Husband:
Name:
Curtis Giraldo Wouters
Hair: Straight Blond
Eyes: Brown
Job: Stay-at-home Dad
Wife:
Name:
Camellia Caelina Hummel Wouters
Hair: Straight Brown
Eyes: Brown
Job: Janitor
Location: Australia
Events:
Year 1: We just got a pet Hamster named “
Zala Sanders” to begin our family together. Hopefully we will have some human children soon to join
Zala.
Year 2: We travelled to Canada this year to attend the funeral of my great-grandmother “
Mayra Alyss”. She was 101 year old. She had a long full life, and I will certainly miss her humor and her memories of times long past.
Year 3: Birth of baby girl named “Alyss
Mayra Wouters” after her great-great-grandmother who died last year. She has wavy black hair and hazel eyes.
Year 4: I was diagnosed with Stage Two ovarian cancer, and have been told that while I will live, I face a difficult road and will probably never have any more children.
Year 5:
Happy year: Cancer free and a job promotion! I’m now Head Executive of Janitors in the
Duke of Burgers Corporation.
Year 6: Adoption of Vietnamese children (3 boys and 2 girls). Their names are “Hùng
Dinh Nguyen Wouters, Bình Thuần Nyugen Wouters, Xuân Ngo Nyugen,
Thi Yên
Nguyen Wouters, and Lành Thùy Nyugen Wouters.” We call them “Hun,” “
Ben,” “Xu,” “
Yen,” and “
Lan” respectively. Hun has wavy brown hair and brown eyes.
Ben has straight brown hair and blue eyes. Xu has curly blond hair and brown eyes.
Yen has wavy blonde hair and blue eyes.
Lan has wavy brown hair and brown eyes.
Year 7:
Job promotion again; I’m now the International Head, so we moved to
Ireland where the international office is located.
Year 8:
Curtis was in a car accident this year. Fortunately no one was injured.
Year 9: Get a pet horse this year named “
Jasper.” He is reddish-brown.
Year 10: Alyss broke her leg this year at school. She cried a lot, but she liked getting to pick out her cast and having friends decorate it.
Year 11: We moved to Japan this year to the other
Duke of Burgers international office.
Year 12: We took a family vacation to the United States to go to Disney World. Alyss is seven and has never been to
America or an amusement park.
Year 13: Surprise! Birth of boy “
Jiro Leif Wouters” with straight red hair and brown eyes (we call him by his middle name, “
Leif”). We were shocked when the doctors told us that I was pregnant again. With only one ovary, I thought it unlikely that we would have more kids after all this time. And certainly not on Alyss’s birthday! Ten years apart on the same day!
Year 14: This year I took a business trip to Brazil. It was exciting but I missed my family during the two weeks I was gone.
Year 15: Adoption of Russian girl with straight brown hair and blue eyes age 1 year named “
Arina Natasha Vasilyev Wouters” (but we call her “
Ari”). We decided that we needed more children, and we met this beautiful little girl in Russia and decided to adopt her.
Year 16: Adoption of South Korean girl with curly black hair and dark brown eyes age 6 months named “
Kyung Yun Song Wouters” (we call her “Song” which was her surname at birth). We were so happy with our decision to adopt
Ari that we decided to keep adopting.
Year 17: This year we got a pet cat with yellow fur named “
Avi.”
Year 18: Adoption of Ukrainian triplets (two identical girls with curly black hair and hazel eyes, and a boy with curly blond hair and green eyes) age 3 named “
Oksana Viktoriya Kaminski Wouters,
Iryna Natalka Kaminski Wouters, and
Nikolai Mikhailo Kaminski Wouters” (called “Toriya,” “Ryna,” and “Nicki”). We weren’t sure we were going to adopt more, but on a trip to Ukraine we met these three and learned that if someone didn’t adopt them soon, they were going to be separated. Of course we immediately said we would love to take them.
Year 19: This year Curtis’s brother died and left his two sons “
Arnold Mars and
Raibeart Manolo” called “
Arn” and “
Rob” in our care. They are 14 and 16.
Year 20: There was a car accident this year and Alyss was paralyzed from the waist down. She is 17 and is having trouble coping, but she is a strong girl.