75 Godiva Street | Late Morning

[knife_bender]

It had been a long and sleepless, but satisfying, 4 weeks with the twins at home. They were turning a month old on Friday, and Annie and Diego finally decided it was time for them to be introduced to the rest of the world. Diego would miss their little family bubble they had for a month, but he had to admit he was looking forward to talking to adults again.

They had sent texts out to various people inviting them over if they so wished (he was not about to force people to see his children), and ordered a pizza now that they were done with the healthy food Donna had supplied them with. The twins were dressed in cute outfits that they probably wouldn't put up with a couple months from now.

Of course Maggie immediately spit up on her little dress but he figured people were gonna have to get used to that like he had over the last couple weeks.

[Open post, if you think you got a text you did]

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[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer was just finishing up at the gym when the text hit her phone, which elicited an excited "Eeee, babies!" from her and a slight shift in her plans for the day. She rerouted to J,GoB for some cupcakes and T&C for some sparkling juice, and then headed over to the other side of the island to come knocking on the Hargreeves' door.

[defenderofdesmoines]

It was Annie who answered, appearing first as a smiling face in the cracked door before widening it open to reveal that she had a tiny, pants-wearing baby cuddled against her shoulder.

"Hey," she greeted Summer, her smile so obviously tired that it probably prompted an immediate need for coffee. "Come on in. This is Ben."

Ben, for his part, was looking at Summer with his big brown baby eyes. Or at least, you know, trying. Looking in her direction! Probably real into and interested in that pink blob he couldn't, technically, focus those baby eyes on yet, but you know.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Awwww," Summer gushed, beaming a little at Annie for a moment before her attention shifted to the baby, "hiiiii, Ben! I'm your aunt Summer, not like, blood-aunt, but I'm one of your mom's besties, so I earned the title. Look at you! Looking less like a weird alien raisin and more like a little tiny human!"

It was a compliment! Really!

"I brought reinforcements, too," she announced, holding up the box of cupcakes and the fancy juice.

[knife_bender]

"Hey Summer," Diego greeted. His hand had healed enough that he could actually do a wave and hold a baby at the same time. "We've got pizza. And babies."

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Hiiiii, Diego," Summer gave him a sympathetic smile back with her wave, having presumably set her offerings down by then. "I've got cupcakes and fancy juice. I'll take some pizza, but you can definitely keep the babies."

Hyuk, hyuk.

"How are you doing? Almost a full month already, congrats!"

[defenderofdesmoines]

Annie was feeling a lot more self-conscious than she would have thought she'd have energy for, honestly. In there, amidst pride over her children and the gentle thrum of so tired, so tired, so tired -- there was also just the tiniest weirdness about how she felt about anyone seeing her a month postpartum.

When she'd been pregnant, she'd been as big as a house, sure, but she'd been sort of cute about it.

Nothing that was happening under Annie's clothes -- a baggy, but spit-up-free sweatshirt and the comfiest pants that were fit for company -- was cute, anymore. It was all so much more like...Paul Verhoven presents The Miracle of Life.

Anyway. Time heals all wounds, or whatever. And the gym would help clean up the rest.

"I feel bad getting all gendered on the kids right away," she noted, adjusting the tiny headband she was completely insistent Maggie wear. "But like right now you can't tell them apart at all."

And, honestly, were she not their mother, Annie wasn't sure whether she might not confuse these babies for other babies around their age as well as each other. All babies looked the same!

[knife_bender]

"Yeah they literally look exactly alike," Diego said. "Let's just enjoy putting them in whatever we want while we can."

Because those cute bows and teeny socks and shoes are so getting pulled and kicked off once their motor skills developed a little more.

[defenderofdesmoines]

Tiny shoes made excellent things to put in one's mouth, in fact.

"Kind of a bummer we missed newborn Halloween," Annie observed. "But they're probably too young to freak out if we dressed them up and took them to Santa. Most people kind of hate Santa, the first time they sit on his lap."

Some people, of course, were well-behaved men in their late twenties, but the twins would likely pass that milestone earlier than their dad had.

[grenadesandohana]

Of course Steve and Danny would be there, with more onesies for the twins and genuine Kona coffee for the adults who probably really needed Kona coffee.

And there they were, knocking!

[OOC: With added RL SP!]

[hatesparadise]

"I'm already sorry about the onesies," Danny said. Because his idea of diapers had been nixed.

[knife_bender]

They went through clothes like crazy with these kids so the more excuses to put off laundry the better as far as Diego was concerned.

And there he was answering the door, holding a baby with a bow on her head. "Hey, guys. Glad you could make it."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Hey guys!" Annie called, wandering up with Ben cradled against her shoulder and a tired smile for both of them once everyone was inside. "You super did not need to bring us presents, aw."

But also like, she would and could go make that coffee right now. She was allowed 300 milligrams of caffeine per day and goddamn it, she would take every last one.

[hatesparadise]

"New parents always need presents," Danny said, waving that off. Because everything was focused on the baby (babies) and therefore stuff fell to the wayside.

[grenadesandohana]

"More pastries would've been stale by now," Steve said, "but coffee is always a good present." He grinned. "You look great!"

See? Steve's sister Mary had made sure to teach him to notice the parents and not just the babies! She'd done it by throwing rattles at him, but that was how McGarretts learned best.

[pocketpretzels]

Meet some babies? Don’t mind if they do! Hence why Watts and Steven were here, knocking on the door with some SP from Steven’s player especially due to RL things, baked goods in hand.

[knife_bender]

For once Diego had a break from holding any baby, so it was just him answering the door. Sorry, guys.

"Hey!" he greeted. "Glad you could come, boss. And Steven."

He wasn't going to call Steven, like, Boss' Beau or something that'd be weird.

"Come on in, see some babies."

[pocketpretzels]

“We brought bread,” Watts said, holding out the couple loaves of sourdough he’d been carrying in one hand. “And cinnamon rolls.”

Non-vegan cinnamon rolls, and still a little warm, since he’d made them basically as soon as he’d gotten the text.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Hey guys," Annie greeted them tiredly, a baby -- one with pants, and no bow on his head, if one was looking to distinguish between the two -- nestled in the crook of her arm. "Oh, man, you brought bread!"

Do not think Annie was above eating slice after slice of bread while standing in the kitchen on no sleep, guys. That was exactly how that was going to be eaten.

[pocketpretzels]

“We did,” Watts affirmed. “It was thought that perhaps you might find it useful given you likely have less free time to do things like run errands to the shops.”

Of course, nearly anything could be delivered now, but details.

[hasaknightjob]

Steven whose mun had a doc appointment incoming waved hello when they were let in. "Hello! Kind of you to let us visit. Hopefully we're not bothering you too much? If you need we can bug - er - leave at any time."

[knife_bender]

"No, no, that's why we sent out the texts," Diego said, nodding his head toward the living room where the babies were. "We've gone four weeks without being bothered, it'll be nice to talk to adults."

[sword_chocobro]

Gladio was, of course, at the gym when the text came in, which meant he was sending one back:

You guys mind a little bit of a later drop-in? I know you two probably need all the rest you can get, though, so no worries if not, I'm sure I'll get to catch the little ones eventually!

[defenderofdesmoines]

as much as I'd love to say we're going to be asleep at literally any point today, that's not really a guarantee -- come on over whenever! we're around! pizza might be a little cold but whatev.

The beauty of having twins was that those 'random awake baby' odds were doubled. Plus, let's be real -- they both deeply missed other grownups.

[doctorgingerspice]

Will had let the nurses know he’d be taking an early lunch break, using the time to head over and say hello to Annie, Diego, and the babies.

The nurses had tried to demand he bring back baby pictures, but Will argued that that was weird, showing off pictures of someone else’s babies.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Will!" Annie greeted him with a bright smile, now with Maggie and her little bow-decorated head nestled against a shoulder. "How's it going?"