they were swinging the blanket with Helen inside it. Helen wasn't crying, but she didn't look like she was enjoying the ride. Both Veldaand Ida were laughing with delight. Margurita asked the older children how Helen got out of her crib. Edna commented that she was crying, so she took her out. Edna thought she had "done good" and added, "She's not crying now." Helen grew up to be a teacher. She had an appetite for learning, and was patient and kind. Margurita often commented that Helen was a "quick learner". Of the Doucette children, Helen learned to walk the earliest, and was the youngest to be weaned. At ten months old, Helen was going up the stairs, carrying her bottle. She dropped the bottle and it broke. She was ready to be weaned, as she did not cry for her bottle after that. Helen grew up to be beautiful. She had thick, brown hair and hazel eyes. Her most striking feature was her hair, which fell down in long tresses. When Helen was a child, Margurita would braid her hair. The twins would ask their mother to braid their hair "like Helen's", but Velda and Ida had 'flyaway' hair, and their braids didn't look at all like Helen's. Sometimes the twins would express displeasure with their hair and asked their mother, "Why can't you braid it like Helen's?" In the spring of 1943, Alphy hired someone to raise the house. Then Alphy dug out the hole for the foundation. The hole was eight and a half feet deep, thirty-two feet in length and twenty-two feet wide. This was a labor of love, as Alphy dug it all out manually, using a pick and shovel. Alphy made the forms and poured the cement. He made a good, solid foundation. Following the birth of their fifth child, Alphy did not return to the lumber camps - he was able to secure enough work in the community. 75