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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[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.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Was he like, an Elvis truther?" Annie asked curiously. "Or did he just work there? Also, do you want to hold a baby?"

She didn't want to, like, baby-hog if Steven was open to having Ben drool a little on his shoulder.

[grenadesandohana]

"I'd love to hold a baby," Steve said with a smile, "but didn't want you to think that was the only reason we came over."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"It would be okay if it was," Annie teased, crossing over to gently hand Ben over. "I get it -- they're the new kids on the block, I guess we can pay attention to the babies."

[grenadesandohana]

Steve wasn't used to babies this little and so he held Ben a little like a baby and a little like something that could explode. "Well, so far they're behaving very well."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Like a football," Annie advised helpfully, just casual enough to hopefully not come across as condescending. "And yeah, so far they're both little dreams. I mean, we'll see how that holds up once they're walking."

And considering the twins already refused to sleep at the same time, she was already anticipating their developmental milestones hitting at slightly different times, and had visions of a walking Maggie boosting a crawling Ben from his crib, somehow.

[grenadesandohana]

"Just say the word and I can put together a pretty sweet net trap to keep them in one place," Steve said, grinning and adjusting his hold on Ben so he wasn't being held like a grenade.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Honestly not a bad idea," Annie decided, grinning at them. "Especially since we don't know if they'll manifest powers or not."

But if they did, it would probably be pretty early, given how things had gone for their dad.

[grenadesandohana]

"Just let me know," Steve said. "I can teach Diego how."

Because clearly their family home needed more traps, right?

[defenderofdesmoines]

It was, at least, finally knife-safe to a degree that even Danny might approve.

Granted that probably had more to do with Diego losing his powers earlier this year than anything else, but the babies probably also were a contributing factor.

"Are we talking like a net that'll scoop 'em up?" Annie wondered. "Like in a cartoon?"

Because that sounded hilarious.

[grenadesandohana]

"Like in a cartoon," Steve confirmed. "We use it to haul bad guys up into trees. And it's funny."