"Auntie Amelia!" Ellis yelled as she ran up the stairs.
"Let's use our inside voices." Link said stopping the child before she barged into her aunts room. "The baby and your aunt are sleeping."
"Oh." Ellis sighed, looking at the ground.
"Did you need something?"
"I was just bored."
"How about we go find your sister and brother?" Link suggested taking the girls hand and heading downstairs. The pair found the other two on the couch watching a TV show. "Hey, guys what's going on?"
"Nothing much." Zola sighed.
"We're bored." Bailey informed.
"Really?" Link sarcastically said. "How about we find something to do?"
"There's nothing to do." Zola sighed, since the lockdown they've essentially done any thing they could think of at the house.
"What's something we haven't done?" Link asked, as he sat on the couch.
"You haven't had an officially tour of the house, since you've moved in!" Zola said excitedly, jumping up from the couch.
"Oh okay, what do I need to see?" Link asked, he knew where everything was at this point.
"Oh, let's show him the hole in moms wall!" Bailey said jumping up and running up the stairs his sisters following him.
"Let's be quiet guys." Link said as he followed them up the stairs, mildly confused to what he was about to see.
"So see where the wall used to be but it's now patched up? Uncle Alex patched it up, but didn't do a very good job according to mommy." Zola giggled, and Link internally cringed at mention of Alex still pissed for what he did to Jo. "Anyways what used to be there was a drawing of a spinal tumor that our dad drew with the help of our mom to try to solve this guys tumor. And they saved him!"
"Impressive." Link smiled, the children were as visibly excited as he'd seen them in weeks.
"Hmm what else?" Zola contemplated.
"Oh! I know, the doorway in the side room with our heights!" Bailey suggested, to which Zola nodded. The kids brought Link down the stairs and to the said doorway.
"Our dad started marking my height here." Zola pointed to the first tick. "And then they ripped this board out and brought it to our other home but when we moved back mom put it back, and started marking Ellis and Baileys heights."
"Wow, I can't believe you guys were so little." Link leaned down to look at their heights, he couldn't believe his son would be as big as them one day.
"Oh, and our moms is over here." Zola pointed parallel to the doorway, showing here Ellis would sporadically measure Meredith if it came to her mind.
"Can you imagine your mom being that tiny?" Link chuckled.
"Nope." Ellis laughed along with her uncle.
"Did you know our dad?" Bailey asked, everyone usually told them stories about their dad but Link never had.
"I didn't myself, but I know he was a highly regarded surgeon I had read some of his work when I was a resident." Link honestly confessed.
"Did you know he was Auntie Amelia's brother?" Ellis asked curiously, they we're trying to educate him.
"I did know that, Scout's middle name is your dads name."
"Do you have any siblings?" Zola asked, trying to get to know the man better.
"I don't, I'm an only child."
"I used to be an only child and then these two came." Zola chuckled, pointing to her siblings. "Oh we need to show you where Bailey broke the floor."
"I totally forgot about that!" Bailey laughed, leading the way into the laundry room. Showing the group where the chip on the floorboard was. "I was trying to teach Ellis how to play race cars and she didn't want to play and I accidentally rammed the car into the floorboard chipping it, and then I stood up and chipped it more."
"Mommy was so mad." Ellis recalled, she always found it funny when Bailey would get in trouble. Zola then walked over to the window sill in the laundry room.
"Here Aunt Lexie and I wrote our names in blue crayon. Apparently my dad wasn't to happy." Zola giggled, recalling the story her mother told her.
"Lexie?" Link asked, not really hearing the name before.
"Oh, that was another one of moms sisters." Link nodded.
"We should show him where Ellis drew that dog." Bailey recommended leading the way into the living room, he then pointed to under the table. "It's right down there."
"I'm impressed you drew that while on your back." Link said as he laid underneath the coffee table looking at the drawing, does your mom know about that.
"Nope." Ellis giggled. "I got away with it."
"So Uncle Link, I was thinking." Zola started, jumping on the couch to get comfortable. "We should get a dog."
"A dog?" Link asked.
"Yep, Bailey, Ellis, and I will do everything!" The younger siblings nodded eagerly in agreement.
"That's something we'd have to talk to your mom and your aunts about."
"But if it was up to you?" Zola pestered.
"It's up to your mom."
"But if it was up to you?" Zola tried again.
"I personally love dogs." Link confessed, causing the children to silently cheer, knowing their aunt and the baby was sleeping. "But that doesn't mean anything."
"Next time we FaceTime mommy we should ask her." Ellis reminded her siblings.
"Oh I know what we should do!"
"And that is?" Link asked the oldest girl.
"We should look at scrapbooks and old home videos."
"That could be fun." The other children nodding in agreements "Where would we find those?"
"I'm not sure. Auntie Amelia would know though."
"Well we can ask her in the morning when she's up."
"It's only 7 though, why is she already asleep?" Bailey asked, confused as to why his aunt would be asleep so early.
"Well the baby's sleeping so she's trying to sleep when the baby sleeps so she can be up when he's up to take care of him."
"How about I make some popcorn and then we watch a movie, in the morning we'll ask her for the scrapbooks and movies?" The kids seemed to agree with this, and they all settled down to watch a Disney movie they watched a thousand times already but nevertheless one they all enjoyed.
