For some crazy reason I kept procrastinating.
Disclaimer: I don't own House, Sesame Street or SpongeBob. Although it's been said I act like the latter.
Josh jumped off the bed and headed happily for the door.
"I'm going to go wake everybody up!" He declared.
"No." Cuddy started calmly. "Go into the living room and watch TV or go into your room and play quietly. It is six forty-five in the morning on a Saturday and I'm sure your brothers and sisters don't want to be up right now." She explained.
"I really don't want to be up right now." House muttered, mostly to himself as he picked up his baby daughter, who shouldn't be up neither, so he rocked her gently.
Josh pouted, but reluctantly agreed. "Okay." Cuddy picked him up and embraced him.
"Happy birthday, Sweetie."
Josh hugged her back. "Thank you, Mommy." Cuddy set him back on the ground.
"I'll come and help you get dressed in a little while, okay."
"Okay." Josh left the room. Cuddy watched him leave and kept staring at the door once he was out of sight.
"She's asleep." House said, causing Cuddy to turn back to him.
"Hmm?"
"Alexis. She went back to sleep." House said, his vision turning back to the baby in question, whom was staring right back at him.
"Never mind." House said to Cuddy while keeping his eyes locked with Alexis'.
"Playing possum with Daddy, are you?" House started up on the baby talk causing Alexis to smile in return.
Cuddy smiled at the scene and was kind of pissed that she had to be the one to end it.
"I need to change and feed her." She said while walking over to them. House kissed Alexis on her forehead.
"Daddy loves you." He said and then handed Cuddy their latest creation. Cuddy smiled at him.
"I'll be right back."
Cuddy took Alexis to the nursery and changed her diaper. She then went into the kitchen, grabbed a fresh bottle and went into the living room to feed her. She stayed in there with Josh until she finished feeding Alexis. When she was done, she set Alexis in her bouncer, facing the TV, so her and Josh can watch Sesame Street.
Cuddy headed back to the master bedroom. She guessed she can start getting her day going. When she entered into the room, she found House sitting in the same exact position she had left him. No shirt on, comforter pulled up to his waist and leaning back against the head board. House eyed her as she eyed him.
"Something wrong?" She asked.
"Not at all." He said coolly with a small smirk on his face. She smiled back at him and began walking over to him.
"What are you thinking about? What's on your mind?" She asked as she reached him.
"You." He said putting his hand on her hip, rubbing smoothing circles with his thumb.
"Really?" She asked, a little too teasingly for his liking. He smirked and before she had a chance to put a stop to it, he pulled her down onto the bed.
"Always." He kissed her, gently at first, and then ran his tongue along her lower lip, delicately asking for entrance. That's when she pulled away. He groaned at the lack of contact.
"We can't." He groaned again. "Our two youngest are awake and down the hall watching TV." He pulled her closer and began placing small wet kisses along her neck.
"Then I guess we have to be extra quiet."
A couple hours later, around ten-thirty, everyone was awake, dressed, fed and ready for the party that began at one o'clock. Josh was excited while everyone else was calm and relaxed.
"I really don't care what time you wrote in your day planner," Okay not everyone was calm, "Just tell him he better get his ass down here by two o'clock or I will make his life a living hell." Cuddy spat into the phone before angrily jamming her finger on the end button. Not as dramatic as slamming it down.
"Babe, you have got to calm down." House told her from the couch in the living room.
"Don't tell me what to do." She snapped, obviously agitated.
"Ooh, snappy." Cuddy glared at him. House looked back at the TV he and Josh was watching. It was displaying SpongeBob Squarepants. House agreed to watch because it was Josh's birthday.
"This guy is a loser. How do you watch this?" House asked the birthday boy, referring to the sponge.
"He's funny." Josh said between his laughter at SpongeBob's latest antics.
"He's a square!"
"Where is the mail? Nobody went and go the mail?" House heard Cuddy yell from the kitchen. "Do I have to do everything myself?" She asked herself as she stormed out the front door.
"What's up with Mom?" Rachel asked as she and Jordan came down the stairs.
"She's just a little agitated." House informed them.
Outside, Cuddy inspected their yard for any damage and destruction. Once cleared, she headed for the mailbox. She remembered, once again, that she had to properly invite Hannah to the party. She figured 'what the hell' and headed to the Robinson's front door.
Approaching the door, she stopped and rang the doorbell. A teenage boy answered the door.
"Hi. I'm Lisa, I live next door. Is your mother home?"
"Mom!" The boy bellowed throughout the house. LeAnne Robinson came into Cuddy's vision.
"Adam, stop yelling in the house." She demanded. "And go brush your hair it looks like you just rolled out of bed."
"I know a girl who likes it." Adam said, Lisa totally oblivious to the fact that the aforementioned girl was, in fact, her daughter.
"Whatever." LeAnne turned to the woman at her door. "Can I help you?"
"It seems your daughter, Hannah, and my son, Josh, became friends yesterday."
"I saw." LeAnne said with no emotion whatsoever. Cuddy swallowed and continued.
"It's Josh's birthday."
"So Hannah said."
"And we would like to invite her over for the birthday party." She paused for a slight second. "It starts at one." Cuddy let out a breath she didn't know she was holding.
"Okay."
"Okay?" Cuddy repeated not necessarily as a question.
"Hannah's is three years old. It'd just be callous of me to not let her go to a place where she is invited that's going to hold balloons, ice cream and cake."
'This sounds familiar.' Cuddy thought. "Okay. If any of your other children wants to come over they are more than welcome." Cuddy turned and left.
She walked back to the mail box where she never grabbed the mail. As she walked back to the house, she noticed her grass was way too long.
"Damn!" She said out loud. She let out an exasperated breath. She apparently forgot to call the young man who cuts their grass.
'I wonder if he will do it on short notice.' She thought to herself. She checked her watch.
10:55
She was supposed to been start setting up for this party. She had to go to the bakery, pick up the balloons, oh so many other things and she hasn't done anything.
"Damn!" She said out loud again out loud before she walked through the door. She walked into the living where she found House holding Josh on his good leg watching TV. Apparently, SpongeBob was holding a marathon. Tyler was playing with Alexis, an activity he loved doing. Rachel was head deep in her cellphone and Jordan was doing the same with his PSP. Cuddy grew a little more pissed she had to break up this scene.
"Greg," Lisa started, "I need you to cut the grass." This made House turn around with a 'You can't be serious' face.
"You can't be serious." House said to her, incredulously. "What happened to Lupe, Hector or whatever his name is?"
"His name is Michael."
"Really? He's not Hispanic?"
"He is. He's also U.S. born." Cuddy informed.
"Really? I should stop calling him Lupe then." House old her, but looking as if he was talking to himself. Cuddy shook her head so she can focus on topic.
"Anyway, I need you to cut the grass." Cuddy repeated her request.
"Where's Michael?"
"I forgot to call him and it's too short of notice. People are about to start coming to set up this party, I have to go to the bakery, party supply store to get balloons and I…" Cuddy started to rant before House cut her off.
"Okay Lise, I'll cut the grass." He set Josh down, who was still watching SpongeBob, and limped over to his wife, whom was currently going crazy. He put his hands on her waist. "Relax. Get help. Call Wilson; tell him to stop at the bakery. Your sister's coming right?" She nodded. He felt her relax a little. "Tell her to stop at the party store and get the balloons. Anything else?"
"I forgot streamers."
"Ask her to pick some of those up too. Anything else?" Cuddy thought about it then finally shook her head.
"Good. Feel better?"
"A little." She wrapped her arms around his mid section. "Thank you."
"Get a room." No one but Tyler.
"Tyler," House began, "I don't know what I'm going to do with you."
"You love it." Tyler joked. Cuddy smiled.
"Yes we do." She said. Tyler frowned.
"You're not supposed to. I got to brush up on my skills."
"You have to." Cuddy corrected.
"What? That's what I said."
"Never mind."
House was finishing up on the last part of the grass in the front yard when he got an idea. A crazy idea, but nonetheless an idea. He took the lawn mower (Thank God it's the one you ride on) and went into the neighbor's yard. He cut the letter 'H' on their lawn. After seeing his work was good, he finished with the 'O-U-S-E'. When he turned to go back into his own yard, Wilson was standing there, staring at him, big ass cake in hand, and shaking his head.
"When House walked back through the kitchen door from the backyard, Wilson was still staring at him shaking his head.
"You can be the adult here." Wilson finally spoke.
"He speaks. I really don't want to hear it."
"Why are you acting… childish?"
"They started it." House said childishly.
"You know what I think?" Wilson started, as a couple of men setting up the party walked past him and into the backyard.
"Humor me, Wilson. What do you think?"
"I think that you're trying to find a way to bond with your children. Which, don't get me wrong, is a good thing. Great, even." Wilson explained.
"I've been had a bond with my children. Wilson your analyzing skills are getting a little worn out. You need to work on them."
"Yes but they're growing up. You've been spending a lot of time with Alexis and Josh, which, again, is great, but it's also making up for the time you are losing with Rachel, Jordan and Tyler. Rachel is always at her overly excited and weird friend's house and Jordan and Tyler are always hanging with their soccer buddies. Soccer's not even in season. You have found a way to include them in something, although childish, you're doing and even though the neighbors have seemingly quit, you don't want to let go."
House looked away as if admitting defeat. "Bravo, Wilson. I thought this was love. Skills aren't as bad as I thought." House said unenthusiastically as Cuddy walked into the kitchen.
"Thanks for picking up the cake, Wilson."
"No problem."
"Where's Sarah and the girls."
Wilson looked at his watch. "They should be here any minute now." Cuddy smiled at him, and then turned to House.
"They've finished setting up and it's ten minutes to one. We did it." She smiled at him which was rewarded with a smile in return. They held their gaze for a moment, long enough to make Wilson uncomfortable, until Cuddy broke it.
"Oh yeah, the first batch of kids have shown up."
"First batch? How many kids did you invite?"
"Enough." Cuddy walked out the kitchen door into the backyard.
"Enough? Woman get back here!" She kept walking. House turned to Wilson. "She'll be back."
The party was going smoothly and everybody was enjoying themselves. Everyone except Jordan it seemed. He sat at the dining room table, where all the present were, playing his PSP. He turned it off; bored. Three year olds and clowns just didn't do it for him. They did have Tyler entertained. Weird.
Jordan left the dining room and went into the backyard to try and find something to do. Walking past two big idiots dressed as clowns and another idiot dressed in an Elmo costume, Jordan saw someone he might have fun with.
Haley Robinson.
He worked up the courage (and being House's son, it didn't take long) and walked over to her.
"Hi." He said.
"Hi."
"Are you actually having fun here?"
"A little. It's kind of umm…"
"Childish?"
"Yeah. I'm Haley."
"I know. I'm Jordan."
"How'd you know?"
"My brother told me." Jordan paused. "Want to find something else to do?"
"Sure." They started to walk towards the house.
"I have a Wii. It's in the basement." They walked into the house, through the kitchen, down the hallway that led to the basement. As they reached the bottom of the stairs, they were surprised to see Rachel and Adam sitting on the couch. Lip locking.
"I'm telling Mom." Jordan and Haley said in unison.
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