arts studio. I thought it to
be a nice little bit, the living room still could be played in but they had
other options.
“Mom!” I turned Timmy had been starting to call me
that more than Mamma, says he’s to old to do that, but on occasions forgot
that.
“I made something
for you.”
“We can talk to you
through this thing, I was thinking we can put this in
all of our rooms. So that we can hear each other.”
“That’s actually a
great idea, Son. I hadn’t thought about how hard it might be to get the ones at
the other end of the house.” He nodded. Then drug me behind so that I could
help him put them on everyone’s walls. They would all have to leave them on so
I could call them if needed, but no one else would here what was said unless
they were standing beside who was talking or listening.
After that last one
was installed, I headed to the living room and sat down in front of a fire. I
couldn’t believe how fast we had gotten that done. And for the first time in
months I picked up a book and started to read. Only as I started that, I
couldn’t think. I was starting to miss the noise already, and the tripping and
falling over the toys, it was like they had all moved or something. Even though
they were just in the own little play areas. I know I spoiled them with this.
Not only do they have their own rooms, and activities rooms, they have a big
playroom as well as tunnels that were all over the house, that they could play
in. Yes I had turned the house into one big playhouse, but I was
liking it. And so were they. As I was thinking about this part, I heard
a couple footsteps and giggles over me. I had to laugh myself at hearing them
play like this.