Divorced dad Alvin wasn't prepared for what he saw when he saw when he returned home. He had intended to take to dinner his daughters Katie and Nora, whom he had custody for the weekend, and Nikki, the woman he was currently dating. Alvin liked Nikki and wanted to propose marriage, but first wanted to see how she got along with his young daughters. But a report of severe problem at his business canceled those plans and took Alvin away for several hours. Nikki volunteered to watch the girls in his absence.
When Alvin returned, he didn't see Nikki. His daughters were home alone with a baby; one whose face, even behind the pacifier she sucked furiously, displayed a combination of anxious pleading and terror. "Where's Nikki?" Alvin asked. The girls smiled and pointed at the baby, who extended an arm toward Alvin.
Alvin shook his head, finding unbelievable the idea that the woman he wanted to make his fiancée was an infant. But first-grader Katie explained how she found a silver medal on which she identified one word, "wish." While with Nikki, the girls got tired of playing with their dolls, and Nora said she'd rather take care of a real baby. Nikki said that wasn't possible, so Katie took out the medal and wished Nikki was a real baby. And it worked!
"You shoulda seen it, Daddy," Katie beamed. "Right in the middle of the bathroom, Nikki began to get little. She got littler and littler until her clothes fell off. Then her tiny legs got wobbly and she fell on her bottom and cried." Alvin stared in disbelief. "So what did you do with Nikki?" he asked. "We found some of my baby clothes and a partial box of Pampers in that chest in the closet. We dressed Nikki, played with her, gave her two diaper changes, and fed her the bottle in the 'frigerator," Nora said.
"What baby bottle?" Alvin thought. But he then asked the girls where the medal was so he could change Nikki back. Neither girl had it, but Nora added, "I think we left it in the bafroom." So Alvin walked with the girls while carrying baby Nikki into the bathroom. He removed the pacifier from Nikki's mouth, but found she could speak only guttural baby words. "You got younger in body and mind," he noted.
In the bathroom, Alvin found the pile of Nikki's adult clothing. He sifted through them for the medal. He found a doubled-padded push-up bra whose label guaranteed to make the wearer look at least two cup sizes bigger, a control panty, and a wig. "So your glamorous look was manufactured; not real," Alvin sighed. He then picked up Nikki's purse and looked inside, as baby Nikki excitedly tugged on his pants leg from the floor.
He found a diary. One entry read, "Alvin is such a nerdy geek, but he spends money one me, so he'll do until something better comes along." Other entries beginning a month earlier told of Nikki meeting the muscular Ted, a clerk in a scuba store whose physique Nikki described in unprintable prose. While continuing to see Alvin, she also was dating Ted, and contemplating ways to get him alone in her bedroom.
At this moment, the doorbell rang, and Katie opened the door. "Mommy!" she screamed with joy. Alvin's ex-wife Amy had come for the girls. "I see Katie and Nora, but where's Nikki?" Amy asked. "We liked taking care of the baby so much, I think when I had the medal, I wished Nikki could be our little sister forever and ever," Nora whispered. At least that explained how the baby bottle got in the refrigerator!
Handing the squirming Nikki to Amy, Alvin could help but notice the telltale lines under Amy's blouse. She was wearing a stiff-sided nursing bra, just as she did when 6-year-old Katie and 4-year-old Nora were babies. "Don't worry, honey. No more rubber nipple when Mommy feeds you," Amy told baby Nikki. As the impact of that statement sunk into Nikki's brain, she went pinch-faced and broke into loud tears! "Aw, baby's hungry already. I'll let you nurse in the car before we drive home," Amy assured her child.
Alvin stared out the window, watching Amy turn Nikki sideways,
and then viewing Nikki's tiny feet kick madly until calming down
and accepting the inevitable. So Alvin resumed his searched for
the medal, finding it minutes after Amy's car drove off. "One
Wish to a Person," the medal read. "Now I can restore
the love of my life to normal," he grinned. But he then remembered
the discoveries he made in the bathroom. So he instead wished,
"I want supermodel Heidi Klum in my living room, wildly in
love with me!"