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.

all moved, coordinated as a dance, and I looked

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

kicked her little legs against the rungs of the chair.

to kiss the

front of Stella. “What do you

said confidently

an

say please when you want something, but when

after a second, softly as though she was speaking more to herself,

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

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

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

bat

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