It was Emmalyn's first night at home. Jaime and Eddie woke up to the sound of her crying over the baby monitor around 1:30 in the morning.
"Mommyyyy" she cried out. They both got up and went to her room. She was standing in the middle of the floor with her hands tucked under her chin standing still her eyes opened staring at the dark. She looked and seemed scared and unsure. Eddie approaches her and gets on her level to see her face. Jaimie turned on the hall light and yawned standing there in his boxers and a black T-shirt with his hair a mess.
"I'm right here honey what's wrong?" Eddie said. She was so tired.
"I'm wet" Emmalyn said pouting. Eddie felt her pants and Jaime entered the room and felt her bed.
"She must've peed, guess we should put her in a diaper at night." Jaime said. Eddie rolled her eyes, mad that she didn't think of that at 8 when they put her down.
"Obviously, can you just turn the light on jaime" she was not a middle of the night person if you wake her up. Working during the night is different. He flicked the light and everyone squinted. Eddie sitting on her knees in front of Emmalyn pulled down her pants and took of her shirt, and threw it in her hamper. Jaime handed her another set of pajamas and a diaper.
"Can I have the wipes?" She said. He picked them up and handed them to her. She opened the pack and pulled a few out to wipe her down. Emmalyn started to whine and cry at the coldness of them.
"I know I'm sorry sweetie,We'll get a bath in the morning" she said. Jaime took off her sheets and threw them in the hamper. Then opened the closet looking for another set.
"Jaime let's just leave it she can sleep with us." Eddie said.
"But isn't that what they told us like not to do, like spoil her. Sleeping with us starting off kinda-" Jaime started to say but Eddie cut him off.
"Jaime it's the middle of the night. Just let this one go. It's not gonna happen every night. Now we know to put a diaper on her" she explained. He agreed and shut his mouth, Eddie dressed Emmalyn with a diaper now and they went back to their bed and fell asleep right away.
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It was 6am when Emmalyn started getting up. Jaime was ready to get up with her.
"I just need like 10 minutes jaime" Eddie said laying there half asleep.
"No problem babe, just sleep I got it." He said rubbing her back.
"C'mon Emmalyn let's go eat some breakfast." Jaime said, she held her arms out for him to pick her up. They got out to the living room and he sat her on the couch, Jaime turned on the kids channel and went to the kitchen. He looked around to see what he could make. Pancakes with sausage. He got everything out and started to heat up the griddle.
"Daddy." Emmalyn called out. He whipped his head over to see Emmalyn from the kitchen, it was the first time she called him daddy.
"Yes sweetie? What's wrong?" Jaime asked.
"I have to go potty." She said and got up. Jaime hurried over to her forgetting this whole diaper process/potty training thing.
"Okay well let's go hurry up come on" Jaime said taking her hand and practically dragging her to the bathroom. She pulled her pants down with the pull up and Jaime sat her on the toilet. He ripped the sides of the pull up to take it off and then threw it in the trash can.
"I'm going to go get your underwear okay? Stay here I'll be right back." He told her and left the room. He remembered putting them in the top drawer. He got the first pair he saw and went back to the bathroom. Emmalyn had pulled probably around 4 feet of toilet paper off the roll.
"Oo. Ah. No no Emmalyn here let me do it, you don't need that much okay?" He knelt down resting his butt in his heels. He ripped off 2 pieces and handed it to her.
"No! I pooped! That not enough!" She said very defensively. Jaime laughed and said
"Oh I'm sorry. Forgive me? I wasn't aware." He joked and ripped off more. Emmalyn bend down touching the floor. Jaime realizing she didn't wipe her own butt. He stood up though and handled it like a father and wiped her butt. He hasn't done this since Sean was little.
After they washed hands she went back to the tv and Jaime back to the kitchen he mixed up the pancake mix and put on the sausages. Emmalyn started to sing the theme song to a new show that came on which ment it was 6:30 now. Jaime went over to see what the show was called so he could make a mental note she liked it. "Paw patrol" he smiled and thought what a coincidence. Emmalyn having no blood relation to the Reagan clan is watching a kid show about dogs that are police officers and firefighters and other community workers. It made him happy. He scooped his first scoop of batter on the skillet.
Eddie came out of the bedroom in her robe looking beautiful as always. She glanced to see what Emmalyn was doing and then walked into the kitchen area to grab a cup of coffee.
"Good morning beautiful." He said and went in for a kiss. She smiled.
"How's it been?" She asked him nodding her head toward Emmalyn.
"Good! She's been content with that show paw patrol she knows the song. Um. We already pooped and now I'm making pancakes and sausage." He informed Eddie.
"Woww I'm so impressed, your mr.mom already" she said flirtatiously rubbing her elbow on his arm sipping her coffee. He smiled at her and winked.
"Does that do somthing for ya huh?" He blushed asking.
"Little bit" she blushed back and walked away to sit with Emmalyn.
10 minutes went by and the breakfast was done. They all sat down as a family and ate.
It was a very laid back morning they sat and watched paw patrol with her, played, cleaned up a little. It was around 11am when they were done doing nothing, it was bath time. Beings this was all still new and exciting for both Jaime and Eddie they both sat and did the bath with her. She was a water kid she loved the bath which was a great thing!
After a 30 minute bath They decided that she was done and clean enough for family dinner. They wanted to go early so they had time for Emmalyn to get used to everyone and such. They wanted to leave around 2.
"Alright here look at this cool princess towel Emmalyn, let's dry off and get dressed!" Eddie encouraged, she had a feeling she wasn't gonna wanna get out.
"I want to play in here more" she told Eddie. Who then glanced at jaime. So he jumped in and said
"Hey Emmalyn come on mommy said we're all done in the bath okay?" Jaime tried to tell her firmly but he was having trouble being stern enough with her. She was just too sweet.
Emmalyn was looking down in the water at her feet and glared up at jaimes face seriousness.
"NO!" She yelled and kicked her feet and arms in the water splashing it all over Eddie and some Jaime.
"Hey!" Eddie started. But then stopped and thought she just needs to get her out of the water first. She stood up and handed Jaime the towel. Emmalyn sat there mad. Eddie picked her up and she immediately started kicking and flinging her feet getting Eddie all wet even more and Jaime. Jaime opened the towel and wrapped it around emmalyns body that was still out of control. He just wanted to stop the water from getting everywhere. Once the towel was around her Eddie was losing her grip so Jaime took her from her and she kicked him in the nuts slighlty which let out a "ugh!" He threw her up on his shoulder and carried her to her room. He laid her in the middle of her floor and stepped back in the doorway with Eddie.
"So I guess it's not just terrible 2s..." Eddie said. Jaime looked at her.
"Guess not." Jaime said. They had no idea what they gotten themselves into. They walked away so she'd hopefully stop. And after a minute she did. They decided Eddie should go in and finish the dilemma because she was the one getting it. Eddie went in her room. She was naked obviously. Her towel was thrown at the other end of them room.
"Hey are you calm? Can we get dressed now?" Eddie asked her. Jaime was listening to see how it went.
"No!" Emmalyn yelled at her.
"Excuse me but you don't yell at me okay? You need to listen and obey. Right now your not being a nice little girl. Can we be a good little girl and get dressed for the day?" Eddie said. Emmalyn just looked at her but then agreed to eddies stipulations. Eddie got out an outfit and sat down to dress her and comb her hair. She was back to sweet little Emmalyn