A little before 6:00 o’clock the doorbell rang announcing the arrival of the grandparents. David’s heart began pounding when his father opened the door and invited his grandparents, George and Louise, into the house. When they entered the living room, David stood up and walked over to his grandparents and gave them both a hug and a kiss. Both George and Louise thought that it was unusual for David to be wearing an outfit with short pants in the end of November. Louise also thought to herself that David looked out of place in his outfit. She had seen young girls at the mall wear shortalls, but she couldn’t recall if she had ever seen any boys over the age of 5 or 6 wearing shortalls. She had a puzzled look on her face but she didn’t say anything, she didn’t want to hurt David’s feelings. George thought his outfit was a little unusual as well, but he didn’t give it a second thought. He thought that maybe this was the new “fad” for boys to wear these days. He didn’t understand young people at all.

Edward got George and Louise and drink and everyone sat around the living room drinking and visiting for about 20 or 30 minutes while the food finished cooking. Near the end of dinner, Edward breached the subject of young David’s unusual clothing.

He started of by asking David’s grandparents if they had noticed anything unusual about their grandson’s clothing that evening. Louise commented that she did think it a bit strange that he should be wearing shorts at this time of the year. Edward asked if they had noticed anything else unusual about David’s clothing. Louise remained silent, she didn’t know where her son-in-law was going with this conversation, and she definitely did not want to say anything to hurt David’s feelings. After a few seconds of awkward silence, George spoke up and said: “Aw hell, he looks likes a dad-gum five-year-old.” David blushed and hung down his head.

Edward then said: “Thank-you for noticing. This is actually sort of a ‘coming out’ party for David tonight. You see he’s been wearing these types of clothes around the house for a couple of weeks now.”

David again blushed and Louise’s blood began to boil as she thought that her son-in-law was trying to deliberately embarrass her grandson.

Sonia saw the look on her mother’s face and quickly jumped into the conversation: “No, no! It’s not what you think. This clothing is all of David’s idea. He’s the one that begged me to take him to the store to buy it and he’s the one that asked me to cut off a pair of regular overalls and turn them into shortalls.”

By now George and Louise were both totally confused.

Edward then took back over the conversation: “Let’s go back to how all of this began and start over at the beginning.” Edward then explained about David’s bedwetting and how they had taken him to the doctor for tests and so on and so on. Edward told the shell-shocked grandparents about the research he had done on the internet and how that there are thousands upon thousands, if not millions of people worldwide that enjoy acting like a baby and want to be treated like a baby. He also explained about the “deal” he had made with his young son to allow him to wear a diaper and act like a baby, but that he would have to let other people see him dressed up that way. He then took the time to tell them the reason why he had made this deal with his young son, that he did not want David sneaking around and living a lie and hiding who he really was.

While his father explained things, David would occasionally turn red with embarrassment as his deep dark secrets were openly discussed with others. But he was also carefully studying his grandparent’s faces as his father talked about infantilism and adult babies and diaper lovers. Of course all of this was completely new to George and Louise, they had never before heard these expressions and they had no idea that there were people out there who actually wanted to act like babies. It was more then most senior citizens could handle in a single sitting.

When Edward finished speaking there was a long and very awkward silence, David’s grandparents had no idea what to say. Sonia finally broke the silence by asking if anybody was ready for desert. Everybody responded that they were indeed ready for desert, even though in fact, everyone was still full from diner. They just wanted an opportunity to change the subject and start talking about something else.

When they had finished their desert, Edward turned to his son and announced that it was getting late and that he needed to go get ready for bed. David excused himself from the table and went upstairs to change into his pajamas, even though it was not even 8:00 o’clock yet. David first of all removed his shirt and shortalls and hung them up in his closet. Next he laid down on the floor and put on a diaper. And last but not least he stepped inside his footed blanket sleeper and zipped it up tight. David took a long hard look at himself in his mirror as he worked up the courage to leave the safe confines of his room and to have his grandparents see him dressed in a diaper and footed pajamas. Finally he heaved a heavy sigh and said to himself: “Here goes nothing.” He then opened the door and headed downstairs.

By the time David had finished changing (and mustering up his courage), everyone was back in the living room. As he hesitantly entered the living room, Louise absolutely melted when she saw how cute her grandson looked in his footed pajamas. “Oh my!” she said, “That is absolutely precious! Now come over here and give your Nana a big hug.”

David complied with his grandmother’s wishes, but as he walked tentatively across the living room his diaper rustled and cracked announcing itself to everyone. His grandfather took one look at young David and rolled his eyes, shook his head and looked away. When he got to his grandmother she reached out and gave him a great big hug. She commented how warm and soft he felt. As she was finishing up her hug, her hand moved downward and patted his diapered behind. She gushed on and on how cute and adorable and precious he was. She commented that on a “cute” scale of one to ten that he must be at least an 11 or a 12. David was glad that his grandparents didn’t “freak out” when they saw him dressed that way. He also enjoyed all of the attention that he was receiving from his grandmother, even though it did make him feel a little uncomfortable.

Louise scooted over next to her husband and then patted her hand on the couch next to her and instructed her young grandson to sit down. David squeezed into diapered behind into the small opening between his grandmother and the arm of the couch. Louise continued on about how cute and adorable David was. When she finally finished talking about her grandson, Edward said that he had rented a movie and asked if everyone was in the mood to watch a movie that evening. Everybody said that that sounded like a good idea to them and Edward put the movie in and started it.

About half way through the movie, Edward paused the DVD player to give everybody a bathroom break. While everyone else was using the restroom, David ran upstairs and grabbed his pacifier and his pillow out of his crib. When David returned to the living room sucking on his pacifier, his grandmother once again started in on how cute he was. She then instructed David to come over to her and she would show him a trick so that he wouldn’t accidentally lose his pacifier. She then asked Sonia for a large safety pin and a piece of string. Sonia retrieved the requested items and brought them to her mother. Louise first of all unzipped David’s sleeper about half way and put one hand inside of his pajamas as she carefully ran the safety pin through the chest of David’s sleeper. Next she tied the string to the pacifier and then tied the pacifier to the safety pin. She told David that this was how she had done it with his mother when she was a little girl. “Now you’ll never lose your pacifier again!” she said as she zipped up her grandson’s blanket sleeper. Once again David enjoyed the attention from his grandmother, and he enjoyed how babyish he felt with a pacifier pinned to his blanket sleeper. David took his pillow and laid down on his stomach in the middle of the living room floor. This brought the white plastic soles of his sleeper’s feet into full view. Several times through out the rest of the movie David would raise his feet up in the air. He liked how the one-piece design of the sleeper along with the attached feet would force his toes to curl up. It was a reminder of how youthful he must have looked lying there on the floor.

When the movie had finished, Edward announced to his son that it was his bedtime. He told David to give his grandparents a hug and a kiss goodnight. Sonia then asked her young diaper wearing son if he would like her to make up a baby bottle for him. David responded with a very polite “Yes please.” His mother went into the kitchen and was making up his bottle while David said goodnight to everyone. David started with his father and then moved on to his grandfather. His grandfather’s goodnight hug and kiss was very short. Last but not least he moved to his grandmother. She gave him a great big hug and told him to “sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite.” As he was saying goodnight to his grandmother he got an idea. “Hey Nana,” he said, “Do you want to see the crib that me and Dad just built?”

The surprised grandparent responded with a “Sure, I’d love to see your crib.” David asked his “Nana” to wait a minute while he went and got his bottle. He went into the kitchen and retrieved his bottle from his mother and gave her a hug and a kiss goodnight. David returned to the living room and then grandson and grandmother went upstairs together to David’s room. Once inside his room, David’s grandmother commented what a nice job that David and his father had done on the crib. David then began very excitedly and very rapidly telling his grandmother how they had built the crib. All Louise got out of what David was saying was: Thrift Store, table, Home Depot and PVC pipe. She laughed at her grandson’s great enthusiasm over his new crib. She asked how he got inside. David showed her the rear gate and the latches that his father had built. He unlatched the gate and swung it down. He then used the horizontal rungs like a ladder and climbed up into his crib. He turned around and pulled the gate up and then refastened the latches. He then said: “See! Just like a real baby’s bed, but made for me!” Louise smiled and reached up and gave her young grandson another kiss goodnight. David had to lean over the railing to reach his grandmothers mouth. As she started to leave his room, David asked his grandmother if she would tell him a bedtime story.

The once again surprised grandmother said that she would love to tell him a story and grabbed his chair from his desk and brought it over next to his crib. David lay down and began drinking out of his bottle while his grandmother began telling him the story of the three little pigs. She would make her voice go real high whenever she told about what any of the 3 little pigs would say and then she made her voice go real low when she talked like the big bad wolf. This caused David to laugh while she told the story.

Meanwhile downstairs George was ranting and raving how wrong it was for a 12-year-old boy to be wearing a diaper and sucking a pacifier and drinking out of a bottle and to be sleeping in a crib. Both Edward and Sonia tried to calm him down by telling him how that David’s behavior was not hurting anybody and if acting like a baby is what made him happy where was the harm in that. George then asked: “What if he was gay? Then what? Would you invite all of his little faggot friends over and let them have sex on your living room floor while you watched and said: ‘Oh, how cute! Aren’t they adorable!’”

David then asked: “All right then, what do you propose we do? How would you handle this situation?”

George replied: “Well I sure wouldn’t let him dress up and act like some sort of big baby. I’d take away all of his diapers and baby stuff and tell him that if I ever caught him wearing a diaper or dressing up like a baby that he would get the spanking of his lifetime and that he wouldn’t be able to sit down for a week.” In George’s generation spankings were the solution for everything. Anytime a child did something that people did not understand, they got a spanking.

David then told George about the research that he had done on the Internet and how he had read the personal accounts of many people whose parents tried everything in their power to stop their infantile desires when they were children, but that nothing worked. There was no “cure” for infantilism; it was not some sort of disease.

“Bah, humbug!” was George’s response. “Give me a month with that boy and I’ll straighten him out!” Both David and Sonia rolled their eyes and shook their heads in disbelief.

By now Louise had finished her bedtime story. David and his grandmother said goodnight one more time. This time they kissed through the bars of the crib. Louise put the chair back at the desk and turned around to take one final look at her young grandson laying in his crib, wearing a footed sleeper and drinking a bottle. David took the bottle out of his mouth and thanked his Nana for telling him a bedtime story. Louise replied: “You’re welcome dear. Anytime.” She then softly said: “Goodnight sweetie” as she closed the door behind her.

When Louise got back downstairs, she asked what everyone was talking about. George started in again about how wrong it was for David to be wearing a diaper and acting like a big baby. “Oh calm down George” Louise said, “For crying out loud, he’s not hurting anyone. And if dressing up like a baby and acting like a baby makes him happy then SO WHAT! And it does make him happy. You would not have believed how excited he got when he started talking about his crib. He was talking so fast that I could barely understand a single word he said. You just leave David alone! There are a lot worse things that he could be involved with.”

Everyone agreed that it would be best if they changed the subject. They visited for a few more minutes and then George and Louise said goodnight and drove home.

As David fell asleep that night he was actually starting to feel good about others finding out about his baby ways. He could now act like himself and dress up like a baby around his grandparents and they would accept him for who he was. Especially his grandmother!