I know I haven't updated in nearly two weeks so here's a longer chapter. (Late updates are what happen when I leave all homework to last minute and spend the weekend trying to do them all… I miss summer)
Enjoy and this time review when you're done! No one did such for the last two updates!
"I still don't think this was a good idea." said Meredith for the 50th time in ten minutes.
"They aren't babies anymore they are toddlers: My mom will tire them out and put them to bed after baths."
"How about Ellen? She's not even a year old. She's the one who's making me feel worst; what if she needs me?"
"My mom raised five kids on her own remember? We all missed our dad and we're all mature adults now…except for Amelia. Besides we're only going out for dinner; we haven't done that since you were pregnant with the twins."
"What if…"
"She'll call us."
Six hours earlier
"Mommy! Look! I'm in the water with Mickey!
"Daddy look! I'm in the water with Minnie! Said the twins while swimming in their grandmother's swimming pool with floaties.
"Mom, I remember you telling me you got a pool for the backyard but I tough you had meant the inflatable kind." spoke Derek.
"All of you moved out. How else could I get you to come back on vacation?"
"The no house fires and Derek mourning the carbonized courtines were enough to get us back here." said Meredith.
"I'm still really glad you came back for a visit; I don't think any of the girls had been here before. And Ellen has gotten so big since January! Isn't she the cutest?"
Ellen must have some gift for acting because as soon this was said she placed a hand on the chair and got up by herself.
"Yay! Another Milestone! Get the camera! Get the camera!" Derek squealed while calling the twins and taking her phone from his pocket.
Thirty minutes later he finally settled back in his chair.
"I still think you two have the lucky genes; all your children are adorable!"
"All I have to do is keep them away from Nancy; otherwise she'll try to sign them up for a pageant like she tried to with the twins." Derek has to choose their wardrobe so they'll look the cutest but if it evolves spray on tan, wigs or makeup done by professionals is forbidden.
I can't blame him for trying to keep his children of becoming his sister.
The twins were getting hungry so Caroline went to bathe them and left Meredith and Derek alone…with Ellen stuffing grass in her mouth while no-one was looking.
"I think we should bathe her while thing 1 and thing 2 clean my mother's cookies jar with a glass of orange juice." Derek wasn't happy that his favorite baby outfit had just become green.
"Did you make a reference to The Cat in the Hat or are you just being a jerk to your first and second born?"
"The first option. The water is tepid enough right?"
"The twins were at ambient temperature when the got out."
"Would it be mean for me to get in the water with her? She's been staring at that all day."
"I think she might be a little young for that."Meredith was just scared of letting babies near water. But when it came to toddlers she was willing to let them paint themselves with pudding in the porch and then either let them eat that out or pre-wash them with the hose.
"I did this with the twins when they were four months old. She's nine months."
"Remember how they reacted? I'm pretty sure I can only hear from my left ear now."
"She might be a water child like you. The twins are half-lizards like me."
"Yeah Captain prawn. Aren't there any easier ways of getting cancer?"
"I'm not always on the sun I spent one hour with them inside the water today."
"Only to run back to the chair and spending the next two roasting."
"Can I please take her? Even if I only dip her feet?" he pouted.
"Fine" he started to remove the forever ruined baby clothing leaving little Ellen wearing nothing but a diaper.
He dipped her feet first.
Giggles; giggles; giggles.
Then up to her knees.
More Giggles.
Then a little above her waist.
Even more giggles.
"Look she loves it!"
"I don't think she should be dipped so fast."
"Come on. If you want to take your daughter back you have to get inside."
"You'll regret it."
The three bounced in the water careful to keep water away from the baby's mouth or nose.
Until they remembered it was their last day in New York. They were going out later. There was still stuff to pack. And they both needed to shower and get ready.
…
The twins needed a second shower. The got crumbs and orange juice all over themselves.
Then after playing mommy with Ellen (let's face it, she was more useful to them as a doll then as a crying little baby sister at three in the morning) and after macaroni and cheese for dinner they decided to play their favourite new game: Rodeo; in this case riding the dog and a tricycle while trying to hit the other with stuffed animal.
The one on the dog always won.
But this never lasted more than five minutes when a grown up saw them and the game was over, around the time Gracie started sneezing.
That night, after there was no other adult at home besides Caroline; something went terribly wrong…
Sorry; if I can get at least two reviews for this chapter (I haven't received one since mid-August!) I'll start writing the rest and update in the same day.
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