Chapter 256

Xander

Seeing my baby girl walking into the kitchen on steady legs was definitely something I was going to have to get used to. Lanie got her settled at the table on one of the booster seats we’d ordered, expecting the pups to need them in the next couple of weeks.

“Sit up straight, little love,” Lanie told her. “Mommy’s going to get your snack ready.”

“Abba, juice, pweese?” Stella gave Mason a look I could already tell was designed to wrap all of us around her little finger.

It was working.

My mother entered the kitchen with Isaac holding one hand and Alaina gripping the other. They’d both hit their growth spurt, too, but although they were toddling, neither one of them was as steady as Stella. They babbled to each other softly, not real words,

Isaac held up his arms. “Dada.”

I

I picked him up and put him on my hip. “Hey, there, little man. Do you want a snack, too?”

boy put his finger in his mouth and nodded My mother was already putting Alaina in a booster seat as Lanie cut up apples onto plates and adding a dollop of peanut butter. Zane opened the cupboard to grab out some sippy cups with lids Lanie had also had delivered, and

looked over to see my mother shaking her

plate in front of him. My mother saw me

are anything

against the rungs

exercise.”I bent to kiss the top of

the plate in front of Stella. “What

Stella said confidently

an

voice was calm. “You say please when you want something, but when you get something, my

after a second, softly as though she was

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she speaking in sentences, which is way beyond what she ought to be doing, she’s

pounded the table, and my mother hurried to get the little girl her own plate of apples and peanut butter. Alaina didn’t say anything, but her pout turned into a

managed to get it into his mouth, but the peanut butter fell off and he used a finger to try to scoop it up. Alaina didn’t even try to

bat

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