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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[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.

[knife_bender]

"Oh, wow. Holy shit." That was a good 'holy shit' for the record. "You guys didn't have to do that."

[pocketpretzels]

Watts shrugged. “It’s no trouble.” It really wasn’t, baking was stress relief.

[knife_bender]

"Baking bread seems like a whole lot of trouble to me." Anything other than a frozen waffle was a lot of trouble to him. "Come on in, I have Maggie in something resembling a nap but she's been known to fake it."

Because a one month old was totally capable of that, Diego.

[pocketpretzels]

“I didn’t know babies that young could engage in deceptive tactics,” Watts mused as he followed Diego in.

[knife_bender]

"Oh yeah, you gotta keep both eyes open with these two," Diego joked. "Sneaky and they are in cahoots with each other."

[pocketpretzels]

“That part, at least, will actually be a benefit once they’re a little older,” Watts pointed out. “As they will always have a playmate.”

[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.

[defenderofdesmoines]

Just ask Annie, who had, in fact, delivered two children not too long ago!

Bah-dum-tss.

"We have exactly zero free time," Annie agreed. "And if one of us leaves, it's two on one in the babies' favor, so it can't exactly be a long shopping trip, either."

Or, well. It could, given that the worst that would happen is a baby might be left crying for a couple minutes, but Annie wasn't willing to risk that kind of thing too much.

[pocketpretzels]

Babies at that age were essentially houseplants that cried, it was true. But the crying was pretty effective as far as getting their needs tended to as soon as possible.

“That sounds terribly exhausting,” Watts said bluntly.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"It is," Annie replied candidly, snorting a laugh and shifting Ben up to her shoulder. "I mean, it's super worth it, but I'm a little worried I'm going to end up sleepwalking my way to drinking dry coffee grounds or eating a raw egg or something."

Hence, the bread being so useful in terms of brainless food.

[pocketpretzels]

“Well, should you need a break, my offer of babysitting still stands,” Watts said. “Though I understand if you’d want to wait until they are a little older before anything like that.”

[defenderofdesmoines]

"The idea of leaving them seems completely crazy right now," Annie admitted, glad he got it, "but we can start with holding, if you'd like?"

And conveniently, she was shifting Ben to offer him out, since I think Maggie's being held in the other thread lol brows raised expectantly.

[pocketpretzels]

“Holding I can do,” Watts affirmed, taking the baby with the ease of someone who had, in fact, done this before. “Nice to meet you, Young Sir,” he told Ben solemnly.

[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."

[hasaknightjob]

"I could try to think of something to say about taxes if that would help?" Steven said. "Something only adults would say?"

[knife_bender]

"I mean, as long as you don't spit up mid-sentence then the conversation is already adult enough for me." He did have towels at the ready, though. Just in case.

You never know.

[hasaknightjob]

"Do my best," Steven said. And, since they were on the topic of sick, "Do you need me to wash my hands? Keep a certain distance? I know germs can be a concern when they're this small."

[knife_bender]

"Nah, you're good," Diego assured him. "So long as you haven't been sick or dunked your hands in toxic waste before coming, anyway. They need to be around more people."

[hasaknightjob]

"That's a no on both," Steven assured him. "Washed my hands before I came and all, just in case. How have you been, by the way? Healing all right?"

[knife_bender]

"Oh, yeah, pretty much good as new," Diego said, flexing his hand as if to prove that. "I had three fingers chopped off in March so breaking my hand wasn't bad compared to that."

Normal things that happened to people.

"And I got two cute kids out of it, so, worth it."