Chapter 11.2 - April 2023: Double birthday party.

"The Frumpenheimer House" by night, peaceful and quiet on the outside...



It's another month in the Jensen /Rasmussen household and the parents once more wake up in the middle of the night to the high pitched voice of one of their infants..



Patrik seizes the moment to have a very early breakfast (or a late night meal depending on how you view it), leaving Solvej downstairs to take care of the babies.. Solvej is not very amused. ;)



They only a get a few short moments of sleep before it's up again to start the new day..



Having babies is a 24/7 job.. the always flirtatious Patrik still manages to keep a good mood between the parents, though..



The twins birthday (Lillian and Silvia) falls on a saturday this year, so everyone will have the day off, except Solvej that doesn't have any fixed work hours. Solvej job is in the greenhouse, and the plants in there are in great need of some attention to pull weeds and harvest their growth...



It's a good thing then, that Solvej has such a green thumb. ;)



Now, Patrik likes green things too, however his kind is the one usually played sports on, as he decided to spend his time off watching the lates game of Simmerican foot-to-handball on tv. ;)



Rune spent his morning sleeping in after staying up late over at Tatiana Marias house and didn't notice his father was up until after he finished his breakfast and cleaned up.. "Morning, dad.."



Solvej had delegated the task of inviting guests and fixing the cakes to the birthday party to Patrik. Since he kept evading caring for the twins, he had to do something.. Solvej wasn't any less tired than he was...



Guests begin arriving shortly after the invitation was sent out (as do the rain..), and the first guests to show up are Leo Xie-Luo and Elisa Meek. Most of the guests invited were kids that are friends of Rune. Leo is the oldest son of Jingguo and Dongmei and Elisa is an orphan living at the orphanage ran by the Westgård family (they have practically adopted these kids and made them their family).



They're quickly followed by Karoline Gundersen and Samira Klinemann. Karoline is married to Kabelo Gundersen (birth name Kabelo Okalake, so he took her last name after marriage). They have one son together, Alexander Gundersen. Samira is the daughter of Chansa Klinemann (nee Beadoux) and Jørgen Klinemann.



Right behind them came Selma Vaddelmyr greeting Karoline with her best smile, but Karoline wasn't necessarily smiling in return..



Someone else that wasn't smiling was Edny Sævik, the oldest child of the Sævik household. Her parents are Vetle Sævik and Oda Sævik, the latter unfortunately being in prison, so Edny sometimes has to take on the role of being the 'mother' of the household to help her father with caring for her two younger brothers....



Selmas daughter Jorunn was the next guest, greeting her mom as she arrived because it took a while for everyone to sort out who should enter first through the front door.. :P



Leya was the second to last guest I caught arriving, not holding any grudges against Selma for what happened a couple of months ago. ;)



The last guest was Lars Erik Fikdsal, another kid that had recently been adopted by the Westgård family.



Tatiana Maria had somehow managed to sneak inside the house without anyone noticing. A future international super spy there, perhaps. :P



Solvej and Patriks living room is right up the stairs from the front door, but for some people its more natural to take the first door to the left and walk straight into their bedroom instead... It was quite crowded when Solvej went in there to pick up Lillian to celebrate her birthday.. Karoline had started an argument with Selma, and Leya was with Samiras father, Jørgen..



"If Gaute can flirth with others, then so can I...."



"...or maybe I shouldn't have done that. I better leave this party before somebody finds out..."



Then the main event could begin, and Lillian was the first one to be celebrated. Though the guests didn't seem to care much. It was only her brother Rune and her father Patrik that actually cheered for her. Everyone else were more concerned with their own business.. but anyway, happy first birthday to you, Lillian. ;)



Welcome to toddlerhood. You'll probably get a little better dressed later. :P



Then it's time for the second twin Silvia to have her celebration. Elisa and Samira had left in between here, and just like with Lillian it was only her father and her brother that actually cared enough to celebrate. I guess people on this day just wasn't in a mood for partying. :P



Happy birthday, young one. ;)



Those red hair genes must be pretty strong, as all three kids that Solvej have given birth to have gotten the same hair colour.



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Yeah, people weren't to interested in partying at all, because by the time they sat down to eat the cakes even more people had left, and upstairs now it was really only Bodil that remained of all the guests...



The toddlers had located each their toy. Silvia with the doll house and Lillian with the peg toy box in the background.



Patrik didn't mind all the guests leaving so soon as he was still very tired, and so he suggested to Patrik (so that Bodil would hear it), that it was probably bedtime soon...



Oh, but the party had yet another guest, because I heard some laughter from outside.. I suspect that Gaute had spent most of his time there playing with the sprinklers in Solvejs greenhouse...



Gaute is very fond of children for a man that doesn't have the family oriented personality trait, as he rushes inside to cuddle with Lillian.



Solvej thinks it's bedtime and wants to put Silvia to bed, but Gaute was already there as well...
"Gaute.. please put down my child, so I can put her in her crib.. It's getting late and we all need our sleep..."



..but Gaute wasn't really listening, so Solvej had to pick up Lillian first.. :P



News ticker: Danica Tomren, "The girl from the Harbour Café", has now found a boyfriend in Lothar Marier, another one of the towns vehicle enthusiasts. He is the clever mechanic and engineer behind the local racers custom built cars. ;)



Lothar Maier driving in a rusty old car that he sometimes drives in because it draws a lot less attention compared to his favorite ride...



Back in Solvej and Patriks house it's bedtime for Lillian and Gaute and Bodil take the hint and head back home to their own house by Cliffon Park.



"Thanks for the invitation, we had fun."
The buffet table in the background was Patriks idea, however since both he and Solvej was pretty tired the entire time and all the guests left pretty quickly, there wasn't really an opportunity to make use of it.. so into the storage it goes, hopefully to be used some other time. ;)



Bedtime for Silvia too.. nighty night, sweetheart. ;)



Finally then, the parents could make an attempt at getting some well deserved rest once more..



Rune didn't feel like going to bed just yet though, because, well.. there were monsters under the bed again...



Pretending to be a king is much better... "I commandeth thee, monsters of the underworld.. yield! Yield and return to the dark depths from whence thou cameth!"



The peace of the adults and toddlers bedroom didn't last very long, because Silvia needed to be fed..



Of course, that job was left to Solvej as all Patrik did was shout and curse and go back to sleep...



Eat and be merry.. Silvias first meal all on her own. ;)



What comes in, has to come out.. with a smell that makes its way through every pore and is potentially lethal... :P



Downstairs Rune has successfully banished the monsters back to their lair so he can go to bed, and Solvej has put Silvia in her crib for the second time, and everyone can now finally asleep..



Well, everyone except one...



Good night. ;)

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