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?”

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 Mason pulled out the jug of

a dance, and I looked over to see my mother shaking her

son into his seat as my mate put the plate in

care of three children,” she said with another chuckle. “And now tha mobile… Well, if your children are anything like you were as a boy, Xander, we’d all better step up our

kicked her little legs against the rungs of the

bent to kiss the top of her

in front of Stella. “What

Stella said confidently

an

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

said. Then, after a second, softly as though she was speaking more to herself, she repeated it. “Thank you.”

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

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

into his mouth, but the peanut butter fell off and he used a finger to try to scoop it

bat

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