Rita had just given birth the day before.
"Like, what's her name?" Kelsey asked.
"Charlotte Tina Hanson." Rita replied.
"Charlotte or Tina? I like, know what you Hansons are like."
"Charlotte. Char for short."
Kelsey nodded.
"I've like, lost count. How many kids do you two like, have?"
"Well, I have seven blood children." Rita answered. "And one adopted."
"Kyle right? And he's like, deaf or something?"
"Yeah." Taylor answered.
"Ok, and you two," Kelsey said, pointing at Isaac and Babsie, "have enough kids to win you the parents of the year award."
They laughed.
"Y'know, once I heard about a couple who had 30 kids." Babsie said. "I don't remember if they were blood, or if they were adopted or fostered or what. It was years ago now."
"Thirty kids?" Zac repeated. "I bet they were adopted. There's no way… oh, ok, you guys are almost halfway there already."
"I don't think I want to have thirty kids…" Isaac said. "What do you think Babs? Stop at twenty?"
"Hmm… well, y'know… there are five months of the year we haven't have kids in… umm, if we have twins each time…"
"That's ten more kids. Ten on thirteen… yeah that's about twenty-three"
"Oh look, they can count." Taylor grinned.
"Ten more kids?" Kelsey said, giving them a look. "Twenty-three altogether?"
"Well, five to ten more kids." Babsie pointed out. "Yeah, ok, sounds good to me Ike."
"You're both insane."
"We know." Isaac and Babsie said together.
"Ok, they're scaring me."
"Don't worry Kel, they scare me all the time." Zac said. "I don't even wanna think about the affect their kids are gonna have."
"You know Zac? We should have started a petition forbidding these guys to get married."
"Yeah, we should have spoken up during the wedding, y'know, when the pastor said 'if anyone has anything against these two getting married…' that bit? We should have said 'yes, we do! The world isn't ready for their army of kids'."
"We should have known when they both showed up as X-men it would be -"
"You know Ike, I'm feeling a little unappreciated right now." Babsie cut in.