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"Wayne can you grab me Charlotte's bag from the hall closet." Grace Rigsby yells to her husband as she tries to calm a crying baby Charlotte

"Yeah and hey Grace are you sure you want to leave her with Teresa and Patrick for the weekend. What if he teaches her how to read minds or something." Wayne says while trading Charlotte for the dipper bag

"Well if he taught her how to read minds she will be the smartest 5 1/2 month old baby in the world. The doctor said she is advanced for her age but I don't think he meant genius smart I think he thought she was big for her age. Who knows maybe he will teach her to read minds and we can display her at a carnival." She said with a smirk on her face until she saw her husbands face "Wayne don't worry I talked to Teresa and she said she will make sure she gets her husband to behave. Plus she can't talk yet and she can't crawl so I don't think one weekend with the Jane's is going to get her to mind read." Grace says while laughing at her worried husband

"Okay but I hate to leave her she's so small. Can't we just skip going to Iowa, please Grace what if she says a new word we won't be able to hear it." Wayne pleads

"I am not missing my older brother's wedding and I wanted to bring Charlotte but you were the one who said she was too little and we need a weekend to ourselves. I also already gave Teresa our video camera just in case she did anything new which I highly doubt will happen. The only new thing that could happen is that she sleeps through the night and the doctor said that won't happen for a while. Plus shes not so small Wayne she's 27 inches long and weighs about 16 pounds" Grace explains a tad frustrated at her nervous husband

"Your right. okay well do you have everything? Your dress and my tux and the luggage is already in the car trunk and Charlotte's bag is on the floor in the back." He tells her while taking a last look that they didn't leave anything behind

"That's everything lets go before we start to run late and before you decide to stay home." She says after giving her husband and daughter kisses on the cheeks

Jane household

Teresa's Point of View

"Come on honey peel yourself away from the window it's only 8 they aren't suppose to be here until 8:30. Come back to bed." Patrick whispers in my ear before kissing me and dragging me back to the bedroom

"I know but knowing Grace she will want to get here early and I want to be waiting for her and my niece." I say in a whinny tone. After he sees that I won't be returning to bed her lets me go return to the couch that is right in front of the window to watch for my friends and my god daughter. Twenty minutes later Patrick joins me on the couch will a cup of tea to wait.

"You can't wait for Charlotte to come but after one day with the baby you will be counting down the hours until Wayne and Grace return from their long weekend in Iowa." Patrick says while leaning back I hit him lightly on the shoulder

"Why would you say that I love that little girl she is adorable. She has the most beautiful blue eyes I have ever seen, well except for yours. Hers come in second but with her red hair she looks just like Grace. I will have no problems this weekend she is a perfect angel." I say trying to prove that I will not want her to leave on Monday

"She is a perfect angel but an angel that doesn't sleep through the night and isn't potty trained. After the first night of no sleep you will want the Rigsby's to come back and pick her up. Knowing them whenever she cries or makes a noise they probably run to her side and she will be expecting that from us." He says trying to prove his point

"I guess but I have never had her spend the night here so I am excited. Her parents have been selfish and kept the cutest baby in the world from us." I say. I look out the window and I see the Rigsby's SUV pull into our driveway. I immediately jump off the couch and go to the front door. I was outside before Grace could even get Charlotte out of her car seat.

"Hey guys" I greet the younger couple

"Hey Teresa thank you so much for watching her it's a huge help." Grace says while walking towards Patrick and me with a crying Charlotte. Wayne is right behind her with the dipper bag and a backpack full of toys and clothes for her.

"It's no problem we haven't seen her in a couple of weeks and we can't wait to spend the whole weekend and part of Monday with the little princess." I say while tickling Charlotte's belly in attempt to get her to stop crying this only made her cry louder.

"She has been in a really bad mood all morning and she only got about three or four hours of sleep last night which means we got about two or three hours." Wayne says while taking a drink of coffee trying to wake himself up.

"Not this perfect sweetheart, she could never give her parents a hard time." I say while taking the crying kicking Charlotte from Grace while giving her a sympathetic smile

"Yeah she's a sweetheart but she can be a handful, well anyways thank you so much for watching her." Wayne says while kissing his daughter on the head and wrapping his arm around his wife's waist

"We will see you in a few days Charlotte we love you so much baby." Grace says while kissing her daughter on the head and wiping a tear away from her eye "Oh don't forget she won't sleep or stop crying without the purple monkey and her blanket. She can't have only one she needs both and."

Patrick cuts in before she can finish "We promise to take great care of her." he says while giving Grace a hug. I give her a hug and when I do the baby clings to Grace's shirt. Charlotte cries even louder which only makes Grace's eyes glossy and she takes her baby from me and gives her one last hug. Wayne joins in on the hug as his eyes look a little glossy too.

"Bye baby girl I will miss you so much." Wayne says when he hands a crying Charlotte to me. They give her one last kiss each before they say thanks again to us and Grace gives both of us a thank you goodbye hug and they walk to the car.

We go back inside and sit down and focus on getting the screaming baby to calm down. After thirty minutes and seven songs later she is finally asleep. Patrick takes her to the little nursery we setup for her so she can spend the night at our house and be comfortable. It's a big room filled with toys and the wall are painted a soft pink. The furniture was Patrick's daughter's baby furniture. I was a plain white furniture with Charlotte carved into it. Grace and Wayne had picked out that name before Patrick revealed that it was his daughter's name. By the time he said something Charlotte was born and named. The Rigsby's felt terrible for months before they finally forgave themselves and realized they couldn't change their daughter's name. Even though Charlotte is Patrick's daughters name he still loves the Rigsby's little girl with all his heart even though I know it kills him to say her name. Patrick returns back to the living room where I am seated and gives me an I told you so look.

"Why are you giving me that look she is still a perfect angel and I don't want her to leave yet." I say completely exhausted

"Sure you're not ready for her to go back home?"

"Positive."

"Well good because I can hear her crying. Go try and get her to go back to sleep. After that you will need a nap."

"Haha very funny." I say sarcastically while getting up to calm baby Charlotte. I know he is right though, this is going to be a long weekend.

Baby Charlotte's Room

I walk into Charlotte's room to find her screaming and crying.

"Shhh what's wrong baby girl." I say trying to sooth her while picking her up out of the crib and rocking her. Nothing works she just keeps crying. I check her dipper and it is clean. I take her temperature and she doesn't have a fever so she's not sick. I highly doubt she is hungry its only 9:45 and Grace probably fed her before she dropped her off. After no luck I decide to call Grace instead of asking Patrick because he will rub it in my face.

I get out my phone and dial the number and while the ringing noise starts Charlotte gets louder.

"Hello." Grace says after the fourth or fifth ring

"Hey Grace sorry to bother you but she won't stop crying and she doesn't need to be changed and she isn't sick." I say slightly frazzled by the screaming baby. I hear Grace start shuffling around

"Oh my God I'm so sorry" Grace keeps repeating.

"It's okay but what do I need to do?"

"Her blanket is on the backseat of the car. I forgot to put it in the bag and I didn't think to look at the car seat I just grabbed Charlotte I am so sorry." She says slightly panicked.

"Grace, calm down it's fine. She is fine. I am fine. Now all you need to do is to calm down just tell me what to do, I'll give her a bottle and another toy she will be fine." I say trying to reassure her

"There's enough for you to feed her again but it wont work, she will only be happy if she has both her monkey and blanket and she will be a nightmare if you don't have them" Grace said on the verge of a panic attack

"Okay Grace we will figure something out we will be fine just focus on having fun and say hi to Wayne for me."

"Are you sure Teresa we can come back home."

"Don't worry about it we will figure something out."

"Okay bye Teresa." Grace said. I could tell by her voice she was still unsure and she was going to be a nervous wreck.

"Bye Grace, have a fun weekend." I said before hanging up

I decide I have to tell Patrick that I can't get her to calm down but at least I know why now.

"Patrick I need your help!" I scream over Charlotte. A few moments later he appears with a big grin on his face. "Patrick I called Grace because I couldn't figure out why she was crying and she remembered she forgot to give us Charlotte's blanket."

"Teresa calm down we can buy her a new identical blanket or just give her another blanket if they packed a different one it will be fine chill." He says while laughing at me

"Great idea why didn't I think of that…. Oh wait I did think of that! Charlotte won't stop crying unless we have that blanket!"

"Then we have an issue."

"No shit Sherlock."

"Well we will figure something out."

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