A/N: Continuation of Yahtzee?. I had such a laugh writing the first part that the next I think shall be even better. Hope you like it! As always I own nothing. If I did this would be the funniest CSI storyline ever!
Messer kids' names (by birth order): DJ (Daniel Jay), Isabella (Bella or Belle pending on whose calling), Evan, PJ (Parker Jane) and Miracle.

Which Kid is it Anyway?

"Daniel Jay Messer, you leave your sister alone!" a tired Lindsay Messer yelled for the fifth time that day. She was in the kitchen with Miracle, trying to make Christmas cookies to take over to Mac's for the lab Christmas party. It was not managing a houseful of rambuctious, cabin fever ridden seven year olds. Never had Lindsay been so grateful for school in her life. Seven or so hours that someone else had to deal with her basketball team, as Nina, the sonographer who was the first to see all five said.

There was a crash in the living room and the patter of six feet were heard running away from it. Lindsay knew who it was those feet belonged to. The ringleader of the clan, DJ with his second in command PJ and their tag along Evan. Bella and Miracle knew to stay out of the way. At times Lindsay liked to say that she didn't have just five children but seven. Danny and Flack were just as bad as the kids. It was Danny and Flack that started the food fight at Mac's birthday party, not DJ as they liked to claim.

Lindsay set down the wooden spoon she was using to stir the cookie dough to inspect what damage her three tyrants had brought upon her home. Nothing seemed to be out of place in the hallway and in the living room. But it was the den, also known as the Playroom, that she feared to enter. The last time she had stuck her head in there she was terrifed something was going to jump out a bite her. That actually could happen. She hadn't seen or heard poor Jack, the lab Louie had bought for the kids the year before. She could only imagine what had happened to the dog.

"DJ? Evan? PJ?" Lindsay called, looking for her culprits. "Come out now with whatever got broken and fees up to who broke and I won't have Daddy and Uncle Mac fingerprint it this time."

An antique lamp that had come over from Italy with Danny's grandmother had gotten broke about six months ago. Not a single one would fess up the truth about what had happened. PJ said DJ did it. Dj shifted the blame to Miracle, who blamed Evan, who blamed Isabella who turned the heat back to DJ. In order to get the truth, Danny and Mac brought over the fingerprint dust and dusted the lamp. They then printed the kids and got two hits. DJ and Isabella. Danny took Isabella to a seperate room of the house and six year old DJ went up against Uncle Mac.

To shorten a much longer story, Bella's prints were on the neck of the lamp close to the switch, which matched her story that she was reading and as it got dark she turned the lamp on for light. DJ however, got busted. Lindsay granted Mac access to search DJ and Evan's room for any other evidence. A tennis ball was found with chips of the glass and paint identical to the lamp stuck to it.

To shorten the story even more, DJ was tried in Messer Family Court and was sentenced to six weeks grounding which ended just two days shy of little league starting up and was put on kitchen clean up for a month.

"Nothing's broken Mom," PJ said, from behind the playroom door. "We're making yours and Daddy's Christmas presents."

"Please be careful," Lindsay pleaded. "I don't want to spend another holiday at the emergency room."

"We promise!" sang the Deathly Trio.

"Holy Mary, give me strength," Lindsay muttered.

Danny and Lindsay were asked once how their youngest daughter Miracle got her name. Miracle was the youngest and the smallest of the five. Of the five she spent the most time in the NICU (Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit). They weren't sure if she would ever walk or even speak. Now at seven she was in a wheelchair and spoke in sign. Despite her disabilities Miracle Faith Messer was a smart, sassy little girl. She had no problem just running over her brothers if they were picking on her.

Daniel Jay or DJ was the ringleader of the bunch. The oldest, he came out screaming. His teachers claimed he had ADD or ADHD but Lindsay dismissed it as too much energy stuffed into one little person.

Isabella Louise or Belle or Bella pending on who's talking to her, is the quiet thoughtful Messer child. She loved to read and color. She like Miracle had no qualms about standing her ground against the Deathly Trio. She was the one Danny and Lindsay could count on to keep an eye on Miracle. Bella and Miracle were two peas in a pod as far as the lab family was concerned.

Evan Travis, the middle kid. He is not as crazy as DJ but put the same sadistic strains on their mother's blood pressure. The two boys were so much like Danny that at times she could kill all three of them. First day of first grade Evan and DJ switched places on their teacher and stayed that way for a week before they were caught. In the trail of broken dishes, baeballs on the stairs and the lone Hot Wheels car in the middle of the hallway always ended at the boys' room.

Rounding off the Deathly Trio is Parker Jane or PJ. PJ was the tomboy. She would rather play baseball with Danny and the boys instead of taking dance with Bella. PJ was just PJ. There was no other way to describe the little girl. She was protective of Miracle and her brothers and had kicked one little boys hard in the shins when he was making fun of her sister.

The timer on the stove dinged and Lindsay removed the cookies from the stove and let them cool before packing them in the tins. Danny was due home any moment. He and Hawkes had drew the short swab to take the shift before and after the party. He would have just enough time to get changed before gathering the troops and heading over to Mac's. He wanted to make sure he had a good talk with the Deathly Trio before they left so they would understand the consequences if they were bad at Uncle Mac's. Messer Family Court would not be able to save them from Judge Dad.

"Roll call!" Danny yelled as they all lined up to leave. Danny took out his memo book and pretened to check off each kid's name as he called them off. "Mommy?"

"Here, Daddy," Lindsay smiled, tucking Miracle's scarf into her jacket.

"DJ, Evan and PJ?"

The three of them took a step forward and saluted. Danny laughed and finished off the list. "Bella and Miracle?"

"We're here too Daddy," Bella said for her and Miracle. "Can we please go to Uncle Mac's now?"

"Does everyone understand and remember the rules at Uncle Mac's?"

The three trouble makers nodded. They knew all too well the rules at Uncle Mac's. The Messer clan then headed out. Upon arriving at Mac's, PJ threw a snowball at Evan. All it took was a stare down from the parents to get them to knock it off.

Miracle nestled in her mother's arms rang the doorbell. Stella answered the door and was tackled by the stampede of the Messer clan. "Aunt Stella!" was their war cry.

It was a big group hug at the door and then coats were shed and they were off to find other members of their extended family. Stella hugged Danny and Lindsay and wiggled Miracle's nose. There were few people that Miracle would let hold her. Her mother, her grandmother and Stella. She held her arms out to Stella, who took her happily. The door was closed and the racket, a sign that the Messer kids had arrived echoed in the house.

Flack came limping up to the door. He was wearing a Santa hat and had a glass of cider in his hand. He bent down to rub his shin.

"Danny one of your kids kicked me when I told her she looked cute in her Christmas dress," Flack said.

Danny and Lindsay shared a glance and nodded. "PJ!"