A short time later they arrived home and she put the ice cream in the
freezer and the two cases in the fridge to keep cold. While the water for
the hot chocolate was put on to boil, Bobby went through the movies they
had and decided on the James Bond flick, Die Another Day. As the kettle
began whistling he took out two mugs from the cabinets and put the hot
chocolate mix in and added the hot water. As he carried the steaming mugs
into the living room, Kim had just returned from changing into a spaghetti
strapped top and a pair of sweatpants. He passed her a mug and put his on
the coffee table and went to change. She put the movie in and got
everything set up and took a sip of the hot chocolate. Bobby returned
wearing pair of sweatpants and carried a blanket with him.
He wrapped the blanket around himself and sat down on the floor and
motioned for Kim to sit in front of him and wrapped his arms around her,
covering her with the remaining portion of the blanket. For the next two
hours they relaxed and watched the movie as they drank hot chocolate.
Back at Jimmy's apartment, things began to fall apart. Keira had begun to cry and no matter what they did, nothing seemed to calm her down.
"Come on Alex, let me call them and see what they want us to do." Jimmy begged, not sure how much more crying he could stand.
"You call and I'm leaving." Alex threatened; "Let them have the rest of the evening in peace."
"And let us suffer through crying?" Jimmy said getting irritated.
"Did you ever think that she might be teething now? You know Kim did warn you it would be happening soon." Alex asked.
Jimmy groaned at Alex's response and figured that was what was wrong with her. They'd tried bottles, pacifiers, CD's, singing, the whole nine yards and nothing had worked up to that point.
"What do you give a teething baby to calm them down?" Alex asked Jimmy, since he'd been through this once.
"Get a washcloth and wrap an ice cube in it, that should calm her down if she is teething." Jimmy replied, after trying to think back to what had worked with Joey.
Alex had Joey get the washcloth and bring it in the kitchen while she got an ice cube from the freezer.
Jimmy sat on the couch and gently ran the wash cloth covered ice cube over her gums. About two minutes later she'd settled down after the coldness from the ice began to soothe the pain caused from the inflammation of her gums.
"She's definitely teething," Jimmy groaned, happy to at least have peace from the crying.
"I thought babies began teething at six months." Alex said.
"They do, but the signs of teething start at five months, the first teeth will appear next month." Jimmy replied; "For us to have any peace I think we're going to have to do this till she falls asleep, then once she wakes up if she won't stop crying repeat it."
The three of them took turns gently rubbing the ice over her gums until she went to sleep.
After the movie had finished Kim had taken the empty mugs into the kitchen and got the stuff out to fix the Kahlua Hummer drinks for the both of them. She got the blender out and a measuring cup. After measuring 1.5 oz of Kahlua and Bailey's and Ice she poured the liquid on top of the one scoop of vanilla ice cream. She mixed the contents together on low speed till it was smooth and poured the first batch into a wine goblet and began another one. After she'd fixed two of them she carried the goblets into the living room and passed one to Bobby.
"Tell me what you think." She said as she took a sip of the drink.
He tried a sip of the mixture and replied, "Wow, this is some good stuff."
"Just don't drink it too fast, you'll get brain freeze." She warned, sipping slowly on her drink.
"Ok, I'll warn you now I might want another one of these before the night is over." He said taking another brief drink.
"We've got plenty of stuff to make more." She replied smiling.
Meanwhile back at Jimmy's, Keira woke up in the middle of the night crying and he got up and proceeded to repeat the wash cloth and ice trick till she settled down since Alex was asleep. He secretly got his cell phone out and left Kim a voice mail to let her know what was going on before he went back to bed. Now he hoped she checked her voice mail periodically to check for new messages. It would be his luck she wouldn't check it till later in the morning, which defeated the purpose of leaving it in the first place.
When he heard her voice mail greeting he got ready to leave a message for her once it was finished.
Kim's cell phone was on silent so she never heard the beep that normally goes off when a new message is waiting. She and Bobby went to sleep around 2:30 that morning after each having 2 Kahlua Hummers. The next morning they got up around noon and Kim reached for her phone and saw she had a message waiting on her. She entered the security code to access the message that was waiting.
"1 new message. Monday, 3:30 AM." The automated voice began to say.
She then heard the message Jimmy had left for her the night before.
"Hey Kimmy, its Jimmy. I thought I'd let you know Keira starting to show signs of teething. We've been using the ice trick to calm her down. I know you said to call of she started and you'd come get her but Alex insisted that we not bother you two for the rest of the evening. See you at work tomorrow."
As she listened to the message Bobby came in and saw her on her phone and asked quietly, "Who you talking to?"
"No one, I'm checking voice mail messages on my phone." She replied as the message finished playing.
"I take it you got one?" he asked.
"Yep, from Jimmy." She said in response.
"From Jimmy? Why didn't he just call here?" Bobby asked confused.
"Alex wouldn't let him. Keira's getting ready to start teething and Alex insisted that he leave us alone for the rest of the evening. They've been pulling the ice and wash cloth trick but that only works for so long." She replied.
"Jimmy's worst nightmare come true." Bobby said chuckling.
"You better believe it. A very unhappy five month old crying machine." Kim responded as she reached for the cordless to check on them.
She dialed the number to his apartment and waited on an answer.
"Hello?" he replied juggling the baby and holding the phone to his ear with his shoulder.
"Everything ok over there?" Kim asked.
"Thank god you called. I take it you got the voice mail?" he said.
"Yeah, I got it this afternoon. How is she?" Kim questioned.
"Ok for right now. Wash cloth and ice gum massages seems to work really well with her. That's what got us through the night." Jimmy said in response.
"Before we come into work I'll pick up teething rings and some other stuff and take it to moms so she'll have it for when you drop her off." Kim replied.
"I thought you normally checked your messages several times a day." Jimmy asked.
"I do, but there was nothing I could have done last night after having 2 Kahlua Hummers." She replied.
"You two went to Haggerty's?" Jimmy questioned.
"No, I made them myself. We stopped at the store on our way back from Central Park and I picked up the stuff to make it at home." She said in response; "Did you two get any sleep last night with her crying?"
"Yeah, we each took shifts and rotated getting up with the ice whenever she'd start crying." Jimmy replied.
"Ok, I'll see you in a couple of hours at work." Kim said heading in to see what Bobby was fixing for lunch.
"Gotcha, see you two later." Jimmy replied before hanging up the phone.
After she'd talked to Jimmy she entered the kitchen and saw Bobby fixing soup and sandwiches for lunch.
"Before we go to work we need to stop and pick up teething rings and some stuff for my mom and drop it off so she has it for when they drop Keira off." Kim said taking a seat as he carried the two bowls to the table.
"Ok. We'll leave early so we have time to pick that stuff up." He replied, passing her a plate with a turkey pita bread sandwich.
It was around 1:15 when they finished lunch and they got ready and headed out early and picked up four teething rings and two tubes of baby ora-jel and took it to her moms house. As they drove over Kim called her in advance and told her they were dropping off some stuff for Keira so she knew they were coming over. After dropping the items off they'd stopped at their apartment again and put the two remaining teething rings they'd bought in the fridge so they'd be ready to give to Keira that evening.
When they arrived at the station they changed and got ready to work on the rig. As Kim headed downstairs she saw Alex and Jimmy coming in.
"Hey Kim, how was your weekend?" Alex asked.
"Amazingly relaxing." Kim replied.
"Did he get you that necklace?" Alex questioned, admiring the heart shaped necklace around Kim's neck.
"Yeah. He totally surprised me because I'd seen it in the paper and was going to get one. I didn't say a word to him about it and he must have looked at the paper and read my mind." Kim replied laughing.
Alex laughed along with Kim and replied, "ESP works wonders doesn't it."
"You have no idea. How did things go with Keira over the weekend?" Kim asked.
"Saturday night she was a perfect angel, she didn't give us any problems at all. Then Sunday afternoon she started getting irritable because of the teething inflammation. I thought Jimmy was going to loose it." Alex replied, walking with Kim into the kitchen of the firehouse.
"How did you keep him from calling me, if he reacted the way he did when Joey started teething." Kim asked curiously.
"I threatened to leave and he dropped the subject real fast." Alex replied.
Kim cracked up laughing when Jimmy walked into the room and he asked, "What's so funny Kimmy?"
"Alex certainly has you trained well." She replied snickering, forcing herself not to bust out laughing once more.
Jimmy shot an evil glance at Alex and said, "What all has she been telling you?"
"Enough to know that she's definitely got the upper hand over you." Kim replied, when Bobby came in.
"Come on Kimmy, we got work to do." He said, pulling her up out of the chair.
As they left Jimmy stood behind Alex and said, "What all did you tell her about this weekend?"
Alex looked at Jimmy innocently and replied, "Nothing too bad."
Back at Jimmy's apartment, things began to fall apart. Keira had begun to cry and no matter what they did, nothing seemed to calm her down.
"Come on Alex, let me call them and see what they want us to do." Jimmy begged, not sure how much more crying he could stand.
"You call and I'm leaving." Alex threatened; "Let them have the rest of the evening in peace."
"And let us suffer through crying?" Jimmy said getting irritated.
"Did you ever think that she might be teething now? You know Kim did warn you it would be happening soon." Alex asked.
Jimmy groaned at Alex's response and figured that was what was wrong with her. They'd tried bottles, pacifiers, CD's, singing, the whole nine yards and nothing had worked up to that point.
"What do you give a teething baby to calm them down?" Alex asked Jimmy, since he'd been through this once.
"Get a washcloth and wrap an ice cube in it, that should calm her down if she is teething." Jimmy replied, after trying to think back to what had worked with Joey.
Alex had Joey get the washcloth and bring it in the kitchen while she got an ice cube from the freezer.
Jimmy sat on the couch and gently ran the wash cloth covered ice cube over her gums. About two minutes later she'd settled down after the coldness from the ice began to soothe the pain caused from the inflammation of her gums.
"She's definitely teething," Jimmy groaned, happy to at least have peace from the crying.
"I thought babies began teething at six months." Alex said.
"They do, but the signs of teething start at five months, the first teeth will appear next month." Jimmy replied; "For us to have any peace I think we're going to have to do this till she falls asleep, then once she wakes up if she won't stop crying repeat it."
The three of them took turns gently rubbing the ice over her gums until she went to sleep.
After the movie had finished Kim had taken the empty mugs into the kitchen and got the stuff out to fix the Kahlua Hummer drinks for the both of them. She got the blender out and a measuring cup. After measuring 1.5 oz of Kahlua and Bailey's and Ice she poured the liquid on top of the one scoop of vanilla ice cream. She mixed the contents together on low speed till it was smooth and poured the first batch into a wine goblet and began another one. After she'd fixed two of them she carried the goblets into the living room and passed one to Bobby.
"Tell me what you think." She said as she took a sip of the drink.
He tried a sip of the mixture and replied, "Wow, this is some good stuff."
"Just don't drink it too fast, you'll get brain freeze." She warned, sipping slowly on her drink.
"Ok, I'll warn you now I might want another one of these before the night is over." He said taking another brief drink.
"We've got plenty of stuff to make more." She replied smiling.
Meanwhile back at Jimmy's, Keira woke up in the middle of the night crying and he got up and proceeded to repeat the wash cloth and ice trick till she settled down since Alex was asleep. He secretly got his cell phone out and left Kim a voice mail to let her know what was going on before he went back to bed. Now he hoped she checked her voice mail periodically to check for new messages. It would be his luck she wouldn't check it till later in the morning, which defeated the purpose of leaving it in the first place.
When he heard her voice mail greeting he got ready to leave a message for her once it was finished.
Kim's cell phone was on silent so she never heard the beep that normally goes off when a new message is waiting. She and Bobby went to sleep around 2:30 that morning after each having 2 Kahlua Hummers. The next morning they got up around noon and Kim reached for her phone and saw she had a message waiting on her. She entered the security code to access the message that was waiting.
"1 new message. Monday, 3:30 AM." The automated voice began to say.
She then heard the message Jimmy had left for her the night before.
"Hey Kimmy, its Jimmy. I thought I'd let you know Keira starting to show signs of teething. We've been using the ice trick to calm her down. I know you said to call of she started and you'd come get her but Alex insisted that we not bother you two for the rest of the evening. See you at work tomorrow."
As she listened to the message Bobby came in and saw her on her phone and asked quietly, "Who you talking to?"
"No one, I'm checking voice mail messages on my phone." She replied as the message finished playing.
"I take it you got one?" he asked.
"Yep, from Jimmy." She said in response.
"From Jimmy? Why didn't he just call here?" Bobby asked confused.
"Alex wouldn't let him. Keira's getting ready to start teething and Alex insisted that he leave us alone for the rest of the evening. They've been pulling the ice and wash cloth trick but that only works for so long." She replied.
"Jimmy's worst nightmare come true." Bobby said chuckling.
"You better believe it. A very unhappy five month old crying machine." Kim responded as she reached for the cordless to check on them.
She dialed the number to his apartment and waited on an answer.
"Hello?" he replied juggling the baby and holding the phone to his ear with his shoulder.
"Everything ok over there?" Kim asked.
"Thank god you called. I take it you got the voice mail?" he said.
"Yeah, I got it this afternoon. How is she?" Kim questioned.
"Ok for right now. Wash cloth and ice gum massages seems to work really well with her. That's what got us through the night." Jimmy said in response.
"Before we come into work I'll pick up teething rings and some other stuff and take it to moms so she'll have it for when you drop her off." Kim replied.
"I thought you normally checked your messages several times a day." Jimmy asked.
"I do, but there was nothing I could have done last night after having 2 Kahlua Hummers." She replied.
"You two went to Haggerty's?" Jimmy questioned.
"No, I made them myself. We stopped at the store on our way back from Central Park and I picked up the stuff to make it at home." She said in response; "Did you two get any sleep last night with her crying?"
"Yeah, we each took shifts and rotated getting up with the ice whenever she'd start crying." Jimmy replied.
"Ok, I'll see you in a couple of hours at work." Kim said heading in to see what Bobby was fixing for lunch.
"Gotcha, see you two later." Jimmy replied before hanging up the phone.
After she'd talked to Jimmy she entered the kitchen and saw Bobby fixing soup and sandwiches for lunch.
"Before we go to work we need to stop and pick up teething rings and some stuff for my mom and drop it off so she has it for when they drop Keira off." Kim said taking a seat as he carried the two bowls to the table.
"Ok. We'll leave early so we have time to pick that stuff up." He replied, passing her a plate with a turkey pita bread sandwich.
It was around 1:15 when they finished lunch and they got ready and headed out early and picked up four teething rings and two tubes of baby ora-jel and took it to her moms house. As they drove over Kim called her in advance and told her they were dropping off some stuff for Keira so she knew they were coming over. After dropping the items off they'd stopped at their apartment again and put the two remaining teething rings they'd bought in the fridge so they'd be ready to give to Keira that evening.
When they arrived at the station they changed and got ready to work on the rig. As Kim headed downstairs she saw Alex and Jimmy coming in.
"Hey Kim, how was your weekend?" Alex asked.
"Amazingly relaxing." Kim replied.
"Did he get you that necklace?" Alex questioned, admiring the heart shaped necklace around Kim's neck.
"Yeah. He totally surprised me because I'd seen it in the paper and was going to get one. I didn't say a word to him about it and he must have looked at the paper and read my mind." Kim replied laughing.
Alex laughed along with Kim and replied, "ESP works wonders doesn't it."
"You have no idea. How did things go with Keira over the weekend?" Kim asked.
"Saturday night she was a perfect angel, she didn't give us any problems at all. Then Sunday afternoon she started getting irritable because of the teething inflammation. I thought Jimmy was going to loose it." Alex replied, walking with Kim into the kitchen of the firehouse.
"How did you keep him from calling me, if he reacted the way he did when Joey started teething." Kim asked curiously.
"I threatened to leave and he dropped the subject real fast." Alex replied.
Kim cracked up laughing when Jimmy walked into the room and he asked, "What's so funny Kimmy?"
"Alex certainly has you trained well." She replied snickering, forcing herself not to bust out laughing once more.
Jimmy shot an evil glance at Alex and said, "What all has she been telling you?"
"Enough to know that she's definitely got the upper hand over you." Kim replied, when Bobby came in.
"Come on Kimmy, we got work to do." He said, pulling her up out of the chair.
As they left Jimmy stood behind Alex and said, "What all did you tell her about this weekend?"
Alex looked at Jimmy innocently and replied, "Nothing too bad."