I have been thrilled with all the nice comments people have been leaving and asking for more. This chapter is more of a slice of life then anything else. It's a day in the life with Kevin/Karen sometimes intersecting. There are still problems to overcome, but this is a pretty lighthearted chapter.

Wishing Blanket III: Time to Adjust

By Little Katie

"Life is odd at times I think. Just two months ago I was trying to escape the cold winter of New York, trying to escape my life there. Escape I did; I escaped everything. A fat 27 year adult with no job, little money and little chance of success. Now look at me, a one and a half year old little girl, and a cute one too if I might add." Karen thought to herself and smiled back at the image in the mirror. The image of the blonde haired, blue eyed little girl smiled back. She stood up and put her hands against the cool glass. Sometimes she would make a sudden nonsensical movement to see if the image in the mirror will mess up and get caught as being only a mirage. But the mirror was always true and every time Karen played this little trick she would laugh. A light, joyous laugh, one that hadn't been heard in Kevin's lifetime. For a while the laugh was unnerving, so foreign to hear happiness escape my being, but now it is such a part of my life that if it were to leave, I would feel lonely."

"What are you doing little girl?" A high pitched yet soft voice called out.

"Noffin," I said as I blushed at being caught playing with the mirror. "Then maybe you should be doing something, don'tcha think?" Nicole asked teasingly.

Nicole was my sister, and to think before two months ago I didn't even know she existed. She fills my heart and tummy with such warm feelings that just by seeing her in the room I know everything will be okay. Before I met Nicole I didn't think I could love a child so young and I feel somewhat disturbed by it. But I do love Nicole, a love unlike any love I felt before. I used to equate love with sex but this is so much greater. This love is on a deeper level, a love where I would forfeit my own happiness just to increase hers by the smallest measure. The great thing is, she has the same love for me, and it increases day by day.

"Like wha?" I asked

"Hmmm, let me think." Nicole paused for a second and then leaped at me, bringing me softly to the ground. "Kissy torture time" Nicole yelled. With that she kissed me all around the face. Little wet pecks covered my face as I giggled and pretended to get away. "There's no escape from kissy torture!" Nicole laughed. I laughed too. Nicole then lifted up my dress to my neck. The dress was just a romp around dress, pink corduroy with a butterfly on the chest. In lifting the dress, Nicole exposed my pampered bottom, I still hadn't gotten use to controlling myself yet. "Look at that belly, yummy belly" Nicole laughed while imitating a TV Muppet." With that Nicole bent down, her long blonde hair tickling my chest, before she showered my chest and tummy with kisses. "Uh, oh do you know what's worse then kissy torture, Karen?"

"No noffin is wors', noffin" I screamed as she was still kissing my belly. With that Nicole to a deep breath and blew wetly against my belly.

"Raspberry torture" she yelled and blew once more. I laughed loudly and squealed with the delight of a moment. I laughed so hard that I begin to feel a warm liquid escape from between my legs. I lay there out of breath as my body finished doing what it needed to.

When I first entered my current predicament the notion of wetting myself was very unsettling. I was afraid that I would get in trouble. In my previous life if I had an accident I would get a scolding if lucky, but usually I would get hit for it. It took me a few weeks to get over that fear, now its just a fact of life that nothing bad is going to happen. I looked down and saw the pamper sag a bit and a small hint of yellow outlined the center of my privy. "Uh-oh," I said, "I wet".

"I know Karen, I can see" Nicole replied as she poked the pamper with her index finger. "Let's go get mommy to change you." With that Nicole stood up and picked me up from a seated position. Her forearm nestled under my butt and her other arm wrapped around my waist. I put my legs around her hip and we made our way down the stairs.

When I first got here, being carried was not my most favorite thing in the world. Now that I gotten used to my station in life, being carried was a nice sensation. I got to be transported and didn't have to work my little legs. Going down the stairs though was hard for me and being carried was the best method.

Mom was in the kitchen working on something when we walked in. "Mommy," Nicole rang out, "Someone made a peepee."

I turned my head and saw mommy stand up. "Oh let me have her." Mom said as she reached down to get me. Nicole lifted me up and mommy helped the most though. "Did my baby make a mess?" she asked sweetly.

"Uh-huh mommy."

"OK, let's get you changed and then time for you two to take a nap."

"Yes mommy."

Mommy laid a towel on the table and folded it in two. She then laid me down on top of it and kissed me on the forehead. It made me feel good because she always kissed me on my forehead when she changed me. It reassured me that I wasn't in trouble. She unbuttoned the side of my dress and took it off.

"Such a pretty little girl aren't you?" mommy said as she put the dress in a laundry bag. She reached down and pulled apart the tape on the pamper. She pulled the top part down revealing my privy.

"Oh, what do I see" mommy said teasingly, "Oh its a little bitty privy". I giggled and so did Nicole who was standing by watching. Mommy removed the pamper completely and grabbed a baby wipe. She slowly wiped over my cunny and between my leg. When I first got here I was embarrassed at feeling pleasure from that, but now I know its just one of the privileges to being a girl. I also got over the fear that she was doing something sexual and realized that the pleasure was natural. She leaned down and kissed me on my belly just above my cunny, I always smiled at that. She then grabbed the talcum powder and used it liberally on my middle. A fresh pamper was placed under my now powdered bottom and brought over to cover my cunny. Mommy fastened the pamper and gave me another kiss for being such a good girl. "Good as new" mommy said.

"Yes good as new in more ways then just the fresh diaper" I thought. I reached my arms towards mommy and she bent down to pick me up. I wrapped my arms around her and gave her a kiss on her lips.

"I love you mommy."

"I love you too baby Karen" she said while placing me on the floor. I stood there and held onto the wooden chair. Mommy helped Nicole get her dress off. Nicole was a little old to need help with dressing or needing a nap. I think she liked the attention of mommy helping her take her clothes off and she really loved sleeping with me. It was only during these nap times that Nicole and I slept in the same bed. Nicole was undressed all the way down to her flowered panties and though she wasn't old enough, I could see where my body was heading, her chest had 2 little bumps on them. I knew that eventually that would happen to me to. Mommy got on one knee and hugged us both. She gave Nicole a kiss on the cheek and me a kiss on the forehead.

"Be good little girls and take your nap, remember we are going out tonight." She said.

I know she mentioned something but my memory wasn't as good as it used to be. I quickly dismissed it as Nicole carried me up the stairs to our bedroom. The pink and white of the room, which I at first thought was a bit overboard, gave me the sense of comfort, of belonging. Nicole placed me on the bed and turned a fan on us. Though the house was at a pleasant temperature, the fan gave us an excuse to use a blanket. Nicole got into bed with me and pulled a white blanket up to my chin. Nicole wrapped her arms around me.

"I got a secret" Nicole stated.

"What?" I asked.

"I don't know if I should tell you."

"Come on, please." I pleaded.

"I don't know how you will feel about it."

"I don't know if you don't tell me."

"It's kind of weird to tell."

I was starting to get worried, maybe things weren't as the appeared. Maybe she is really sick and her life is in danger. Maybe Dad is hurting her. Maybe she's in real trouble.

"Are you OK Karen?" Nicole asked as the worry must of been evident on my face. A small tear rolled down my face and Nicole wiped it away.

"No, you're about to tell me something terrible, I just know it. Please tell me, please. Are you hurt?"

Nicole laughed, "No silly, I'm in love."

I sighed, "really, with who, do I know him?"

"You used to."

"I don't understand."

"Silly little girl," Nicole laughed again, "I'm in love with you."

"Oh" I said unenthusiastically.

"Humph, I thought you'd be happy."

"Well you're gonna want to touch me in places and do things to me now right," I said dejected, knowing I will probably have to submit myself to stuff I really didn't want to.

"Where in the world did you get that idea" Nicole said in shock.

"Its happened before when I was this little."

"Ewww, that's gross."

"You mean you don't want to do sex stuff with me?" I asked.

"Yucky, no. That's not love that's just plain wrong. This is love." Nicole rolled over and placed me on her bare stomach. She gave me a real tight squeeze and then gave me a big kiss on the lips. A good kiss, one that filled me to my toes with happiness. "You got a lot to learn little girl" she teased.

"Ya, and still a lot to forget."

"I guess so."

Nicole rolled me back to the bed and we lay there in each other's arms. I listened to her heart beat. In all the things in this world I don't think there was anything I liked better. Her hand rubbed my back and my booty. It was slow and methodical. It made me feel safe, safe in the arms of a nine year old girl. A few months ago I wouldn't believe it to be possible.

"Karen?"

"Ahuh."

"I'm sorry."

"For what?"

"That people hurt you, I wish it never happened, but it won't happen again OK. I'm your big sis and it will never happen OK?"

"Ahuh."

"I mean it, I would never hurt you, I love you, really I do."

"Nicole, I love you to, more then I ever loved someone, I promise."

With that we both got quiet. Nicole brushed the hair from in front of my eyes and kissed me again, this time very soft, very light. I never been kissed with such deliberate love before. The kiss made me close my eyes and fall asleep. I could still feel her rubbing my back, but that kissed formed a shield of contentment around me that warmed me to the bone.

"Honey, wake up." A deep voice said over me as a big hand shook my body. You too angel, time to get ready."

Slowly I opened my eyes, only an hour had passed, but a lot can change in an hour. I looked up and saw daddy standing over me. Nicole jumped up and into his arms. He received kisses and gave them back in return. "Come on, get ready for daddy."

"Hey, sweet pea" he said looking down at me.

"Hi daddy" I said meekly. Daddy sat on the bed and pulled the blanket off of me.

"Let daddy see his little angel, you shouldn't hide like that, you might get lost." I smiled. The truth was that out of all the people in my life, daddy was the one I had the most problem trusting. It's not that he did anything wrong, God knows he's never made any attempt to. It's not even that I didn't love him, because I did have feelings of love for him. It was something in me that held back. It kept him a little back to, and to his credit he didn't force anything.

"You know I love you, right Karen?"

"Ahuh." He always said that every night. He said it with sincerity. He was speaking the truth too, I could tell.

"Whenever you're ready you can show it back. I know it's been hard for you."

"Daddy, its not you, I want to but something is stopping me. I want to" I trailed off.

"Its OK whenever you're ready. You're worth the wait."

He deserved a loving daughter, really he did. He was a good man. I took a deep breath and jumped up. I hugged him and gave him a big kiss. I saw his big arms come to engulf me. Then out of instinct I pushed away, afraid I'd be hit by him. I knew he was going to hug me back but somewhere in me I was afraid he would hit me. I cowered in the corner, wrapping my arms around my head. I turned and faced the wall shivering. A minute passed and my heart rate slowed. His big hand touched my leg.

"you are a brave young lady for trying to face your fear like that." he said trying to comfort me. "In due time baby, in due time." He dried the tears from my eyes and walked off to get mommy to dress me. I cried even more. I cried because I so wanted to show him my love, so wanted him to hold be. Something was stopping me, and it wasn't him. I wanted to find out what, but didn't even know where to start.

Mommy came in to find me still sobbing in the corner. She picked me up, "It's okay Karen, he's not mad, just a little worried." I just hugged her around her neck but remained silent. "Let's get you ready for a night out, there's a married couples get together at the church after the midweek service, and we must look pretty for church."

She laid me on the bed. She did a quick check of my diaper and it was dry. She laid a pink dress on the bed, followed by white stockings and ruffled panties. "Aren't we going to look pretty tonight," she mused. First she rolled the stockings up my leg, the white stockings had a pretty rose print in them. Next the pink ruffled panties were slid up and pulled over my pampers. When I sat down the made a little rustling sound and I laughed. "Now the dress." With that I raised my arms high over my head and the pink dress was lowered onto me. The skirt was full and it was very feminine. "Oh how precious" mommy squealed. Daddy came in with Nicole. Nicole was wearing an almost matching outfit. She looked cute that I could only imagine that I did as well.

"I've got to get a picture" daddy said as he ran to get his camera. "OK lets see the three most beautiful girls in the world smile for the camera" he said as we all sat together. We smiled big as the flash went off. "Perfect, I bet if I sent this to modeling agencies I'd have three superstars." We all laughed.

Daddy placed me in the back seat of the car and fastened me into the carseat. Nicole was buckled in too. On the way, Nicole tried to teach me patty-cake, but the best I could do was keep my hands up as she tapped them, but we still laughed and had fun. Once there mommy took me out of the back seat and carried me towards the foyer. Many of the ladies said I looked like an absolute doll and pinched my cheeks. I didn't care too much for the amount of attention I was receiving and buried my head into mommy's chest. She rubbed my head.

"It's OK honey we'll go inside now. Someone is shy around strangers still." she said while excusing herself. We went into the main part of church, dad and a man from his office were talking.

"Hon, come meet Charles." He called over to us. Charlie ran daddy's garage. He had a son that was my age and it was decided we two should play together in the nursery during the service. Charlie Jr. was a cute boy to, slender with dark hair. "Never too young to play match maker" the adults laughed. He was cute, he held out his hand and I took it. We were both taken to the nursery. We were told stories and heard songs. The only time Charlie and I separated hands were when we were given cookies and milk in our spill proof cups. Other then that we were side by side, hand in hand. It almost seamed natural. At the end of the service mommy came in to get me. "OK Karen say goodbye to your little boyfriend." I blushed, and waved to Charlie "Bye bye." He waved back and disappeared behind the closing door. During the trip back I realized how much I was liking my new life and I fell asleep thinking of Charlie holding my hand.

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Yes, it will be continued. The next chapter is already planned in my little head. I don't want to reveal much, because it is going to be a tad different than the lighthearted mood of the previous three parts. It will be entitled "The past is a beast" or whatever I decide to change it to at the last moment.