(I don't own Glee, if I did Rachel and Puck would have stayed together sophomore year LOL)
Where it began Hands Sweet Caroline Look at the night
I can't begin to knowing
But then I know it's growing strong
Was in the spring
And spring became a summer
Who'd believe you'd come along
Touching hands
Reaching out
Touching me
Touching you
Good times never seemed so good
I've been inclined
To believe they never would
But now I
And it don't seem so lonely
We fill it up with only two
And when I hurt One Sweet Caroline Sweet Caroline
Hurting runs off my shoulders
How can I hurt when holding you?
Touching one
Reaching out
Touching me
Touching you
Good times never seemed so good
I've been inclined
To believe they never would
Oh no no
Good times never seemed so good
Sweet Caroline
I've believed they never could
Sweet Caroline
Good times never seemed so good
Two years after Jude was born my third child my Sweet Sweet Caroline. My second little girl born in the hospital during a blizzard to end all blizzards on the last night of Hanukah that year. Karofsky delivered her while we watched one of the many holiday specials played on the room's TV. She came out with a set of lungs on her that didn't end until we all started humming 'Sweet Caroline' Yup my third child is named after the first song I ever sang to her mother in Glee Club.
Jude like the rest of us were enamored with the little screaming bundle from the moment we brought her home. Although when she started crying he was the first to run out of the room covering his ears saying 'Not it' my fault. I said it a couple times to Rachel not realizing he was now in the mimic stage so then he says it and I get the dirty looks and the dirty baby. I wouldn't change those moments for the world I just wish they were a little less smelly.
The Glee men including Shue all have said they'll help when she starts to date. We have it planned that that night we'll all sit in the living room with our bats and other dangerous equipment and scare the boy who dares to try and make me a grandfather before I'm 60 although with Beth being born when we were 16 I could very well be one but then again she knows better than to do that Shelby, Quinn, and I put the fear of babies into her young. Plus a couple nights babysitting her siblings and she vowed it the best birth control ever. Kind of how we felt when Quinn and I sat for Shue's crazy sister in law. Don't get me wrong now the kids are well behaved most of the time it's just that night Sam and I loaded Jude up on so much sugar and soda he was still bouncing when we got home later from dinner and a movie that I ended up staying up with him until about 2 when he finally crashed. Hey I don't want to be a grandfather yet I had to do something and my friend was more than willing to help since he's married to Quinn now and doesn't want a grandbaby running around just yet either.
Personality wise my little firecracker is a mischievous little diva. She's the best combination of me and Rachel, and now that she's 5 Jude doesn't mind having her around him. In fact they gang up on us when they are so inclined. But like her mother don't tick her off, instead of Rachel-esque storm outs in high school my little darling kicks you then storms out. We've tried to stop her but when strangers approach she kind of comes in handy.
In the press people always ask if our kids know what we do for a living. Of course they do, but they also know of the security home provides. One of us is always home. Show season for Rachel is usually year round. She gets the kids up, dressed, fed, and off to school in the mornings and then while she's at work I put them to bed at night.
Caroline defiantly keeps us on our toes and loves when she receives clothes from best friend in the world Uncle Kurt. He spoils all of my kids but a little more I notice with Caroline, maybe it's cause he's around her more or maybe it's because she's a girl who knows, but every time he comes over I get worried about how much closet space she has.
My little girl is a perfectionist. Only kid in her kindergarten class to color inside the lines and if she doesn't she starts a new page. It annoyed the teacher at first, but now she purposely gives her an extra page. We all tease her about it and luckily she take just as well as she can dish it out. Trust me this kid has been gathering dirt on all of us since the day she was born.
I don't know what she's going to be when she grows up because she goes from wanting to be like Rachel to wanting to be like me to any and everything in a matter of seconds. But I guess that's a little kid's prerogative. She maybe a little diva and prefers to wear dresses 85% of the time but she can be a little tomboy who loves sports all the same. If she hears that us guys are going to the park to shoot hoops or throw the football around she usually comes along which unfortunately caused problems last time. Luckily it was my fault and an accident. I gently tossed the frisbee to her she caught it…with her face. My 4 year old baby and went home with a shiner, my wife was pissed at first. I slept on the couch for 2 nights.
My Sweet Caroline is a badass diva.