Another hour was then spent cleaning and dressing Rebekah Rainbow to face the day. When Rebekah was out of the shower Wendy handed him his new outfit. "Well, if you want to act like a baby...I'll dress you like one, Baby sis," Wendy announced.
First he was given an extra thick white pullup diaper to put on and a white pair of plastic panties with yellow lace ruffles on the back. Still weak and nauseous, Rebekah didn't have any energy left to put up a fight. He powdered himself first and cringed, remembering powdering the doll multiple times now. It didn't help the frustration when he looked in the mirror and saw his hairless head and got another reminder.
Next he dressed himself in his first pair of tights. They were white with prints of little ballerinas in pastel yellow tutus and leotards. When he was done pulling them up they just barely stretched past the over sized diaper.
Next he was given a yellow leotard, matching the ballerinas on his tights. Next he stepped into a two layer tutu skirt that fell halfway to his kees. It did not conceal the large bulk of his diaper and plastic panties despite the length because the material of the multilayered skirt was a thin and transparent netting obviously designed to show off the tights intentionally.
He confusingly wore what appeared to be a thin pastel yellow chef's jacket over the leotard. It buttoned up with four oversize white buttons and had an oversize white collar neck and over sized white cuffs at his wrist. The soft white collar tickled at his neck and distracted him. The straight black hair of the wig which fell to his shoulders did too. On top of his head was perched a wide yellow chef's hat. He wore yellow ballet flats.
"Wendy, can't you just give it up already? I'm not going to do everything you say. Why do I have to wear this? Am I ballerina or a chef? Is this even right? It doesn't go together." His arms were tired from flouncing around all morning for Wendy so he tried to rest his hand in the pocket of the jacket. He realized it was another purely decorative and non-functional pocket and stamped his foot in frustration.
"Oh, so Rebekah Rainbow is a little fashion critic already. How do you think 'Dear Xandra' would feel if she knew you were criticizing her choice of outfit?" She pressed play and Alexandra appeared on the screen and launched into the usual silly intro, "Happy Sunshine, guys! It's your best buddy Xandra here with another episode of MAKEUP MAYHEM! RAWWWRRR!"
Alexandra's curtsied to the viewer as usual and then did a quick little pirouette, before sitting and getting down to business. Wendy put the video on loop a few times for Rebekah first, however. Wendy thought that Rebekah's curtsy was improving but the pirouette was dreadful even after several tries.
"Stoppppppp," he begged, "Or do you want to tell Mom some more about vomit?" Wendy had to give Rebekah that one, and allowed him to continue with his makeup. Rebekah was free of more dancing around in a tutu for now.
For Alexandra getting down to business first involved a story about seeing a cute kitten that morning and then an explanation of how, "So you see today I'm using a French accent, because I'm a chef and France is famous for it's excellent cuisine!" that derailed when Alexandra wondered out loud, "Or...am I speaking in a French accent because I'm dressed like a ballerina and France is famous for ballet?"
Alexandra eventually came to the conclusion that it was possible to be both at the same time and announced in an impossibly over the top high pitched French accented baby voice plans to open a 'Ballet Restaurant' some day. Rebekah frustratingly felt the urge to argue against this despite his sister having mocked him. "She's wrong Baby, those just don't go together," he hissed as quietly as he could, "I think she put on the wrong costume top by mistake and she's just faking her way through it." He looked back at the screen, "I'm on to you, Alexandra," he whispered before resuming his efforts to imitate Alexandra to the best of his ability.
He presented himself downstairs for Wendy, who then took a few pictures while he held various kitchen utensils and tried to do ballet poses. Wendy, tired herself, then sent him to the living room to play with baby and stay out of her hair.
For thirty blissful minutes, Wendy enjoyed pure peace and quiet while Rebekah was off playing baby. She couldn't remember the last time she had been able to just completely relax. Even when someone else was watching Doug the idea that whatever trouble he got into might still somehow wind up twisted around and blamed on her somehow was always there on the edge of her awareness.
Now with the BabyGuard to keep an eye on him, she didn't need to worry. If he thought it was some great victory to pee his panties, then let him pee his diapers instead until he gets tired of it.
Wendy heard a buzz from her phone and looked down with surprise. For once, she saw, her Mom actually was coming home early. Wendy swore under breath, Elena would still want to eat when she got home and the chili took forever to simmer. Wendy stood and began to go to the kitchen and get ready for chili night, which was Wendy and Elena'a favorite, until she glanced over and saw Rebekah Rainbow and laughed and snapped another photo.
Rebekah was bent over with his rear in the air searching the diaper bag for something. The chef's hat tipped off and fell to the ground. "I can see your diaper, baby sis! Good girls bend at the knee and squat so no one sees," she mocked. "Give it a try, baby."
He blushed. "No! I got it," he said and held up the diaper, he started back towards the baby.
"You're faking. It's not even crying. I can tell, your face gets all scrunched up, it's funny."
"It is not funny! It's terrible. You're terrible, Wendy. I'm not faking, I just checked it and it's wet if I don't change it now it'll cry later!"
"Then do it quick,' she commanded. "I saw you outside other day with the swing you know. It's fine. Just go ahead and get used it it."
With an angry red face he primly and quickly squatted down by the bag for a few agonizing seconds until Wendy placed the pastel yellow chef's hat firmly back on Rebekah's head. She then nodded at him. He rushed to the doll and still made it in time to avoid any crying.
"So is baby sister's tummy feeling all better?" she asked in the same sort of cutesy Mommy voice he had been using for the doll.
"Yes, Wendy," he said. "I feel better." The baby doll's cry was terrible but at least if you gave it what it wanted it would just make happy noises and leave you alone eventually.
"Ok, it's time to get dinner ready, baby sis. And, you know, I was really enjoying the peace and quiet just now so how about we keep that going? You go get dinner ready and I'll go watch TV. Then, when you're done, you can do the dishes too." She tied Elena's floral print apron on him which was slightly oversize but would do the job of protecting the chef's jacket which, of course, was decorative not just in the pocket but in its entirety.