Jordan- 8 months old
Early one morning Hank awoke to hearing his baby girl crying from her nursery, he walked from his room to the nursery. Jordan was crying and swinging her tiny arms. He then reached down picking her up and began rocking her gently.
"Hey what's wrong sweetheart, what's the matter". Hank says softly, as he bounced her.
Jordan wailed louder as Hank hoisted her up some more, he felt her forehead and noticed she was warm. He then went to Justin's room to wake him up.
"Justin wake up, wake up son". Hank said.
"Hmm". Justin mumbled.
"Justin I need you up".
Justin awoke with a start and looked at his father through his blurry eyes. "What's wrong Pop".
"Your sister is running a fever, I think she might be teething. I need you to watch her while I go out and get her some stuff".
Hank watched his son get up from the bed and gently took a hold of his sister and began rocking her, Jordan was still fussy and crying. After Hank had left Justin was walking around the living room bouncing his baby sister.
"It's alright Jo Jo, shh it's ok. It's alright Jo you're gonna be ok". Justin soothed his sister.
Jordan used her small hands to grab hold of her brother's shirt, she let out small whines and whimpers.
"You're alright Jo Jo, I gotcha kiddo, you're big brother's gotcha".
Justin went to get his sister one of the pacifiers they had in the freezer and gave it to his sister, when the baby took a hold of the pacifier she began to suck on it and that helped the pain a little
Hank was the a 24 hour pharmacy grabbing some baby tylenol, orajel, some extra teething rings. Once he paid for the stuff he left heading back home so he can tend to his baby. It killed him to see his little girl in pain he never liked to see either of his children in pain.
He arrived back to his house and when he walked in he saw Justin still bouncing Jordan, Hank could hear his little girl still whining in pain. Justin heard the front door open and closed, he looked over to see his father holding a plastic bag. While Hank was getting the stuff out Justin continued to sooth his sister.
"It's alright Jo Jo, you're ok. Dad's right here with some medicine for you".
Hank read the directions for the baby medication, he gave her the medicine. He then went to the kitchen and washed his hands a moment later he returned to the living room and pulled the baby orajel from the bag. He put some on his finger then rubbed it on his baby girl's sore gums. Jordan felt some relief she then wanted to be held by her father as she threw her arms out to him. The two men chuckled as Justin handed his sister over to their father.
"That better sweetheart, you feel better now". Hank says, bouncing his baby girl.
The infant did feel some relief as she snuggled into her father's chest, she closed her eyes as she tried to go sleep. Hank continued to gently rock and bounce her as she fell asleep. The rest of the day quickly went by, around dinner time when Hank tried to have Jordan eat some of her baby food. She ate a few bites of her baby food before she had enough, he then made her a warm bottle and gave that to her. Jordan took a hold of the bottle's nipple in her mouth and sucked on it drinking the warm formula.
Before Hank put his little girl to bed he rubbed some more orajel on her sore gums, he was walking her around the nursery trying to put her to sleep and she was close to sleep. Just as he was about to set her in the crib Jordan wailed loudly and Hank picked her back up.
"Alright Jo, I won't put you in there". Hank said.
He then had an idea Hank walked from the nursery to his room, he fixed the pillows on one side of his bed. He laid Jordan down in the middle then laid next to her pulling the covers up to them, the older father was on his side as he watched his little princess go to sleep. He took his index finger and gently caressed her cheek, a smile appeared on his face. Hank then kissed her temple, after a few minutes of watching his daughter sleep he then fell asleep for the night.