Once Upon A Straight Tequila Night
Chapter 67 - The Triplets Start School
Penelope's POV
The new school year has finally arrived and the Triplets are starting their first day of kindergarten so I am up early getting their lunch boxes packed and breakfast prepared before I go and wake them up, Derek is still in bed so I have the baby monitor with me so that he can sleep because the team got back late from working on a case, I am packing the last lunch box when I hear a cry coming from the monitor so I make my way up the stairs and in to the nursery and see that it is Alex that is crying so I pick him up and I instantly know why he is crying he needs his stinky diaper changed so i lay him on the change table and get everything ready before opening the diaper.
Just as I begin to undo the diaper I feel a pair of strong arms wrap around me and Derek place butterfly kisses on the side of my neck before he says "good morning goddess" and I reply "good morning handsome" I then begin to open the diaper and grab the wipes and clean him up before rolling the diaper up and placing it in the diaper genie, I then open out the fresh diaper and put it on him and then re-dress him Derek pulls away and goes to Belle's crib and picks her up he gives her a cuddle and kisses on her chubby little cheeks before placing her in her change table and changes her diaper.
Derek takes Alex from me and takes them downstairs while I go and wake the triplets and Aaron so that we can all take the triplets to school and then we will head back home and Derek can go to work, I walk into the girls room and begin by waking Millie first by placing kisses all over her cheek until she wakes up she opens her eyes and says "is it time to go school Mama" I answer "not yet baby but you do need to get up and get dressed so that you can have some breakfast" Millie gets up and runs for the bathroom to go potty, while I move over Eva's bed and begin running my finger around the outer shell of her ear she stirs and then opens her eyes and I say "it is time to get up baby so you can get ready for school and have some breakfast, I made your favorite chocolate chip pancakes with chocolate sauce" Eva smiles at me before looking at her sisters bed and says "where Millie gone Mama" I say "Millie has gone to the bathroom to go potty and you should get up and go potty too."
Eva gets up and makes her way to the bathroom while I leave their room and head for the boys room and when I get there I see that they are already up and DJ is dressed I walk in pick him up and say "are you excited to go to school today little man" he nods and says "I am Mama I can't wait it is going to so much fun" I then notice that Aaron is sitting on the floor trying his hardest to put his feet in the legs of his shorts but not having much luck so I go to him and say "would you like Mama to help little man" he shakes his head and says "mine do it Mama me big boy" I laugh and say "ok you do it but if you need help I will be right here" after another 5 minutes of trying he threw his pants across the room and I said "Aaron can you go and pick those up for Mama please and if you need help you need to ask."
Aaron stood up and walked with his head held low over to where his pants landed and picked them up and walked back to me and handed them to me and he said "help peas Mama" I held the shorts out and he held on to my shoulder and stepped into his shorts I then stripped his shirt off and picked up the one he had on the floor beside his foot and placed it over his head and he put his arms in the holes and I pulled it down, DJ was no longer in the room so Aaron and I make our way to the bathroom and I say "would you like to sit on the potty this morning Aaron" he nods and begins pulling his shorts down, I take his diaper off and he climbs on the step and sits down and holds on to the side of the seat after a few minutes he squeals and laughs and I say "what happened little man" all he does is point in the potty and I say "did you pee in the potty" he nods and stands up and I take a peak and sure enough he had, I make a big deal of it so that it encourages him to continue to use the potty I put a clean diaper on him and get him to was his hands.
Derek's POV
I wake up when I hear one of the twins cry, I get up and use the bathroom before making my way to the nursery where I see that my baby girl has beaten me to the crying baby so I walk over to her and wrap my arms around her and I begin placing butterfly kisses to the side of her neck before I say "good morning goddess" she replies "good morning handsome" as she begins undoing Alex's diaper, while baby girl is changing Alex's diaper I walk over to Belle's crib and see that she is awake so I pick her up and give her and cuddle and kisses to her little chubby cheeks before placing her on her change table and change her diaper.
I then take the twins downstairs while baby girl goes to wake up the triplets and Aaron, once I get downstairs I place the twins in their swings while I go to the kitchen to get their bottles ready once the bottles are ready I take them into the living room and begin feeding the twins, I then hear footsteps on the stairs I turn and look over my shoulder to see DJ coming down all dressed and ready for his first day of school he walks into the living room and says "can I help you Dada" I smile and say "of course you can buddy would you like to feed Alex" he nods and takes the bottle from me.
DJ and I have nearly finished feeding the twins when I hear squeals from upstairs I go to get up but then I hear more foot steps on the stairs and I realize that Penelope, Millie, Eva and Aaron are on their way down and when Penelope and Aaron reach the bottom of the stairs Aaron come running over to me and says in an excited voice "me pee potty Dada" I smile and say "good job little man, I am proud of you."
Penelope walks into the kitchen and finishes cooking breakfast, I take the now empty bottles to the kitchen before heading upstairs to take a shower I enter our room and grab out a t-shirt and my favorite black jeans and my boots and then head into the bathroom I turn on the shower and then strip out of my pajamas and get into the shower I relish the feeling of the water cascading over my body grabbing the bottle of my shower gel I squeeze some into the palm of my hand and begin washing my body and then I rinse off and get out and dry myself off before getting dressed.
Once I have finished in the bathroom I make my way back downstairs and into the kitchen and sit down at the island bench with the kids who are already tucking into their chocolate chip pancakes with chocolate sauce, I lean over and help Aaron with his as he is getting chocolate sauce all over his little face, Penelope then places a plate stacked with pancakes in front of me and I too begin tucking in they are yummyyyyyyyyyy, with breakfast finished Penelope loads the dishwasher while I take the kids to the downstairs bathroom so that they can wash their hands and face and brush their teeth.
Penelope's POV
We are already to go the kids have their backpacks and lunch boxes so now we just need to get everyone in the car, Derek helps me get everyone in the car before he kisses me and gets in his SUV so that he can go straight from the school to work and I can then return home with Aaron, Alex and Belle afterwards, I pull out of the driveway and start driving slowly down the road as Derek pulls out of the driveway and catches up to us it is only a 10 minute drive to the school and we get there in no time I find somewhere to park and wait for Derek to come and help me get everyone out of the car safely, Derek find his spot to park and then makes his way to us he gets the triple stroller out of the back and opens it out and attaches the single seat for Aaron to the front so that I can attach the twins car seats to the frame.
Now that everyone is out of the car the triplets have their backpacks on their backs we make our way into the school yard and on to the large open area of the playground so that we can find out where the triplets need to be, finally there is an announcement from the headmaster and he says "welcome to the first day of the school year now if you will be patient I will call out the children's names and either the letters A, B, C or D each letter will correspond with a kindergarten class the headmaster calls out "Derek Morgan group B, Evaleigh Morgan group B and Jamilla Morgan group B."
I found the group for the triplets and the teacher asks "what is your child's name" I reply "there names are Jamilla, Evaleigh and Derek Morgan" the teacher looks at me with raised eyebrows before looking down at the triplets and says "ahhhh so your Morgan triplets" they all nod and then she says "I will be your teacher my name is Miss Potter" all the other children have been assigned their groups and the headmaster says "parents please follow your child's teacher to their classroom as this is where you will collect your child from this afternoon" Derek and I follow the teacher and the group of children until we reach the classroom the teacher opens the glass door and allows the children to enter before she does and then she says "ok children please pick a hook and place your back pack on it and then come and take a seat over near my chair."
We have seen where the triplets classroom is Derek and I make our way back to the car he helps me load the twins and Aaron in to the car before he collapses the triple stroller and putting it in the back before coming back to me he kisses me good bye and heads off to work and I get in the car and head for home.