This isn’t an odd question at all my friend!

William of course had high standards for his grand babies but when Mike told his father he was having a child (before he knew he was having twins), he told William that if he wanted to be in the baby’s life, he needed to let Mike raise his kids. Honestly, William is a chill grandfather, the kids calling him “pappy”. He loves watching the munchkins when Mike is out of town or when he’s sick.

Liam: 6

Layla: 6

Hayley: 1

“Daddy! I need help!” Layla screamed through the house. Mike was in the nursery trying to get Hayley to fall back asleep. He sighed as he popped his head out of the room.

“Give me a second, sweetie. I’m trying to get your sister back to sleep.” Mike said back. He heard a grumble before his attention when back to Hayley who soon fell asleep in his arms. Once he put her back into her crib, he left to head to the kitchen where the twins were starting their homework.

“Daddy, I need help! I can’t do this.” Layla said as she was near tears. The twins had just started first grade and had some reading and writing homework to do.

“Hey hey, it’s okay, sweetie. What’s the problem?” Mike said as he sat beside his daughter. Layla pushed the booklet towards Mike and showed him.

“Miss Johns said I needed to copy my words then unscramble the sentences. I did my spelling words but I can’t get the sentences.” Layla said as he watched her father. Mike smiled as he read the first sentence.

“Dog the down sits.” Mike said out loud. Layla nodded as she read over the sentence again. “What word do you think the sentence begins with?” Mike said as he grabbed the pencil from Layla and hovered her the words.

“The?” She said. Mike smiled as he placed the number one above the word.

“And next?”

“Dog?”

“Then?”

“Sits down? The dog sits down?” Layla asked her father. He nodded as he handed her the pencil and watched her slowly write the sentence.

“Good job, sweetie! You need any help, Liam?” Mike asked his son who was flying through his homework.

“I’m okay, Daddy. What’s for dinner?” Liam asked as he looked up from him homework. Mike glanced at the clock and sighed.

Liam and Layla: 6

“Daddy! Daddy! Can we go see the puppies?” Layla asked as they had walked past an animal shelter. Mike couldn’t say no to the twins, so he nodded and headed over. Liam and Layla instantly ran to where the dogs were and looked into each of the cages.

“Daddy, look at him!” Liam said as he pointed to a chocolate colored lab. Mike smiled at the boy as he got down to his height.

“Cute, isn’t he? Where’s your sister?” Mike looked around and heard the squeals and giggles of his daughter. Mike stood and turned the corner to see a pug licking Layla’s face.

“Daddy! He loves me! Can we take him home? Pleaseeeeeeeeee.” Layla asked as she got the dog to settle down and was gently petting it.

“I don’t think your mother would approve. We should get home before she starts yelling at us for being late to dinner. Say goodbye to the puppy.” Mike told Layla. She frowned as she hugged the puppy before grabbing her father’s hand and leave the shelter.

All throughout the week, Layla had kept asking Mike for a pet. She promised to keep her room clean and do her chores for a month. Eventually she got Liam to join in since she convinced him a puppy would be a new friend to play with. Mike and you kept saying no and every time the kids mentioned the puppy, you glared him down.

By the end of the week, the twins quit asking. Mike as relieved but watching his daughter push her food around her plate at lunch made his frown.

“What’s wrong Layla?” She slowly looked up at her father.

“Why can’t we get a puppy? I promised to take care of it…” Mike sighed as he watched her.

“A puppy takes a lot of responsibility, Layla. Mommy and daddy both work and you and Liam go to school. Leaving the puppy alone all day. They need a lot of care and attention.” Mike tried explaining. Layla slowly looked over at her father.

“A puppy is like a baby?” Mike chuckled some and nodded.

“A puppy is like a baby, sweetie. You see how auntie Liv gets with baby Noah. He takes up a lot of her time.” Mike explained. Layla slowly nodded as she watched her father.

“Can we get a puppy when I’m eight?” Layla said. Mike laughed as he watched the girl.

Wow this is terrible my friend and I’m sorry

“Oh… oh my god! Is that dad?!” Layla said as she was staring at the TV. Her and Liam had been trying to contact their father all afternoon but couldn’t. When they heard of a hostage situation with SVU Lieutenant, they quickly turned on the TV to see what the news was covering. Currently, video of their father, without pants, was showing.

“Why the hell is he pantsless?” Liam asked. Layla shook her head as she went to call her father but texts were blowing up her phone.

“I don’t think I’m going to school Monday…”

“Why not, Layla?”

“Chelsea just sent me this…” Layla showed her brother her phone. It was a photo of Mike’s butt enlarged with the text ‘Officer Hotass’ across the picture. Liam shuttered and nodded.

“Maybe we should just call in sick the rest of the year. You think mom or dad would mind?” Layla thought about it for a moment before her phone was going off again with more pictures and texts from friends.

Yes he does! @giraffe-puppy can correct any information I have wrong.

His two oldest are Liam and Layla. They’re twins and I believe Layla was older by three or four minutes. Then there’s Hayley, who is about five or six years younger than the twins. I guess you can say she wasn’t exactly planned but Mike loves her as much as the twins….