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Thank you so much! Our family is now complete with our 4 boys and 4 girls. The family is doing well. Obviously with this many children having thier own rooms is very uncommon even in our large house. However we do have a large furnished basement and when the children all moved in we converted part of it into a bedroom. Aimi still had to share a room with Jenny but there was quite a lot of space down there for just the 2 of them. It tooks some getting used to but Aimi has gotten so used to having Jenny around that she doesn't know what she is going to do when Jenny goes to college in the fall. However, she will be home on breaks and some weekends. We let the girls decorate the basement room and Aimi loved it. Catriona has inspired me to start an Irish dance class where she is my little helper. She loves it. I also have started her in figure skating and she is quite good. We also got her a haircut and took her shopping for new clothes when she arrived. She had a lot of fun. The food stealing has ended as there is no need to do so. Though occasionally if a sibling has something she really wants she is tempted. Unfortunately she is dyslexic but has been seeing the educational psychologist and is determined to read anyway. She is improving. Declan is also seeing the psychologist and a speech therapist. He is improving greatly and has started kindergarten. The tantrums were hard to deal with at first but Ben was very clingy at that age too so we had been through it before. It is subsiding gradually. Adam and Ben have taught him all about sports and he plays in the yard with them a lot more. He is also in swimming lessons. Alistair, whom we call Al, is constantly into things. He is very curioius and leads Laine into much trouble. The too of them are a class act especially when they get to singing together. They are very cute. One day we took him to ride on a train like Thomas and he was thrilled. The children are getting along great. And Epiphany cannot believe all the love she gets. It was very hard for the smaller children to say Epiphany so they started calling her Pip and she has learned to respond to that. She loves the children. There is always someone to play with. Thank you so much for completing our family. We can never thank you enough.

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Love,
Eli, Becky, Jenny, Aimi, Ben, Adam, Cat, Declan, Al, Laine, and Pip