+A New Life
I would love to hear your opinions and look to working further on the story. This is a follow-up to Undercover Family. How do they survive being children?
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Chapter Thirteen. Easter
On this fine morning, momma and the children are dressing in new clothes that match each other and show that they are a family. The boys are in pastel blue shirts over medium blue slacks with a blue plaid vest. The girls are in pastel blue dresses with medium blue ribbons sewn on the hem, waist, cuff and neckline. The director has been able to acquire tickets to the white house and the annual Easter egg roll and hunt and lawn party. They will be there for the 10 am to 12 pm time slot and are looking forward to it. When our children were originally this age they lived in different areas of the country and never had the opportunity to do something like this so they are excited about the chance to do the action and be at the White house during this time.
The day before had been Easter day and the family had worn other new clothes in spring colors. They went to the Catholic Church in the morning and the director had set up an egg hunt at the house and grounds. They had to search for their Easter baskets and then for eggs that were special. There were special eggs that needed to be found. They were special in that they might represent some money or a game or other things that our children might enjoy. Penelope did not get involved in this because she is older but she was helpful for Aaron since he had difficulty holding his basket. She held the basket while he did his searching. They had a great time doing it.
When the younger ones went in for naps, the older children played games and a large dinner was served when the younger children were awake. After dinner, they all spent time together watching an animated version of the life of Jesus Christ and his death and resurrection. After which they went to bed to get ready for the day at the White House.
They arrive at the White House just before their allotted time and were dropped off to stand in line with others who have tickets for the same time period. Momma had put her wallet and things in Aaron's diaper bag since that was the only thing allowed in.
The time comes and they enter the grounds of the building. There is a music stage and a cooking stage as well as the place where the egg roll will take place. It appears that there are many activities for the young people to participate in and our agent children spread out to the places that interest them the most. Momma takes Aaron out of the child carrier that she brought him in as she didn't want to bring the stroller. If you have pushed a stroller over a grassy hill then you know that it is not an easy thing to do.
Aaron goes running to where they are doing the egg roll, he is given a wooden spoon to use and Spencer, Emily and Derek also decide to roll eggs while David goes to the Basketball court and watches as well as participates in the throwing of the ball. Sean and Jennifer both go to the cooking stage and learn about the different culinary dishes they are teaching the young people that day. Momma stands to the side and watches her little ones roll the eggs down the sloping hill. Some of the children were doing a little more than just rolling but slightly tossing the egg with the spoon. All in good fun and just watching them enjoy themselves was a blessing to momma. After the egg rolling, the children went and listened to stories and Derek and Emily watched people performing yoga exercises.
The President and First lady were there and played with the children and the first lady's mother read stories to the children. The family had pictures taken with the cardboard stand-ups of rabbits, chicks and eggs and with the costumed adults. The morning was enjoyed by our family.
When the van came back to pick them up, if was a group of excited and hungry children who climbed in. They went to a downtown restaurant that had a full salad and entrée buffet. They chose what they wanted and once again Momma did not buy a separate meal for Aaron but gave him food from her plate. He would take a bottle after eating some solid food and fall asleep in the van on the way home. Once they got home, Spencer and Emily went down for naps and the others went to relax and rest in their own ways.
Momma has been looking at apartments in the past few weeks and is now trying to narrow it down to what would be best for her and her children. She has to have a three-bedroom but would like a four-bedroom if she can get it. But there aren't too many really large apartments as most are one to three bedrooms.
She has asked Penelope if she wants to stay with the family and share a room with the younger girls or get a small apartment of her own. She would still be a part of the group but living outside of the family home. She actually is thinking of doing just that and has been looking for a small apartment that she can afford. Because of this momma is not buying her a bed in the new apartment but will have a sleeper sofa in the living room for her and a wardrobe in momma's room for clothes and stuff for her.
Momma has already purchased a triple bunk bed from a company that makes them which will go in the boys' room and will buy two regular bunk beds, one for the girls and the other for the other boys. She is going to have Aaron be in the boys' room in the bottom bunk of the triple which he could be able to crawl into himself because it is set on the floor. Spencer will be in the bottom bunk of the other bunk bed with Derek in the bunk above Aaron and Sean and David in the top bunks as they wish. The Emily will be in the bottom bunk of the other set of bunk beds with Jennifer above her. Momma is buying a full size bed for herself. She wants it to be fairly large in case one or more of the children want to crawl in bed with her. Only Aaron would have difficulty but he would let her know if he wants to get in bed with her.
She has been looking at different furniture for the living room and the dining room of where she chooses to live and make sure that her children have their games and toys as well as enough places to play and run around. She has also bought two rocking chairs; one for the living room and one for her bedroom.
The problem that she knows may soon arise is if they are able to return them to their adult forms. They have finally broken through the plastic and discovered the chip that has the adult information on it. They are now analyzing it to find the code for each of the agents. They would not be able to distinguish which code belongs to which adult but they can separate the different codes. Momma has not talked with her children about it yet because they are still looking through the code. They have only found seven codes, it is possible that the eighth adult code is gone and who it may be is unknown. If that is the case then one of her children will remain a child permanently.
Although, there is a thought that once they remove the wrist device from the person they may begin to age again at a regular pace. If they remove them before changing back to adults then they would age as a child and grow up all over again. If they leave the device even after becoming an adult, they would remain at the same age that they were when the device was put on and never age. Would anyone really choose to never age? This is the question to ponder for our agents when momma talks to them about when the associates at the institute begin to send codes to the devices.
They don't feel they are ready yet. We want no problems to occur when doing so. Don't want to give Jennifer David's mustache or one of the guys a pair of breasts. Momma keeps in touch with them and has a meeting weekly about the status and how soon they would be able to change her children back to their normal forms so they can renew their regular lives.
Of course, this saddens her but she has always known that this would happen. She cares for those that she is taking care of but she has not gotten too close so that cannot say good bye to them. She has always known that she would have to let them go. It has been one year now since they were changed into children and she looks at them as that, even though she had changed them back into adults once in a while and knew them as adults as well she loves them as children. She has never told them that she loves them and they have never told her that they love her but this is a family that is close. She hopes that when they actually leave her they will remember that.
The family enjoyed their Easter day and will soon learn that they may become adults sometime in the next few months.