Title : Zoey's playdate with Phil and Lil

Disclaimer, Rugrats belong to their original owners and no infringement is intended. Zoey and her grandparents belong to Martian-Daisy.

Summary: Phil and Lil are in for an interesting playdate with the newest friend to the bunch Zoey Anderson.

Additional Notes: Rugrats: Calm After The Storm series of new adventures, fun and mischief the Rugrats gang encounter post the events of Martian-Daisy's story Angelica's Adventure and prior to the events of Celrock's story "Zoey's Birthday Cruise". This story takes place after ''Making the Rounds''.

Early one bright sunny morning in Yucaipa, California after a heavy rainstorm the night before the Deville's were nearly finished with breakfast when suddenly the phone rang.

"I'll get that" said Betty as she went to answer the phone. "Hello Deville residence" Betty said.

"Hello Mrs. Deville" said an elderly woman's voice on the other end. "I'm the grandmother of my grand-daughter Zoey Anderson."

A pleasure to speak with ya" said Betty.

"My husband and I were wondering if you and Mr. Deville can babysit our Grand-daughter while my husband and I meet up with Lou and Lulu at the senior center" asked Zoey's Grandmother.

"Sure thing, the pups sure could have a playdate" said Betty.

"That's great" said Zoey's Grandmother. " We will be at your place after we finish breakfast. Looking forward to meeting you in person" Zoey's Grandmother added.

"Looking forward to meeting you too" said Betty and hung up the phone.

"Hey pups guess what your new friend Zoey Anderson is coming over for a playdate today" Betty said.

Phil and Lil were very excited that one of their friends was coming over.

"Yay" Phil and Lil exclaim in unison, jumping up and down as Betty headed back to the kitchen.

" I can't wait to see what fun were gonna have with Zoey Phillip" Said Lil.

"Me too Lillian, I hope she likes getting down and dirty with mud" said Phil.

A while later the doorbell rings. Betty and Howard answer it and waiting there were Zoey's grandparents and Zoey herself with her bag of spare clothes (in case she get's dirty) and some paper and crayons.

" Hi Mr. and Mrs. Deville, its a pleasure to meet you in person" said Zoey's Grandmother.

"It's a pleasure to meet you all" said Howard Deville.

"We thank you for being able to watch our Grand-daughter". said Zoey's Grandfather. "We'll be back to pick her up at 4p.m." he added.

"No problem" said Betty. "You two have a good time" she added.

"Have fun sweetie" said Zoey's Grandmother.

"Don't worry Grandma I will" said Zoey.

As her grandparents drove away, Betty and Howard led Zoey inside the house and to the living room where Phil and Lil were waiting.

"You three have fun, Howie and I will be in the office slash exercise area if anything's wrong" said Betty.

"Ok Mrs. Deville" replied Zoey.

As they walked away Zoey greeted the twins.

"Hi Phil, Hi Lil" replied Zoey.

"Hi Zoey" replied Phil and Lil in Unison.

"I've heard you two like mud, bugs, boogers and so on right" asked Zoey.

The twins nodded in agreement.

"Well, what are we standing around for let's get down and dirty" said Zoey.

The twins were very surprised that their new friend was into gross stuff like them, but wasted no time as they took her hands and led her into their backyard were there were plenty of mud puddles and worms around as a result of last night's rainstorm.

"There's plenty of mud around for a mud fight" said Zoey.

The twins eyes lit up with excitement as they grabbed up a huge clump of mud in their hands.

"Mud fight" shouted Zoey, Phil and Lil in unison.

Soon the trio were having the time of their lives with the biggest mud fight ever. Eventually, they stopped to catch their breath.

"Woah, that was fun" said Phil.

" Yeah it was real cool" continued Lil.

"Getting dirty is fun" giggled Zoey. "How about we look for bugs now" she asked.

"Sure" replied the twins in unison.

Soon the trio fanned out around the backyard looking for bugs.

"Hey Phil and Lil come here and look what I found" said Zoey.

The twins ran over and saw a pile of worms hidden in the bushes that Zoey found.

"Wow" went the twins in unison.

"Let put some of the wormies in our pockets for later Lillian" replied Phil.

Lil nodded and stuffed some of the worms into her pocket.

"Hey why don't we see who has the biggest boogers" asked Phil.

Lil and Zoey nodded in agreement. Soon the threesome were picking their noses with Phil and Lil's boogers being the size of M&M's and Zoey's boogers being the size of a gumball and won.

"Yay Zoey wins" cheered the twins in unison.

"Thanks" replied Zoey.

Just then Betty and Howard came out back to check on the kids and saw they were covered with mud and said...

"Well, looks like you three need a bath before lunchtime" said Betty.

So the trio were led inside to get washed up and even though the twins weren't fanatics for bath's, Zoey found baths rather fun.

"Don't worry Phil and Lil, I'll show you baths can be fun" said Zoey.

Howard ran a nice warm bath with soap and some Reptar toys for the kids to play with. Zoey got in first and showed the twins that she enjoys bath's. The twins soon joined in and were splashing water around the bathroom as they played with the Reptar toys and got cleaned up. Howard came upstairs to check on them and when he saw the bathroom wet as a result of the kids splashing around he said...

"I think bath time is over for you three, your cleaned up enough" Howard replied.

Soon, Zoey and the twins were dried up and in fresh clothes and were ready for lunch. Howard had cooked up spaghetti and meatballs covered in cheese.

"Yummy stuff" said Zoey as she finished her plate.

"Yeah they may not be wormies but they're almost as good" Phil added.

Then the trio started to yawn as they were getting sleepy from their activities.

"Sounds like you kids are ready for a nap" said Betty.

Zoey, Phil and Lil nodded in agreement. Soon Betty put the twins in the playpen for their nap and Zoey took her nap on the sofa with comfy pillows and blankets.

"Ah, they're like little angels" said Betty as she left them to nap.

Over an hour (90 minutes to be exact) has passed as the kids started to wake up from their nap.

"Ahhh, that was a good nappy" said Phil.

Zoey and Lil nodded in agreement.

"Hey Phil and Lil, why don't we draw some cool stuff " asked Zoey.

"Okay" replied the twins.

Zoey then got her paper and crayons out and the trio were soon drawing pictures ranging from Reptar to their friends. After half an hour passes Phil remembered there was a Reptar movie on TV that afternoon.

"Hey you two I just membered there's a Reptar movie on TV sometime after nappy time" said Phil.

"Well what are we sitting around for let's get to the TV" replied Zoey.

The trio made it to the TV in time as the movie (Runaway Reptar) was starting. After the movie was over Phil's next favorite show Adventure squad aired. Eventually time flew as the trio watched TV.

"Boy that was awesome" said Phil.

"Yeah it was fun" continued Lil.

"I've been having a fun day with you guys" replied Zoey.

"So have we" replied Phil and Lil in unison.

Just then the doorbell rang, Howard and Betty answered the door and saw that Zoey's grandparents were waiting there.

"Grandma, Grandpa" exclaimed Zoey.

"Hi sweetie" said Zoey's Grandmother "how was your play date" she asked.

"It was awesome Grandma" replied Zoey.

"That's good to hear sweetheart" said Zoey's Grandfather.

As the Anderson's bid good by for the day to the Deville's Phil and Lil learned something from their playdate with Zoey.

"You know Lillian I thinked we learned something today" said Phil.

"What's that Phillip" asked Lil.

"Sometimes you think you know someone whether it's someone you knowed your whole life or just metted they surprise you" said Phil.

"Uh huh" agreed Lil. "We never knew Zoey liked gross things like we do until today" she added.

The end