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?”

up apples onto plates and adding a dollop of peanut butter. Zane

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

into his seat as my mate put the plate in front of him.

another chuckle. “And now tha mobile… Well, if your children are

kicked her little legs against the rungs of the chair. “Daddy,

to kiss the top of her head.

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

Stella said

an

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

said. Then, after a second, softly as though she was speaking more to

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is she speaking in sentences, which is way beyond what she

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 her the snack.

Stella 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 to try to scoop it up.

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