noaai: "Hi lovely! During one of the TGO prompts, the one related to the princess tea party, you show us how Tenley the special bond between her and Brae, how she was able to connect with and understand her little sister. It would be amazing to have more of this!"

So I'm just in TGO mode lately. This is just the prompt I felt like jumping into tonight. No real plan except an interesting perspective. Oh PS: It's completely different than your message idea but I can always do that one another time! Sorry just by the time I remembered I was already writing!

100 Encore, Day 82: "Tee"

Tenley walked into the play room where she heard Brae crying. She knew mama was going to be awhile, because Bellie didn't want to take a bath. She made mommy so, so crazy sometimes at bathie she forgot that Brae shouldn't go out first. But the rule was to keep big girl toys in the upstairs rooms so Brae never got hurt in the playroom. Plus, mommy did her hair fast after Brae while Bellie yelled on the floor so Tee was out soon.

Once mom got Bellie in the bath, she'd have to go straight to bed since she was throwing a fit. Tee didn't understand her big sister sometimes. Bathie wasn't as fun as play time but if you didn't take it you didn't get to play before bed. The only person allowed to cry during bath was Brae because she was a a baby. She just turned one yesterday.

"What Brae Brae? It play time long 'cause Bellie cryin' mad. No you cry." Tenley sighed.

"Ma…mama."

"Soon."

"Mama…." Brae was still crying.

"You should say oder word…dada oh Tee oh Bellie." the baby didn't stop crying. "Here, ei, ei, oh…" Tee pushed the button on her sister's play piano to play one of her favorite songs.

"Ei ei…" Brae looked down at the toy and sniffled, but the tears kept falling.

"What? You not too too hungie, eat afore bathie. Tired? Night night soon."

Brae started crying harder, but stood up. "Oh, pee pee," Tenley said, when her sister stood up. She was just wearing a diaper and it had leaked through and on to the playroom rug. But she didn't get mad, her mommy never did. "It OK, Brae, come wit Tee."

She grabbed her sister's hand and tried to sort of gently drag-guide her along to the bathroom, opening the baby gate on the way out. Brae was starting to try to stand holding things, but she couldn't walk yet. But Tenley didn't feel like trying to carry her with her wet diaper on.

She couldn't change the diaper completely on her own, but she knew how to do her own pull-up from the potty and she could at least the wet one off; and mommy made sure the pull-ups were always in reach.

"You done makin'? You be done fer it off. No more?" Brae nodded Tee undid the diaper, when her sister was on the floor in the bathroom. She cleaned her up best she could and put her sister's legs through the pull-up.

Tenley giggled when she was done. It was big, and a little bit crooked. But mommy would fix it. "We play now?"

Brae nodded, but a minute later on their way back to the play room, she started whining again. Tenley watched her eyes travel to the pudding pie her mom had taken out of the fridge for after baths. Birthday pie was usually for when you turned two, but daddy was on a long trip and mommy was happy but feeling bored, so she made Brae a birthday pie for yesterday, even though she was just one.

"Oh, you want bir-day pie left? Wait fer Tee. I get it. When mommy come, bed."

Tenley settled Brae back in the playroom and went to work getting the pie. It was just on the table and there was just a little bit of pie left. She was a good carrier of things for mommy all the time.

"Tee back." She put the pie tin and the one kid spoon she found on the floor, Mommy wouldn't mind if there was no mess, maybe.

"Wait Brae. I getta covie. You cold?" Her sister didn't answer but she was cold with jamas on so Brae was probably cold with just a diaper.

She brought a blanket over to cover them and put the pie on her lap. Brae opened her mouth wide and Tenley laughed, feeding her sister a tiny bite like her mama always did. "Yum?" she asked, and kissed the baby's cheek.

"Tee! Tee!" Brae said, giving her big sister a baby kiss.

"Good word." Tenley fed Brae another bite as a reward.

"Uh oh, what's goin' on in here?" April asked, a couple of minutes later, walking in to the play room.

"Mama."

"No mess, mama. Pie."

"i would've given you dessert, guys. You aren't in trouble. You look so cozy here. Tee took care of you cub?" she kissed her youngest.

"She maked pee pee mess." Tenley sighed, pointing across the room.

April felt her thoughts threaten to spin, but discreetly rubbed her belly to calm them. They were telling the girls about the baby when Jackson got back from this trip. But Arabella knew. April knew she knew.

"That's OK…Mama's gonna clean it after you sleep."

"Gaved pull-up. Look silly."

"Make space for me please," April said, and plopped down between her babies. "You helped you sister clean up?" April put her nose against Tee's and smiled. "Thank you big girl." She was constantly amazed at what her children were capable of, in good ways and bad. "Can mommy have a bite?" Tee nodded and fed her mom from the kid spoon. "Yum."

Feeling left out, Brae tugged at her mom's arm for attention. "Here cub, last bite. Can you say "Yum?"

"Tell you word, Brae…" Tenley encouraged. "Who I?"

"Who's that? You said a new name? Who's that girl?" April pointed.

"Tee! Tee!"

"Good girl." She made her way over to the couch to hoist herself up and then picked up the baby. "I'm so proud of you!" she laughed, mostly at the oversize pull-up falling off her baby's butt.

"Alright, let's get you guys to bed, fast ok? We'll do prayers but stories in the morning. Mama has cleaning and Bellie made me so tired. Tenley nodded, dutifully following her mom upstairs.

April took deep, deliberate breaths praying bedtime take two went smoothly. At this point between all three bedtimes and all the cleaning she had to do she'd be lucky if she was awake to get Jackson's Facetime call. But at least she'd gotten a few of the last bites of pie.

So I guess food is just easy to write around? Hope you like this. Writing mostly the younger girls' POV was so freaking hard.