Tris P.O.V.

Well today was the day. I was sitting with the kids watching them as they finished their lunch, in 5 and a half hours, I expected the house to be in pieces. I mean the only one with sanity was going to be Marlene, and she doesn't even have kids. The only knowledge Four has is very limited. He can barely change a diaper, and he hates bottle feeding anyway. As for the other children, Annie is easy to get to sleep, but Bailey takes at least two hours, and that is if it is very quiet, I cannot expect anything more than a house not burned down. That will be a step up from the house last year.

The alarm goes off at 6 AM and I stare at Four in amazement, Natalie has slept for 3 hours. At 3 AM she puked all over Four after I fed her. I am so done having kids. Four takes a shower and kisses me goodbye. I figure that I have about 15 minutes before the kids get up. I drift back to sleep.

"PUT HER DOWN, MOMMY'S GONNA KILL YOU," was the first thing I heard when I woke up today, so I put slippers on and walked into the living room to see poor Itsy on the top of the couch, whining nervously. I already knew that Bailey did it because he was running away with his teddy bear. Oh god, I thought.

"Bailey!" I yelled as I got Itsy off of the couch and she ran to Annie who picked her up, "How many times have I told you not to pick up the dog."

I ran into his room and there he was, crying on the bed.

"I'm sorry Mommy; don't let Santa put me on his bad list."

All of a sudden, an idea struck in my head, I could blackmail them until Christmas! This day was going to go easier than I thought.

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4:35, Tobias was going to be home any minute, I can't wait for him to take the kids. Natalie was asleep in my lap; Annie was watching Sesame Street and Bailey was working on a puzzle. Whew. All of this worked because I kept saying that Santa was going to take away a present if they weren't good today. It was finally quiet. Then Tobias came in and ruined the whole thing. Bailey screamed, which scared Natalie and woke her up, I was about to kill Tobias.

"I just got Natalie to sleep and then you had to ruin it,"

Before he could even put down his briefcase, he had the wailing child in his arms.

"I'm taking a nap, take care of the kids for an hour and then you will have reinforcements while I am out," I kissed him and went to bed.

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I awoke to a knock on the door, shit, it was 6:05. I threw my hair into a ponytail and put on a sports outfit, there was going to be a lot of dodging carts and running from old people driving. I did a crappy job putting on makeup but I didn't care, I just went with it.

I came out and everyone was there, Zeke was gawking and cooing at the baby, surprise surprise. Christina was telling Bailey how big he was getting but all Bailey could care about was the fact that Tommy was here and he brought his train set. Before Christina could say goodbye to her son, those two were off, and probably wouldn't come out of Bailey's room until we leave.

Finally Marlene and Uriah arrived and we were ready. I kissed Four goodbye and the four of us stopped at Starbucks to get coffee, we were going to need it.

"How do you think Four is doing at home," Lynn asked.

"That is a great question," I responded, "he is probably debating whether to ask Zeke to help him change a diaper or try it himself and fail."

"Zeke doesn't even know how to change a diaper." Lynn said, sipping her coffee.

"He's has to be better than Four, the only time he did it was when we were at the hospital and I was too tired to even pick up a diaper, plus the nurse helped him."

Christina laughed, " Oh Will is so good at diapers, he just can't put onesies on to save his life, he was afraid he was going to drop the baby, I made a deal that if he did diapers, I would handle potty training."

We spent about 20 minutes talking about our foolish partners before we left,

"Let's go kick some holiday butt," Christina said with a completely serious face.

"I'm surprised that you didn't get us t-shirts," Uriah smirked.

"Actually I did." Christina replied, holding up a bag from her car truck.

The shirts had all of our faces from a holiday picture from when I was 8 months pregnant with Annie. In the picture I was next to Uriah and Christina who were holding up a sign that said welcome 2036! It should have said welcome Annie because I went into labor the next day. The picture was embarrassing not only because I looked as fat as an elephant and Four looked drunk it's the fact that he probably was and we were wearing the damn shirt in public.

"Don't you love them?" Christina asked,

Everybody sighed and pulled one out of the bag. There was no use arguing with Christina, she would pull you into a rock-paper-scissors game and beat you. I was starting to with that I would have never let her be team captain.

END OF CHAPTER TWO