“Okay, Okay, Okay, Think Gloria,” she said. “You can fix this easy. Only problem, which one is mom?” Gloria now looked between the two redheaded infants. It amazed her how similar the two looked at this age. Thinking back to when Lynne came from the future she remembered what her sister had said. “Wow you really do look like mom,” Gloria whispered. “Never really saw it until now.”
Gloria rubbed her chin thoughtfully as she looked between Lisa and Lynne. Their had to be a way of telling the difference between the two. The question though was how? Sure she could just pick one and hope for the best but what if she was wrong. What would happen if she aged Lynne up to adulthood? Would the infant admit to being Lynne or would she remain an adult, trapping her mother in infancy. “Okay you two,” Gloria said quietly. “Gonna need some help here, so this is what we’re going to do. Mom, I need you to give me a sign. Make a noise, wave your arm, something. Don’t want to accidentally age Lynne up.”
The two infants gazed at one another before the one on the right grunted, flailing her tiny arm. Gloria smirked as she looked at the responding infant. “Hey mom,” she smiled. “Gotta admit you were adorable as a baby.” Gloria stifled a giggle as the tiny infant now appeared to frown up at her. Bending down she now picked the infant Lisa out of her chair, placing her on the couch, “Sorry,” she giggled. “Now let’s grow you back up, have a whole bunch o questions about how this happened.”
Focusing her power Gloria now began tonage Lisa up once more into adulthood. As she watched she could see the tiny infant begin to increase in size. Slowly but surely Lisa began to grow older, looking more like herself. As the child became 5, Lisa sat up breathing a sigh of relief. “Thanks Gloria,” she sighed.
“No problem mom,” Gloria said, watching as Lisa’s clothing changed around her, becoming a nightgown. “How did this happen? Does Lynne have that much power?”
“Looks like it,” Lisa said flatly, growing up from 5 to 6. “Apparently she wanted to talk. She told me babies can only talk with babies.”
“Wow had no idea,” Gloria said in awe. “So what did you two talk about? What was it like?”
“It wasn’t too bad,” Lisa said. “She’s really happy in our home and she like you and Katie. If it wasn’t for the fact that I had to become a baby to talk with her I wouldn’t of minded so much.” Lisa paused as she slipped of the couch, frowning as she examined her 6 year old body. “Hey how come I’m still little?”
“Well wanted to make sure you were you mom,” Gloria said. “Figured it would be safer ageing one of you up only a few years to be sure. That way if I guessed wrong I could simply reverse the process.”
“Well I’m me,” Lisa said craning her neck up to gaze at her daughter. “So can you age me out of kindergarten now?”
“I don’t know mom,” Gloria smirked. “Your kinda cute like this. I mean all you need is some pigtails and ‘poof’ the picture of adorableness.” Lisa frowned, tapping her foot in annoyance as she placed her hands on her hips. “I don’t want to be adorable,” she grumbled. “I want to be grown up. I mean look at me, I’m barely waist high to you right now.”
“Huh guess you are,” Gloria smirked. Smiling Impishly Gloria scooped the tiny girl up. “Hey put me down,” Lisa exclaimed, kicking her tiny legs. Gloria laughed as Lisa kicked her legs, amazingly she had no problems carrying the little redhead girl over her shoulder. Quickly poking the girl in the side, she smiled as Lisa giggled. “Stop I’m ticklish,” Lisa laughed as she continued to squirm.
“Kids usually are,” Gloria said as she placed the tiny girl down. Lisa, smoothed our her nightgown as she now looked up at her daughter. “What’s your deal Glo,” she asked, raising an eyebrow. “You going to grow me back up or what, cause right now this is so not cool.”
“I will mom,” Gloria said. “But since I’m home now I figured I could help you out before I went back to school. Figure you have to be tired, know Lynne is usually good for waking up a couple times a night. Might as well help out this morning before I head back to school. Besides, I know you like cutting loose as a kid and you haven’t had a chance to do this since you got pregnant with Lynne.”
“Okay true,” Lisa stated. “But usually I’d rather be 16 not 6.”
“Noted,” Gloria said. “But know you kind of like this too. Tell you what, whyndont you tell me what needs to be done around the house. I’ll take care of it and you can go jump on the bed or something.”
Lisa smirked, shrugging in acceptance. “Your a goof,” she giggled. “But it’s a deal. You clean up the kitchen while air go see how bouncy my bed is and maybe take a shower. When your done can you please grow me back up again?”
“Sure mom,” Gloria said. “Now run along and have some fun, sure you could use a break.” Lisa smiled, giggling as she now raced up the stairs. Gloria could only shake her head as she listened to her childish mother laughing wildly. Despite Lynne being born it seemed like her baby sister still would cause some mischief around the house.