Closer

164.

After their little picnic, they decided to head home as the temperature was on the way up and they didn't want Elise to get too warm. The group of girls had appearently just moved to the ice cream shop by the park entrance.

"Feels like they're following us," Eddy mumbled quietly enough for only Brett to hear him while switching Elise over to the other arm. Brett chuckled.

"Not unlikely. They're fans," Brett snorted, taking Eddy's hand while steering the stroller with the other. "They talked to me earlier, but I asked them to keep some distance so they wouldn't wake Elise."

Brett gave them a quick wave as they passed them, and they immediately giggled, waving back. Eddy decided to give a small wave too.

"That explains a whole lot," Eddy sighed, looking at Elise sitting on his arm. "Would be bad to wake you in the middle of your nap, wouldn't it?"

The walk home wasn't that long, thankfully, as Elise decided about halfway she wasn't done burping, bringing some of her picnic milk with it and spilling it all over Eddy's shirt and her own beautiful dress.

"Let's get both of you changed," Brett chuckled after they got inside, getting his own shoes off and helping Eddy with his shoelaces so he could kick his off.

"I'll get this burper changed if you'll clean out the bag," Eddy chuckled, bringing Elise to her room to get changed out of her dress.

"So, what do you wanna wear now then, baby?" Eddy asked as he opened her dress drawer. They had so many she could probably wear a new one every day and not run out before she'd grown out of them. He did realize he had to hold the dresses quite close to be able to read the lable off them to see the sizes, though. Why hadn't they sorted out the too small ones anyway?

He found a pale blue dress for her this time and white tights. Who cared if they got dirty anyway? He wrangled her out of the dirty dress and got her into the new one, making sure it sat properly before heading out to Brett.

"Wanna take her while I get changed?" Eddy asked, making sure to hold her at arm's length away from the stains on his own shirt. Brett took her and placed her on his arm.

"I'll make it official: You get the job of dressing her. You make her look adorable," Brett chuckled, reaching into the bag to find a new hair clip that would match her new dress.

"Sounds good to me," Eddy chuckled as he headed for the bedroom. "I'll be right back."

Brett found a white hair clip with a bow and unclipped the previous yellow clip and replacing it with the white.

"You know baby, we should get some proper pictures taken of you to hang them on the wall," Brett said to Elise who answered with a sneeze. "You know, like grown ups would do."