This prompt gave me the Shamy feels like crazy ya'll! Daddy daughter tea party, uh yes please! Keep these sweet fluffy prompts coming!
Amy walks up and down the aisle's of the grocery store repeating the mantra in her head.
"Sheldon will be fine, he is her father."
Amy looks down at the happy baby boy in her cart smiling up at her with a sweet gummy smile. S.J. might look just like his daddy with his bright blue eyes and dark brown hair, but he acted just like his momma. Now Caroline she was her fathers child through and through, smart as a whip and stubborn as a mule as Mary liked to say.
At four Caroline was starting to develop her own distinct and very strong personality. This morning when Amy had asked her to dress herself she came out dressed in a princess gown and space rain boots. The outfit she did not mind she encouraged Caroline to be whoever she wanted to be. The sassy attitude that had accompanied it she did not care for.
"Come along Caroline, it is time for us to go to the store." Amy had told her daughter and Carolina had responded by putting her hands on her hips and stomping her tiny foot.
"I don't want to go to the store." Amy did not have time to argue with her daughter. Little S.J. had just woken up form his nap and there was only a short window of time to go shopping before he got a case of the mid day grumpies.
"Caroline you come along this instant." Amy said firmly.
"No." Caroline said staring her mother down. "I want to have a tea party."
"Caroline there will be time for a tea party when we get home, now lets get going." Amy said grabbing her hand and tugging. Then Caroline and emitted the loudest shriek she had ever heard and burst into tears. The racket roused Sheldon from the study of their new house, he was working on a new theory and had been holed up in the room for days.
"Dear lord! Whatever is going on out here." He asked looking at Amy then his daughter both with matching grim expressions on their faces.
"Your daughter is displaying some of the patented Cooper stubborn streak." Amy told him.
"I don't want to go to the store, I want to stay with daddy!" Caroline says tears still falling from her eyes.
"You can't stay with daddy Caroline." Amy started but Sheldon holds up his hand.
"Why can't she stay with daddy." Sheldon asks.
"Oh, well, you're busy with your work." Amy tells him.
"Its nothing I can't take a break from." He tells her smiling.
"If you are sure you don't mind." Amy asks skeptically "Are you sure you can handle it?" Amy asks him and goes over and picks Caroline up.
"Amy, I am her father and she is just a small child what could possibly happen in the short time you are at the store?" he asks then he turns to Caroline and asks her. "You want to stay with daddy?" and she shakes her head weakly.
" I want to stay with daddy." She says burrowing her tiny brown head into his shoulder and looking up at Amy with big green eyes shining behind her glasses.
"Very well, you stay here with daddy I guess."
"There it is settled you take S.J. and I will stay with Caroline." He says setting her down. "Caroline is potty trained right?" he asks looking down at her uncertainly.
"Since she was two dear." Amy sighs picking up S.J. from his bouncy seat where he has been playing and slinging a diaper bag over her shoulder and heads out the door.
Its not that Sheldon is a bad dad that makes Amy worry, in fact Sheldon is a very good dad better than she could have ever imagined. He was very hands on and he had changed diapers given bottles. Walked up and down the halls at night calming a squealing baby while singing soft kitty to them. Yet he did not spend much time alone with them. Sheldon was adorably befuddled when it came to the children and needed Amy's help a lot.
Amy knew when she had children with Sheldon that she might take on the brunt of the responsibility. Amy was fine with that, it was letting go that she seemed to have a harder time with. Caroline was getting older and she needed time with her father as much as she needed time with her. Amy just had to learn to let go and not worry so much about them.
"I wonder what Caroline is doing with daddy?" she asks S.J. and he makes a coo and a gurgle that sounds an awful lot like "I don't know' to Amy's ears.
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"Daddy let's have a tea party!" Caroline says wrapping her tiny wingers around Sheldon's wrist and dragging him to her room.
"Ooh, tea I do love tea." He says as he sits down in one of the tiny white chairs in her room. His long legs almost touching his chin as he sits. "What kind are we having today?"
"Brown tea! And cookies." Caroline says pouring him an invisible cup of tea and handing him a plastic cookie which he looks at oddly.
"You know we could make a pot of real tea and have real cookies." He tells her getting up.
"I want it in here daddy, not in the kitchen." Caroline pouts.
"Well then ,we will bring the tea and cookies in here." He says still heading out the door.
"Mommy says that I can't have food in my room, I might make a mess." Sheldon considers her statement and realizes the concerns are valid.
"Do you want to have it in here because you like your little table?" and she shakes her head yes.
"Then we will just have to bring the table to the kitchen." He tells her clearing off the table and picking it up. "Grab the chairs." He tells her and she drags the chairs behind her as she follows him into the kitchen.
"This is funny daddy." Caroline giggles as he sets the table up in the middle of the large kitchen.
"Go get your tea set and I will make us some real tea." He tells her and she rushes off to get her tea set. "What kind of tea would a four year old like?" he muses. "Not red zinger, she has plenty zing, not sleepy time, don't want Amy accusing me of drugging her." He says out loud before selecting english breakfast. He makes the tea and looks in the batman cookie jar and is pleased to see a fresh batch of cookies inside. He arranges them on a plate and sets them down at the tiny table. Sheldon puts sugar cubes in little dish and sets out a little pitcher of milk. While Caroline carefully arranges her tea set on the table. They sit down once more and Sheldon holds out the tiny pot now filled with real tea to her.
"Tea my dear?"he asks pouring her some in her tiny cup. "One lump or two?" he asks holding out the bowl of sugar and she fold out three fingers. "Three?" he says shocked plopping three cubes in her drink. Caroline sips the tea and makes a face she has never had real tea before.
"Daddy, tea tastes funny." She says setting her cup down.
"It takes some getting used to." He says pouring milk in her cup. "There try it now." And she takes a dainty sip.
"Better." She says wiping her mouth and taking a cookie.
"I must say Miss Caroline you are looking quite beautiful today." He tells her.
"Aunt Penny got me this dress." She tells him smiling.
"I should have known, did Uncle Howard get you the boots?" he asks and she shakes her head yes."Well it is a very becoming ensemble on you. All you are missing is a tiara and you would look like a real princess." He tells her and she pops up and runs from the room he looks after her confused. Until she comes back wearing a bright pink plastic crown on her head. "I stand corrected you are a real princess,' he tells her and she giggles. With the little tiara on her head she is the spitting image of Amy. Sheldon looks at his tiny daughter and his heart swells he thought he knew true love when he met Amy but what he feels for his children has no equal.
"You need one too daddy." Caroline tells him.
"Oh but I am not a princess I am a boy so I would be a prince." He tells her taking a sip from his tea. "Princes don't wear tiara's."
"Mommy wears one when we have tea." Caroline pouts she looks just like her mother when she makes that face with her bright green eyes sad behind her glasses.
"Fine, go get me one." He concedes and she pops up again and then returns with Amy's crown in it's black velvet bag. "Caroline, mommy might not like it if she knew we were playing with this. Please go put it back where you found it." He tells her.
"Mommy said you gave this to her." Caroline says.
"I did, many years ago."
"Why did you buy mommy a tiara?" she asks
"Because Mommy is my princess, and now you are my princess as well." He tells her taking he tiara out and examining it. Remembering all the good memories attached with it, the day he gave it to her, Howard's wedding day, their wedding day. Time to add another good memory he thinks as he puts it on his head and smiles at his daughter. "Do I look pretty?" he asks.
"Very pretty." Caroline giggles loving having her daddy playing along with her. "I love you daddy."
"I love you, too."
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Amy rushes through the rest of her shopping worried about what she might come home to. In her head she is picturing Sheldon holed back up in his study while Caroline decorates their new white couch with her markers. Or Sheldon allowing a tea party in her room with real food and their being crumbs and kool-aid mashed into the carpet. Amy enters through their garage into the kitchen S.J. clinging to her hip like a little monkey. What she sees shocks her more then any of her imaginings. Sheldon with his long gangly legs sitting a tiny table in the middle of the kitchen with her tiara on his head.
"What's going on?" she asks walking in.
"Me and daddy and a real tea party with real tea! Don't worry I told daddy we could not have food in my room so he brought the table in the kitchen."
"Did you and daddy have fun while mommy was gone?"
"We had the best time! Tea tastes funny but it is better with milk, and look daddy put on your tiara."
"I see that, did you get that from mommy and daddies room?" Amy asks looking at her daughter with the mommy look that says trouble.
"I was just borrowing it." Caroline says hanging her head Amy sets S.J. down on the ground and he crawls over to the table and pulls himself up on it banging his tiny fist against the table.
"It is okay, daddy looks very nice in it." Amy says getting her phone out from her diaper bag and snapping a picture. Sheldon holds up his tiny tea cup pinkie out and smiles widely for the photo making Amy laugh. Then he get sup and walks over to Amy and sets the tiara on her head.
"It looks better on you." He tells her giving her a kiss.
"Mommy and daddy are yucky when they kiss." Caroline tells S.J. handing him a cookie and he blows a raspberry in agreement.