A/n: This always seems to happen to me, despite the fact that I've got several in progress stories, my mind keeps coming up with more, so this is essentially another sequel to "Remember me",the difference though is that this will be Detty centered, its basically a series of Detty family moments,I've got lots of different ideas for chapters,but I am open to suggestions,I'll try to update weekly and the chapters will vary in length and will also be progressive meaning each chapter will occur in a linear time line,but there will be a little bit of skipping year wise, I hope you like it without further comment from me, I give you my newest Detty project.
-Pessi . Rom
Detty Family Moments
Summary : A series of family moments, focused around, Betty, Daniel and their kids. Sequel to Remember Me.
Chapter One : Firsts
Betty was changing Lex while Daniel was video taping Marina as she sat on top of a blanket on the floor ,playing with a new toy, they had bought her. The twins were now nine months old, and the family of four had made a trip to the toy store a few hours earlier. Betty smiled as she heard her daughter giggle, when the new toy made a sound as she touched one of the buttons on the toy.
"Our daughter is a genius." Daniel said amazed at how fast she figured out how to work the toy.
"I don't doubt that honey,but I think all parents think their kids are genius',especially when it comes to their first child. " Betty said.
"True,but our Marina is a genius." Daniel said smiling as he continued to film their daughter. Betty just chuckled,then put a fresh diaper on Lex.
She then placed Lex next to his own toy, and sister. Lex watched Marina, then proceeded to play with his,which was identical to his sisters,but in a different color. When the button lit up and the toy made a sound, a big smile appeared on Lex's face,then he too began to giggle as he played with the toy .
"Seems our son is a genius too." Betty said watching her son.
"That's my little man." Daniel said as he focused the video camera on his son.
Betty smiled as she watched Daniel watch their children, he recorded everything they did,especially the, first. From the first time each baby had held up their head, smiling and laughing and the most recent crawling. He also documented events,like first trip to the mall, park and even their first trip to their Grandma Claire's house.
And that was just the video, he also took pictures of them any chance he got,because they were growing and changing so fast and he didn't want to miss a thing. He even had Betty take pictures,while he was at work, just in case he missed anything. Betty had decided to work from home, until the twins had at least reached one year of age ,so she spent more time with the twins during the week.
After the twins were born, Daniel decided to cut some of his work hours, he'd cut his work day to nine hours on weekdays and no hours on weekends. Once the weekend hit Daniel was determined to spend every minute, of those two days, with Betty and the twins. He'd plan outings to the zoo,aquariums ,picnics or they would just spend the day together, watching the twins play,like they were doing today.
Later that day
The twins had gotten tired and had been napping in their playpen for about an hour. Daniel and Betty were making themselves dinner, when they heard babbling on the baby monitor, Daniel took over stirring the sauce for their pasta,while Betty went to check on the twins. She walked over to the play pen gasping at what she saw.
"Daniel,come quick!" Betty yelled to her husband.
"What happened, whats wrong?" Daniel said rushing into the room,fearing something had happened to one of the twins.
"Look!" Betty said pointing to the playpen,where both children were awake."
"Oh my God, they're standing up!" Daniel said clearly excited, he ran off and got the video camera, he kept near by.
" I knew they would start the process of walking soon,but I didn't expect them both to start now." Betty said amazed.
"I told ya, our kids are genius' ." Daniel said with a smirk.
"They take after their mother." Betty said clearly teasing her husband.
"There's a little bit of me in there too." Daniel said not completely taking the bait.
"True, I swear Lex has your smirk already." Betty said laughing.
"Touche' ." Daniel said smiling as he kept the camera focused on the twins, who smiled as they seemed to sense their parents excitement.
About a month later, the twins were constantly lifted themselves up,holding on to table tops and anything else they could use to steady themselves as they headed toward the ultimate goal of walking. Then one day it happened,luckily it was a weekend and both Daniel and Betty were in the room, with the camera,which was always readily in Daniel's hand on the weekend, when one of the twins took their first step.
Betty and Daniel were sitting on the couch,in the downstairs playroom, Daniel video taping the twins as usual. They had an educational baby video on the tv, about musical instruments playing,while the twins played with scattered toys on the floor, eventually they would get bored and they'd reach up, holding on to something so they could stand, an action that always put smiles on their faces.
Suddenly Marina took a step then another taking her hands off of the table top she was using to steady herself, both Daniel and Betty stared in amazement at the fact that their first born was walking at ten months old. while Lex, still holding onto the table ,stared peculiarly at his sister who had moved by herself a few feet away from him.
"Good job Marina,come to Mama." Betty said going to stand a few feet away from her daughter to get her to move a few more steps.
Daniel watched on keeping the camera focused on his daughter ,as she slowly put one foot then another forward bringing her closer to her mother. Lex continued to watch the scene before him noticing as his sister got farther and farther away, he reached his hand out then his mouth formed an O shape.
"Mina!" Lex yelled, having heard his parents refer to his sister as that,but he wasn't old enough to pronounce the whole thing.
Daniel and Betty both froze,then turned to their son, as did Marina in her walking. They couldn't believe their ears, had their son just said his first word, they always thought when they started talking that it would be , mama or dada, but what Lex said sounded more like his sister's name.
"Whats wrong Lex." Daniel said walking over to his son.
"Mina!" Lex said again pointing his arm out in the direction of his sister.
"I think he's trying to say Marina." Betty said and at that, Lex proceeded to yell out ,Mina, again.
"I think you're right." Daniel said keeping the camera on Lex the whole time. Suddenly they heard a small wail.
"Its ok baby girl." Betty said scooping up Marina,who's unstable legs had caused her to fall.
Lex also began to cry seeing that his sister was hurt and because she was still far away from him, that made him cry even more. Betty calmed Marina down by rocking her,but Daniel wasn't able to calm Lex down.
"Whats wrong little man?" Daniel asked trying to calm the baby down.
"I think I know,put Lex back down." Betty said hoping her theory was right.
Betty then placed Marina down next to her brother, who was sitting on the ground crying, the second born twin immediately stopped crying and even slightly smiled at being near his twin again.
"Would you look at that." Daniel said . he knew the twins were close,but it seemed their bond grew stronger as they grew bigger.
"I guess its true what they say about twins being connected." Betty said watching as Lex handed his sister a stuffed toy.
That day had been a day of two first, Marina's first step and Lex's first word, which was surprisingly his sister's name. A few days later, Lex too, took his first step and a week after that Marina spoke her first word, dada,then proceeded to say her second word, mama,when she didn't spot her father right away. There would be many first as they raised their children,some big,some small,but Daniel and Betty were in it to experience them all, with Daniel holding the video camera and Betty holding the photo camera , producing DVD's that would full shelf's and pictures taken to fill dozens of albums .
A/n: What do ya think,I'll try to have another chapter up next wk or this wkend. Also for those reading this that haven't read any of my other Detty's first ,it isn't absolutely necessary to read the prequels to this story,"come back from your endless slumber" and "Remember Me", but as this is a type of sequel I will be referring back to details from the story. Thanks for reading a review/construct criticism is greatly appreciated. As for my other fics I will be updating them all very soon, my summer class will be over next wk,which will enable me to update at least one fic a day,thanks again for reading.
-Pessi . Rom