Horace

Hot on the heels of her elder sister’s engagement, the third daughter of #1 son is back from New York.

It might be recalled that of all three children, the third, shown on the right below, was the gangly one. Indeed, at her birth, her somewhat stressed father was indiscreet enough to say “she looks a bit ragged!”

#1 son’s three beautiful children

Well, time and a hefty investment of cash improved things somewhat. Assiduous parental supervision of orthodontic work, ballet and gymnastic lessons and, yes, it can now be admitted, some surgical enhancement, resulted in a quite attractive leafette.

Vastly improved #3 daughter

Of course, with all that attention she also acquired a conviction that she was destined for stardom on the catwalk.  When no one else in the forest could see much that distinguished her from many of the other treetop appendages, she persuaded her father to send her to New York.  Perhaps in the deciduous winter of that great city she might be seen to better advantage?  She was confident of it. As long as Daddy didn’t prejudice her success by suddenly becoming a bit niggardly with the funds for clothes and a photographic portfolio of course…….

Long suffering Dad came up with the cash to hire ROLAND – star maker. A small man, and quite gnarled, for his age ROLAND (that’s right, not just Roland; ROLAND) had suffered terribly from acne in his teens and would forever bear the scars.  Determined to put that behind him he resolved only ever to work with beautiful people.  In fact he found ugly people repulsive.  (Psychologists will be nodding wisely here.)

ROLAND star maker

ROLAND toiled with his lights and cameras, suggesting endless different poses for our would be super model.  Alas, somehow they always looked the same…

The fitness queen look

The sexy provocative look

To cut a long and not very pleasant story short, ROLAND decided to head off our leafette’s screeching spiteful scorn at his failure as a star maker by doing what he always did.  He decided to leave town.  Where to?? Could he leave the now totally self absorbed and miserable leafette whose life he’d apparently ruined? Again, he ignored the issues, substituted a sense of duty,  and told her he loved her and would follow her anywhere.  Her father’s forest was a good option he suggested. It certainly sounded like a good paddock to be in.

So here is the new couple as her parents saw them when the image was splashed across  Facebook and it was announced they were coming back home.

Leafette in (now) trademark) pose with ROLAND , ex-star maker, supportive and unassertive in the background.

I have an uneasy feeling about these two.

In a previous note I observed that our grandparents were walking on eggshells as their daughter and her “a little bit fancy” husband

Daughter selects a mate

tried repeatedly to have a child via IVF.

Grandma has been watching the news and knows that there is some controversy over the claimed success rates of the IVF industry.  [see http://theconversation.com/the-art-of-deception-ivf-success-rates-are-not-what-you-think-42894]

She’s been reluctant to discuss this with her daughter as she didn’t want to elevate existing hormone driven levels of anxiety.

She need not have worried.  The young people have “gone for broke” and had three embryos implanted.  Amazingly** all have resulted in pregnancy and a delivered baby/babies.

The commodities, aka babies, are pictured below.

The grandchildren from their daughter

**editorial comment made in ignorance and not intended to prejudice future business operations.

Whether these three will play nicely with their second cousins is still to be determined. If looks are any indication, they’ll be OK.  ARE looks any indication?

Stay tuned.

Drum roll!!!!  This lady is now a proud grandmother:

Now she’s a grandmother.

Her eldest born son, the one who married the somewhat stolid leafess (see below right),

#1 Son takes a wife

has in a very short space of time produced three interesting children, each only slightly different from his/ her siblings (girl , boy, girl in that order):

#1 son’s three beautiful children

Fortunately their mother passed on her striking colouring and markings but not her generous stocky shape. [I’ve been asked to say discreetly that they are aware that child #3 is looking a bit raggy around the edges but she’s growing so quickly that she’s running out of collagen; her connective tissue is going to need some repair work/boosting  once  adolescence is over.   Well that’s a relief !  I look forward to presenting an elegant, sophisticated young woman once her parents secure that reverse mortgage to finance her cosmetic surgery.]

It’s definitely been a period of great excitement for both the grandparents as their second son and third child , seen here with his chosen life partner (aka “the curvy one”):

The boy baby of the family chose a really curvacious partner.

has also presented his parents with three babies:

Three gorgeous leaflings

The newest leaflings, two girls and a boy, were all born prematurely and are likely to be fitted in the future with various prostheses to enable  them to be self supporting.  They are definitely a handful for Grandma in their present state!  They will only get larger too.  However, at this point, doctors have rejected the grandparents’ offer to fund reconstructive surgery.

Our  grandparents have anticipated  queries about their daughter.

Daughter (right)  selects a mate

They have asked me to say only that she and her “a little bit fancy” husband are about to begin their seventh round of IVF.  They will go for broke this time with the implantation  of three seedlings in the hope of catching up with the brothers and avoiding  the bankruptcy which will inevitably follow any eighth course of treatment.  An announcement will be made as soon as there is anything to tell.

Well a month is a long time in leaf family formation.

The three progeny of

Let’s call this “the mother”.

and

Dad

have now all partnered.  Here is  the photographic evidence:

#1 Son (left) takes a wife

The eldest son chose a very worthy girl.  Moss stitch is a good sensible compromise between stocking stitch and garter stitch.  Wide child-bearing hips and a Chanel inspired slimming gesture in the vertical embellishment down her front.  I expect good results from this pairing.

Daughter (right) selects a mate

Dad was a bit concerned about his little princess’s choice.  “A little bit fancy”, he thought privately.  Still, with such contrasting physical builds, the children should be beautiful and robust.

The boy baby of the family (right) chose a really curvacious partner.

Finally, Mum and Dad got rid of the third child when he married a girl of somewhat mottled appearance and a tendency to one dimensionality….