Chapter 1
January (The New Year)
It was New Year's Eve again. The Halliwell family had planned a big party with family and friends. Piper Halliwell was in the kitchen preparing the food with her older sister Prue who was almost 6 months pregnant. Piper's husband Leo, youngest sister Paige and Prue's husband Andy were decorating with their white lighter powers. Piper's sister Phoebe was looking after the Halliwell children with her cupid husband Coop and Paige's mortal husband Henry in the living room.
Piper and Leo's oldest son, 6 year old Wyatt, was playing cops and robbers with his 5 year old brother Chris and their almost 3 year old sister Melinda. Phoebe and Coop's oldest daughter, two year old P.J. (Prue Johnna) was playing with Paige and Henry's adopted mortal son Henry Jr. P.J.'s baby sister, almost 5 month old Parker, was sleeping in the playpen in the living room. Paige and Henry's twin daughters, two year old Kat and Tamora, were watching cartoon on TV.
The first guest to arrive was Prue, Piper and Phoebe's father Victor, and Paige's father Sam. Paige was only Prue, Piper and Phoebe's half-sister. Next the sister's close witch friend Billie arrived, followed by the family's closest friends Darryl and his wife Sheila along with their two sons Mikey and Darryl Jr. The last guest to arrive was Phoebe's boss Elise, who was a close friend.
The family and guests gathered in the living room and talked up a storm.
"So, we got an ultra sound and I was right, it's a girl" Prue announced.
"Congratulations, any name ideas yet" Billie asked.
"No not yet, but I'm still thinking of having her middle name Angel" Prue replied.
"So how has it been with Parker" Elise asked.
"Hard at times, especially during the night" Coop" responded.
"Yeah, P.J. doesn't seem to care about having a sister" Phoebe remarked.
"Oh well give her some time, she's only 2" Elise said.
After a few hours had flown by, everyone sat at the table and Piper served them with Leo's help. Before everyone dug into the meal, Piper stood up and made the toast.
"Another year has gone. Today we are gathered here with family and friends to celebrate the New Year. May this year bring wonderful things. This year I would like all of you to say one thing you want to do this year" Piper said.
"I want to go back to my photography career" Prue said.
"I want to have a family picture taken with my first little girl" Andy said.
"I want to open the restaurant I always dreamed of running" Piper stated.
"I want to get Rusty to behave at school" Leo stated about his student at magic school.
"I want to go back to work at the office" Phoebe said.
"I was thinking of going back into the love business" Coop said.
"I want another charge to look after" Paige said.
"I want to have my paroles fully recovered" Henry said.
"I want to learn how to roller blade" Wyatt said.
"I want to learn how to read" Chris said.
The others said their one thing, then Piper stood back up.
"OK then good luck to us all, to 2010" Piper said.
"To 2010" everyone said.
Hours later it was time for the countdown.
"10, 9, 8, 7,6,5,4,3,2,1, Happy new year's" everyone shouted and the children threw balloons up in the air.
A week later, Piper retrieved the baby name book from her room and joined her sisters on the couch.
"Ok Prue any first letters" Piper asked.
"Yes, P" Prue said.
Piper flipped through the book until she reached the P names for girls.
"Ok how about Penelope" Piper suggested
"No, sounds like a name for a bird" Prue said.
"How about Peace" Paige suggested
"No" Andy replied.
"How about Pepper" Phoebe suggested.
"No sounds too much like Piper" Prue said.
"How about Payton" Leo suggested.
"Yeah I like that, how about you honey" Andy said.
"Yeah I like that too" Prue decided.
"Ok then it's settled" Piper said and closed the book.
A few days after Piper dressed all professional, she was going with Leo to find a place to open her restaurant. She wasn't sure what she would do with P3 yet. Piper and Leo met the man who was going to show them the buildings available, he was also the one who would give Piper a legal license to open a restaurant.
"Good morning, you must be Piper Halliwell" the man said.
"Yes, and this is my husband Leo" Piper introduced.
"Nice to meet you Leo, I'm Mr. Brooks, so let's go to our first option" Mr. Brooks said.
Meanwhile in grade one, Wyatt was drawing a picture for art time. As he was drawing his teacher came up to him and looked at his drawing.
"What are you drawing Wyatt" the teacher asked.
"I'm drawing a horse" Wyatt replied.
"It's very nice, good job" the teacher complimented and moved on to the next child.
In kindergarten, Chris was having free time, which he was spending with his friend Lily in the house center.
"OK Wyatt, you're the daddy, I'm the mommy and this is the baby" Lily said holding up a doll.
"OK, I'll make supper" Wyatt said as he pulled out the paly food and plastic dishes.
Wyatt pretended to make the meal, while Lily changed the dolls clothes into a pretty outfit. Once Wyatt was done, Lily put the doll in the high chair and served her a whole chicken. Wyatt knew better and took it away.
"You can't give a baby food like this, at my house the babies eat baby food until their two" Wyatt explained.
Lily nodded and found a plastic jar of invisible baby food and gave it to the doll.
At pre- school the twins were on time out.
"I hate time outs" Kat whined
"Me too" Tamora whined.
"Tamora, Kat your time outs are over" Mrs. Grace said holding Melinda and P.J.'s hands. The twins got up and ran to the toys. Mrs. Grace seated Melinda and P.J. on the chairs.
"And you two are on time out…again" Mrs. Grace said and set the timer to two minutes.
"This is so stupid, I'm out of here" Melinda said and joined the twins.
Meanwhile at magic school, Paige who was filling in for Leo, had enough with Rusty. So Paige orbed some ropes around Rusty, which tied him to his chair, and he was unable to move his hands. Rusty struggled to get loose but failed.
"You will stay like that for the rest of the day, maybe it will teach you to act nicely in class" Paige told Rusty who looked scared of her.
Back at the manor, Phoebe was trying to type her advice Column for that week, while taking care of Parker since she was the only one home. Parker was getting impatient with her mother.
"Oh Parker, I just changed you five minutes ago" Phoebe said as she took Parker out of her crib.
Phoebe sat on her bed, placed Parker on her lap, pulled her lap top towards her, and fed Parker, and used to voice command instead of typing. This allowed her to say the words instead of having to type them herself. However Parker's crying about the bottle falling out of her mouth, screwed up the voice commands. That's when Prue knocked on the bedroom door.
"I'm back, need some help" Prue offered
"Yes please, can you look after Parker while I work" Phoebe asked.
Prue nodded and took Parker and the bottle, then left the room. Prue looked after Parker and baby Henry while Phoebe worked.
With Andy being a white lighter, Leo working at magic school, Paige working for child services, Henry working as a parole officer, Coop back in the love business, Phoebe about to go back to work at the office, Prue going back to her photography career, Piper would be the only one home to watch the babies, this was going to be trouble. Piper would be working during the day when the restaurant would open.
Back at school, Wyatt was outside playing soccer with his friends, when he slipped in a puddle of mud. Chris was sharing his gold fish with a boy in his class, and when he ate the last one, the boy dumped his water bottle on Chris's head, and dumped Chris's water bottle on his head.
Piper and Leo were at their third option when Piper's cell phone rang.
"Hello, this is Piper Halliwell" Piper said.
"Mrs. Halliwell, this is principle George, you have to come pick up your sons."
"What did they do?"
"Nothing, Wyatt is covered in mud because he slipped and fell during recess, and Chris had two water bottles dumped on his head, it would be best if they could go home and get cleaned up or dried."
"Ok, I'll be there soon."
"I'm sorry Mr. Brooks, I'm going to have to cut this short, Leo we have to pick up the boys at school, I'll explain on the way" Piper said.
In the car on the way to the school, Piper's cell phone rang again. Piper handed her cell phone to Leo who answered it.
"Hello, this is Leo Halliwell."
"Mr. Halliwell, this is Mrs. Grace, Melinda cut one side of her hair, it's pretty bad, so you should come pick her up."
"Ok."
"Melinda cut her hair, so we need to pick her up too" Leo informed Piper.
Meanwhile back at the manor, the home phone rang and Phoebe answered.
"Hello, this is Phoebe"
"Mrs. Halliwell this is Mr. Grace, you need to come pick up P.J, she just threw up and feels warm"
"Ok, I'll be right there, call me if it gets any worse."
Phoebe told Prue she was going to pick up P.J., then got in her car and drove to the pre-school. Meanwhile, Henry got a call at his office.
"Hello, this is Henry Mitchell parole officer"
"Hi Mr. Mitchell, this is Mrs. Grace, you need to pick up the twins, they painted all over their clothes, cut their hair and they have gum stuck in their hair"
"Oh boy, ok I'll be right there."
At the Gordon elementary school, Piper picked up the boys in the office. She wasn't too happy that he car was about to be covered in mud and soaking wet with water. At the pre-school, Piper, Phoebe and Henry got there at the same time.
"Do I even want to ask" Piper asked.
Phoebe and Henry shook their heads, so they went into the pre-school to pick up their kids. The adults signed out their kids and brought them home. At home Phoebe took P.J.'s fever, she had a small fever, not bad enough for a hospital though. S0 P.J. went straight to bed.
After Chris changed clothes, and Wyatt had a bath, Leo brought them back to school because there were still 4 hours before school ended. Piper got out a pair of scissors and cut Melinda's hair to make it even. Melinda had only cut one side of her hair, so Piper just cut the other side until it was as short as the side Melinda had cut, and of course cut both sides so it wasn't crooked. Her hair now only went down to her shoulders, Piper actually liked it better like this. Piper decided to keep Melinda home for the rest of the day.
Henry gave the twins a bath too and removed the gum from their hair and the paint off their skin. Prue had already put the twins painted on clothes in the washing machine with stain remover. After the baths, Henry cut the twins hair to make it even. Tamora's hair now went just below her shoulders, and Kat's hair now went down only to her chin. Henry was not happy about them having short hair especially Kat's short hair.
Henry kept the twins home to, to avoid them getting in any more trouble. Poor P.J. stayed in bed all day and didn't even want to eat at supper time. Around 8, her fever got really bad, so Leo healed her. Phoebe decided to keep P.J home the next day to avoid the pre-school teachers wondering how she got better so fast.
After supper, Piper called Mr. Brooks and scheduled another appointment. Piper had loved option two, and was sure she would choose it, but she wanted to see all her options before making up her mind. This was her dream restaurant, she wanted to have everything perfect.