A/N: this next set of three chapters is for J Smith18.

I am using my turtle tot from my story I wrote 'Stolen Child' I own the turtle tot Deangelo.


The sound of a baby crying could be heard around the lair, it had been a two months since Michelangelo and his brothers came back home from rescuing his son and Michelangelo was getting a crash coarse in child care.

Tonight as has the past three nights has not been easy for the new father.

It had been a hard night, Michelangelo was exhausted, his new found son Deangelo was not having any of this 'sleeping through the night' thing. The small tot was up all night fussing.

Deangelo was only 5 months old, having only been with the Homato family for two months now things were starting to some what settle down.

Raphael could hear his nephew threw the wall, the child had kept him awake as well.

Michelangelo sat in the old rocker that Splinter had brought into his room a couple of months ago, he rocked his son who kept crying.

His bed room door opened and he looked up to see an irritated Raphael standing in the doorway.

"Mike, come here, lets try something. Its four in the morning and I would like to at least get a couple of hours sleep fore trainin."

Mikey got up with his crying son in his arms, Raphael lead his brother through the lair and to the bathroom.

Reaching up into the cabinet he got some soap out that April had brought down for the baby turtle. Raph started to fill the bathtub part way with luke warm water and put some of the soap in it.

Mikey asked.

"Its too late for a bath isn't it?"

Raph grinned at him and said.

"Mike, this soap is called Lavender/Jasmine. I heard April and Don talkin and they said it would help the baby sleep if he had a rough night."

With in a few minutes the room smelled of Lavender and Jasmine scents, it was enough to nearly make Raphael and Michelangelo fall to sleep them selves.

Raphael took his nephew and placed him gently in the water, the brothers watched the small tot play with the bubbles.

There was a knock on the door and Raphael opened it to reveal their father standing there.

"Boys do you have any idea what time it is?"

Mikey looked over at his father and said.

"I cant get Deangelo to go to sleep, and Raph says this will work."

Splinter looked into the tub at the small turtle and said to his sons.

"I will prepare him a bottle, come with me Michelangelo, Raphael stay with your nephew."

Splinter lead his son to the kitchen and began to make a pot of tea.

"Sensei I don't think Deangelo is old enough for tea yet?"

Splinter smiled at his son and offered him a seat at the table.

"This is not any ordinary tea my son, this is the one I used on you when you were a baby. I had many sleepless nights with you. Then one day I found if I mixed a few herbs together they created a tea that was safe but effective enough for a baby to have. I went to the surface a few nights ago when Deangelo began his refusal of sleeping at night and found what was required for the tea."

Michelangelo asked his father.

"What does the tea do?"

Splinter put a paw on his son's hand and said.

"It will calm him, it has a small amount of green tea mixed with chamomile. It will relax him enough he will sleep. Now the bath should calm him enough to help him stop crying but now we will try the tea and that should cause him to fall asleep."

Splinter rose from his seat when the kettle started to whistle and got a bottle out of the cabinet, he filled it part of the way with the hot water then put some cold water in to cool it down. Then he put some of the tea inside of the bottle and shook it around.

When it was mixed he handed the warm bottle to his son.

"Now try that, it should help."

Mikey hugged his father and said.

"Thanks for your help, I hope I can one day be as good a father as you."

Splinter put a hand on his son's shoulder and told him.

"You will be my son, but it will take time."

Michelangelo walked back to the bathroom where Raphael was drying the small baby off and said.

"What's that stuff?"

Mikey waved the bottle a little and said.

"Its tea, Sensei said it should help him sleep. He used to feed it to me when I went through this faze."

Raphael handed the boy back to his father and the three went back to Michelangelo's room.

Mikey sat down in the chair and Raph watched from his seat on Mikey's bed, he wondered if he would be a dad some day. Watching Mikey rock his son while feeding him a bottle made him long to have a child him self. Though he would never admit to that.

After over half the bottle was gone Mikey burped the child and noticed a dramatic change in his son, the baby was fast asleep on his shoulder.

Getting up he laid him down in the play pen he was using as a bed and covered his son up.

Raphael stood next to his youngest brother and said.

"Great job Mikey, ya got im to sleep."

Mikey smiled down at his son and was happy that this small child had come into his life...