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 dollop of peanut butter. Zane opened the cupboard to grab out some sippy cups with lids Lanie had also had delivered, and

all moved, coordinated as a dance, and I looked over to see my mother

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

chuckle. “And now tha mobile… Well, if your children are anything like you were as a boy, Xander, we’d all better

kicked her little legs against the rungs of

bent to kiss the top of her

the plate in front of Stella. “What do you

Stella said

an

calm. “You say please when you want something,

though she was speaking more to herself, she repeated

1/2

which is way beyond what she ought

and peanut butter. Alaina didn’t say anything, but her pout turned into a smile

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

bat

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