Without pictures, but I wanted to give recognition to the other three new member of my family in addition to Octavia.
First, is her mom, who shall be known here as Two-EEs. Because her name is a very popular late 1980s/early 1990's girl's name, only her parents chose to differentiate it from all the other girls of that name by spelling it with two E's. You'll just have to wonder if she's an Ashlee, Brittanee, Courtnee, Haylee, Katee, Kelsee, Lexee, Sydnee, Toree. . .
Next would be Octavia's oldest sister, Two-EEs daughter from her first marriage (pretty much right out of high school). She lives with her bio dad and step-mom on step-mom's parents' cattle farm, so I don't see her as often as the others. She's in high school, a member of 4-H and loves raising a steer each year as her project. Her name shall be Cowgirl.
And then there's Octavia and Cowgirl's brother, Two-EEs son from a different marriage (and, from what I've been told, whose bio dad isn't part of his life) who will turn 4 this November (I think, it's November anyway need to be a good Grandma and verify the date). He absolutely loves tractors and is obsessed with everything tractor related. So his name obviously is going to be Tractor.
Which, incidentally, is the nickname one of the softball dads gave DD1 when she was about middle school age and would fearlessly plow through any defensive player blocking the baseline when she was baserunning. I guess that makes it kind of a family name; I'm hoping that Tractor will, over time, be as comfortable with me being his Grandma as my grandkids who've known me their whole lives are.
Which means that at gatherings of me and DH and our descendants, there now will be nineteen people! Definitely time to clean out our basement and get it set up for comfortably seating big groups.
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