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Holiday

Holiday

Age: 1 year + 3 months

Jack toddled around the house on his walker, his new teddy sitting on the top of it. He wobbled into the front room, Jonathans work area, and to his surprise Jonathan wasn't there. His computer was on and Jack could see the shiny screen just waiting to be played with. He climbed onto the office chair with some difficulty, and on the screen he saw a massive room with a bed like Anna and Jonathan's. There was a mirror, table and wardrobe. On another picture there was a bright blue pool, also there was a picture of a sea with an island somewhere near the horizon. Just then Jonathan and Anna walked in and saw him, Anna placed him on her hip as Jonathan sat and started talking about the screen.

Two weeks later, Jack was sitting on the big bed with his teddy and his dummy; Anna was putting clothes into a bag along with toothbrushes, toothpaste, toys, books and her laptop. When she had finished she picked up the bag and him, carried them downstairs to the car. She opened the boot shoved the bag in along with a million others, and strapped him into his black car seat in the back before getting in the front herself. Not long after Jonathan came out locked the door, closed the boot and got in himself. The vibrations of the car sent him to sleep, when he woke up he was in his pushchair next to a trolley of bags, lots of giants were rushing around him. The pushchair was pushed through a set of double doors and into a quiet room where seats surrounded the walls, he was set down on one near the window. Jack was standing up leaning against the window looking down at the big white planes go by, when he was whisked away by Anna and lead down a corridor and into a room with lots of seats and people the walls and ceiling were rounded. He was sat down next to a window and strapped in with Jonathan next to him and Anna beside him. He stared out at the white fluffy clouds and blue seas until he saw a long bit of green poking out to sea, the plane started to go down wards. Jack and his teddy were lifted out of the plane and into his pushchair where they pushed through a door and into the sunlight.

Jack was set down on a big bed where he watched Jonathan set up a red and blue cot next to the bed, when Jonathan stubbed his toe he let out a whimper "JoeJoe!" he said, "I'm fine don't you worry about me, I'm a big man!" he said in a stupid voice while showing of his muscular arms, Jack laughed at this.

The next morning Jack was put in shorts, a sleeveless top and a hat. Jonathan carried him into the lift where he and Anna did a silly dance singing "elevator party" which made him laugh uncontrollably. He was set in his pushchair and led around the big city in what Anna called 'Italy' before he was pushed into a shoe shop and bought some strange sandals. When he had his new shoes put on him he was put on the ground where he held onto Anna's leg for support.

A few days later he was dressed in a weird nappy, swimming shorts, hat and sun cream, Anna was dressed in a pink and white dotted bikini, and Jonathan was wearing trunks and a vest top. He was carried up to the roof (which had strong glass walls) and placed under a blue umbrella on a blue sun chair with Anna next to him in the sun with sunglasses covering her eyes. Jonathan took off Jacks hat and his vest top, he blew up some arm bands and placed them on his arms before carrying him over to the bright blue pool and climbing in himself. Jonathan held Jack in the water and bobbed him up and down, splashed him with water and hid himself under the water and then coming back up making Jack squeal.

They also went to the beach where they got on a ferry tour around the south of Italy. Jack stood at the edge with Anna holding onto him while he let his hair whip his face in the wind. After the trip Jonathan got in the sea while Anna sunbathed and Jack sat on a small rock poking out of the sand with his teddy singing a song in his baby language.

Unfortunately it couldn't last forever and they got back on the plane to America. When they got back Anna and Jonathan unpacked while Jack explored under the bed with teddy.