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 Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 8:44 pm
Kaimi beamed, happy that they liked the sweets as much as she did. She was reaching for another cookie when she felt herself being lifted into the air. Reasonably indignant, she protested. "Moom! Put me dooown!"
Naomi clung to the child, eyeing the table warily. It was a minefield as far as she was concerned. Picking up a handful of pretzels, she offered them to Kaimi, hoping to distract her daughter from too much sugar. It didn't work.
"Halp! Halp!" Kaimi shouted, trying to escape towards the sweets.
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 8:57 pm
"Wazzat?" Kaeden asked, chocolate around his mouth, seeing the other food item been offered up Kaimi. Her cries of help didn't really startle him - well, they did at first; then he remembered having something like that done to him by Chloe. It seemed natural, especially if this other lady was a guardian, like Chloe and Jake were.
But hey! This lady was picking up more food things and so far, the food things had been really good!
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 9:05 pm
Naomi blinked at Kaeden, then smiled. "They're pretzels, sweetie." She handed some over. Kaimi, seeing someone else getting the pretzels, suddenly decided she really did want them and made grabby hands, eventually rewarded with a handful of the salty food. She munched contendedly for a moment. "Mama! Juice!" Sugar highs tended to make her more demanding than usual.
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 9:13 am
"Juice!" Austin repeated, knowing this one. "I want juice!" he demanded. "Berry juice!"
Jake turned, looking at Chloe. "Exactly why did I get stuck with this one?" he asked. "He's worse than that one!"
"Am not," Austin said, almost falling out of Jake's arms as he reached for some more food on the table. All the strange stuff he was trying was great! How come they didn't have stuff like this on the island??
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 9:36 am
The pretzel thing Kaeden tried was salty, and no where near as good as the brownie or cookies. Thus he didn't offer it to Austin.
"Austin likes you, that's why," Chloe smirked at Jake, enjoying him being pestered by a kid. At least he dealt with Austin well! "And you were here first."
She then picked up a couple of juices in strange boxes for the boys, having followed the general idea of things. Kaeden looked at his box, not knowing what to do with it. "'n how do ya drink this thin?" he asked no one in particular.
Chloe didn't know what to do with it either, frankly.
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 9:50 am
Naomi, who had grabbed a box of grape juice for Kaimi, smiled sympathetically. The others clearly weren't from around here, and their kids were clearly even more difficult than hers. She felt for them. "Here," She said, smiling at Chloe and Jake. "You just unwrap the little straw and stick the pointy end in the silver circle on top of the box." She demonstrated with Kaimi's, getting squirted a little as chubby hands reached for the juice box and squeezed it a little too hard. Kaimi, for her part, sucked happily on the straw, beaming cheerfully at everyone in general.
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 9:54 am
"Yeah, but how do you reuse it with a hole that small?" Jake asked, peering at the box blankly. Austin grabbed it from him, fumbling with the straw to try and do as she said. "Let me do it," Jake said as the boy stabbed blindly at the box with the straw.
"I got it," Austin muttered, narrowing his eyes and sticking his tongue out the side of his mouth as he aimed. He stabbed a bit too hard and juice came fountaining out of the straw, covering them both.
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 10:18 am
Kaeden laughed at this, seeing his bud and the big guy now covered in juice. He decided that he should be more careful, so that didn't happen to him! And he wasn't going to let Chloe do it. He could!
He undid the start a little impatiently, then looked for the little circle part that Jake had complained about. Then gabbed his straw in. Unfortunily for him, he was holding onto the box a little too tightly, and had his own juice squirt out.
But he drank on it anyway. Chloe, meanwhile, was mentally agreeing with Jake. You couldn't reuse something like that, and it would probably hold a lot less than what you needed. Coconuts were better.
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 11:44 am
"You guys certainly are energetic, hu?" Becca murmured with a shake of her head. She didn't attempt to keep up with their young chatter. It came out in too many quick bursts and spasms a question they asked one minute was likely to be forgotten the next. She just tried to make sure they didn't knock anything over; the less she had to clean, the better.
"You make cookies and brownies by baking," Jamie offered helpfully in between the younger kids excitements. He motioned with his hands a little as he spoke, "You make the dough...and then you put in the yummy stuff, like chocolate chips, and then you put it in the oven!" Well, that was all he knew about it really. He never helped Becca make anything aside from licking the spoons.
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 1:07 pm
"An oven...?" she asked, having no idea what that was. She looked to Jake, to see if he had a clue. Then almost lost Kaeden as he reached for something else on the table.
Kaeden was trying to reach another brownie. "Well, how'ere ya make 'em, they good!" he said. "Hey, hey, what's iz'er to eat?" he asked. This place had many foods to try! "Wuz she cookin?" he was half talking too, half referring too, Becca. Though anyone could answer him.
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 6:06 pm
Jake was as clueless as she was. And he was also clueless to what was happening to Austin. Austin was having his very first ever sugar rush. And as such, he was getting even bossier than usual. "I'll beat you now!" he said, poking Jake in the chest. "Fight me!"
Jake looked at him blankly. "Huh?"
"I'll beat you an' take over the ship!" Austin proclaimed before tugging hard on Jake's dreadlocks.
"You little brat, that hurts!" Jake said, trying to get his hair back.
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 7:11 pm
"Austin, stop that!" Chloe scolded him. By now, Kaeden was wiggling in her arms, his question of food forgotten once Austin started his 'take over fight'. The sugar high was getting to him now, making him just want to move! Run around! Something!
"Hey, hey! 'M helpin, 'member?" Kaeden told them both, squirming so much that Chloe had to set him down, or risk dropping him.
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 10:27 pm
At this point, totally unmindful of the faux-fight, a redhead with metal piston-legs steamed up to Becca as though she had an uncanny kind of beeline for food; she wrinkled her nose and peered over at the barbecue, giving Jamie a flip, casual wave, squinting at what was on offer. "Do we have any, like, interesting meat," Jace said. "Like deer or snake or something. If we only have beef that's okay, whatev, but venison is awesome."
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Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 4:03 pm
Dark magenta eyes looked at all the people gathered around the food as the child behind them approached. The little fae tried to see what all was laid out on the table; whatever it was, all of it smelled yummy! Now, if she could just reach the food.... She then turned her head up, looking at an older girl as she heard a word she hadn't heard before. "What ven-son?" she asked, curious. Well, she knew that it was awesome, but what was it?
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Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 6:36 pm
Jake reached up, tugging Austin's own dreadlocks in return and earning a howl of pain. "See?" he demanded. "It hurts, now quit it."
"Chloe!!" Austin bellowed. "Beat him up so I can take over his ship!"
"What's gotten into you, brat?" Jake demanded, putting the kid down. Austin promptly kicked him in the shin. "That's it," Jake said. "Time out."
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