Chapter Two: Big Sister JR
The baby's cries rung through the house, causing Michael Novotny to cringe, he'd only just managed to get the little baby boy, Jonah, to sleep he'd been crying all night and both his Daddy and his Papa were very tired. Mikey stood to go back into the nursery and try and get the baby back to sleep, by the time he reached the room, his five year old daughter Jenny Rebecca or JR as she was often called was standing by the crib her hands through the bars rubbing the baby's belly and singing.
"Rock-a-bye baby in the tree tops, when the wind blows the cradle will rock" as her childish voice echoed around the small blue room, Jonah calmed and drifted back off to sleep, much the amazement and relief of the tired parent.
Once the baby was asleep JR turned and saw her Daddy watching, she smiled at him but didn't say anything, not wanting to wake her baby brother. JR had not been that happy about a new baby at first, but she found that being the big sister was fun; she had two big brothers already, Hunter who was much older than her at twenty-two and Gus who was nine. She worshiped her big brothers and was now really enjoying her little brother.
Once out of the room she smiled at Mikey "Hi Daddy, did you see I got Jonah to sleep again" she spoke, her voice was filled with pride and he couldn't help but smile, bend down and pull the precious little girl into his arms "yes you did, thank you sweetie" he said planting a kiss onto her forehead.
At this moment his husband Ben came through the front door, just getting back from work "Papa Ben" the little girl said, getting down from her Daddy's arms she ran and throw herself into her Papa's waiting embrace.
"Papa Ben, guess what?" she said excitedly "What?" the professor asked the little girl " Baby Jonah was crying and I gots him to go to sleep" the sweetie said enthusiastically, Ben smiled and praised her "that's great Honey, helping Daddy with the baby like a big girl, I'm sure your Mommy and Momma will love to hear all about it when they call tonight".
Jenny Rebecca smiled at that, she couldn't wait to tell Mommy and Momma, she missed them lots and lots, even though she was having heaps of fun with Daddy and Papa, she would be very happy when her Mothers got back to Pittsburgh then she'd be able to see all her parents lots and none of them would have to miss out.
"Okay Princess why don't you go play with your toys while Daddy and Papa get some dinner ready" Ben suggested putting the girl down "Okay Papa" she replied before running to her room to play with her baby dolls, she loved playing house at the moment, even if she when she played by herself.
Ben pulled his husband into a much welcomed kiss "how were the kids today?" he asked, Michael sighed a bit " JR was good most of the day, she was cranky at lunch and didn't really want to eat, and Jonah, well he's been crying pretty much all day" Ben could tell that Mikey was tired and probably really looking forward to going to work tomorrow for a break from the kids, while their eldest son, Hunter, watched the kids, Ben had taken a couple of weeks off when Jonah had first come home, but now he was back at work and not there to help Mikey with the stress during the it made him feel guilty knowing that he was at work while his husband was at home pulling his hair out, hair that Ben preferred on his head.
"Alright then, why don't you go upstairs and lay down for a bit, while I cook dinner" he suggested, Michael accepted gratefully and left to go and rest, Ben headed into the kitchen and got dinner started, chicken and vegetables, he hoped that JR wouldn't cause too much of a fuss at dinner tonight he knew Mikey was not in the mood to deal with the little girl's tantrums over food tonight.
She was a mostly well behaved child who did like to help out but she was a very fussy eater, meal times were always a battle with little miss Jenny Rebecca and it was starting to wear her very tired fathers thin and neither wanted to deal with it after sleepless nights filled with crying and poop.
Tomorrow was Friday, maybe just maybe they could rope Hunter into watching the kids over night so he and Mikey could go to a hotel and get some much needed sleep and if Hunter couldn't or didn't want to do it, Ben was sure that Grandma Debbie wouldn't mind filling in and doing this for them, she did after all love watching her grandbabies.
Ben continued to ponder his options as he finished cooking dinner, he looked at his watch Jonah would be awake again soon, he set about making up a bottle of formula, with what seemed like perfect timing, he put the dinner onto the table, picked up the bottle and headed to get the baby calling out to the others "Okay, dinner's ready"
A/N: So what do you think of Ben and Mikey's little family? Review please!