Chapter 7
Billie's life- sorry it took so long, I've been babysitting a 14 month old
At six thirty in the morning on July 5th the entire Halliwell/Mitchell family were at the hospital. Coop was sleeping in one chair with Patty and Preston sleep against his chest. Phoebe was sleeping on his shoulder beside with his arm around her. Piper was sitting on Leo's lap both of them were sleeping as well. Wyatt and Chris were both laid out on three chairs fast asleep. In-between them was Melinda who was also fast asleep. Henry had the twins sleeping against his chest, his shoulder was being used as a pillow by Paige, who was being used as a pillow by Henry Jr. P.J. and Parker were snuggled up together fast sleep on a chair in a sitting position. Payton had fallen onto the ground during the night, she had been sleeping on a chair snuggled up with Christy.
In the delivery room Andy was passed out on a chair beside the hospital bed. Prue was still in the bed after thirteen hours of labour. Her baby was yet to be born still and she was starting to get inpatient. That's when the nurse came back into the delivery room.
"Ok you're ready to start pushing" the nurse said.
"Finally, ANDY WAKE UP" Prue snapped and Andy instantly woke up.
Fifteen minutes later back in the waiting room, the family was starting to wake up. About three minutes after that the nurse walked into the waiting room. The family all looked at her hoping it was for them.
"You all the Halliwell family" the nurse asked them and they nodded.
"Ok any direct family adults may come meet the baby" the nurse stated.
This meant Piper, Phoebe and Paige, who all followed the nurse still drowsy from having just woken up. In the delivery room Prue and Andy were together on the bed holding a tiny baby girl wrapped in a pink blanket. Prue looked up at her sister and smiled as they entered.
Prue wanted to wait till the whole family and friends were there to announce the name. So Piper, Phoebe and Paige just took turns holding the newborn baby girl. Half an hour later, the nurse allowed the guys and children to come and see the baby. It only after another hour went by that the guests including Christy were allowed to join. Billie was holding Ginny in her arms with Austin and Christy beside her. Darryl and Sheila were there but their sons were not present. Victor also came to meet his new draughter of course.
"Everyone I would like to introduce the newest Halliwell, say hi to…Paris Destiney Halliwell" Prue stated.
On the morning of her second birthday, Ginny crawled out of bed and entered her parent's room. She got onto their bed which woke up both Billie and Austin. The three of them smiled at each other and Ginny snuggled up in-between her parents.
"Good morning, do you know what day it is" Austin asked his daughter.
"My birthday" Ginny replied.
"That's right, who's coming to your party today" Austin then asked.
"Auntie Krissy" Ginny said mispronouncing Christy as usual.
Billie picked up the phone off the night table beside her and tapped the screen twice. The phone turned on and on the lock screen she saw the time. It was seven ten in the morning, the usual time that Ginny woke them up.
"Alright baby girl, let's get you some breakfast" Billie stated picking up her giggling toddler.
Austin followed Billie and Ginny out the room and into the kitchen. Austin began pouring cereal and milk into bowls as Billie placed Ginny in her high chair at the table. Billie sat down on the chair on Ginny's right as Austin entered the room holding three bowls of cereal. He gave the bowl of dry cereal to Ginny, then served the other two to Billie and himself. As usual Ginny threw the spoon onto the floor and ate with her fingers.
"Thank you" Ginny told Austin through her telepathy power. Ginny sometimes mixed up actual talking with telepathy
During breakfast Ginny wanted milk in her cereal which was unusual. Austin poured just a bit of milk into her bowl of cereal then sat back down. A few moments later, as though she forgot there was milk, Ginny dumped the entire bowl over her head. Ginny laughed and clapped as cheerios and Milk fell from her hair to her pajamas.
"Not funny" Austin said picking her up.
Austin brought Ginny to the bathroom while Billie cleaned up the milk and cheerios off the high chair, table and floor. In the bathroom Austin removed the soaking wet clothes off Ginny and ran the water in the bathtub. Once the water was at a good temperature Austin put the plug in to fill up the bathtub. Once that was done Austin helped Ginny into the bathtub.
In the Kitchen after removing the cheerios, Billie had a face cloth and was washing the high chair. She then put the dirty dishes into the sink. Afterwards she brought the dirty face cloth into the bathroom where Austin was giving Ginny a bath.
As Billie dumped the face cloth into the hamper, Austin dumped shampoo into his hand. He put it in Ginny's hair and began washing it as Billie left the room. Once the shampoo was well into her hair Austin grabbed a plastic container out of the bathtub. He scooped up some water with it and Ginny pushed her head back. Austin dumped the water of the container through Ginny's hair to get the shampoo out. Five times of doing this did the trick.
Austin then put conditioner in her hair. As he mixed it in Ginny rubbed her entire body with soap. Once both of these jobs were done it was time for another rinse. Austin rinsed out the conditioner and Ginny used another container to rinse off the soap. Austin then rubbed soap all over Ginny's back, which she couldn't reach herself.
Once he rinsed off her back Austin let her play in the bathtub for a few minutes. During this time Austin helped Billie clean up the kitchen and living room. In the bathroom Ginny was playing a game she made up on the top of her head.
"What you want" Ginny asked an invisible costumer.
"A sundae" Ginny said in a deeper tone.
Ginny scooped up water in the container and placed the bar of soap in it. She then squirted the shampoo out of the bottle into the container. She pretended to sever this sundae then dumped in back into the bathtub. A few minutes later Billie entered the bathroom.
Ginny pick up of the toddler out of the tub. She then wrapped her up in a towel and sent her to Austin in her room. As Ginny left the bathroom Billie unplugged the bathtub and cleaned up the bottles and soap. In her room Ginny found her dad picking out her birthday drees from her closet.
"I thought I smelled a clean princess" Austin said when he spotted Ginny.
Austin removed towel off his daughter and helped her into a diaper. He then helped her put on her nylons and Ginny was able to put on her dress by herself. Austin then sat on the edge of Ginny's bed and had her stand up in-front of him. He brushed through Ginny's long blonde tangled wet hair after towel drying it. That's when Billie came in to tie her hair, which is something Austin didn't know how to do.
Billie tied Ginny's hair into two pony tails on the side, while Austin cleaned up her room which was covered in toys. Once this was done it was around nine in the morning. Ginny was allowed to watch a movie in the living room while Billie and Austin cleaned up the rest of the house. Ginny decided to watch her favourite movie Tangled.
As the movie came to an end and the house cleaning was done it was almost eleven thirty. Ginny's birthday party started at noon. It was a good things everything was set up because Austin's family arrived only five minutes later.
Austin's mother Anna and his father Zac arrived alone. Austin's older brother Caleb arrived with his new wife Daisy. Austin's younger sister Nancy arrived with her daughter Sophie who was then ten years old. The next one to arrive was Christy who been orbed there by Paige to give them heads up of screaming kids about to enter.
Andy orbed in Prue who was holding Preston in one arm and holding Payton's hand, Andy wasn't able to come because he decided to stay home with Newborn Paris who was too young for a party. Leo orbed in with Piper, Wyatt, Chris and Melinda. Coop beamed in with Phoebe who was holding seven month old Patty, and P.J. who was holding Parker's hand. Paige then orbed in with both Henrys and the twins.
"Wyatt, Chris, you remember my niece Sophie right" Austin asked and the boys nodded and waved to her.
Watching Ginny bring all her toys into the living room and everyone diving into the food, made Billie and Austin wonder why they had bothered cleaning. As the children played nicely together the adults talked about Ginny. Everyone of course wanted the update on adorable little Ginny who was loved by all.
"We've decided to start potty training her next month" Billie informed.
"At the same time we're going to start her on sippy cups" Austin added.
"I thought you already started her on sippy cups" Prue asked as she gave Preston his sippy cup of apple juice.
"We tried but she wasn't interested" Billie replied.
That's when the first fight broke out between Chris and Melinda. They were playing together with dolls and apparently Melinda was being to bossy. Leo gave them a moment to sort it out on their own then stepped in.
"Chris she's seven you're almost ten" Leo pointed out.
"She's bossing me around dad, telling me I can choose one outfit for the stupid doll" Chris whined.
"If it's a stupid doll then are you playing with it" Leo asked.
"If I don't Melinda said she'll turn me into a doll, and that was not fun when Payton did it" Chris stated.
"Oh the joys of raising children who could easily vanquish each other or use each other as toys" Piper remarked.
"Melinda I ban you from turning Chris into a doll, Chris doesn't have to play with you" Leo stated.
"Fine" Melinda agreed and stuck out her tongue at her brother."
"Chris just remember…you're too old to take part in such childish behaviour" Chris reminded himself.
Ginny and Preston were playing together which caught the attention of Billie, Austin, and Prue. Ginny was still in her biting stage and Preston was in his hitting stage. The two of them weren't usual a good match for long. As expected Preston hit Ginny for taking his Sippy cup, and in revenge Ginny bit Preston, they were now both crying and screaming.
Prue had Paige orb in a strong metal magic proof cage right there in Billie's living room. Prue placed her almost two year son in the cage and locked the door. Ginny simply went on the time out chair in the corner of the living room.
"What? Desperate times call for desperate measures, don't judge me" Prue stated as she sat back down.
"So you punish your son as if he was a demon" Billie asked teasing her.
"Well if he acts like a demon he gets punishment like one. Besides I vanquish demons so this is nothing" Prue replied.
After two minutes Paige orbed away the cage which freed Preston. Preston wasn't causing any more trouble after that. In-fact they made it all the way till supper without a fight. That's when Tamora and Kat caused up unnecessary drama with Parker.
"Parker why are you drinking pee" Kat asked.
"It's not pee it's lemonade" Parker corrected her.
"No I can smell it from here, it's obviously pee" Tamora insisted.
"No it's not" Parker argued.
"Don't deny it Parker, everyone has a weird thing they like to eat or drink" Kat stated.
"Seriously girls, knock it off" Paige stated
"You never let us have any fun" Tamora whined.
"That's what mothers are for" Paige replied.
"Daddy isn't mommy being unfair" Kat asked Henry.
"I plead the fifth" Henry stated, which was one of his most common catch fazes when dealing with the twins.
After supper it was time to bring out the cake. Billie and Austin turned out the lights so they could light the candle. They then came into the kitchen carrying the cake sinning the birthday song.
After cake it was time to open presents. Ginny got the usual gifts for two year olds. Books, toys, movies, clothes and games like tick tack toe. About an hour after that it was getting late so the party ended and the guests went home.
It was already seven at that time, so Ginny put her toys back in her room as Billie and Austin cleaned up the kitchen. Once the toys were put away, the leftover food was in the fridge, and the dirty dishes were in the sink it was Ginny's bedtime. Billie's carried Ginny all the way to her room to get her into pajamas.
Billie helped Ginny out of her party clothes and into a new diaper. Ginny then put on her pink Minnie mouse night gown on by herself. Billie turned Ginny's ponytails into braids to keep her hair from getting tangled during the night. Ginny then crawled into her big girl bed (which she had gotten three months before.)
Austin joined them holding Ginny's favourite bedtime book. Billie and Austin sat with Ginny on her bed and Austin read her the book. Ginny then lied down on her pillow and Billie tucked her in. After hugs and kisses from both Billie and Austin Ginny said the three magic words.
"I love you."
"Love you too baby" Austin and Billie replied and turned out her light.
Austin closed Ginny's bedroom door as he and Billie left her room. They went to the living room and watched an adult's movie as usual before bedtime. After the movie ended Austin went to bed but Billie had one last thing to do before joining him. She quietly opened Ginny's bedroom door and peered inside her room. When she able to tell Ginny was fast asleep, Billie closed the door and went to bed too.
