The next morning, as Mia was still snoozing, Henry's chubby little hands emerged from under the covers. Lifting his plump little body, he stretched with a yawn, turned his head to gaze at his sleeping mom, and without disturbing her, looked towards the empty side of the bed and mumbled, "Dada."
At the sink, Andre heard the sound and quickly came out, "It's just after six, how are you awake already?"
Seeing his father, Henry beamed with joy.
Just as his tiny hands were about to reach for his mom's hair, his father scooped him up and brought him to the bathroom to brush his teeth together. "If you wake her up, you're in trouble, buddy."
Seeing his dad brushing his teeth, Henry's big eyes filled with curiosity, mistaking it for something tasty. He opened his mouth, wanting a bite, "Ah bah ah ah."
"This is a toothbrush, not food. Try to grab dad's toothbrush again, and you might just get a little spank, okay?"
"Mmm ah woo woo bah bah," Henry babbled away cheerfully in the early morning.
Soon after, annoyed by the noise, his dad quickly finished up and took him outside.
Placing him in the stroller, they went to the gym together.
Henry sat in his stroller, clutching his milk bottle, leisurely drinking his formula while watching his father pathetically work out on the treadmill.
"You're still small, but when you get a bit bigger, dad will buy you a mini treadmill. It'll be right here in dad's gym, and we can run together in the morning."
Henry threw his milk bottle away.
By seven o'clock, when most people were waking up, getting out of bed, and having breakfast, only Miss Cedillo of the Cedillo family found it hard to part with her beloved bed.
Seeing it was almost time to oversleep again, it was half-past seven. Coleen said, "Chad, go wake her up. She'll miss breakfast at this rate."
Chad went to the kitchen, grabbed something, and went upstairs. He first pulled Molly by the arm, dragging her out of bed. Molly, still with her eyes closed, pleaded, "Chad, just five more minutes."
Chad remarked, "I don't know where you get this sleepiness from."
He then placed the frozen water bottle he had prepared on his wife's thighs.
"Ah!"
The scream was heard downstairs.
Grandma Aubree asked her daughter-in-law, "Coleen, what did Chad take upstairs just now?"
Coleen looked towards the bedroom, "Not sure."
In the bedroom, Molly curled up her legs, snatched the frozen water bottle, angrily pulled open Chad's collar, and stuffed it inside his shirt. "Chad, when it's time for you to call me, you don't. And when you shouldn't, you purposely torment me. What are you trying to do?"
Chad pulled the shirt from his pants, and the water bottle rolled out. He caught it smoothly. "If it was because of me that you couldn't wake up the next morning, I wouldn't call you. But if you sleep normally and still laze around in bed the next day, I have plenty of ways to wake you up early."
Molly, frustrated, pushed Chad away and went downstairs to wash up.
Soon, everyone saw what Chad had in his hand.
"Oh, using ice to freeze Molly, Chad sure has some ideas." Grandma Aubree admired her grandson.
Molly complained, "If Chad were in ancient times, any criminal caught by him would be incredibly unlucky."
The Byrne family had all finished their breakfast, but no one left the table, all sitting around to keep the family's darling, Molly Byrne, company for her breakfast.
"From childhood to adulthood, going to school, nothing could wake you up. When you were little and running late, your dad would drive you. As you grew up, your brother took you. Now that you're working, your mom still has to drive you."
"Mom, I'm the one driving you."
Coleen urged, "Hurry up and eat, we're running late."
Molly bowed her head and ate.
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