Angel- 2 years old
"Angel...It's time to wake up sweetie pie…" Barley's toddler squirmed around her crib, waking up from sleep
"It's time for the road trip…." Barley cooed. Then Angel jumped to her father's face
"ROAD Twip" Angel shouted. Barley chuckled at his toddler's excitement. Barley had been planning a road trip for a while. Since his mother and Colt had work and couldn't go, Who else to take than his younger brother and his toddler daughter.
"You excited sweetie?"
"Yeah" His daughter's excitement turned into fear when she quickly placed her hands down. "Uh oh…" Barley knew what this meant
"Okay okay...I'll take you to the bathroom...You have to go pee-pee or poo-poo…"
Barley was in the middle of potty training Angel. She knew how to walk and talk, but toilet training was a little bit of a doozy.
Ian was checking on Barley. He was walking up the stairs carrying his daughter.
"Give us a minute, Angel has to go…" Barley hurried to the bathroom.
Ian went to the van to finish packing for the road trip. The back of it was slightly full but Ian had his little notebook to check off everything to make sure not to leave anything behind.
"Okay...Tent, check, sleeping bags check...snacks check, Angel's toys...check, wait there's one toy missing
"Wed ball…." Angel was bouncing her favorite red ball and chased it all around the living room. Barley and Ian just smiled at each other, watching the sweet toddler play with her toy.
"Wanna take your red ball with you?" Barley asked his daughter
Angel nodded her head wildly, making a joyful squeaky sound.
"Okay I think we got everything from water to snacks to tents...are we ready?"
"Come princess Angel...Our road trip awaits…"
"Ooh ooh, one more ting…" angel placed her ball in the van and ran into the house. She returned with her teddy bear in her arms.
"Mr. Fwuffy wants to come too…" Angel snuggled the bear.
"I'm sure he would love to, come along...you can play on the way there"
"The expressway should take us to ravens point…" Ian was looking at the map
"Nah I want to show Angel the Path of Peril"
"Path of Pewil…" Angel didn't like the sound of a dangerous path
"It's going to be okay baby girl...it's not dangerous, it's like a hiking trail...remember the one trail Grandpa Colt took you to one time"
"Uh-huh…" Angel nodded wildly
"Yeah...it's going to be safe" Barley kissed her head and Angel began to yawn.
He picked her up and carried her to the van and laid her gently on the bean bag chair, tucked her in her polka dot blanket and placed a pillow on the back of her head, and kissed her cheek.
"Alright time to go" and off the trio went.
It was a while before Angel woke up. She played with her toys in the back of the van with the boys watching her every now and then. Then Ian drove while Barley took care of Angel. Then rumbling came into the distance and it's starting to scare Angel
"It's okay princess…" Barley rubbed her back and glanced out of the window and found dark clouds and rains started to pour in the road where Guinevere the 2nd was driving.
Then Barley dug into Angel's bag and grabbed a peach-colored pacifier for his whimpering daughter
"Hey hey it's okay...you want your binkie?" Angel whimpered and nodded. Barley slowly inserted it into her mouth and she sucked on it nervously.
Then thunder rumbled outside once more, making her jump and she was very close to crying
"I know I know...Daddy's here, Daddy's got you-" then a crash was heard
"Ugh Chantar's talon…" Ian pulled over and the brothers investigated the van
Barley groaned. "Flat tire...look... a motel…" Barley pointed to a small motel that's at least a few feet away from them.
"Oh good, we can stop there and call someone to get a spare tire…"
"We can make it to a parking spot, it looks empty…"
Barley gently drove Guinevere the 2nd towards a parking space near the entrance. The trio got most of their items and made their way to the building. Angel stuck close to Barley.
"Madam, we'd like to request a room, and do you have a telephone nearby?" Barley asked. A kind cyclops woman turned to them
"Well of course my lord...you three get room 4 and the telephone is by the door…" then thunder boomed once more and Angel whimpering and reached for barley to pick her up
"Aw come here princess…" he picked her up and placed her in his large arms
"Aww, she's so adorable…"
"I know...say hi Angel…" Angel gently waved hello and buried herself in Barley's chest
"Aww she's shy"
Barley turned to Ian and told him that he was going to take Angel to the room and had him call a tow truck to get a spare tire and call their mom to let them know that they were okay
Barley carried his child into the small room. There were two queen beds in the room and a small bathroom nearby
Then the rumbling got louder and Angel started to cry. Barley swayed her slowly and shushed her quietly
"It's okay it's okay...just one night here and we'll be on the road trip in no time okay sweetie…" Angel whimpered and nodded her head
"Let's get your diaper changed pumpkin…"
Then Ian finally came into the room
"Well the tow truck is coming as early as tomorrow morning and mom is satisfied that we're okay…"
"You see princess...it's going to be okay" Barley placed her head on his shoulder and swayed her gently.
Ian took the bed on the left and Barley took the bed on the right with Angel.
Barley cuddled his daughter close and gave her a bunch of kisses on her cheek and hummed her to sleep and place the pacifier back into her mouth with the clip on her light green footie pajamas. Angel cling onto Barley most of the night and slept in his arms and they were all asleep
The next morning the tow truck arrived and they managed to give Guinevere the 2nd a spare tire and they took off to a camping site near loch lake. The skies were much clearer than yesterday and
Angel was happy to play around the lake and roll down the hills and meet a bunch of mermaids around the lake and listen to her father tell stories about the lake.
The boys set up the tents with Angel trying to help them and they showed her how to go fishing and she caught a few fishes, especially a big one. Barley took a picture of her with the large fish. Unfortunately, they couldn't eat the fishes and let them go into the lake
"Bye-bye fishies…" Angel waved goodbye to the fish she recently released. Angel also had free room to fly around the site with Ian and Barley chasing after her.
By the time sunset came around, Barley made a campfire and Ian showed Angel how to make s'mores and she loved them.
By the time night fell, Angel got really sleepy.
"Come on sleepyhead, time for some shut-eye…" Barley carried her to their tent.
Ian smiled and brought her teddy bear
"Me wanna do dis again…" Angel said sleepily
"We will do this again over the summer, til then it's time for bed...I brought your favorite blanket." Barley handed angel a pink polka dot blanket and tucked her in the blanket and she went to sleep
"You know it was nice to bring her here...have Angel exposed to nature…"
"Yeah...it was pretty cool...this is a really nice site you picked out
"Why thank you young mage…"
Then Barley joined his squirming daughter and kissed her head to make her fall back asleep. He too fell into the spell of sleep
He needs all the energy to get the trio home.