Alicia began a beautiful weekend meeting a few potential donors.
And maxing out her gardening skill! Yea! Go Alicia!!
It was short lived, however, as nausea seemed to overwhelm her.
Over and over again, throughout the weekend. She spent a lot of time curled up on the couch with soup while Brille helped with the younger ones.
Once she began to feel better she made sure to call her potential donors, to remind them that she was still… interested in them, so to speak.
As her tummy grew so did her new found love of macaroni and cheese with peanut butter cups in it. She made plenty for the entire family, omitting the peanut butter cups from the other's dishes, per requests.
Brille really stepped up, taking little Cody under her wing and teaching him - she taught him very useful things, like how to play chess more competitively, do his homework (including dividing fractions) and of course, taught him that swimming was bad!
Then late one night while all the children slept, Alicia was awoken by a very familiar tinge of pain in her tummy.
She got to her feet, excitedly… ready to meet her newest child.
The pain of labor, however, doesn't seem to be something Alicia was getting use to quickly!
Quite awhile after labor pains started, and while the children remained sound asleep, the 5th child was born in the Engio household! A precious baby GIRL that Alicia named Evelyn!
A moment later, Alicia felt a strong sense of de ja vu!
A couple more twinges of labor pains and suddenly, another baby!
This time a BOY that she decided to name Eric.
Amidst the commotion of having two sets of twins in the house (all 4 under the age of 4!) Alicia found a few moments here and there to sneak away to her garden… it has begun to really take shape, and is getting quite large!
Before she knew it Brille was headed to prom! Alicia had given her some extra money to go buy a beautiful dress and get her nails done, all in preparation for the big night!
When Brille got home she rushed in to the house to show her mom that she had been crowned PROM QUEEN!
After telling Alicia all about the dance, and how she had got in to a fight with some other girl over a guy, Alicia went to bed… however too excited to sleep Brille went to her easel and began to paint a new, beautiful masterpiece.
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