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in reply to a message by AshleyMichelle
Last night, just before dusk, the lights went out and we found ourselves in the mist of a power outage. A few seconds after we heard a scream. My husband, Lex (Jonathan Alexandre), hurriedly ran to find the source of the noise, and I followed behind, waddling as fast as I could with my large pregnant belly.
The source of the noise was our in daughters' room. They share because even though we live in a nicely sized town house (for Montreal), there's four bedrooms and seven of us. So the girls share, our two younger boys share, and Bas has his own room.
So back to my story. Once I waddled in to the room to see our younger daughter, Ette, hiding under her blanket. Their night light had gone out. Unfortunately for us, that meant that she wasn't going to go back to sleep.
By that time our middle boy, Elie, walked in. He was pretty annoyed by the fact that his sister had woken him up, but worried, too. He's very protective of his sisters, Anna because she's his twin, and Ette because she's just a "baby" (according to her siblings).
We tried to get them to go back to sleep, but even with us by her side, Ette refused to sleep. Finally we decided to take her downstairs, so maybe she'd fall asleep on the couch.
After a few moments of silence, Ette decided she just HAD to have her stuffed animal. When she came back downstairs, she was being followed by Ana, whom she had woken up. Ironically enough, Elie had also decided to go downstairs and the twins had bumped into each other in the hall. Well it was more of them tripping each other.
Elie was fine, but Ana's arm wasn't and I sent her to the emergency room with Lex. But again, luck had it that the garage didn't work. Elie ran next door and begged the neighbors, who had been asleep, to let us borrow their car. The neighbors, kindly old folk, agreed to drive Lex and the twins to the ER (Elie felt really really bad, and Ana wanted him to come along).
The house was quiet for about half an hour... until Mich came down. It didn't really surprise me, because Mich tends to wake up around midnight. Mich and Ette began playing, rather loudly, so I took them out back.
At first they played tag, but when I warned them not to run. They didn't, but when I left them to go get flash lights, they decided we should play hide and go seek. Of course, they didn't tell me this, so I freaked out and rushed inside, to see if they had come back in. They thought it was funny, until they tried to get back into the house and the door wouldn't open. It was a few moments before I spotted them (I had gone upstairs to check if they were in the girls' room), and It took me a few minutes to waddle back town and open the door, which wasn't stuck. They said they were sorry and promised never to disobey again (ha!) until the twins and Lex came home.
The doctor had found that Ana's arm was broken and had put on a cast. That is why it had taken them FOUR hours to return. We settled the children on the couch and went into the kitchen to make them a snack. When we returned, they were asleep.
What a night!
Natanael Sebastien "Bastien" (11)
Avigal Anastasie "Ana" (8)
Daniel Elie "Elie" (8)
Benjamin Michel "Mich" (6)
Talia Juliette "Ette" (4)
Baby Girl to be named Maya Heloise due in two months.
The source of the noise was our in daughters' room. They share because even though we live in a nicely sized town house (for Montreal), there's four bedrooms and seven of us. So the girls share, our two younger boys share, and Bas has his own room.
So back to my story. Once I waddled in to the room to see our younger daughter, Ette, hiding under her blanket. Their night light had gone out. Unfortunately for us, that meant that she wasn't going to go back to sleep.
By that time our middle boy, Elie, walked in. He was pretty annoyed by the fact that his sister had woken him up, but worried, too. He's very protective of his sisters, Anna because she's his twin, and Ette because she's just a "baby" (according to her siblings).
We tried to get them to go back to sleep, but even with us by her side, Ette refused to sleep. Finally we decided to take her downstairs, so maybe she'd fall asleep on the couch.
After a few moments of silence, Ette decided she just HAD to have her stuffed animal. When she came back downstairs, she was being followed by Ana, whom she had woken up. Ironically enough, Elie had also decided to go downstairs and the twins had bumped into each other in the hall. Well it was more of them tripping each other.
Elie was fine, but Ana's arm wasn't and I sent her to the emergency room with Lex. But again, luck had it that the garage didn't work. Elie ran next door and begged the neighbors, who had been asleep, to let us borrow their car. The neighbors, kindly old folk, agreed to drive Lex and the twins to the ER (Elie felt really really bad, and Ana wanted him to come along).
The house was quiet for about half an hour... until Mich came down. It didn't really surprise me, because Mich tends to wake up around midnight. Mich and Ette began playing, rather loudly, so I took them out back.
At first they played tag, but when I warned them not to run. They didn't, but when I left them to go get flash lights, they decided we should play hide and go seek. Of course, they didn't tell me this, so I freaked out and rushed inside, to see if they had come back in. They thought it was funny, until they tried to get back into the house and the door wouldn't open. It was a few moments before I spotted them (I had gone upstairs to check if they were in the girls' room), and It took me a few minutes to waddle back town and open the door, which wasn't stuck. They said they were sorry and promised never to disobey again (ha!) until the twins and Lex came home.
The doctor had found that Ana's arm was broken and had put on a cast. That is why it had taken them FOUR hours to return. We settled the children on the couch and went into the kitchen to make them a snack. When we returned, they were asleep.
What a night!
Natanael Sebastien "Bastien" (11) Avigal Anastasie "Ana" (8) Daniel Elie "Elie" (8) Benjamin Michel "Mich" (6) Talia Juliette "Ette" (4) Baby Girl to be named Maya Heloise due in two months.Archived Thread - replies disabled
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