Christmas Traditions and Memories
The next four months to seem to fly bye for Leonard and Penny as now it was Christmas Eve, and the family of six were sitting down watching a Christmas movie. Penny loved this because this is what her and Leonard starting doing when they celebrated their first Christmas together as a couple. Penny slightly chuckled as the memory of Sheldon bashing all Christmas movies. To this day he did not care for them, the Fowler-Cooper household Christmas eve movie tradition was Lord of the Rings. When Penny told Sheldon that was not a Christmas movie, he argued that there was elves and Gandalf resembled a low carb Santa. Beyond that point Penny gave a disbelief look and gave up because Leonard pointed out Sheldon was right.
Once the movie was over, Leonard and Penny fought with a three year old, a two year old, and two one year olds on why they had to go to sleep so Santa would come. Finally the couple gave in after bath time to let Emma sleep with Ezra in his bed and Emmett share his crib with Ellie. Leonard stood in the doorway as he smiled as Penny read 'The Night Before Christmas.' to their kids. He loved how with someone who never liked to read began the tradition with the Wolowitz children when Penny was first pregnant with Ezra. Reading to their children now at bedtime now became Penny's thing after Ezra was born and sat in the NICU. A nurse brought in a book and handed it to Penny as Leonard nodded off in the chair beside her. Penny was nervous at first but as she opened the first page of 'Goodnight Moon' she never stopped reading to their children.
As the kids gave up and feel asleep, another tradition Penny had started the year before, Leonard could not wait. She dressed in a sexy Santa teddy and Leonard was her naughty elf. They giggled how they hoped the kids would not wake up or they would think mommy was Santa. Leonard laughed that then their children would need therapy for life and would not recommend their grandmother.
"Do you miss when we could have sex whenever we wanted it and did not have to worry sex being rushed?" Leonard asked after as he laid on his side looking over at his wife as he played with her hair.
Penny looked at Leonard and frowned at his insecurity. "In a way, yeah!" Then her look softened. "But Babe I don't regret that we can't. We might have been at wits end with each other and just everything going on from our jobs, kids, being there for Howard and helping him heal after seeing his father out of the blue after many years and then your dad, tonight was just we needed and best sex we had in a long long time." Penny then reached up, wrapped her around Leonard's neck and pulled him down and kissed him hard.
Leonard returned the favor but then they both decided as much as another round sounded amazing, they were both exhausted at nine at night, "God we are getting old!" Penny expressed making Leonard laugh. So they decided to get as much as sleep as possible as Ezra was now at the age knowing who Santa was and getting the idea of the excitement of Christmas meant. Which they knew it was going to be an early morning. Penny could not wait either because she loved watching Leonard get excited watching their kids open presents. She loved it because this made Leonard happy since their kids experienced Christmas like he never did. Penny kissed her husband one last time for the night and made sure she told him she loved him. But rolled her eyes and smacked Leonard playfully as he asked,"What's wrong? You're being nice. Am I dying?" He asked jokingly with a deadpan look.
"Shut up and go to sleep or you won't get your present from Santa!" Penny told him as she squinted her eyes at him. Leonard chuckled and told Penny he loved her too.
By five in the morning, Penny and Leonard was woken up by Ezra crawling up on their bed. "Up momma! Up daddy! Santa! Santa!" Was not long after Emma followed and Leonard was up going to get the twins out of the crib. Penny helped Emma walk down the stairs as she held Emmett as Leonard had the other two. Emma and Emmett squealed with delight as they saw all the presents under the tree and both Leonard and Penny cringed by the high pitched noise. The couple sat all four kids down on the couch, Leonard went to get Penny's cup of coffee and after she took her first sip, Leonard to pass out the gifts. Ezra and Emma both received their first light sabers but were quickly put up as Ezra accidentally gave Emma a black eye. Ezra began to cry because he hurt his sister. He quickly got over it as him and Elliot played in their new batmobile pop-up tent. Yet Emma through herself on the floor in tears because her red light saber was gone and refused to keep on the cold compress on her eye because it was too cold. But once she saw her own pop-up tent of the millennium falcon, since Emma did not like pink castle pop-up tents like Ellie, Emma was happy once more.
Hours later after all the toys, books, and clothes opened, kids and parents ate breakfast, Leonard and Penny had all four kids down for naps. Now it was mom and dad's turn to open each other gift to each other like they did many years ago. Once the kids were up from their naps is when they headed over to the Wolowitz house to celebrate Christmas with their second family. It was a big deal this year since not only it was Raj and Janki's adopted daughter and their newborn son's first Christmas. To everyone's surprise is when Bernadette told everyone that her dad stood up for Howard when Sam Wolowitz should up drunk. Sam became mad because Howard wanted nothing to do with him, so Mike had his way with Sam. But no one on was surprised when Mike told Howard, "This is the only time I will stand up for you because Sam has no rights to know you nor my grandkids. His loss when he walked out that door many years ago."
As Christmas night came to an end and all the toys, books, and clothes some what put away as both parents were too exhausted to finish, Leonard and Penny sat on the couch curled up to one another. They decided to watch one last Christmas movie of the year but they had fallen asleep as their kids were also asleep on couch. When Leonard happened to wake up to use the bathroom, he just smiled as he shook his head as his wife and all four kids were sleeping all the same way. As he returned he did not want to disturb any of them so Leonard just went back to the spot he was in before on their new sectional, oversized couch and fell back asleep.