Chapter 2, Baby Angelica
Later on, Peter feeds Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil and Angelica some birthday cake and ice cream, only while the other babies eat it, Angelica proceeds to wear it, getting cake and ice cream all over her clothes, face, hands, feet and hair.
"Goodness Angelica, you're a mess!" Said Peter, as he gets Angelica all cleaned up, and she just sits back and laughs.
Later, when it's time to open presents, the guests give the packages to Peter to open.
"Hey! Why can't I open them?" Angelica asked the other babies.
"Uh, Angelica, babies can't open presents." Said Chuckie.
"It's a grown up job." Said Lil.
"Oh." Said Angelica.
"But after they're opened, is the funnest part!" Said Phil.
"What's that?" Angelica asked.
Soon, her question was answered, when Peter finished opening the first present, dropping the wrapping and ribbons to the floor, where the other babies proceeded to crawl over and start playing with the paper and ribbons, making it crinkle and make noise.
Noticing how much fun the babies were having with playing with the paper and ribbons, Angelica crawled over and joined in the fun. The pile only continued to get larger and more fun, as Peter unwrapped more gifts, adding more wrapping paper and ribbons to the mix. Even a couple of bows got stuck to Angelica's face, and some boxes that some clothes for Angelica came in, were emptied and dumped to the floor, as Angelica climed into the bottom of the box, and put the top of the box on her head. Everybody laughed at this cute display, and Charlotte took a picture.
"Isn't that cute? Angelica's playing dress up, pretending to be a baby." Said Charlotte teasingly, as she snapped the picture.
Later, after the guests had left and the mess of the party was cleaned up, Angelica and the other babies were in the playpen, rolling a ball to one another.
"So, how do you like being a baby Angelica?" Tommy asked.
"It's uh…" Angelica started to say, when she noticed a strange feeling in her diapers. Upon noticing this feeling, she started to cry.
"What's wrong Angelica?" Chuckie asked.
"I'm wet!" Angelica cried.
"Oh, don't worry Angelica, you just need a new diaper." Said Tommy, as he let himself out of the playpen with his screwdriver, and crawled off to his diaper bag that was in another corner of the room, where he fetched one of his clean diapers and some baby powder, returning to the playpen with it.
"Come on Chuckie, let's change Angelica's diaper." Said Tommy, as he returned to the playpen with the clean diaper and powder.
"Why do I always gots to do the icky stuff?" Chuckie asked to himself.
"Come on Chuckie, it will be fun!" Said Tommy.
"Oh all right." Said Chuckie with a sigh, as he and Tommy prepared to change Angelica's diaper.
Tommy removed the diaper from Angelica's bottom, as Chuckie opened the bottle of baby powder, preparing to pour some on to Angelica, as she squirmed around, not staying still, causing powder to go everywhere, and all of the babies to cough.
"The powder goes on her bottom Chuckie." Shouted Lil.
"Hold still Angelica." Snapped Chuckie, as Angelica proceeded to crawl off, causing the babies to chase after her throughout the entire house.
Upon chasing Angelica through Angelica's house, up the stairs into Angelica's room, they left a trail of diaper powder, which Peter spotted and started reluctantly cleaning up, before Angelica's parents noticed the mess. Once they got up to Angelica's room, Angelica and the babies collapsed to the floor from exhaustion, at which time, Angelica lay still, allowing Tommy to put the diaper on to her.
"Thanks Tommy that was fun!" Said Angelica with a giggle, as she toppled over on to her back, kicking her feet up into the air.
"I don't know you guys, I think taking care of baby Angelica is a lot more tiring than fooling with regular old Angelica." Said Chuckie with a sigh.
"Come on Chuckie it's fun!" Said Phil.
"And at least she's nice to us now." Added Lil.
"Yeah that's true." Said Chuckie.
The babies and Angelica continued to play with toys in her room, until Chuckie, who was starting to get tired, let out a huge yawn.
"I think it might be nap time Tommy." Said Chuckie through his yawn.
"I think you're right Chuckie. Come on Angelica, it's time for your nappy." Said Tommy.
"No! No nappy!" Cried Angelica.
"Come on you guys, we've gots to help put Angelica down for a nap." Said Tommy, as Chuckie looked around the room, until he found a tape of some lullaby music, and put it into Angelica's tape player.
Upon pressing the play button, the soothing music filled the room, and spotting a rocking chair in the corner, Tommy climbed in the chair, where Phil and Lil helped lift Angelica on to Tommy's lap, and he started rocking her to sleep. Unfortunately, with Angelica being nearly as big, or bigger than Tommy, she fell off of Tommy's lap on to the floor.
"I don't think this worked very well." Said Chuckie.
"What do we do now?" Phil asked.
"I know what will work." Said Tommy, as he climbed down from the rocking chair, and went out of Angelica's bedroom, to fetch one of his bottles out of his diaper bag, that was already full of milk.
Meanwhile, Phil and Lil made up a little bed on the floor for Angelica, with a pillow and a blanket.
"Here you go my sweet baby Angelica." Said Lil, as she helped position Angelica's head on to the pillow.
"Hey! I wanna tuck her in Lillian." Said Phil.
"No, making up a bed for Angelica was my idea, Phillip." Said Lil, as she grabbed at the blanket.
"No, it was mine!" Argued Phil.
"No mine!" Argued Lil, as she started pulling on the blanket.
"No mine!" Argued Phil, as he pulled on his end of the blanket.
The two twins continued to argue, until they had pulled so hard on the blanket, that it ripped in half. By this time, Angelica was crying, as she had had enough of hearing the twins arguing.
Back downstairs, Tommy thought he had a full bottle of milk in his diaper bag, only he found the bottle that was in there, was empty, so he approached Peter.
"May I help you?" Peter asked, upon seeing Tommy tottle up to him with the bottle.
"Yeah, we need some warm milk to help get Angelica to go to sleep." Said Tommy.
"Sure thing Tommy, I'll be right back." Said Peter, as he went off into the kitchen, where he put some hot water into a mug, filled the bottle with milk, and placed the bottle into the mug of hot water. After about three minutes, Peter checked the bottle to see if it was warm, but not so hot that Angelica would burn the roof of her mouth. Satisfied by the temperature of the milk in the bottle, he returned to the living room with the bottle of hot milk, where he handed it to Tommy.
"Here you go Tommy." Said Peter, upon handing the bottle to Tommy.
"Thanks Peter." Said Tommy, as he nearly put the bottle into his own mouth upon instinct, then remembering that this bottle wasn't for him, it was for Angelica, he quickly stopped what he was doing, and headed back upstairs to Angelica's room, where he found her lying on the floor, with her head resting on a pillow, and two pieces of blanket on top of her.
"Here you go Angelica, drink this bottle now, that will help you go to sleep, it always helps me." Said Tommy, as he stuck the bottle into Angelica's mouth, and she started to suck on the bottle, as the warm milk trickled down her throat.
While feeding Angelica her bottle of milk, Tommy noticed the ripped blanket.
"What happened to Angelica's blankie?" Tommy asked the others.
"Uh, Phil and Lil ripped it when arguing over who would tuck Angelica in for her nap." Whispered Chuckie into Tommy's ear.
At this point, Angelica had drunk every last drop of the bottle.
"Have a nice nap Angelica." Said Tommy, as he crawled off to another part of the floor where Chuckie, Phil and Lil were gathered together, and curled up with them, about ready to take a nap himself.
Angelica however, wasn't sure if she was ready to take a nap.
"Must stay awake, must stay awake." Angelica kept saying repeatedly, as she tried to hold her eyes open, looking over at the other babies, who let out huge yawns.
Upon seeing Tommy let out a huge yawn, Angelica let out a huge yawn, which caused Tommy to let out another huge yawn. The yawning contest continued, as the babies and Angelica's eyes continued to grow heavy, unable to stay open any longer. Phil was the first one to fall asleep, followed by Lil, then Chuckie, leaving Tommy and Angelica to continue to yawn at one another, as it grew harder and harder to stay awake. Eventually, Tommy collapsed to the floor, his eyes slamming shut, as he drifted off to sleep. Two seconds later, Angelica couldn't take it anymore, as her eyes too slammed shut, and she too, fell asleep.
Angelica and the babies were pretty exhausted, as they napped for a good three hours, while Peter, realizing that Angelica wanted to be a baby, went around, and got all big girl toys and things inappropriate for babies, out of her immediate reach. Later, he was quietly rearranging things in her room, putting Cynthia up on a high shelf, when the babies started to stir. Peter looked over to see the rugrats and Angelica waking up from their nap.
"Did everyone have a good nap?" Peter asked.
"Hungry! Hungry!" Cried Angelica, upon waking up.
"Hungry huh? What would you like to eat Angelica?" Peter asked.
"Blab la bla." Said Angelica.
"Now Angelica, I may be a grown up compared to you, but you know you can talk to me just as the other babies do." Said Peter.
"Oh, well me want cookies." Said Angelica.
"I'm sorry Angelica, but babies can't eat cookies." Said Peter.
"Why not?" Angelica asked.
"Well, for one thing, you need teeth to eat cookies, and babies don't have a lot of teeth. And secondly, they're hard, you might choke on it. Let's find you some baby food to eat." Said Peter.
"Hey I wanna help you find some baby food." Said Phil, tagging after Peter.
"Me too." Said Lil, tagging after Peter and her brother, as the three of them ran downstairs to search through their diaper bags, looking for some baby food.
"Yuck." Said Angelica, as she stuck out her tongue in disgust at Tommy and Chuckie.
"Come on Angelica, baby food isn't so bad, it's quite tasty! Especially the sweet potatoes, oranges and pineapple, now that's nummy!" Said Tommy happily.
"Ok Tommy, I guess I can give it a try." Said Angelica, as Peter, Phil and Lil returned to the room with a bowl of the sweet potatoes, oranges and pineapple baby food mix.
"Wow Tommy, you came prepared, we found this in your diaper bag. Here you go Angelica." Said Peter, as he knelt down on the floor, and put a spoon into the bowl, preparing to feed Angelica.
Phil and Lil wanted to help, so eager to help Peter out, they ran over, knocking the bowl out of Peter's hand on to the carpet, getting baby food everywhere.
"Uh oh." Said Tommy.
"No worries Tommy, me and Lillian can clean this up." Said Phil, as he got down on the floor and started spitting all over the spilled baby food.
"Hey Phillip, wait for me!" Said Lil, as she got down on the floor next to her brother, and spit on the baby food, adding to Phil's drool.
"Come on Angelica, eat it off of the floor like me and Phillip do." Suggested Lil.
At this point, Angelica wasn't so sure about being a baby anymore, but she had already made it official that she didn't want to be a grown up, so she crawled over to the pile of spilled drooled on baby food, and started putting some of it into her mouth.
"Yuck!" Said Angelica, as she spit out the baby food, causing it to land on to Chuckie's head.
"Yuck!" Cried Chuckie, as the food landed in his hair.
"Something wrong Angelica?" Peter asked.
"Eeewww! Gross! How can you dumb babies eat this stuff!" Screamed Angelica, as she looked up to spot her Cynthia on a high shelf.
"How can you say it tastes yucky? We think it tastes great!" Said Phil, as he got down on the floor, and ate the rest of the pile of spilled baby food and drool, licking his lips after he was finished.
While Phil proceeded to eat the spilled baby food, Angelica started eyeing her Cynthia doll on a high shelf, reaching for it.
"What do you want Angelica?" Tommy asked.
"I want my Cynthia doll, but it's too high to reach!" Said Angelica.
"I'm sorry Angelica, but Cynthia is a big girl toy, she's not appropriate for babies." Said Peter.
Angelica turned around, looking up at Peter with an angry glare in her eyes.
"What?" Angelica asked angrily.
"It's true Angelica, you're too little to play with Cynthia." Said Peter.
"What do you mean I'm too little." Snapped Angelica.
"Well, you might put Cynthia into your mouth and start chewing on her hand, or feet, or hair, breaking her in the process, and then, she won't be safe to play with anymore." Said Peter.
By this time, Angelica had had enough of being a baby, and couldn't take it anymore. She got up, picked up a raddle off of the floor, stomped her foot, and threw the raddle at Peter's head.
"Ow!" Cried Peter, upon the raddle's impact on Peter's head.
"I can't take it anymore, I quit!" Screamed Angelica at the top of her lungs.
And this, ends chapter 2. So, is it true? Is Angelica resigning from being a baby? We'll find out, in chapter 3!