It seemed like everyone had Christmas shopping to do, and Wizardmon and Gatomon didn't really want to take Purmon with because they thought it'd be nice to surprise their daughter; even though she was too young to really understand.
"Well everyone else are either shopping or working," Gatomon said, pacing around the bedroom as Purmon followed her while sitting on her father's lap.
"Well, we could always ask Cogymon, or Sumimon or some other Digimon," Wizardmon suggested.
"Alright, let's give Cogymon a try," she said.
Luckily Sumimon was with Cogymon, so he could have help; because probably for him, it would just be playing and eventually he wouldn't know what to do. They didn't want to worry about taking Purmon over there, so Cogymon and Sumimon came over.
"It'll be all fun!" Cogymon said, holding Purmon up so that the child was looking down at him.
Gatomon shook her head and sighed.
"I'm going to meet TK at the park," Kari said, wrapping her scarf around her neck and pulling her gloves over her hands as she walked out.
Mr. and Mrs. Kamiya decided to leave next.
"Alright, our turn," Gatomon said, getting up to grab her scarf.
Wizardmon nodded, "Remember we left some milk for her, so when she's fussy is most likely when she's hungry."
Cogymon nodded, "Oh, but onii-chan…what about when she has to go?"
"Yeah, we never thought of that, that's why Gatomon and I decided we're going to buy her diapers too."
"But…onii-chan wa-!" Cogymon said, but his brother and Gatomon already left.
"Don't worry," Sumimon's soft voice came as she sat down next to Cogymon, "I'll take care of the serious things, you can play."
"Really?" Cogymon asked, and got a nod from her, "Thanks!"
Cogymon then jumped onto the couch, putting Purmon on his lap. The kitten had just woken up from a nap, so she wasn't exactly in the mood for playing.
"Come on Purmon," Cogymon said, noticing her not laughing as he cupped his hands over his face and then removed them and shouted "boo!"
"She seems tired, maybe she wants to go back to sleep," Sumimon said, sitting down next to Cogymon again.
Purmon crawled closer to her uncle, curled up, and slowly fell asleep.
"See?"
"Alright, why don't we all take a nap," Cogymon said, yawning
Sumimon jumped off the couch, having noticed the blanket on the floor, "I think this is one of those heated blankets. Gatomon must use it too feed Purmon."
Sumimon sat on it, she blushed from the softness.
"I-it's really soft," she cooed.
Cogymon laughed, yawned again, and put his head back. Before he could fall asleep, he was woken up by Purmon crying. He looked down at her, she was at his knees, looking down then looking around; it seemed she wanted down. Cogymon picked her up, jumped down, and sat her down. She sniffed from crying as she crawled over to Sumimon sitting on the warm blanket.
"I wonder if she's hungry," Cogymon said, heading to the kitchen to find the bottle of milk. Which made him wonder…is that Gatomon's milk, regular milk, or baby milk?
He found the bottle and looked at it with a disgusted look on his face, "It's like…yellowish, most definitely Gatomon's milk…I wonder how they got it out of her."
He held the bottle with his thumb and forefinger. Although he only had three claw-like fingers, so only one finger wasn't touching the bottle.
"Here," Cogymon said, giving it to Sumimon.
"Cogymon, I don't have any thumbs…I can't hold it for her," Sumimon said.
"But you said-!"
"Yeah I did…but I wasn't thinking, sorry."
"Fine," Cogymon moaned, rolling his eyes and sat next to her. He held Purmon up in his left arm, and held the bottle with his right hand. He tried feeding her, but she wouldn't accept it and cried.
"Maybe she's too
used to eating the way with her mother there," Sumimon said.
Cogymon sighed, "What? So I have to lay on my side now?"
Sumimon shook her head, "That I can do."
She lied down, as she would normally do anyway when she were to rest, "Now put the bottle under my belly."
Cogymon slipped the small baby bottle under her stomach, than sat Purmon down. Purmon crawled over to the bottle and began to drink.
"Wow you were right,
she's smart for a few days old kitten," Cogymon said, than
shrugged.
Sumimon giggled, sighed then laid her head down, "I
can understand how Gatomon does this, it's comforting…and…and
it feels good."
Cogymon's eyes widened, "You don't mean you want one too!? We haven't even gotten to that stage yet!"
Sumimon laughed, which was rare from her, "No, no, it just…feels good."
Cogymon sighed, "Good, 'cause I'd be a horrible father."
"But you're a good uncle, and a good godfather. What would be the difference between those and a father?"
"The godfather and uncle don't have to deal with the pregnancy part, and onii-chan told me all about it."
Sumimon giggled again, "Don't worry. If it were to happen to us, it wouldn't happen in a long time anyway."
"Like, when she's thirty years old right?" Cogymon asked, pointing at Purmon.
Sumimon giggled once again, "Now don't start getting sarcastic."
Cogymon lied down next to Sumimon, and eventually all three were asleep again.
Sooner or later Cogymon got his chance to play with little Purmon, many times he had to get her away from the tree…she really was amazed by it.
"Really nice decorations though," Sumimon said, staring up at it in awe.
"Yeah," Cogymon said, pulling an ornament out of Purmon's paws.
Purmon laughed and clapped her paws together, then said something…but in baby language.
"Do you know what she might've said? I think she's saying things about me," Cogymon said as she continued to talk.
Sumimon shook her head, "I can read minds but I can't speak baby."
"True."
Soon
the parents of the little "angel" came home.
"Onii-chan! Thank god!" Cogymon said, running over to Gatomon and handing her Purmon.
"How was she?" Wizardmon asked.
"Good," Sumimon said and smiled.
"Ok at first, but then she was driving me nuts with that tree!" Cogymon said.
Wizardmon laughed, "She really likes it."
Gatomon smiled, "Yeah, I'm glad she didn't have to miss it either."
"Well our job is done, let's head home," Cogymon said and Sumimon nodded.
"Are you sure you don't want to stay a little longer?" Gatomon asked.
Cogymon shook his head, "Alissa said come back as soon as I can; she wanted to go out, her, me, her family, and a few friends. Just more Christmas shopping and stuff."
"Oh, alright. Well have fun," Wizardmon said.
Cogymon smiled, saluted, than headed toward the computer with Sumimon following.
Purmon smiled happily to see her parents again; she seemed to want to cling to them a lot.
"Awe, did you miss us?" Gatomon asked, finally.
Purmon only smiled brightly.
Gatomon giggled and hugged her child. She then walked over to the tree and looked up at it; and so did Purmon with a paw reaching up. Gatomon noticed the paw seemed to be pointing at a candy cane.
"Do you want the candy cane?" Gatomon asked.
Purmon then had both hands out trying to reach for it. Gatomon smiled, unhooked the candy cane from the tree and gave it to Purmon. Purmon couldn't hold things very well, so she soon dropped it and it made her cry.
"It's alright," Gatomon said, hoping her up and down and trying to calm her down as she bent down to get it, "See, it didn't even break."
She went over to the couch, setting Purmon on her lap along with the candy cane. Purmon eventually decided to use the end of the candy cane as a new toy to suck on.
Gatomon smiled, noticing that Purmon found her toy rather tasty.
"Are you sure it's alright for her to eat that?" Wizardmon asked as he came over with warm drinks and sat down next to his lover.
"It's only peppermint, it shouldn't hurt her," Gatomon said, shrugging, "At least it's not causing her to choke or anything, she's too small to even stick the whole end in her mouth."
"True," Wizardmon said, shrugging one shoulder.
Gatomon giggled, she didn't know why but she just found it really funny how Purmon was enjoying the candy cane.
Soon Kari and TK came back, large bags in both of their hands, and soon Tai and Sora came to visit also.
"I just had to come, Purmon is so cute!" Sora said, already holding Purmon up high; Purmon looked down at her curiously, cocked her head to the side and Sora smiled, "Oh I just can't wait till my child comes."
Tai shook his head and sighed, he walked into the kitchen and reached into one of the tin cans where they kept the cookies…but it was empty.
"Whaaaat!? We're already out!?" Tai yelled, startling Purmon and making everyone else jump.
Gatomon and Wizardmon were trying to calm Purmon down as the others went to see what was Tai's problem.
"Mom made so many cookies and we're already out!?" Tai said, rather loudly.
Kari put her hands on her hips, "And who do you think helped dad eat them all!?"
Tai looked around, "Um…Patamon?"
"Hey!" Patamon said, from on top of TK's head.
"That's not fair Tai, don't blame it on him! He only had two since we were here! You and your dad ate most of them," TK said.
Tai sighed, "It didn't seem like we ate much, I thought there would still be some."
"Well mom and I finished up the last FEW this morning for breakfast," Kari said, turning her back to her brother.
"What's the issue?" Wizardmon asked as he walked in.
"Did Purmon stop crying?" Sora asked then glared over at Tai.
Wizardmon nodded.
"Eh, the issue is we're out of cookies," Tai said, throwing the tin can onto the counter and crossed his arms.
"Can't you just make more? No reason to scream about it either," Wizardmon said.
"Yeah! Let's make some! It'd be a lot of fun!" Kari said, her mood changing quickly.
"Everyone but Tai can help, knowing Tai he'd eat the dough while we're making them," TK said and Patamon nodded in agreement.
"I will not!" Tai said.
TK and Patamon giggled to themselves.
"So, what was the problem?" Gatomon asked, walking into the room with Purmon in her arms. Purmon had her candy cane again, she was playing with it this time. Gatomon had to bend down and pick it up a few times since Purmon would just throw it on the ground.
Eventually Purmon stopped throwing the candy around, since Gatomon set it to the side, and Kari got the chance to answer her question.
"We're out of Christmas cookies, so we're going to make more," Kari said.
"Really? Sounds like fun, what do you think Purmon?" Gatomon asked, looking at her child in her arms.
Purmon was sucking on her paw, since she didn't have the candy cane to suck on, looked around than finally took the paw out of her mouth and smiled.
Everyone laughed at her response, and soon went their separate ways to prepare the baking of cookies.
"I didn't know we had this many cookie cutters," Kari said, peeking into a container full of them, "We have almost one for every holiday."
"Well, you know mom…she loves to collect things," Tai said, cracking an egg and adding it to the batter.
Purmon sat on the counter and watched everyone, clapping at Tai's amazing egg cracking stunt. Gatomon smiled, she had never had this kind of feeling inside of her before. She, nor I, cannot really explain this feeling but it just made her smile every single time she saw her daughter.
Wizardmon noticed Gatomon staring at her child, with the look on her face; he smiled too and said, "She's wonderful, just like you."
Gatomon looked up at him, smiled then nodded, "But not as much as you."
TK looked over at them, Patamon on the counter and messing with the flour, blinked a few times then smiled and shrugged off what he was thinking then turned back to the mess in front of him.
Soon the dough was ready to be rolled out and cookie-cuttered…if that's even a word but oh well.
Kari and Sora laid out a row of cookie cutters they could use. There were stars, angels, Christmas trees, bells, and even a candy cane shaped one. Purmon saw the one shaped as a candy cane and played with it.
Kari laughed, "She really likes candy canes, huh?"
Gatomon nodded, and tried to take the cookie cutter from her child, "I-ugh...give me that, guess so…Purmon!"
Purmon laughed as she continued to play tug of war with her mother.
Gatomon grinned, "Oh so you want to play huh?" She picked her child up and hugged her close, "You're so cute!"
Purmon dropped the cookie cutter and rubbed against her mother instead and purred, everyone awed at the site.
"I'll get her to go to sleep if she gets in the way," Wizardmon said.
Gatomon smiled, "It's alright, I'll do that and you can have fun cooking."
"No, really…I will."
"Alright, fine," Gatomon said, knowing that Wizardmon just wanted to spend more time with Purmon anyway.
For a while Purmon was alright, they gave her a ball of dough to play with; which she would just pat with her paws and make cute noises.
Gatomon made a candy cane cookie, specially made for Purmon.
Soon the cookies were in the oven baking and everyone waited patiently. Sora and Kari chatted in the kitchen, Tai and TK watching TV, and the Digimon sitting on Gatomon's warm blanket and watching cute little Purmon enjoy a meal.
"She's so…tiny," Patamon said.
"Yeah, you're like…the hundredth person and mon who said that," Gatomon said.
Wizardmon smiled and Patamon just shrugged at what she said.
Eventually the cookies were finished baking, but now they needed decorating. They had plenty of red, green, white, and gold/yellow icing, sprinkles, chopped nuts, melted chocolate, etc to make the delicious cookies more…well…delicious! Gatomon quickly, but carefully and neatly, smeared white and red stripes onto the cookie she made for Purmon. Once it was finished and the cookie had cooled down, she handed it to Purmon, whom was sitting on the blanket playing with a small toy her parents had bought for her.
Gatomon just wanted to cry, she kept having that odd feeling inside when she looked at Purmon being so happy over the cookie candy cane. Of course Purmon was way too small to chew it all up, but she managed to lick some of the icing off and then later Gatomon made the pieces small enough for her so she didn't have to chew much.
And soon everyone, mostly Tai, were happy and enjoyed cookies and milk and had enough left over for a couple more days.
That night, Purmon slept comfortably with her parents as she normally did. Gatomon purred, she loved it most when Purmon ate before she went to bed…it, oddly, helped her fall asleep faster. Also she was purring from the lovely feeling of being stroked by her lover, it was more like he was messaging her and not petting her…didn't matter she still liked the feeling.
Gatomon smirked, "Too bad we have her, or we could have some fun."
Wizardmon giggled, "Let's not get started on that again, who knows what could happen…again."
Gatomon looked up at him, "What? You don't want to be a daddy twice?"
"Not till a long time, it'd be nice to watch her grow up first," Wizardmon said, smiling.
Gatomon looked down at Purmon and smiled, "Yes…of course."
It was silent for a while, than Gatomon thought up something to talk about.
"What did you get Purmon for Christmas? I never saw what you got," she said.
"I'm not going to say, what did you get her?"
"Why won't you tell me?"
"Because, I just want to wait till later."
"It's not like I'm going to tell Purmon or anything," Gatomon said, giggling somewhat.
"Yes, I know, I just…want to wait till the time comes that she opens them."
"Well than, you be stubborn about it, but I'll say what I got her…I got her this really cute rattle…toy. Purmon is pretty interested in the bells we have hanging on the tree."
"She's interested about everything on that tree, well…pretty much the whole tree itself."
Gatomon laughed, "So true, so true."
Wizardmon yawned.
"Tired?"
"Of course."
"Goodnight."
"Goodnight, I love you."
Gatomon paused for a minute, then smiled and loved the words coming from his mouth, "I love you too."
