When the cartoons were done Erika got up and decided that she might as well take care of the only homework she had that weekend, a reading assignment and a boring one at that. It was a chapter book with lots of words and no pictures, but she had to get it over with.
Back in her room she sat down to read the book with her blankie in one hand and her pacifier in her mouth. Sucking intently on her pacifier she worked her way through the boring reading. Her grades were important to her after all.
She did manage to finish all three chapters that she needed to read, but afterwards she was tired, so she climbed into bed to take a nap until her mommy came home.
The sound of the the door opening woke her up and she bounded out of bed to help get ready for dinner.
"Mommy! Mommy!" she rushed up and gave her a big hug, glad that her mommy was back home from work. It was boring and kind of scary to be in the house all alone.
Her mommy hugged her back, rather distractedly, "Hi honey, did you get any of you home work done?"
"Yes mommy," Erika beamed, just glad that her mommy was back home with her, "Want me to help with dinner?"
There wasn't much that she had to help with though, since they were just having leftover meatloaf, mashed potatoes and green beans.
Erika thought that green beans were yucky, but she ate them anyway because she knew it would make her mommy proud to see her clean her plate like the big girl that she was. The meatloaf was boring, but not as bad as the green beans. On the other hand the mashed potatoes were fun. Using her fork she patted them up into a mountain before eating them. Last was best though, a nice big glass of milk.
She was kind of sad that it was regular cold milk in a big person's glass rather than a baby bottle, but it was still milk.
Picking up the glass in both hands she drank it all up, only dribbling a little bit down her shirt.
Her mommy just shook her head, "Erika, you need to be more careful."
"Sorry mommy," Erika whimpered, on the verge of tears.
Mommy looked at her for a moment and she squirmed a little in her chair as she felt the warm slippery feeling that came when she made a mess in her diaper.
"It's okay, it's just been a long day at work. Why don't you just go take a bath and then maybe we can watch a movie together?"
Relieved that her mommy wasn't mad at her Erika hurried to take her bath and put on a new diaper.
When she was all done with her bath she dried off, put on a diaper, patting it into place, enjoying the feel of its bulk between her legs.
The movie she selected was one of her old Disney movies, the Lion King. As soon as the first song started she hummed along, snuggling up against her mommy on the sofa. Despite the fact that it was one of her favorite movies, she started to feel sleepy half way through and then the next thing she knew was that mommy was gently waking her up, "You had a long day too honey?"
Erika shrugged, "Mommy can you tuck me in?"
Mommy looked at her sternly, but then smiled a tried smile, "Sure."