Day 4: Kids/Babies
"Mommy!"
As the baby giggled gleefully in front of her, Penny blinked repeatedly. "Holy shi- balls!" She corrected at the last moment. "Leonard!"
Her husband practically skidded into their daughters bedroom. "What's wrong?" He asked, her shriek concerning him, though as he saw the little baby giggling away, he raised a brow in confusion. "What happened?" Suddenly his wife's eyes teared up and her bottom lip trembled, and he found himself by her side, putting an arm around her. "What, what is it?"
"She said Mommy." Penny whispered in amazement, happy tears rolling down her cheeks. "She said Mommy!"
"Oh my God!" Leonard's jaw dropped slightly, half way between shock and the widest grin known to man. "That's amazing!"
"She said Mommy and now she's all happy." Penny said in disbelief, picking up one of the toys in the make-shift soft-cushioned play area they had created in the room. "Can you believe it? I was just letting her play for a bit while I tidied up the room and she did this little cry and then I came over and then she said Mommy!"
"Oh God, that's adorable." Leonard smiled fondly, patting her thigh. He wanted to tear up slightly too, but it seemed if he cried, then so did the females in the family - and he could only deal with one crying girl at a time. His daughter turned her head to look at him, shaking the rattle in her hands. He grinned, before putting one hand on Penny's shoulder and using the other to point to her. "Do you know who this is, Isabel?"
Shaking her rattle, Isabel gave her adorable giggle again before uttering out "Mommy!"
"She did it again!" Penny squealed, her voice so high that Leonard raised a brow and tilted his head away to the side slightly. "Is, do you know who this is?" She asked, wrapping her arms around Leonard and rubbing his arm.
Their daughter looked at Leonard curiously for a moment, and Penny could have sworn it was the same look Leonard had when he was trying to work out a particularly complex-looking equation. "Daddy!" Isabel announced, giggling again as she shook her rattle enthusiastically.
"That's right!" Penny gasped, her eyes wide as new tears rolled out of them and she turned to Leonard. "She knows who we are! She knows were Mommy and Daddy! And she can say Mommy and Daddy!"
"Our baby is a genius!" Leonard grinned proudly.
"She is!" Penny agreed, nodding her head enthusiastically, her hair bouncing neatly around her face.
"You're a gorgeous little genius, aren't you, Isabel?" Leonard cooed, bending forward to kiss his daughters forehead. Letting go of the rattle with one hand to wrap it around Leonard's index finger, the rattle dropped from her hands, too heavy to be held by just one hand for the little girl. She squealed gleefully, shaking Leonard's finger instead, who gave her his other hand to wrap her free tiny hand around too. He grinned as she let out a stream of random sounds, her eyes shining with happiness.
Hand over her heart, Penny sat back, smiling fondly at the sight in front of her. "I want another one."
Leonard's head snapped to the side to look at her, his daughter still tugging on his fingers. "What?"
"Not now. My left b-o-o-b is gonna need a bit of a break, you know." Penny winked at him. They had agreed to spell out the words they didn't want their daughter to learn once she started repeating simple sounds. "But one day, maybe in a couple of years when she's a little older, I want another one. I want another Baby Hofstadter."