" Ulrich are you sure you're going to be okay?" Yumi asked her husband.
" yeah Yumi, I'm going to be fine. How hard can it be to watch a two-year-old?" Ulrich asked, picking up his daughter, Tianna.
" Okay, I'll be back in an hour or two." Yumi said. " bye Tia." She said kissing Tianna on the cheek.
" bye momma." She said, kissing her mom's cheek. Yumi turned to Ulrich.
" have fun." She said, then walked out the door. Ulrich made sure that she was gone, then took Tia into the family room.
" I can do this! Can't I baby?" he asked, putting Tia down.
" No" She said, giggling. Ulrich turned to his daughter.
" You don't think I can either?" he asked. Tia giggled, shaking her head. " oh yeah?" he said, he jumped forward, and began tickling her. She dissolved into giggles. He stopped and leaned against the couch. " what should we do now?" he asked the toddler.
" play!" Tia demanded, pulling out a little soccer ball.
" you are officially my child." Ulrich said, setting up the little soccer goal. Then there was a knock at the door. " it's open!" Ulrich shouted, trying to get the bars to connect. Odd, Sam, and their sons came into view.
" hey Ulrich. Sam decided to go shopping with Yumi. So I'm here with you and four munchkins." Odd said. Travis and Simon glared at their dad. Nick laughed. Ulrich gave up on the goal post.
" well boys, and Tia, I'm off. Boys, and Tia, be good for your daddies." Sam said, then she left. Travis and Simon began to rummage through Tianna's toys. Nick walked over to the middle of the room where Tia was connecting the last two posts, or at least trying to. Then somebody rang the doorbell. Jeremy and Aelita walked in with Matt, Kevin and Andy.
" I'm late, so I don't have time to talk. Boys, and Tia, be good. Jeremy, Ulrich Odd, be good." Aelita said, turning around and walking back out.
" Why don't they trust us?" Odd asked.
" Because nobody in their right mind would?" Jeremy suggested. Odd nodded.
" that make sense."
" it should, Jeremy said it." Ulrich laughed, then looked where the children had finished putting together the goal and were playing with the little soccer ball. " how did they do that?" he asked.
" do what?" Jeremy asked.
" put together the… never mind." He said. Odd and Jeremy laughed and The kids stopped playing to watch them.
" Daddy, play!" Tia said. Ulrich smiled and walked over. Tia picked up the ball and handed it to him. "daddy turn!" she said. Nick, Kevin, and Andy had gotten bored and went to play with blocks. Simon, Travis and Matt were watching cartoons. Odd joined the boys with the blocks and Jeremy sat with a book next to the other boys.
" Ready Tia?" Ulrich asked. Tia nodded happily. Ulrich sat down on his knees and rolled the ball into the goal.
" yay daddy!" Tia cheered. Ulrich got the ball and put it in front of Tia, who kicked it into the goal.
" good job!" he said. Tia smiled.
The game went on for about an hour until Simon shouted,
" when's lunch?" The men looked at each other, they forgot lunch.
" We'll go make it now." Jeremy said, getting up. Ulrich and Odd right behind him. Tia toddled in after them.
" I help!" she said.
" okay. You can help." Ulrich said Picking her up.
" What are we making?" Odd asked.
" I don't know… sandwiches?" Jeremy suggested.
" Sammich!" Tia cried. Ulrich sat her on a table.
" Sounds good to me. Okay how many kids do we have?" he asked. They counted.
" Seven." Jeremy said.
" You sure? That sounds like a lot…" Odd said.
" Odd, how many children do you have?" Odd thought about it.
" Three." He said.
" Very good. Now, I have three sons, what's three plus three?" Jeremy asked slowly.
" Six." Odd said.
" And Ulrich has Tia. Now, what's six plus one?" Jeremy asked.
" Sev… oh. Okay then."
" Plus us is ten." Jeremy finished. " So that's twenty piece of bread." Odd grabbed the bread and pulled out the pieces.
" what kind of sandwiches?" Ulrich asked. Jeremy opened the fridge and pulled out cheese.
" Grilled cheese." He said.
" Me help!" Tia shouted. Ulrich reached over Jeremy and pulled out the spray butter.
" Okay Tia, this is what you do." Ulrich picked up a piece of bread, spray one side then the other and sat it on a plate. " got it?" Tia nodded, holding out her hand for the butter. Ulrich handed it to her and Tia went about spraying the bread, the tip of her little tongue poking from her lips in concentration. Ulrich smiled and got out cooking spray to spray the pan while Jeremy worked on putting on the cheese and Odd had another skillet. It took about twenty minutes to get all the food done and they called the boys into the kitchen to eat.
" Drink!" Nick cried. Ulrich frowned and went to see what they had to drink. He came back with grape juice and cups. He poured juice for the kids.
By the time they had finished eating, everyone of the kids was covered in purple juice. The men groaned and went about cleaning them up the best they could. Then they all went back into the living room. Ulrich, Jeremy and Odd settled down to watch the soccer game on television while the kids played. After only ten minutes the game was interrupted by Nick crying his eyes out. Odd hurried to see what was wrong, Ulrich and Jeremy right behind him. Nick sat on the ground crying, a bump forming on his head and Simon sat there looking guilty.
" What happened?" Odd asked, squatting down to check Nick's head.
" Simon threw a block and it hit Nick." Matt said.
" Simon…" Odd said.
" I didn't mean too." Simon cried. Odd groaned and picked up Nick.
" Come on buddy, lets make sure there's no real damage." He said. There was going to be one heck of a goose egg, but he'd be fine. Odd put a glow in the dark band aid on it and Nick ran back to play with Andy, Kevin and Tia. Odd shook his head and went back to watching the game with Ulrich and Jeremy.
Two hours later the girls came back. Odd jumped over to take the band aid from Nick's head. The door opened and Yumi walked in, Sam and Aelita right behind her.
" Well, everyone looks like they're in one piece… did they give you any trouble?" Sam asked.
" Nope no trouble at all." Ulrich said quickly. Jeremy and Odd nodded in agreement. The girls looked at them, suspious, but let it go.
" Well we better head home." Aelita said, picking up Andy and Jeremy got Kevin and grabbed Matt's hand. They left.
" Us too." Sam smiled, " Come on boys." As they left Ulrich heard Sam asked " What's happened to Nick's head?"
" So, everything really went alright?" Yumi asked, setting her bags down.
" Perfectly fine." Ulrich assured her.
" Good, because Sam, Aelita and I are going out next weekend and need you guys to watch the kids." Yumi smiled. Ulrich groaned and flopped on the couch.
A/N It took... way too long. But I'm at a loss for what else to do... ooh... I have something. okay, if you have any suggestions of what you'd like to see I'm looking for more ideas!
Next piece: Nick, Kevin, Andy and Tia's first day of Kadic Middle school.