Chapter Sixty Two - Growing Fast

Kari's POV

5 months later.

I sat on the floor. Joshua was sitting in my lap chewing on the base of the palm of his hand. The other five were spread out on their play mats, Alistair Matthew and Julian were all sitting, pillows dotted around them in case they lost their balance, which didn't happen all that often. The three of them were growing faster than their two sisters and brother. Hela said it was because they were blessed by Selene. There were a few points where Matthew was crawling. I didn't doubt that in the next month or two, they would be on their feet. The girls lay next to each other under a mobile kicking their legs and swatting at the things hanging above them. I tried to spend a day with them once a week to make sure our bonds were strong, and if he could, Grant would join me.

"Uh ma," Joshua said, looking up at me. I smiled down at my little cherub as he reached fro my necklace that he loved to play with. Being the "runt of the litter," as Hela called him, he was more a