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]

Comments

[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."

[hatesparadise]

It was the blowouts, wasn't it? It was always the blowouts.

"You guys survived the first month," Danny said, looking impressed. And he'd only had the one baby too.

[knife_bender]

Blowouts, spit ups, Diego spilling coffee on himself...

"Somehow," he joked. "Got both kids still breathing and everything."

[hatesparadise]

But what about dip on their heads?

"That's kind of half the struggle there," Danny said, smiling down at Maggie and gesturing at her. "May I?"

[knife_bender]

"Oh, absolutely," he said, gingerly handing Maggie over. Look, he loved his kids, but he was looking forward to other people holding them for a bit. "We've got pizza in here if you want some. Don't worry about spilling food on the baby I've already done that."

[hatesparadise]

"Fallen asleep feeding 'em yet?" Danny asked, cradling Maggie carefully.

[grenadesandohana]

"I make no apologies for the onesies," Steve said in case you'd wondered whose idea they'd been. "Tiny onesies are hilarious."

[knife_bender]

"Are big onesies less hilarious?" Diego asked. "Or just sad when an adult wears one?"

[grenadesandohana]

"I think it starts getting sad faster than some adults in those onesies are willing to admit to," Steve said, nodding.

[knife_bender]

"Not gonna lie, this whole experience has made me want to buy one of those wearable blankets." The pockets were big enough to hold bottles! And possibly a whole baby!

[grenadesandohana]

"It's like a full-body spitcloth, man," Steve said, nodding. "I fully support this choice."

[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.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"I'm not in a position to argue that point," Annie decided, moving over to angle Ben towards Danny. "Ben, say hi to Danny."

Ben, shockingly enough, did not say anything. But he did blink, which probably meant something, right?

[hatesparadise]

"A gentleman of few words," Danny said, beaming at her and the baby.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Want to?" Annie offered, already shifting Ben into a little more of a hand-off position. "He might spit but I've got the hookup on a real fashionable towel, no worries."

Also, she had a feeling Danny may have encountered baby spit a time or two before in his life.

[hatesparadise]

"I'd love to," he said, taking Ben from her carefully. He was for sure getting puked on by one of the babies. For sure. "How are you two holding up? It's one on one with two babies, after all."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"We're okay," Annie assured him, though she did look mighty relieved to not be holding a baby for a minute, here. "Like, I'm more tired than I've ever been in my life, but we're hanging in there."

Like, she'd thought she'd been tired when she'd been superheroing full-time and outrunning various psychopaths, but it turned out that actually, dual newborn power made the apocalypse look kind of easy and restful.

[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.

[defenderofdesmoines]

She had also apparently taught him the magic thing to say to a woman who, to put it lightly, did not feel like she looked her...best. But Annie'd at least found a sweatshirt that didn't have spit-up on it! Yet!

"I missed coffee," Annie sighed gratefully, bouncing Ben a little both to soothe him and to adjust his position a little. "I take it you guys just got back from Hawaii?"

Look at her, knowing like...a vague approximation of the date.

[grenadesandohana]

Steve nodded. "We went to Jersey for Thanksgiving itself, then went back to drop the kids with Rachel again." He smiled. "And I needed to see the sun after the gray of the East Coast at the end November."

There you go, Annie, more context clues!

[defenderofdesmoines]

"I know how that goes." Had Annie, like, illuminated her own hands in the dead of winter just to provide herself a little SAD help? Absolutely. "Everything's good there? No, like, enemy planes landing on the street or whatever?"

Just like, to give a random example.

[grenadesandohana]

"Nothing all that weird since the nuke at Kono's wedding in the summer," Steve said airily. "Well. Does a guy getting murdered at an Elvis convention sound strange? It wasn't actually Elvis."

Steven, this is terrible small talk.