Once I had made sure that all the windows were closed for ILD.com I left the Media room and made my way to the front foyer where I called out, “I’m down here!”
First John appeared at the top of the stairs and then Mom. John looked relieved to see me, Mom looked totally panicked.
“I was in the Media room watching TV.” I said, which wasn’t a complete lie.
They both started down the steps and Mom said, “I didn’t know they have a Media room.”
I shrugged, “Neither did I.”
Mom came down the stairs with John and gave me a hug, and then John did likewise.
“Grandmother showed me where it was because I was bored. Wanna see?” I asked, taking them both by the hand and leading them back to the Media room.
I tried to play it up a bit by throwing open the double wooden doors and flicking on the lights one switch at a time.
“Whoa! Now, that’s a TV!” John exclaimed.
“It’s better than the movies!” Mom commented.
“And look, they have their own popcorn and soda fountain.” John pointed out.
“They do?” I said, having not noticed the wet bar to the right of the door as we came in, “Huh, I didn’t even see that before.”
And then I saw my plate and two empty soda cans sitting beside the keyboard of the computer. I quickly made my way over and snatched them up and hid them while Mom and John were checking out the wet bar.
“Wanna watch some TV together after super?” I asked hopefully.
John was the first to answer, “That might be an excellent idea, the three of us spending some time together.”
Mom came over and gave me another hug, but after she was done hugging me John softly took hold of my chin, so that he could get a good look at my face.
“Still just as handsome as ever.” He stated with a wink.
“And I didn’t even get a black eye!” I added.
John balled up his fist and waved it in front of my nose, “Well, do you want one?”
I tried to rowdy with John, but Mom put a stop to it saying, “John, now stop. Alvin might get hurt again.”
“Gee-whiz Mom! I’m feeling swell!” I said, trying to sound like some adorable TV kid. I even purposefully made my voice go real high as if it was cracking when I said ‘swell’. It had the intended effect, because both of my parents laughed.
I was shocked when after supper, Grandmother and Grandfather both accepted Mom’s invitation to come watch TV with the three of us. However, before Mom and I went in she took me aside and whispered, “Do you need changed?”
I couldn’t help, but to blush when she asked me that and to be honest, I didn’t have any idea if I had wet or not. And Mom must have keyed in on my lack of knowledge concerning my diaper because she subtly pulled open my pajama bottoms and put her hand down inside the front of my diaper.
She withdrew her hand and said, “I think we need to make a quick trip to your room.”
When John saw that we weren’t heading for the Media room, he started to ask where we were going, but Mom must have somehow signaled him, because he smiled and winked.
Once again I tried to talk Mom out of putting me back into a diaper, but she couldn’t be swayed. No matter how much I begged, pleaded or whined she didn’t seem to even notice I was talking. She wouldn’t even argue with me about it, but calmly pushed me backward onto the bed so that my legs were hanging over the side of the mattress. When she had pushed me back I was nearly engulfed in the billows of blankets.
“Help the beds eating me!” I said half joking and half serious.
By the time we got back downstairs, Grandmother nearly had popcorn ready for us and Grandfather was putting in a DVD.
Once again Mom and John shared glances and then John said to me, “Hey Tiger-fish, why don’t you come sit by your dear old dad,” and patted the recliner beside him.
I went over and plopped down beside John and he leaned over to kiss me.
“Ewww get away! You have old dad germs!” I said pushing him away while laughing.
“OLD?” John laughed and began to tickle me a little.
“John stop!” I giggled and squirmed.
The movie turned out to be one of those movies that adults like and everyone else falls asleep watching. It was some old movie called The Band Wagon and I think I made it about fifteen minutes into the movie before I was out like a light.