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HelpRe: estel's Story Congrats Round 8
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Welcome back to the Lovejoys! It's been a looong ten years and the babies have all grown up!
Let's take it from the top: Stefan is still working with police dogs and loving every second of it (he's the site manager now and trains senior leaders at other facilities). Anya's books have taken off (finally) she has written a trilogy and two single books that have been published and are bringing in a lovely income.
Octavia started university last year, she's moved out to live with friends and is doing a degree around social care. Her bond with younger brother, Parker, has inspired her to pursue work with children on the Autistic Spectrum. She's definitely come out of her shell at university and has even joined the running team to meet new people - at the moment she's currently training for a half marathon to raise money for the National Autistic Society.
Eve is getting ready for her GCSEs. If she does as well as she's expected too she's got a place at a music college a few towns over to pursue her passion in music. In the past ten years Eve has mastered the piano and keyboard, she started guitar six years ago and drums three years ago (Octavia was glad to move out of their shared attic space!) Eve has also been having singing lessons for as long as she can remember.
Parker has progressed two-fold from the little bundle of uncontrollable energy that he was. He found secondary school a struggle for the while as the 1:2:1 support he'd received in primary school suddenly disappeared and for a while he regressed. But he had an absolutely fantastic D&T teacher who saw potential in him and went out of his way to work with Parker at break and lunchtimes to prevent him from being expelled. Parker has since got involved in lots of extracurricular clubs from chess and spelling bee to rugby and woodwork - these have developed his social skills and keeps him mentally stimulated. Parker doesn't know what his future holds him, he is extremely mathematically bright but struggles to find sufficient challenge there whereas the practicality of woodwork and metalwork - pulling things apart and creating from scratch - appeals to him much more.
Reuben is a little sweetheart deep down but to "fit in" when he started secondary school he joined the football team and Anya is worried that the boys he plays with aren't the best influence. Reuben isn't very academically inclined but his favourite part of school is food tech (only the cooking part though, not the "stupid" part where they just watch videos about where food comes from). Anya and Stefan hope they've raised Reuben to know better than some of his peers and that he'll continue cooking.
The twinnies - newly born when we last checked in with the Lovejoys - are now in double digits! Both children are thoroughly spoilt as the youngest of the brood but they haven't been without their quirks. When both babies started babbling at 5 months old, the whole family were delighted, for Willow this extended into words just after her first baby and nobody thought much of the fact that Raven wasn't there yet. But when Willow was two and forming short sentences and phrases, and Raven was still fairly incoherent, Anya realised that something wasn't right with her oldest twin. About a year later, as the twins are starting nursery, Stefan and Anya get Raven diagnosed with Childhood Apraxia of Speech. She begin intense speech therapy sessions as soon as she can and the nursery are made aware of her needs - they suggest they begin to teach her some Signalong to help her communicate and supplement her speech which Anya is immediately open to. To minimise segregation, Anya asks the nursery to teach Willow alongside Raven and it's great to see the twins finally able to communicate with each other. Seven years on the twins are doing great. Raven is only having her therapy twice a month and can speak well. Both children continued to learn Signalong, as did Anya, Stefan, Parker and Octavia, and it's become a massive part of everybody's lives. The twins are in their last year of primary school and are just like any other 10 year old girls. They love having sleepovers with their friends, watching movies and playing with Tenny and Ivy. Raven has had gymnastics lessons for seven years and her communication difficulties haven't held her back. Willow started but found that gymnastics wasn't for her, instead she continued her swimming lessons (which Anya insisted all of her children have) to a competitive level and trains three times a week.
The family lost Roy and Rex within several months of each other three years ago. The family were absolutely devastated but not more so than the three oldest children who had formed so many memories with the dogs. Last year Stefan and Anya brought home two new members of the family in the form of a Staffordshire Terrier cross (
) and a grey-and-white kitten (
).
H: Stefan James Lovejoy [43]
W: Anya Mary {nee: Parker} Lovejoy [41]
D1: Octavia Mary Sapphire Lovejoy [19]
D2: Eve Natasha True Lovejoy [16]
S1: Parker James Lovejoy [15]
S2: Reuben Bravery Lovejoy [12]
D3/D4: Raven Eleanore Lilo Lovejoy & Willow Iona Melody Lovejoy [10]
Dog: Tenny [2]
Cat: Ivy [2]
http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/117870?sort=rank&pop=ew
^Top 2 = Alice, James / Henry ~~ Bottom 2 = Courage and Indiana (m)
Let's take it from the top: Stefan is still working with police dogs and loving every second of it (he's the site manager now and trains senior leaders at other facilities). Anya's books have taken off (finally) she has written a trilogy and two single books that have been published and are bringing in a lovely income.
Octavia started university last year, she's moved out to live with friends and is doing a degree around social care. Her bond with younger brother, Parker, has inspired her to pursue work with children on the Autistic Spectrum. She's definitely come out of her shell at university and has even joined the running team to meet new people - at the moment she's currently training for a half marathon to raise money for the National Autistic Society.
Eve is getting ready for her GCSEs. If she does as well as she's expected too she's got a place at a music college a few towns over to pursue her passion in music. In the past ten years Eve has mastered the piano and keyboard, she started guitar six years ago and drums three years ago (Octavia was glad to move out of their shared attic space!) Eve has also been having singing lessons for as long as she can remember.
Parker has progressed two-fold from the little bundle of uncontrollable energy that he was. He found secondary school a struggle for the while as the 1:2:1 support he'd received in primary school suddenly disappeared and for a while he regressed. But he had an absolutely fantastic D&T teacher who saw potential in him and went out of his way to work with Parker at break and lunchtimes to prevent him from being expelled. Parker has since got involved in lots of extracurricular clubs from chess and spelling bee to rugby and woodwork - these have developed his social skills and keeps him mentally stimulated. Parker doesn't know what his future holds him, he is extremely mathematically bright but struggles to find sufficient challenge there whereas the practicality of woodwork and metalwork - pulling things apart and creating from scratch - appeals to him much more.
Reuben is a little sweetheart deep down but to "fit in" when he started secondary school he joined the football team and Anya is worried that the boys he plays with aren't the best influence. Reuben isn't very academically inclined but his favourite part of school is food tech (only the cooking part though, not the "stupid" part where they just watch videos about where food comes from). Anya and Stefan hope they've raised Reuben to know better than some of his peers and that he'll continue cooking.
The twinnies - newly born when we last checked in with the Lovejoys - are now in double digits! Both children are thoroughly spoilt as the youngest of the brood but they haven't been without their quirks. When both babies started babbling at 5 months old, the whole family were delighted, for Willow this extended into words just after her first baby and nobody thought much of the fact that Raven wasn't there yet. But when Willow was two and forming short sentences and phrases, and Raven was still fairly incoherent, Anya realised that something wasn't right with her oldest twin. About a year later, as the twins are starting nursery, Stefan and Anya get Raven diagnosed with Childhood Apraxia of Speech. She begin intense speech therapy sessions as soon as she can and the nursery are made aware of her needs - they suggest they begin to teach her some Signalong to help her communicate and supplement her speech which Anya is immediately open to. To minimise segregation, Anya asks the nursery to teach Willow alongside Raven and it's great to see the twins finally able to communicate with each other. Seven years on the twins are doing great. Raven is only having her therapy twice a month and can speak well. Both children continued to learn Signalong, as did Anya, Stefan, Parker and Octavia, and it's become a massive part of everybody's lives. The twins are in their last year of primary school and are just like any other 10 year old girls. They love having sleepovers with their friends, watching movies and playing with Tenny and Ivy. Raven has had gymnastics lessons for seven years and her communication difficulties haven't held her back. Willow started but found that gymnastics wasn't for her, instead she continued her swimming lessons (which Anya insisted all of her children have) to a competitive level and trains three times a week.
The family lost Roy and Rex within several months of each other three years ago. The family were absolutely devastated but not more so than the three oldest children who had formed so many memories with the dogs. Last year Stefan and Anya brought home two new members of the family in the form of a Staffordshire Terrier cross (
) and a grey-and-white kitten ().H: Stefan James Lovejoy [43]
W: Anya Mary {nee: Parker} Lovejoy [41]
D1: Octavia Mary Sapphire Lovejoy [19]
D2: Eve Natasha True Lovejoy [16]
S1: Parker James Lovejoy [15]
S2: Reuben Bravery Lovejoy [12]
D3/D4: Raven Eleanore Lilo Lovejoy & Willow Iona Melody Lovejoy [10]
Dog: Tenny [2]
Cat: Ivy [2]
http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/117870?sort=rank&pop=ew
^Top 2 = Alice, James / Henry ~~ Bottom 2 = Courage and Indiana (m)
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