Family Time
“Mama!” Noelle yelled as her little legs brought her crashing into her mothers legs.
“Hey pretty girl,” Stiles greeted.
“nummies?” the little girl asked as she tried to climb up the bar stool.
“In five more minutes,” Stiles said as she lifted her daughter up.
“What we have?”
“Stuffed peppers and then some onions.”
“Oh.”
“Yeah. Whats grandpa up to?”
“Sittin,”
The way Elle said it, made Stiles laugh. Of course her daughter would think its the most obvious thing her grandpa would be doing.
“Wanna go see him?”
that rewarded Stiles with a head shake.
“Wanna watch mama?”
“uh huh!”
Stiles proceeded to get dinner out of the oven and shut everything off. Putting the food on the counter top next to the kitchen, Stiles tipped her head back and shouted dinner and waited for the stamped of people coming into the kitchen to eat.
She laughed as she saw her soon to be brothers fight to get food.
“STOP!!!” Noelle shouted and funnily enough, the boys stopped and looked at her.
“Little people first then women,” With so much attitude behind it, the boys all had pouts on their faces and couldn't believe they got scolded by a 1 year old.
Laughing, Stiles grabbed her daughters favorite plate and cut a pepper in half and then into littler bites for her daughter to eat it. She then picked up the plate and her baby girl and walked to the dinning room and put the plate down and then strapped her 1 year old into the booster seat on the chair next to the table.
Sitting down herself, she helped her mini me blow the hot food and then watched her try to put it in her mouth.
“mommy,” Noelle whined when the piece of pepper didn't want to stay on the spoon.
“How about mommy gets you a fork, would that be easier?” Stiles asked, already out of her seat.
“Uh huh!” the little girl agreed with a nod of her head.
“Alright, momma will be right back. Why don't you try to eat some of the onions?”
“Tay!” Noelle beamed at her mom.
Walking into the kitchen, she saw the boys still not have their food, she quickly grabbed her daughters princess fork and looked at them.
“Go ahead and get your food, it'll be a while before I get mine,” With that being said, Stiles turned on her heels and walked back to the dinning room to see her daughter eating the onions off her spoon.
“Is it good?” Stiles asked as she sat down.
“So good, mommy, I want more,” Noelle commented.
“How about you finish the onions and then eat some of your stuffed pepper and see if your hungry after that,” Stiles bargained.
“Otay!” Elle beamed.
Stiles was pleased that her daughter was eating and not playing with the food.
“She likes veggies?” Jackson asked.
“Oh yeah, I lucked out, she'll eat anything that is hot or cooked.” Stiles answered.
“What's your favorite veggie,” Scott asked.
“Uhmmmmmmm, nonions!” Noelle cheerily said as she stuffed the rest of her Onions in her mouth.
“Nonions?” Scott asked.
“Really Scott?” Liam accused.
“Oh right onions,” Scott said sheepishly.
Laughing, Stiles got up and went to the kitchen to dish up her own food and then came back with a little bowl of onions and dumped it onto her daughters plate once she sat down.
“Why onions?” Mason asked.
“I'm not actually sure, once she was eating big people food, I had made this one night and she didn't like the fact that I had made her mac and cheese and I didn't put any on my plate, so she wanted to try them, and well, Noelle fell in love with them, and would eat them for every meal if you let her.” Stiles answered and then ate some more food.
Dinner went quickly for the first time in what felt like years for Stiles. Everyone talked, Noelle stole the show and turned into a little attention diva and made everyone fall in love with her even more.
Stiles was happy that her new family wasn't trying to make her unwelcomed or unwanted. The last thing she wanted was to tell her dad that she wouldn't be living with him anymore because of that, she knew that it was just the first day of meeting and that it could go sour quickly, but she was trying to stay positive for herself and her baby girl.
Stiles didn't really care if her step family liked her, it was more of the fact that Noelle is at that learning stage of remembering people and to grow accustomed to being around her a lot. It's going to be tough time to figure everything out and balancing stuff but that was a normal thing to do, and Stiles was ready to take that head on.
Drying her daughter off, Stiles went to get a nighttime pull up out and then to grab a pj set to get Elle dressed. Slipping the Minnie Mouse nightie on, she patted Noelle on the butt and sent off to get the sippy cup and the pacifier.
“Ready for bed?” Stiles asked.
“Uh huh!” Noelle said.
“Alight, hop in bed and I'll hand you your stuff.”
“Tank you!”
“Your welcome,” Leaning over Stiles gave her baby a kiss on the lips and switched on the night light and then backed out of the room.
“Love you!” Noelle yelled.
“I love you baby girl,” Stiles replied and cracked the door.
Stiles then went into her room and changed into her own pjs and then went through her nightly routine. Once she was done, she grabbed her glasses off the bedside table and then grabbed her computer.
Slipping on the glasses, she fired up her computer and then went to Netflix and watched her favorite movie Love & Basketball.
Stiles believed that she was ending the night perfectly and couldn't wait for tomorrow to come.