As Olivia nears the end of her pregnancy, Jasper's eccentric and bohemian family comes to Avonlea to help look after the baby once it arrives. Jasper was expecting two people at most, but several dozen of his family descend on the town. With the White Sands Hotel full, they are scattered to Alec and Janet's house as well as Rose Cottage, much to the dismay of all the adult Kings, who have no idea how long they will have to put up and put up with these strangers. What's worse for Hetty is that Olivia has taken up the offer of cousin Selina Dale, who takes after her mother Minerva as a free expressionist, to stay for a year to look after the baby while Olivia goes back to work. Hetty will not allow a King baby to be raised by weirdos, she who alternately decides to take a sabbatical from work to care for the baby. Beyond the resulting squabbling going on between the King and Dale families about the care of the baby, Olivia and Jasper ponder what they will be like as parents.