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?”

a booster seat as Lanie cut up apples onto plates and adding a

moved, coordinated as a dance, and I looked over to see my mother shaking her amused expression.

the plate in front of him. My mother saw me She let

to take care of three children,” she said with another chuckle. “And now tha mobile… Well, if your children are anything

her little legs against the rungs of the chair.

bent to kiss the top of

put the plate in front of Stella. “What do you say?”

Stella said confidently

an

“You say please when you want something, but when you get something,

as though she

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is way beyond what she ought to be doing, she’s also progressing in her language skills.”

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 smile when my mother gave

and the twins were so obvious now. Isaac dragged his apple slice through the peanut butter and managed to get it into his mouth, but the peanut butter fell off and he used a finger

bat

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