Thank you Wendy!
This is the last one I have written so far for this group of stories...nothing says I can't think of more to add later for for now this is done:p
"Hey Cass," Sam said as she walked into the living room. "How did everything go?"
Cassie looked from the back deck toward Sam, "Everything went well." Sam could see where Aubrey, Sam and Jack's eldest, was sitting doing what Sam could only assume was homework on the back deck. "Matthew and Josh are taking a 'quiet time'."
"How long they been down?" Sam asked, looking at her watch. Sam knew there was a good chance that Matthew was asleep. He had to be one of the few 7 year olds that actually still took a nap daily. On the other hand, she doubted Josh was asleep at all. Sam had long given up the idea that her bundle of energy, 3-year old, was actually taking a nap. Most likely she needed to go rescue the room.
"Almost an hour." Cassie answered. "I was about to go check on them again."
"We can do it together." Sam said as she looked out to make sure Aubrey was still doing her homework. Cassie stood up and made her way up the stairs and down the hall behind Sam. Opening the first door on the right, Sam wasn't surprised to see Matthew still asleep. As she made her way down the hall to the second door, she mentally noted that she needed to wake Matthew up in an hour. Opening the door, she was shocked to see Josh was nowhere to be seen. "Cassie, when was the last time you checked on them?"
The young woman was just as shocked as Sam not to see the wired 3-year old in his bedroom. "Um, when I went to the bathroom, about 20 minutes ago." She replied. "Oh gosh, I should have checked-"
"You didn't know he figured out his door handle." Sam cut her off. Turning around on her heals, she headed back down the steps towards Aubrey. Josh loved Aubrey, so most likely he was with her.
Opening the door to the back yard, she saw her eldest standing in the corner of the deck talking to someone.
"Now Josh, remember you have to jump," Aubrey stated as Sam immediately started to frantically search the backyard for where Josh would be jumping from. Aubrey then added, "at the agreed upon trajectory."
Not easily spotting him at any of his usual jumping spots, Sam calmly asked Aubrey "Where is Josh?"
"Geronimo!" A little voice yelled. Sam and Cassie watched in horror as Josh jumped out of the tree house toward the trampoline that had apparently been moved for this stunt.
"Josh!" Sam and Cassie yelled in unison as Sam immediately ran down the steps toward the hated trampoline that Jack insisted they needed so that Josh could 'bounce' his extra energy out. Keeping her eyes on him she witnessed him bounce then do three flips in the air, then bounce again and another two flips but his next bounce was just that and then a few more before Sam stood in front of the trampoline.
"Did you see me mom? Did you see me!" The little boy said in excitement as he jumped off the trampoline into Sam's awaiting arms. Sam hugged him so hard, so happy that he was thankfully okay.
"Josh, you didn't do the last flip!" Aubrey said from the deck. "I told you…"
"Audrey and Josh, both inside right now!" Sam said with authority, cutting Aubrey off- fully remembering that, yes, he was okay, but this needed to be nipped in the bud.
Both kids walked solemnly back toward the house. Sam stood there a moment as she watched Cassie follow them inside. "The first two may be all me, but Josh is 100% Jack O'Neill." She said as she walked back towards the house.