Apologies for the delay everyone! I had caught a stomach bug that was going around last week that left me very ill going into the weekend. However, I'm better and back to 100 percent! Anyway hope you all enjoy!
"Dil!" Tommy yelled angrily at his brother
"I'm sorry Tommy but it's not fair that you guys get to have ice cream while I has to eats a popsicle!" Dil retorted, stamping his foot angrily
"Maybe, like mommy said, the doctor saids it's for a reason! You're being just like how you were when you were a bad naughty baby baby!" Tommy exclaimed
Dil let out an audible gasp, realizing that his brother was right. He was being bad again, just like how he was when he and his brother were lost in that forest. He didn't want to be bad, but he just wanted to eat the stuff he liked just like everyone else. Recoiling back in shame, Dil slumped his shoulders only to suddenly be hit with his stomach churning in pain. Maybe it wasn't a good idea that he not only drank normal milk but now had some ice cream on top of that. Ignoring what he could of his newly developed stomachache, Dil knew he had to apologize. He was supposed to be getting better, not worse. However, before Dil could even start his apology he ended up throwing up the contents of his stomach on the floor behind the table.
"Uh oh, Dil frew up." Savannah pointed out to the others, slightly concerned for her friend who had now started crying
Overhearing the commotion, Didi quickly turned from the sink to notice the mess as she scurried to scoop up Dil.
"Oh dear, you're going to need a bath sweetie." Didi sighed
"Go ahead and give the pup a bath, Deed. We'll get the floor cleaned up and the other pups ready for their nap." Betty waved off Didi to go get Dil cleaned up as she grabbed the necessary cleaning supplies to clean up the floor
"Thanks, I don't know what I'd do without you all." Didi smiled as she carried Dil to the downstairs bathroom to run him a bath.
As Didi gave Dil a quick bath, Betty and Ebony helped the other toddlers clean up from their lunch along with cleaning the floor. Not long after the babies were all settled in for their nap in the playpen as they all soon drifted to sleep. Watching over them from the kitchen, Didi sighed before turning back to Betty and Ebony.
"I don't know how much longer I can keep this up. Dil refuses to drink any of the alternatives." Didi shook her head
"You know, I think I've read in one of those books that if you as a whole family start drinking and eating the alternatives for a little while it may make it easier for the baby in question to adjust." Ebony said, gently patting Samayah's back as she rested on her shoulder, fast asleep
"You might be onto something there Eb. Can't hurt to try it out." Betty agreed
"Hmm you may be right." Didi nodded at the suggestion
Meanwhile, as the Rugrats slept, Tommy in particular started to have an interesting dream. In his dream, Tommy was now not much older than Samayah was, while everyone of his friends and brother remained the same age as they all sat in the backyard. Blinking, Tommy looked over his now smaller body as a bottle rolled over next to his prop up pillow. Happy that he could now drink from bottles without a fuss from anyone, Tommy picked up the bottle as he began drinking from it until he was full. Tossing the empty bottle aside, Tommy now wanted to play as he spotted Dil and the others playing with the ball nearby. Trying to move, Tommy found himself to not only be able to stand up, he couldn't even hold up his own weight to crawl over as he plopped forward onto his stomach.
Frowning, Tommy fussed and struggled to get himself to sit up. He didn't realize how hard it was to move around as a baby baby until this moment. Ovehearing the fussing, Dil got up to help his "baby" brother.
"It's okay Tommy, here I'll helps ya up." Dream Dil said, helping Tommy sit up against the pillow once again
"I wanna play with the ball." Tommy said, of course to Dil and the others it came out as gibberish followed with the word ball
"I think he wants to play with us, Dil." Dream Savannah commented
"Aw im sorry Tommy, you're too little to plays with the ball like we do." Dil apologized as he looked around and spotted a tiny red ball that squeaked, the very same one that was hand-me-downed to Dil at one point, as he handed it to Tommy. "Here you can plays with this!"
Taking the ball, Tommy stared at it and frowned, he didn't want to play with his dumb old little ball he wanted to play with his normal ball with his friends. Tommy tried reaching out for the bigger ball as he whined, feeling tears well up in his eyes as he grew more upset.
"I don't want to be a little baby baby! I want to play with my friends and my toys!" Tommy yelled as he continued reaching out towards his friends as they all happily played without him
Tommy could only watch in despair as it seemed he was moving farther and farther away from the group until he could no longer see them.
That's when Tommy woke up with a jolt, sitting up immediately in a cold sweat as he began looking over himself and around the room. He wasn't a baby baby and everything was normal as he let out a sigh of relief. Noticing his still sleeping brother, he realized that he too was struggling with a big change and getting mad at him probably didn't help it at all. Crawling over to Dil, Tommy slightly shook him awake.
"Hey Dilly, wakes up." Tommy whispered
"Huh, what is it, Tommy?" Dil groggily asked as he rubbed his eyes
"You know hows you don't likes it that your milk tastes different and you can't have all the same stuffs we eat no more?" Tommy began with a question
"Uh huh." Dil asked, tilting his head in confusion about what his brother was on about
"Well I just wanted to tells you about changes. It's just something that happens where stuff changes whether we likes them or not. Not all of them are good changes but not all of them are bad changes neither." Tommy explained
"Well do changes go away? Cause I don't likes them." Dil asked, crossing his arms
"Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. I member when you were still a baby baby afore we went to Paris lots of changes happen that we didn't like. Like Chuckie's daddy started hanging out with this police lady everyday instead of Chuckie, and Grandpa stopped living in our house, and Phil and Lil had to wear big puffy diapers that made it hards for them to walks anywheres." Tommy continued
"Woah...wait Grandpa used to lives here in our house and not at the tired home?" Dil asked
"Uh huh, but one day he cided he was gonna live at the tired home and I thought it was acause of Reptar. But it turns out it wasn't Reptar and Grandpa even meeted Grandma and now they're married and living together in the tired home. That's a change that started out not so goods but it turned out to be better at the end." Tommy nodded, continuing to explain the events of the previous fall, "And eventually Chuckie's daddy began spending times with Chuckie again and Phil and Lil stopped wearing those big puffy diapers. Some changes don't last forever and the ones that do are probably for the betterer." Tommy finished
"So maybe having to eat and drink different stuffs won't last forever?" Dil perked up at the thought
"Maybe not, and even if were to be like that forever, like I said afore maybe it's for a reason. Like maybe it won't make your tummy all icky and make you throws up and stuffs." Tommy said, placing his hand on his brother's shoulder
"Well I didn't like it when I frew up after eating the ice cream..." Dil thought out loud before nodding in confidence. "Okay, I'm going to tries the new stuffs even if it doesn't taste the same."
"Atta boy Dilly!" Tommy grinned
"Thanks, Tommy." Dil thanked, hugging his brother
"Aw it was nothing Dilly," Tommy giggled, hugging his brother back.
He too had realized, maybe it was for the better that he was a big boy and he was going to act like one. Even if it meant finally saying farewell to bottles forever. Later on in the evening, at dinner time, the boys both enjoyed having their chicken and mash potatoes as they both happily ate their food. This time of course Dil drank the milk, now soymilk, without a fuss. It wasn't that bad after all. Tommy, after taking a sip of milk from his cup realized the difference as well, he too didn't find it bad but still wanted to point it out to Dil.
"Here Dil, take a sip from my sippy cup." Tommy offered
"Are you sure?" Dil asked, hesitant to take it from Tommy's hands
"Uh huh! You'll see why." Tommy nodded allowing Dil to take the cup
Doing his best not to spill too much of it, Dil drank a bit from Tommy's cup as he realized that the milk both he and Tommy were drinking was the same!
"It's the same thing!" Dil exclaimed
"Uh huh! Now you don't has to worry about it tasting different no more." Tommy grinned
Didi just happily watched in relief seeing both her boys happy. Especially since Dil was no longer making a fuss over his bottle of milk.
What will happen next? Find out next time!