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?”

as Lanie cut up apples onto plates and adding a dollop of peanut butter. Zane opened

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

my mate put the plate in front of him. My mother saw me She let out a soft

now tha mobile… Well, if your children are anything like you were as a boy, Xander, we’d all better step up our c workouts so we can keep up

rungs of the chair. “Daddy, what car…cardy.”

means exercise.”I bent to kiss the top of her

of Stella. “What do you

Stella said confidently

an

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

Then, after a second, softly as though she

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

the table, and my mother hurried to get the little girl her own plate of apples and peanut butter.

butter fell off and he used a finger to try to scoop it up. Alaina didn’t even try to get the apple

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