A few days had passed, and the first day of school was coming up, so each of the girls were preparing for the next day. 

Janie was helping Stephanie dig through her clothes for a first day of school outfit. They had already picked out Janie's (Stephanie wanted a bright pink dress that Danny had picked out for her for her thirteenth birthday, but Janie goaded her into choosing cool pair of jeans and and a hot pink top with a white, plaid flannel to leave unbuttoned) and Janie was trying to help Stephanie pick out hers, but Stephanie was pickier than ever this afternoon.

Meanwhile, DJ had her best friend, Kimmy over, and they were talking about where they were going to sit in class tomorrow so that they could sit together.

"So Kimmy, we've got to be the first ones in class tomorrow to get the seats in the back row." DJ told her excitedly from where they sat across from each other on DJ's bed.

"Okay, why?" Kimmy asked, tilting her head, confused, and DJ smiled at her as though it were obvious.

"Because it's the best place to pass notes." Kimmy smiled, bouncing up a bit.

"I love the way your mind works." 

"What about this outfit, Stephy?" Janie asked as she held up a cute little purple dress, with some white flats, and Stephanie shook her head, taking the dress and the shoes, and tossing them back onto the bed, where nearly ever outfit she ever owned lay.

"This outfit is all wrong." She told Janie, putting her hands on her hips and frowning at the bed. "Tomorrow's the first day of kindergarten and I have nothing to wear." DJ looked over, furrowing her eyebrows as Janie tugged at her ponytail, getting a little frustrated, but she had learned how to keep her temper with Stephanie and her pickiness. 

"Your bed is full of clothes." DJ told her, and Stephanie gave her a look, cocking her hip to one side in a sassy way.

"Yeah but they're not me." She explained, then looked at the clothes again, rethinking her statement. "Well, they're me, but they're the preschool me." 

"Well, let's try this." Janie suggested, and she pulled a few clothes together as DJ turned back to Kimmy, who had thought over DJ's statement about sitting in the back of the classroom to pass notes to each other.

"I'll sit anywhere you want, as long as it's not near Arthur Wilcox." DJ made a disgusted face, Kimmy matching it as they both groaned.

"Arthur Wilcox, ewwwwwwww!" They shrieked, sticking out their tongues as Stephanie walked over with a blue shirt on, a brown jacket, and a pair of loose jeans.

"Who's Arthur Wilcox?"

"Ewwwwwwww!" Both girls squealed again, and Janie chuckled.

"I'm guessing someone pretty disgusting." Then she sighed dreamily and let her head fall onto her shoulder, clutching a yellow dress to her heart. "Although his brother Andrew is pretty dreamy."

"Yuck!" DJ stuck her tongue out at Janie, who rolled her eyes and put the dress back on the hanger, and DJ looked back at her younger sister. "Stephanie please, Kimmy and I are talking about school." Stephanie threw up her hands dramatically. 

"So am I. What if I walk into class wearing a goofy outfit, and everyone says 'Stephanie Tanner, ewwwwww!'?"

"Would you stop worrying? Kindergarten is so easy." DJ droned, trying not to think about her first day of kindergarten, where she got so nervous, she had made herself sick. "The only thing you have to know is the pledge of allegiance." Stephanie's eyes went wide at the longer word that she had never heard before.

"What?" Both DJ and Kimmy stood to their feet, and all three older girls held their hands to their hearts, speaking quickly as they recited the mantra that they had been learning since they started school themselves.

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Stephanie looked between the three of them in disbelief.

"I'm dead meat." She groaned, flopping onto DJ's bed, just as Jesse and Joey entered the room with a very messy Michelle. She looked as though instead of feeding her, they just dropped her into a pile of food and hoped she could figure it out.

"Kimmy, your mom's downstairs." Jesse told her, sounding exhausted. 

"She said you were supposed to be home a half an hour ago." Joey added, equally tired sounding. They must have been through something trying to feed Michelle.

"Uh oh, that's the third time today." Kimmy jumped up, looking down at her watch anxiously. "She's going to kill me." DJ shrugged, pointing at her watch.

"Don't panic, just set your watch back one half hour." Kimmy smiled at her again.

"I love the way your mind works." She said again, adjusting her watch as she went downstairs, Stephanie approaching Jesse in her outfit.

"Uncle Jesse, how do I look?" Jesse looked over her baggy clothes, and looked at her face with raised eyebrows.

"Like a bag lady." Stephanie sighed, and went back to the bed to keep working on an outfit, Janie having lain out a few choices for her, but DJ was more focused on the mess in Joey's hands. 

"What happened to Michelle?" She asked, and Jesse sighed, looking at the smallest girl with just sheer exhaustion.

"Well, your sister Michelle tried to eat her dinner by pushing it through her face." He explained, and Janie shook her head, taking a few dresses back to the closet for Stephanie as Stephanie danced over to the mirror to look at an outfit that Janie had picked out, having high hopes for this one. 

"She's just trying to be like Joey and perform some magic tricks." Janie joked, and Joey sighed, looking down at the baby.

"Yeah. We'd better give her a bath." Jesse smiled at him as though that were the best idea he had heard all day.

"That's a good idea." Then he thought for a moment. "Do we know how to do that?" Joey nodded, completely sure of himself.

"Sure, it's just like giving a puppy a bath, only there's a little less tail to clean." And they both headed off, Janie shaking her head.

"Oh, they'll realize just how much "tail" they'll have to clean up with a baby." She commented.