Our family is mixing quite well,
Zoe our eldest naturally is very outspoken and has taken to the triplets well. She and the girls
Alexandrine, who we call Alexi, and
Corinna, "
Cori", all share the big bedroom up stairs next to the boys
Max,
Hayden and
Brayden.
Max and
Hayden have several things in common and are both on the same little league baseball, football and soccer teams.
Brayden seems to take a small offense to this because after all
Hayden is his twin not
Max's twin. I tutor
Max in his studies so that he does not "just get by" any longer.
Alexi is enrolled in the gifted and talent Arts program through school and she has started to learn the flute to add to her already several talents of playing the piano, harp, cello, violin, and piccilo!
Zoe and her take vocal lessons and instrument lessons together.
Zachary the baby of the house seems to love all three, but however
Raina is not adjusting well to them at all and so to help this I make sure that I spend as much time during the day when everyone is at school with her and
Zach alone.
Corinna has expressed wanting to graduate early, my husband and I have talked about this and have come to an agreement that she can not graduated until she is 17. She has high ambitions which is wonderful but we want her to have a "normal" teenage experience. We have enrolled her in advanced classes and allowed her to take some correspondance classes with a university when she is 14. We also arranged for her to be a volunteer at the medical lab in town since she told us she wants to go into Disease Research.
That is our family for now.