to reassure the sisters that it wasn’t the 5th brother in a row.
sounds like quite the brood;my compliments...
Thanks, we don’t call them the Saxon Horde for nothing. After a pattern of two-girls, two-boys for a while, we hit a string of boys. Patrick (now 15), James (13), Vlad (11), Frank (8). Sally who is now 17, wanted a little sister, and she tried to get Frank to go along with it, but once he learned to talk, he said, “James says I’m a BOY, and I don’t have to let you paint my nails!”
Kathleen took to baby-doll status for a while, but it didn’t last. Sally’s going to Jamaica next week with a mission group from our church: she’ll paint nails and do hairstyling for homeless women and children.