"Okay, one more question." Lorelai giggles from outside the door when she hears Luke growl in frustration.
"Does the boogeyman have lots of boogers?"
"I don't know. I've never seen him, but if I do I will let you know"
" What if he uses his boogers to attack people. Do you think if he gets them on you that you turn into a baby boogeyman?"
"I don't so buddy. The boogeyman is not going to get you and if he tries you tell him your daddy will kick his butt"
"I know he won't get me, but you didn't answer the question." Lorelai hears Luke groan again and walks into the room.
"Hey buddy, you want to go to the store with me and Katie?"
"I'm talking to daddy,mommy"He says as a matter of factly
"Oh, well then I'll just let you get back to that." She slowly leaves.
"No!" Luke says loudly. Lorelai grins and turns around.
"Well, well, Colin, it seems daddy doesn't want me to leave."
"Is that true daddy? You don't wanna talk to me anymore?" He asks, letting the fact his has big blue eyes go to good use.
He sighs "You had to inherit your mother's eyes didn't you?" He says and Lorelai just grins
"I do want to talk to you kiddo, it's just that I don't think the boogie man is made of boogers or will he turn you into a baby boogeyman"
"Okay, then do you want to talk about the bug I found on the deck today?"
"How about I talk to you about it later, your mom wanted me to help her with something in the...bathroom, right Lorelai?" Luke says nudging her
"Well..."She toys with him a little, Luke stares her down. "All right, yeah Colin, I need daddy in the bathroom."
"Okay" He says
"See you later daddy," He says and hugs him and then goes and Lorelai is laughing hysterically
"I'm sorry...I'm...laughing...its just...so...funny."
"Oh yeah? I'll show you funny" He says and picks her up and throws her over his shoulder
"Babe,e no" She squeals
He playfully throws her on the bed, tickling her
"Okay, stop it, stop it. I gotta get up and take Katie to the store. She's having a sleepover tonight."
"What if I don't want you to?"
"Then I guess our daughter and her friends will starve tonight, and you'll just have to stay here and kiss me." She giggles.
"Well, that's a close call, but I think I know what I would choose" He says and leans down over her, kissing her
"Hmmm...me too..but babe, as much as I love doing this. We need to go food shopping."
"mmm..one more time" He says and they kiss again and the Luke gets off her
"Have fun"
"Yeah..could I borrow your credit card for dooses?"
"Sure." He says, getting it out of his wallet
"Thanks Hun. Do you need anything at the store?"
"I don't think so. Just let Katie get what she wants for tonight"
"All right. What about anything for dinner?"
"You want to order pizza?"
"That sounds fine."
"Okay. I'm going to grab a shower. See you when you get back"
"All right, see you later."
He nods and lorelai gets Katie and goes to the store
They get back from shopping at Doose's. "Well, that was a successful trip." Lorelai says as they put the stuff on the kitchen counter.
"Yeah it was. We got like everything" Katie says
"This is going to be the best sleepover:
"Well, I hope you girls have fun tonight."
"We will!" She says
"We will!" She says
"Do you know where all the pillows and blankets are for later?"
"Yeah. I got it covered"
"K, great." She smiles
"And don't have dad come done every ten minutes. We will be fine. I know you wont do it, but dad will"
"I will try to keep him out as much as possible. The whole downstairs basement is yours for the night. That means you girls get the big T.V." She says. "Lucky." Lorelai says with an, oh man, voice.
"Yeah! I'm going to set up some stuff down there. We are going to have a board game tournament tonight, so I have to get those ready." Lorelai smiles and nods. She thanks the world all the time that Katrina is a normal, funny, smart, 14 year old and has great friends who aren't interested in the crazy stuff that some other teenagers are into. They are just laid back, kids, who want to stay kids for as long as possible.
As Katrina walks upstairs to get the games to bring downstairs, she runs into her little sister.
"Hey kels."
"Hi, what are you doing?"
"Getting board games to play. Dana, Gracie, and Laura are coming tonight for a sleepover."
"Oh cool, can I hang out with you guys?"
"I don't know Kels, its big kid stuff. You'll be bored."
"No, I won't. Please, just for one game, then I won't bother you guys for the rest of the night. I promise."
"Alright, one game, thats it."
"Yay! Thanks!" She cheers and runs back to their room.
Katie shakes her head, going to her room to get the board games and then heads to the basement.
Brendan walks in the house about 15 minutes later. "hey mom I'm back."
"Hey kiddo, how was Ben's house?"
"It was fun. Only until a certain point as always." He says with a smile.
"Yup I know." Ben is one of those friends that is a nice kid, but can get kind of annoying to Brendan if he hangs out with him for too long. At the same time though, he and Ben are still close friends.
"Okay, well I think I'm going to go to my room. Bye" he says
"All right bye." Lorelai says with a laugh.
The rest of the day and night goes along fine. Katrina has her sleepover, they have a ton of fun. Everyone is doing great. The next day, around 10 in the morning the phone rings. Katrina and her friends had already finished eating the pancakes that Luke made. Now the girls were downstairs cleaning up, the boys are watching T.V in the family room, and Kelsey is downstairs with Katrina and her friends helping them. Lorelai and Madison are in the kitchen, Madison is in the baby carrier.
"Hello?"
"Hi Lorelai, its Carissa. I have some great news for Kelsey."
"Oh really, what is it?"
"The T.V. show is nominated in 5 different categories for Emmys. Kelsey is nominated for best supporting actress in a comedy."
"What! No way!"
Carissa laughs and smiles on the other side of the phone, glad that Lorelai was so excited about this. "Yup, the Emmy's are next month. Don't worry about paying anything, everything will be taken care of for you."
"Oh wow, Carissa. This is great. Do you want to talk to Kelsey?"
"I have to run out for the day. You tell her and I'll talk to you both later."
"All right, thanks so much."
"Anytime, bye."
"Bye."
"Ahhhhhh!"Lorelai screams in excitement. "Kelsey! Get up here now!" Lorelai shouts for her daughter downstairs.
Kelsey comes running upstairs and Lorelai literally tackles her down
"Mommy, are you okay? What's going on?"
"Guess who that was on the phone!"
She gives her a strange look. "Uh...I don't know. Who?"
"Carissa."
"Really? What did she want?"
"You and the show are being nominated for an Emmy award!"
"No way!" She screeches.
"Yes, way!"
"This is so awesome! I've always wanted to go to California!"
"Yup, and the whole family gets to go. So I was thinking, what if we make a vacation out of it? We have to fly out there 3 weeks before the award ceremony. The hotel and car and flight is all paid for."
"This is so exciting! Can I go tell everybody!?"
" wait a sec." She pulls her back, giving her a big hug and kiss. "I am so proud of you honey."
Kelsey smiles and hugs her back. "Thanks mommy." Then she pulls away and runs downstairs to tell her sister and her sister's friends the news.
Lorelai picks up the phone and quickly dials the diner number to talk to Luke. She waits until she answers, then screams in his ear. "Ahhhh. Guess what Luke!"
"Are you trying to make me go deaf?"He asks and laughs
She calms down long enough to tell him the news. "Kelsey, our little girl, is nominated for an Emmy award!"
"wh..what?"Luke asks and Lorelai says it again.
"I'll be right home."He says, wanting to celebrate and the hang up.
Not even ten minutes later Luke comes running in the door and into the kitchen.
"Where is she?" He asks.
Lorelai gives him a quick kiss as he rushes in. "She's running around the house telling everyone the big news."
"Kelsey come here!" Luke yells
Kelsey comes running downstairs. "Daddy! Guess what!" She yells as she runs into her dad's arms.
"I heard all about it sweetheart and guess what? We will all go out to dinner tonight, your choice"
"Really? But daddy I didn't win anything yet."
"That doesn't matter, we still need to celebrate."
"Cool, I'll go look up a place to go."
She runs out of the room and Luke picks up Lorelai and spins her around, Lorelai has never seen him like this.
"Luke, whats going on with you? Are you okay?"
"I'm just happy out daughter is nominated." He says and kisses Lorelai.
"Yeah I am too, but you are acting like you just took one too many happy pills." She teases him.
"Says the woman who screamed in my ear." He teases back.
"Good point. Anyway. We are leaving for California in about 3 weeks. And we will be staying there for 4 weeks. We have to be there at least 3 weeks before the award ceremony. Do you think you'll be able to leave the diner for 4 weeks?"
"I don't see why not. I can get Cesar to be in charge. Are you sure the in will be okay without you?"
"Oh yeah, everything will be fine. So Carissa says we have a hotel and car all booked for our trip. Its about 10 minutes from Hollywood. She gave me the website to the hotel. I haven't gotten a chance to look at it. Maybe when you get home later we can all take a look at it."
"That sounds great. What about Madison? We need a car-seat and a crib or something for her to sleep in."
"They are supplying a crib at the hotel. In, get this, our suite! How awesome is that? And they are giving us a new, 100% free, car-seats for her and Colin. How great is that!?"
"Wow and are you sure we don't have to pay for any of it?"
"Yup, its all completely free."
"This is amazing." he says and hugs Lorelai
"At least we don't have to pay for a vacation this year"
"Yeah, definitely a good thing. We should probably start organizing some stuff this weekend. I know we have 4 weeks until we even have to leave, but there are a lot us."
"That sounds good. I think I am going to take the rest of the day off." He says.
"Really? Are you sure hun? You really don't have to do that."
"I want to and besides, it might give me and you some alone time."