justagirl4fun Posted October 17, 2015 Author Posted October 17, 2015 Maddie sat happily chewing on the teething ring while Willow ate her dinner in stony silence and Lilian allowed Grace to feed her.
Kaidus Posted October 17, 2015 Posted October 17, 2015 Grace makes a point to show Lilian how to keep her food on her fork at some point; she's also aware of Willow's mood source.
justagirl4fun Posted October 17, 2015 Author Posted October 17, 2015 "May I be excused?" Willow asked sullenly when she had finished most of her dinner.
Kaidus Posted October 17, 2015 Posted October 17, 2015 "Go ahead honey" Grace answers while concluding Lilian's feeding.
justagirl4fun Posted October 18, 2015 Author Posted October 18, 2015 Willow slips off her chair and starts walking towards the living room, but stops when she spots the day's mail sitting on the counter; on top of the pile is a new American Girl catalog. She grabs it and brings it to the living room, where she sits oohing and ahhing over the dolls and accessories on the glossy pages. "Mommy! Mommy! Can I have this one for my birthday?" she yells as she runs back to the kitchen, thrusting the catalog in her mother's face to show her Kit, a doll with blue eyes, a smattering of freckles across her nose, and her blond hair cut in a cute bob, dressed in 1930's fashions. "She looks just like me!
Kaidus Posted October 18, 2015 Posted October 18, 2015 "We'll see honey" Grace says while returning to her plate grateful that Willow didn't splatter anything; "Mommy will look it over and get you your answer when she has the change.
justagirl4fun Posted October 18, 2015 Author Posted October 18, 2015 "Please, mom?" Willow called as her mother brought the little ones upstairs. "It's the only thing I want!" And it was true...Willow rarely asked for anything and was happy with anything she was given. What brought her the most happiness was just spending time with her family.
Kaidus Posted October 18, 2015 Posted October 18, 2015 "Okay, we'll look it over together" Grace says bringing Willow up into her lap.
justagirl4fun Posted October 18, 2015 Author Posted October 18, 2015 "See, isn't she pretty?" Willow asked as she opened the catalog to the correct page. "All the girls at school have American Girl dolls. Can't I have one too?" She glanced at Grace hopefully, still blissfully ignorant of the $115 price tag on the doll alone.
Kaidus Posted October 18, 2015 Posted October 18, 2015 Grace looks at the catalog and sees what Willow wants, but gets wide-eyed when she sees the price of the doll alone; "Maybe mommy can check in with Grammy and Grampy to see if they can help" she says trying to be hopeful about it.
justagirl4fun Posted October 18, 2015 Author Posted October 18, 2015 "Okay." Willow sighs as she slide off Grace's lap. In her experience, "maybe" generally means no. "Well, what about daddy? He's gonna be here, right?" When her father had left for Afghanistan a year ago, his deployment was supposed to end in mid-November; he'd promised Willow that he'd be home "just in time for your birthday" as he left. Though it had been 3 months since he'd been killed in action, at not quite six she didn't fully grasp the concept of death and still hoped against hope that he'd be walking through the door any day now.
Kaidus Posted October 18, 2015 Posted October 18, 2015 Grace can't help but clam up at Willow's recent question since Jack's been gone since his recent deployment; she instead gets Maddie and Lilian upstairs for bath time.
justagirl4fun Posted October 18, 2015 Author Posted October 18, 2015 Willow watches sadly as her mother walks away, still waiting for an answer. When it becomes clear she isn't getting one, she drags and chair over to the sink so she can help her brother. "Bubby, daddy's still comin' home for my birthday, right?" she asks as she starts drying dishes with a hand towel.
Kaidus Posted October 19, 2015 Posted October 19, 2015 Michael thinks it over carefully before answering Willow's question;
justagirl4fun Posted October 19, 2015 Author Posted October 19, 2015 Willow sighed at her brother's cryptic answer; she didn't even know what
Kaidus Posted October 19, 2015 Posted October 19, 2015 Michael sees Willow vacating from where he's scrubbing wishing he knew what to say since he knows their father is watching over them from Heaven.
justagirl4fun Posted October 19, 2015 Author Posted October 19, 2015 "Mama, bu!!!" Lilian shrieked, holding up a bottle of bubble bath with a huge grin on her face; there were few things in the world the girl liked more than bubble baths.
Kaidus Posted October 19, 2015 Posted October 19, 2015 "Okay, but just a little bit" Grace answers while gently taking the bubble bath and adding half a cap-full.
justagirl4fun Posted October 20, 2015 Author Posted October 20, 2015 After grabbing her blanket and doll Willow curled up in bed, crying silent tears that soaked her pillow. Why couldn't her daddy just come home? Things would be so much better. Now, her mom is always preoccupied with the little ones and her brother...well, he's really nice and he tries hard, but he's always using big words that she doesn't understand.
Kaidus Posted October 20, 2015 Posted October 20, 2015 Grace finishes bathing the little ones and gets them out of the tub one at a time so she can dry them off simultaneously and get them tucked into bed.
justagirl4fun Posted October 20, 2015 Author Posted October 20, 2015 While she waits for Grace to get Maddie diapered and dressed for bed, Lilian goes to the bookcase in the corner of the nursery and starts pulling books off the shelves, tossing them in a pile on the floor.
Kaidus Posted October 20, 2015 Posted October 20, 2015 "You can have a bedtime story as soon as mommy gets you both padded (diapered) and in PJs" Grace says seeing Lilian out the corner of her eye.
justagirl4fun Posted October 20, 2015 Author Posted October 20, 2015 Lilian pays Grace no mind and keeps adding books to the pile on the floor, not stopping until the entire bookcase is empty, then laughs gleefully at the mess.
Kaidus Posted October 20, 2015 Posted October 20, 2015 Grace finishes getting Maddie in her new diaper and PJs so she can be laid in her crib before Lilian is tended to; she'll have Michael clean up the books after the bathroom when he's done with the kitchen.
justagirl4fun Posted October 21, 2015 Author Posted October 21, 2015 Lilian holds her arms up to Grace as soon as she puts Maddie in the crib, ready to sit in the rocking chair and read a bedtime story.
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