The family had been home from their trip for a while now. They had gotten back to normal busy school life just trying to make it to school on time for the last few remaining months of school before summer. Arejay had been growing and was turning into a healthy baby. Five months old now. Working on solids and Kate had been trying her best to help him to learn to sit up on his own. The little guy tried so hard to sit up. Kate could tell when she studied the guys face when she propped him up holding him carefully. Setting him on the floor she carefully holds him helping him stretch his back. She'd been taught by his physical therapy doctor how to do some of the stretches at home so she could work with him daily.

"Whose my sweet boy?" Kate coos kissing his head softly. He smiles and giggles looking up at his mom.

"Hey, there's that smile mommy loves!" She smiles again watching the little boy in front of her. He was happy, and that always made Kate's day just a little better. The kids had been at school, and Castle was in the kitchen working on his laptop at the bar. It was lunch time soon, so Kate picked up Arejay and put the smiling boy on her hip taking him to the kitchen. She smiled as she watched him light up seeing his dad sitting at the bar counter.

"Hey, there's my little man!" He beams getting up and taking the baby from Kate.

"How's he doing?" Castle asks shifting so he can get a better grip on his son.

"Doing great, I can't wait to show PT his progress." She smiles and walks over kissing Castle before kissing Arejay.

"That's today right?" He asks lifting the boy into his high chair. Strapping him in he makes sure it's secure, and it's holding him up, right to help strengthen his back.

"Yeah, we gotta eat and get going." Kate nods reaching for a jar of baby food in the cupboard and opening it grabbing a baby spoon so she can feed him.

"Sandwich sound ok?" Castle asks as Kate nods again spooning the jar of carrots into the boys mouth.

"Come on buddy, open the garage for the cop car!" She begs as the boy persist. He's not too hungry and just wants to be out of the constricting chair and in his mother's arms.

"Just a little more, please? For mommy?" She sighs as he opens his mouth for a bite but quickly closes before she has a chance to get it all in and he spits some of it out landing on his clothes and Kate's shirt. She lets out a sigh before giving up and getting him out and cleaning the both of them up.

Grabbing the diaper bag, the couple walks with Arejay and Dax out to Kate's C max. Putting Arejay in his car seat she helps Castle in and gets in the driver seat making sure the four of them were in the car and ready to go. She knew the little boy hated to go here, mainly because he would be stretched to his limits and would most likely come out of this pretty sore. At least that's what Kate thought because he always seemed to be on edge for at least a day till the pain would finish wearing off. They would give him children's Tylenol, but Kate had decided a few weeks ago that maybe him having it all the time was not the best idea for his health. So she sat down with Castle, and they figured out a schedule. He had three appointments a week, one at the office and two home visits. On the office visit, they would give him a full dose on the way home while one home visit he would get half a dose and the other visit he would get none. They figured this would help get his body not so accustomed to the medicine if they broke it up. Looking out her rearview mirror, Kate turns her head to check for cars and back out of her spot. Before pulling out, Kate has plugged her phone into the car and has the Disney movies Pandora channel on. She knows Arejay is still a little to young to understand the music, but she's seen him dance a few times. She can't help but laugh though at Castle singing "Be a Man" from Mulan. That was one Disney movie that seemed to play more often than not in their house, so Kate was not surprised he knew all the words. Zipping through the city the family pulls up to the parking garage of the of the physical therapy place and get a ticket out of the machine so the arm can go up and let them in. They park, and Kate gets out and puts Arejay in the Ergo Baby as Castle grabs the diaper bag and Dax's leash so they can head inside. Signing in Kate hands the lady the ticket and she validates it so they don't have to pay for the time they are there. Arejay's name is called and the four head back to the workout floor. As they head to their spot, Kate unhooks Arejay from the Ergo Baby and Jenna his PT doctor takes him and does a quick once over. They get to their spot which is just an oversized yoga mat and sit down. He's still a baby so most of the stretches will be done on the floor. Before they officially start Jenna asks them a few basic questions mainly about his pain and how he's doing at home. It's the same questions she asks every time, but they help assess what stretches she has to do that day and how far she knows she can go with him that session. Starting off she lays the guy down on his back in front of her and moves his legs slowly as if he were riding a bike. This is a good warm-up stretch to get his legs loosened up a bit. It's still uncertain how much paralysis he's going to have but working with him thus far Jenna can tell, that it does not look good for the kid. Once finding out about his condition in utero the couple knew they would take any bump in the road and fix it the best they could. Knowing his prognosis does not look good they are now really just working on his back muscles so they can strengthen them and get him on his way to sitting up. He's been so close the last few days that Kate knows, any minute he's going to be sitting up on his own. Setting him up Jenna does a few more stretches with his back before laying him down and coaxing him to sit up. They watch and start to cheer the little guy on hoping that today would be the day he sat up on his own. Most people had not been paying attention, but a few sessions working around them had stopped for a break and were also cheering him on. Kate had figured with all the people watching the little guy would chicken out and not do it. Watching him Arejay uses his arms and upper body strength to roll over and push himself up and into a sitting position. Kate had been watching like a hawk and when she saw what he had did she wanted to grab him and pepper him with kisses, but she had to wait. Jenna wanted to see how long he would hold the pose before he fell. It didn't take long for the groups around them to erupt in cheers of happiness for the boy.

"God job baby!" Kate clapped as Castle pulls his phone out and documents the whole thing in his baby book app as he's recording the whole thing on video. He'a got a real one at home but this helps so he can document things while away and then sit down when he has time at home to write it all out.

Arejay sits for about a minute playing with a toy before he gets bored and rolls back over on the floor. A minute was good. Jenna would have liked to see longer but she knows for sure this is progress. Kate has now scooped him up and is finally giving him kisses. He's happy because he can sense his mom his happy.

The appointments over now and the four of them head home so they can be there when the kids arrive from school. Knowing that he can sit up makes Castle one happy dad. That means they can start taking the restraints off his high chair that hold him up for feeding. It also means he can start using his Zipzac. Castle had bought this thing before the kid was even born. It was quite pricey but well worth it. The device started out as a bumbo seat screwed to a cutting board with large wheels on the side with four castor wheels on the corners to help with turning and tipping. The newer devices are now a solid seat of plastic and a much better wheel design.

Sitting in the living room Castle gets the red Zipzac out of cupboard and puts Arejay in it. He's a little confused now but Castle wants to get him to use this as soon as possible. Carefully pushing him back and forth the little guy is laughing. Castle knew he was having a good time. Kate had been watching but got up when she heard the kids come in from school. She wanted to make sure that they got in safe and started on their homework. Kate is back now sitting with Castle and Arejay and she's happy. Her son had hit a milestone today and it was one step more to hopefully getting him on the move. Which meant they would have to finish baby proofing the house. They had taken a break because Arejay could not crawl at the moment and was mostly playing on his back or stomach. They knew he couldn't get into anything because he was not very mobile.

Getting up Kate goes back to check on her kids with Arejay on her hip. Castle had gone into the kitchen to start making dinner so they could eat and maybe get in a TV show before bed. The family had loved watching America's Funniest Home Videos and there had just so happened to be one on the DVR. Helping the kids with homework Kate puts Arejay in the high chair and gives him some food so he can start eating while they finish home work and serve dinner. He was a slow eater and so Kate knew it was best to start him early so they could get things set up. Finishing homework and starting dinner the family is all seated at the table. They are laughing about a funny story Victoria had brought home from school. They had done a mini science experiment with water and the teacher had somehow gotten herself soaked. It seemed like every time Victoria talked about it she laughed even harder. Victoria had always seemed to bring home a story from school, funny or not the family always tried to listen. Kate had tried to teach her kids to listen to others even if you dont like what they are saying. Finishing up with dinner Kate helps the kids clean up and go get dressed for bed. It was much easier to have them get dressed before TV time because they were faster and most of the time excited to watch the show. Taking Arejay inso his room Castle changed him and brushed his little whiffs of hair out of his face before handing him over to Kate for a feeding while they sat in the living room and waited for the kids to come down. The kids come a few minutes later and Castle turns on the show. It does not take long for all five of the kids to be out, leaning on Kate or Castle one way or another. They were stuck. They wanted to get the kids to bed but all had been sleeping so peacefully it killed them to wake one of the kids so one of them could get up and help the rest of the kids to bed. Waking Johanna, Kate uses her free arm and helps her up telling her to lift up Victoria so Kate could fully get up. Putting Arejay in the swing she takes Victoria from Johanna and helps Castle and the boys get up the stairs. She puts them all to bed kissing and tucking them in tightly. Going back down the stairs she gets Arejay and comes back up the stairs putting him in the crib in their room and then falling into bed with Castle.

A/N: Thanks so much for everything guys! I cant believe I've hit the 40,000 word mark. I've got a few chapter ideas in the works that hopefully should reap in some big chapters for me. We will see. *Sneaky excited grin*