Sofia2017 planning asked about this song from The Three Stooges, so enjoy your Wassalia present! I thought it would be fun if, as Gabby waits for James to come back in chapter 14 of theblindwriter95's collection Family Love, she sings the song Bobby Lee would sometimes sing to her and Elena when they get sick. As much as she likes James' stories, Gabby's also beginning to learn that music can make things better, especially if someone's there to sing to her, but she can also sing to herself if she knows the song. The Three Stooges are not mine.

Gabby looked out the door for the tenth time in an hour. She was sad that she couldn't see Princess Elena, but she had a cold, and she didn't want her to get sick during her visit. She leaned back on her pillows and hugged her dolly, just in time to see James running past. "James, tell me story?" She liked James' stories, and hoped he'd tell her one to help her feel better.

However, she saw that James looked worried about something. Her suspicions were confirmed when he said frantically, "I'll tell you a story later, Gabby! I've got a small emergency I need to take care of right now!"

Gabby sighed and leaned against her pillows again. However, if James said the emergency was small, then it probably wasn't as bad as he thought it was.

As she waited for James to come back and tell her a story, Gabby sighed again and remembered one of the songs Bobby Lee would sing to her and Elena when they were sick. She took up her doll and sang to her, I was good as solid gold,
And did the things that I was told,
The days nobody had a stove,
But I got a cold for Christmas.

James got a brand new sled,
With shiny runners painted red,
He's outside but I'm in bed,
I got a cold for Christmas.

"Dolly sing too?" she asked, hugging her doll.

"Okay!" she made the doll say. "I like singing with you, Gabby!"

Gabby giggled and altered her voice a little to make it seem like her dolly was singing as she sang, All the other girls and boys,
Ran downstairs to get their toys,
But all I did was sneeze and sniff,
And use my Christmas handkerchief!

She sang in her own voice, It can't be right, it isn't fair,
I brushed my teeth and combed my hair,
But did it get me anywhere?
I got a cold for Christmas.

Suddenly, she heard a new voice join her from the doorway, Waited by the windowsill,
Just for Santa, caught a chill,
Where's my penicillin pill?
I got a cold for Christmas.

"Daddy?" Gabby smiled a little.

"No, he's busy, so you're stuck with me," James said as he came in.

"James!" Gabby smiled a little.

"That's right, and I said I owed you a story," James smiled as he held up some of his story folders. "Nell, Bobby Lee, and Bianca are helping with the small emergency." He decided not to tell Gabby that Elena was playing 'Naked Baby' in the castle, and she had only now just been brought back to the bathroom and was going to be in timeout as Nell finished getting her ready. (He inwardly shuddered, as Nell had also made it very clear to everyone who had been involved in the chase that the incident was never to be mentioned ever again!) "And besides, my Mommy sang this to me and Amber when we got sick during the holidays too."

He finished the verse with her, Daddy got a brand-new gun

Gabby giggled, "But Mommy said he'll shoot his eye out!"

"Not necessarily HIS eye!" James grinned as he finished the song with her,
Elena got magic dolls that run,
I got a fever of one hundred and one,
I got a cold for Christmas!

"Thank you for singing with me," Gabby smiled.

"Music does make everything better," James smiled as she cuddled up next to him.

"Stories too!" Gabby giggled.

"That's right, Gabby," James smiled as he opened one of his story folders. "Now, do you and Dolly want to hear my new story?"

"Yeah!" Gabby smiled.