Chandler sat baby Sophie on his lap. Monica was still sleeping, and Chandler planned to let her sleep in much longer. As long as she needed. Therefore he was taking care of Sophie by himself until she woke up, and though he tried everything, she just was not amused by him.

"All right then, Sophie," he said, giving her a silly serious face. "What do you want to do today?"

"Go somewhere fun!" said Sophie cheerfully, clapping her hands.

Chandler nodded, then picked her up and went into the kitchen. "We have to go to the store, we're out of almost everything. But we're going to leave a note for Mommy so she knows where we are when she wakes up."

Sophie nodded and Chandler wrote out a note on bright yellow paper, then placed it on the table so that Monica would see it when she went in there.

Chandler carried Sophie to the store instead of getting a taxi, since it wasn't a very long walk. Once they got there he went straight for the essentials, such as milk, eggs, bread, and butter. He also grabbed some special sugar cookies with bright frosting to have for dessert, since Monica was starting to get too pregnant to make treats. He thought that would be all they needed, but as they walked through the final isle to the checkout counter, something else caught his eyes.

"Finger paint, eh?" he said, picking up the box. He looked it over, and it said "ages 1-100". He nodded approvingly, then looked at Sophie, who was in the shopping cart. "What do you think, Sophie? Should we try some finger painting?"

"Yeah!" nodded Sophie eagerly, grabbing the box from her daddy's hands. "Fun! Fun!"

So Chandler bought the finger paint, grabbing a package of rainbow construction paper as well. Once they had paid, they left the store and headed back home. He put all of the groceries away, then noticed a new note on the counter underneath his.

Went to lunch with Rachel and Phoebe. Love you, Monica.

"Mommy went to lunch with aunt Rachel and aunt Phoebe," began Chandler, looking at his daughter on the couch. "So it looks like it's just going to be you and me doing the finger painting."

"Yay, Daddy!" said Sophie happily, a big smile on her face.

He smiled back at her. "Now, I know that Mommy isn't home so we could do this painting anywhere we want, but we're smarter than that. We know that Mommy will always be able to tell if we weren't careful enough. So we're going to do this out on the terrace."

Sophie nodded, and Chandler grabbed the shopping bag with the stuff in it, as well as some of Monica's old rags (AKA the ones with holes or big stains – nothing else would be acceptable), then got two cookies out of the box and called to Sophie. She hopped off of the couch and ran over to him, then laughed when he lifted her out of the window onto the terrace.

"Here is your cookie," said Chandler, handing her a cookie with pink frosting and rainbow sprinkles. He picked up the other one and put in his mouth. "And here is my cookie."

Sophie smiled, then watched as Chandler opened the finger paint and laid out two pieces of paper. He gave Sophie a purple one, and himself one that was green. Then he put some of all the different colors of finger paint onto a paper plate.

"Do you know how to do this, Sophie?" he asked. He knew she had never done it before, but sometimes kids had good ideas. However, Sophie shook her head. "All right, watch what Daddy does."

Chandler stuck two fingers into the orange paint, then drew a smiley face on his piece of paper. Sophie giggled.

"Daddy your finger funny," she said, still giggling. Chandler looked down at his fingers and saw that they were orange.

"Yes they are," he agreed. "Do you want yours to be funny too?" She nodded. "Then let's get your hands in there!"

Sophie stuck her whole hand into the purple paint, then put it onto the paper. Then she put her fingers into the pink and drew a whole lot of smiley faces all around her hand. Then she stopped, looking at her paper.

"It full," she said. "Full."

Chandler smiled. "That's okay. We have a lot more paper."

He put down another piece of paper in front of her – this one was yellow. She used lots more colors and made a flower and a sky with a sun and clouds. Then she looked at Chandler, frowning. "Daddy has to do it too."

"You want me to do it?" he asked. "I don't know if I'm very good."

"Me help."

Sophie put her fingers into the paint and drew two stick figures on a blank piece of purple paper, then pointed to the one on the left. "You." She pointed to the one on the right. "Mommy."

Chandler frowned, then added a smaller stick figure in between them. "Now there's a Sophie."

Sophie smiled. "More!"

So they spent lots of time on that one picture. They added a sky, grass, lots of flowers and Sophie even put in lots of extra smiley faces to make it super happy. Soon enough the page was full, and they decided that they were hungry. As they washed their hands, Chandler looked over at the picture.

"You know what we should do?" he said.

"What?" asked Sophie.

"We should give that picture to your Mommy."

She nodded, and then watched as Chandler helped her clean the paint off of her hands.

A little while later, they ate sandwiches on the couch while watching TV. Monica came in when they finished, and then sat down next to them.

"What did you guys do this afternoon?" she looked at their colorful hands and laughed. "What happened to your hands?"

"We did some finger painting, didn't we, Sophie?" said Chandler, smiling.

Sophie nodded. "Paint!" she cheered, holding up her hands. Then she stood up. "Made something for Mommy!"

"For me?" asked Monica, as Sophie ran off, then came back with the picture. She handed it to Monica. "Oh, it's beautiful! Thank you, Sophie. Did you make this yourself?"

She shook her head. "Daddy helped!"

"Is that right?"

"Sophie did most of it," said Chandler, proud of his daughter. "She could be an artist someday."

"Yes she could," smiled Monica. "Yes she could."

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