Chapter 3, Fun Times at 21 Jumbo Street
After we got back to my house, Skeeter and I had a really fun time with the kids. They got along great with Porkchop, and we showed them some things we had enjoyed during our time in the sixth grade, like the song we wrote and my magic tricks. I couldn't help but notice that Angelica, the oldest of the bunch, reminded me of someone.
Once inside Doug's house, Porkchop came up to greet Doug, licking his hand as he got to unstrapping the toddlers from their strollers. Porkchop then went around, sniffing each of the babies, holding out his hand, as he walked on his back legs, for the toddlers to shake.
"Wow Tommy, Spike can't even walk like that, he always walks on four feet." Chuckie whispered into Tommy's ear, after Tommy shook Porkchop's hand.
"I know! Hey boy, hey guy." Tommy said to Porkchop, as he licked Tommy's hand and he laughed.
Doug and Skeeter came over to the dynamic duo.
"Wow Tommy, Porkchop likes you." Doug said.
Tommy cooed and looked up to Doug with a huge smile, as Porkchop let out a little bark.
"Wow cool!" Skeeter cried, as the kids all played with Porkchop for a while.
They went out into the backyard, where they played fetch with a frisby, that is, until Angelica started to grow bored, looking in the direction of the house, hoping to sneak some cookies out of the kitchen. She sat down in the grass and let out a huge sigh, getting Doug and Skeeter's attention.
"Something wrong Angelica?" Doug asked.
"I'm just bored." Angelica muttered.
"Oh, your friends seem to be having fun with Porkchop." Doug commented.
"Probably cuz he reminds them of their dumb old dogs back home." Angelica muttered.
"Really? You guys have pets back home?" Skeeter asked.
"Well, some of us do. That would be me, with the most beautiful kitty in all of the world, Fluffy. And Tommy and Dil have their dumb old dog Spike and Spike's baby Spiffi, and the Finsters have their dogs Fifi and her puppy, Pepper." Angelica explained.
"Now now Angelica, don't call your friends dogs dumb, I'm sure they're quite smart, just like Porkchop." Doug said.
The blond just rolled her eyes at her peached skinned babysitter, getting up from the grass and heading for the door to go inside.
By this time, the rest of the toddlers were starting to grow tired, and Dil had wet his diaper again, starting to cry, which scared Porkchop, causing him to escape off into his igloo, while everybody else went back inside to have diaper changes and grab a snack. Once inside the kitchen, Angelica looked around.
"What are you looking for Angelica?" Skeeter asked.
"Cookies, I need cookies!" Angelica cried.
Doug rummaged through the pantry, but had no luck.
"I don't think we have any cookies, but I do believe we do have some Mr. Swirlies ice cream in the freezer. Who'd like some chocolate swirl ice cream?" Doug asked.
"Me! Me! Me!" Angelica cried, cutting her way to the front of the line of toddlers, who Skeeter had taken one at a time to change their diapers.
Lucky for him, because his spaceship routine was such a huge hit with Dil, he found changing their diapers to not be a problem. The babies simply rolled their eyes at Angelica as she was given the first ice cream cone and ate it more or less, in one bite, while everybody else had eaten theirs so slowly, that the ice cream dripped everywhere, leaving a mess for Doug and Skeeter to clean up.
"I have a question, who babysits you kids back home?" Doug asked.
"Taffy, she's the greatest!" Angelica replied.
"Well what does she do?" Doug asked, taking a rag and wiping Kimi's face, who giggled the entire time as the rag tickled.
"Well, she sings songs to us and plays on her guitar." Angelica replied.
That then gave Doug and Skeeter an idea. As soon as they had the kids cleaned up, Skeeter went out to the garage where he drug a trash can into the kitchen, and Doug went off to his room where he returned with his banjo. They took the kids into the living room where Skeeter moved the garbage can to and because he didn't have any drumsticks with him, he found a couple of tree branches that had fallen in the backyard that he used as sticks.
"You play music too?" Angelica asked as Doug and Skeeter were getting set up.
"Yep, we even had a band once." Doug said.
"Yeah! Come on Doug, let's show these kids what we can do! One! Two! One, two, three, four!" Skeeter counted, as Doug strummed a few chords on his banjo and Skeeter came in with the beat, and they played their only song they had ever written, performing it for the Rugrats.
Bangin' on a trash can,
Drummin' on a street light,
Wrapping on my mailbox.
One little voice is calling me calling me,
One little voice is calling me.
While performing their song, the toddlers all got up and danced to the music, while Dil kicked his feet and smiled.
"Wow Doug, they seem to like it!" Skeeter commented post finishing their song, where Angelica and the babies all clapped for them.
"Hey, I know, how would you kids like to see me perform some magic?" Doug asked.
"Wow! You know magic?" Angelica asked.
"Uh huh, Skeet, grab the deck of ccards off of my desk upstairs and meet me back down here." Doug said to Skeeter, who nodded and ran up to his room where he grabbed the deck of cards.
Once he returned to the living room, he handed the cards to Doug.
"Okay Doug, give them your best trick." Skeeter encouraged.
Doug shuffled the cards and did the trick he remembered that kid, Todd Bently from his sister's Pee-Wee Shakespeare class really enjoying, better known as the disappearo trick.
"And now, for the disappearo trick. Vencity cichi!" Doug chanted, performing the trick just as he use to do for Todd, making the card in his hand disappear.
"Wow! That was cool! Do it again!" Angelica begged.
And just like that, a broken record was started, as Doug continued to do the trick over and over again, keeping the blond entertained.
While performing my magic trick for the kids I was sitting for, it then hit me who Angelica reminded me of. She was just like Todd, that young boy from my sister's Pee-wee Shakespeare class that, like her, found my magic trick the most amazing thing on earth.
However, while Angelica was perfectly happy watching Doug perform his magic trick, and eventually, he got Skeeter to be his assistant, showing her some new tricks he had learned since the days of Todd, the rest of the toddlers turned to one another, starting to grow bored.
"Come on." Tommy whispered to the others.
"Wait a minute Tommy, where are we going?" Chuckie asked.
"We're gonna go exploring." Tommy whispered back, standing up and heading for the exit of the living room.
Phil, Lil, and Kimi dragging Dil behind her followed him, as Chuckie turned from the exit of the living room, back to Doug and Skeeter performing magic, then back to where his friends and sister were headed, and decided, he really had enough of the magic show, so caught up to the end of the line, much to his dismay, as Dil blew a bubble at that exact moment, which popped on Chuckie's shoe, getting drool all over him. The redhead simply stared down at his shoe in disgust, then looked up to watch where he was going, as Tommy led his friends upstairs, and Chuckie had to help his sister get Dil up there.
"Tommy I don't know if we're spose to be going up there." Chuckie said halfway up the stairs.
"Awe come on Chuckie, what could go wrong?" Tommy asked, reaching the top of the stairs.
He looked around, when he came to an open door to one of the bedrooms. Inside the room, he saw a trunk, and was curious as to what could be inside. Curious, the bald one-year-old toddler ran for the box and pried it open, where he found a whole collection of various clothes and wigs, along with other props.
"Wow neat! Come on you guys, let's play dress up!" Tommy cried, as the rest of his friends came into the room, taking clothes and wigs out of the box and putting them on.
Kimi, who found a clown's mask, the same one that Doug had taken to Skeeter's house the time he babysat Dale, put it on and looked over at her brother, who hid behind Tommy in fear.
"My sister's a clown Tommy, do something." Chuckie cried from behind him.
"No I'm not Chuckie, I'm just pretending!" Kimi said, removing the mask from her face and looking over at her brother, who peaked out from behind Tommy, who was now wearing a brown wig and had on an oversized baseball shirt that was much too big for him.
It was so big in fact, that his hands disappeared inside the sleeves, scaring Chuckie even more.
"AAAHHH! Tommy! Your hands are gone!" Chuckie cried.
Tommy pulled his hand through one of the large sleaves.
"No it's not Chuckie, see?" Tommy said.
Chuckie, no longer interested in playing dress up, sat on the floor in a corner, deciding to watch the rest of his friends play instead. However, while they were having so much fun with these props and clothes, little did they know that they were actually playing in one of the rooms that was even off limits to their babysitters.
Meanwhile, Judie had finished her college search early, so came home. She went inside, not thinking anything of it when she saw Doug and Skeeter in the living room, performing magic tricks. It wasn't time for Shakespeare on Ice to come on yet, so she decided to head up to her room to take a nap, as she had a long drive and was quite tired. When she got up there and heard laughter and giggling from tiny children coming from her room, she wasn't sure what she would do.
Before the babies knew it, Phil and Lil, now dressed in oversized coats, pretending to be winter explorers, were suddenly, grabbing on to what they thought were polls, ending their fantasy to stare up at a girl who looked to be about Taffy's age. She had red hair, and she was dressed in dark purple and black clothing and wore a pair of sunglasses. And by the look on her face, as she looked around the room, she did not appear very happy.
Worried, Chuckie looked from the doorway over at Tommy and Kimi, who were also staring at this mysterious girl with curiosity.
"Uh Tommy, I think we're in trouble." Chuckie whispered.
Before Tommy could respond, the teenage girl in the doorway let out a huge scream.
"Who are these little monsters, and what on earth are they doing, in my room!" Judie screamed.
At that moment, Doug and Skeeter were startled by the loud scream they heard from upstairs.
"Skeet, did you hear that?" Doug asked.
"It sounded like your sister, but I didn't think she was suppose to be home." Skeeter replied.
"You're right Skeeter, she isn't! And look!" Doug cried, looking around the living room to see Angelica was the only remaining child.
"Uh, Skeet, where did the babies go?" Doug asked.
"I don't know." Angelica said teasingly.
"Come on Skeeter and Angelica, we'd better go investigate." Doug said, grabbing Angelica's hand and running up the stairs with her, Skeeter, racing up the stairs behind him.
And this, ends chapter 3. How will things go with Judie? Find out in the next chapter, which I plan to release tomorrow.
