Hand Me Downs
"No no, Dil," Didi said, taking the train away from the baby. Dil began to fuss at that but Didi lifted him out of the playpen, patting Tommy on the head as he set about getting the train back on the track. "That is Tommy's toy…"
Dil knew that. And he wanted it to be HIS toy!
"Fighting over toys, huh?" Lucy said. "Easy fix for that."
"Oh?" Didi asked.
"Give him some of Tommy's old things. Hand Me Downs always work like a charm."
"Of course! Didi exclaimed. "Can you watch the kids? I'll go get the box in the basement…" she shook her head as she passed the whimpering Dil over to Lucy. "Why did we bother buying new toys when Dil was born instead of just reusing the old ones?" That felt like something she should have thought of as a competent parent.
~MC~MC~MC~
"Conga conga conga!" the creator sang as he, Trixie, Melinda, and Lucifer did a conga line, a banner proclaiming '200th Chapter' hung from some clouds.
Amenadiel frowned. "I feel like we should be trying to solve world hunger…"
"Can't! Too busy tormenting babies!" the Chaos Lord called out. "Conga conga conga!"
~MC~MC~MC~
"What's a Hand-Me-Down?" Tommy asked, confused.
Susie smiled. "That's when they give a little kid things a big kid grew out of. I get'em all the time."
"Really?" Tommy said.
"Of course!" Angelica proclaimed. Having realized that if she helped Tommy grow up quicker she'd have less babies to deal with she'd decided to stop lying to her cousin and give him the true facts. To speed up the process. "Its great! You get rid of the stuff that you're too big to play with and get all brand new toys!" She gestured at the train. "That used to be mine but then I got the Cynthia Bullet Train set. So you got that."
"Huh," Tommy said, rubbing his head. "I guess that makes sense."
"Of course it does!" Angelica said as Didi came back up and began to show Dil some of the toys. "Take that green thing."
"Oh, that's Mr. Wormie. I used ta loved chewing on his tail!" Tommy said with a smile.
"But you don't anymore because you're not a dinky baby." Tommy considered that. It was true… he hadn't played with Mr. Wormie in so long that he'd forgotten all about him! "So Dil can have it and you get toys for bigger kids. And when he tries to take your toys you tell him to play with his own!"
"Hey… yeah!" Tommy grew excited. "If my mommy is giving my baby toys to Dil… that means I'm not a baby anymore! I'm a big kid!" Him and Chuckie began to dance about, cheering and celebrating Tommy finally growing up.
Didi sniffed. "Uh oh… someone needs a diaper change."
Tommy looked down and realized it was him.
Well… he was CLOSE to being a big kid anyway…