Arizona did up the soft, feathery costume and set her little one down so that she could step back and snap a quick picture with her cellphone. She sent Callie a picture almost daily now; at first, it was simply so that Callie could see what Sofia was up to, but it had become just as rewarding for Arizona. She was learning that life as a stay-at-home mom – though she adored the time she got to spend with Sofia – was pretty lonely. She would sometimes go all day without any adult contact, which was starting to bother her after a couple of weeks. The poor cashier at the grocery store probably got an earful now, just because it was nice to talk to someone who could respond with actual words and sentences. Therefore, the responses that Callie would send back often made Arizona's day a little easier.

Sofia was about to start fussing, so Mommy slipped the matching yellow pacifier into her mouth just before she took the picture.

"You're not gonna give Madre a big Sofia smile?" she asked. "We have to show her your Halloween costume! You're the cutest little chick I've ever seen!"

Sofia smiled.

"Do you like chickens, too?" she asked, as she took the pacifier back. "Mama does. You get to be one soon because it's almost Halloween. You're too young for candy this year, but there's a little party for the Peds. kids at the hospital and we'll bring you there, okay? It'll be fun."

Arizona's phone sounded. "Oh!" she gasped, in order to get a reaction from the baby. "I bet that's Madre!"

She read the text and smiled. Callie was coming home for lunch. Of course, there was no guarantee that she'd be able to stay very long at all, but a few extra minutes with her fiancé would be nice. Callie lit up when she came home to Sofia, and Arizona would get to witness it twice today. She would also be able to have a real conversation, even if it was a short one.

"She's going to have lunch with us! Well, with me. You've already eaten, right? But she's gonna bring home some dinner for you because your milk stash is runnin' a little low."

Sofia began kicking her little legs and cooing.

"Are you excited?" she asked. "She gets to see you in your costume, too. She said it was cute, but now she'll get to see it in person."

Sofia yawned and the tiny whimpers that let Mommy know that she was tired began.

"Is it time for a little after lunch nap?" she asked, picking her up and placing a gentle kiss on her head. "Madre'll be home and you'll be sleepin'? That's okay. You're extra beautiful when you sleep. You get that from Madre too, you know."

Arizona settled Sofia, still comfortable in her costume, in for a little nap and then set about making a quick lunch for her and Callie. It turned out to be nothing fancy – just sandwiches with some vegetables and dip – but that was okay.

"Hey," Callie smiled when she walked through the door and gave Arizona a kiss. "Did you already put Sofia down for her nap?"

"Yeah," Arizona nodded. "How'd you manage to come home?"

"None of my patients seem like they're going to need me in the next forty-five minutes or so. Even if they do, we live so close that I can be back there in a few minutes if I have to. I checked on everybody and then I thought that since everybody was doing good, I'd come home."

Arizona smiled. "I'm glad," she said. "But let's hope you didn't just jinx yourself."

"I didn't," she said as they sat down. "Plus, I have a surprise for you."

"For me?" she asked. "Why?"

"I know you've been feeling a little…what's the word?"

"Stir crazy?" Arizona answered with a little chuckle. "Yeah."

"And I've been working so much."

"It's okay," she said. "I understand. You were off for awhile. You can't just come back and have a bunch of days off. And I do love staying home. I just don't love the actual staying home that involves. If I could drive, that would be one thing, but there are only so many places that I can walk to around here with a baby. If I try to go too far, she gets fussy and then I'm that mom. You know? The one with the baby who won't stop crying? People love me. And then we still have to walk all the way home."

"I get it," Callie said. "You don't have to explain. Now that Sofia's on a routine, you're limited to what you can do. If she can't eat or sleep when she wants to, it's just not a good day for either of you. So yeah. You're here all day playing with a baby who can't do much, except for be cute."

"Which is awesome. It would just be more awesome if I wasn't the only adult here."

"I know," she said with a smile. "Which is why I've planned a little trip for us."

"How did you get time off? Let alone enough for a trip?"

"Okay, so it's not exactly a trip," Callie admitted. "But it is one night at that B&B that we never made it to. I thought we should this time. We leave November first. I'm working until about noon, and then I'm off the next day. I know it's not ideal, but –"

"What's the catch?" Arizona wondered as she ate.

"I switched with somebody whose birthday happens to be a couple days after we get back. So I'm working a double shift after that."

"That part isn't my favourite," Arizona replied. "But at least we get some alone time."

"Yeah."

"Does Mark have all that time off, too?" Arizona asked. "What about Sofia?"

"I told him my plan and asked him if he could make arrangements. I knew him getting the time off might not happen, but I thought he could get a trusty babysitter or something."

"Babysitter?" Arizona asked.

They had been lucky enough that their little one had yet to be left with someone they didn't know very well, even during the time that Arizona was in the hospital. They had always found a way to have friends or family stay with her if one of the three parents couldn't. It wasn't that they were against babysitters, but they liked this system more. Now, Arizona was probably a little too used to it, though.

"We wouldn't leave her with just anybody off the street," Callie said. "We'd interview them and make sure Sofia would be fine with them."

"I know."

"But he said that we won't even have to do that. He worked it out and between him, Derek, Teddy and Henry, Sofia'll be all set. It's mostly him, but he will have to work a little."

"Sounds good to me."

"Did you go to physio today?"

"That's tomorrow," she said.

"Oh, right."

"And thank God the secretary there loves Sofia, because she always, always starts crying when I'm in the middle of an exercise. She's fine during the bus ride there and everything, but it's like as soon as she realizes that she doesn't have somebody's undivided attention, she freaks out. So the secretary comes over and keeps her company."

"Good."

They continued to eat while discussing a few of Callie's cases as well as how Sofia's day had been so far. Just as they finished up their lunch, Sofia awoke and began to cry.

"Hello!" Callie smiled when she went into the room to pick her up. "You're gettin' ready for Halloween, aren't you? You look so cute, Baby Girl. Mommy was right. You do make the perfect little chick. Halloween'll be so fun in a few weeks."

In an effort to ensure that Seattle Grace Mercy West's youngest patients slept well at night, their Halloween party started at two o'clock in the afternoon. Sofia had spent her morning with Mark, who had just dropped her off in time to get ready to go to the party.

"Did you have fun with Daddy this morning?" Callie, who had worked a night shift the night before in order to be able to spend the rest of the day with her girls, asked. "I was at work and Mommy was helping set up for the party we're gonna go to, so you hung out with Daddy, right? You go back to his place in the morning so that I can take Mommy away for a little bit, okay?"

Sofia started cooing as Callie dressed her in her costume. She seemed pretty alert right now, meaning that she would probably love all of the attention she was bound to get at the party.

"Sounds good?" Callie asked.

"What sounds good?" Arizona wondered, coming into Sofia's room after she had finished packing for their little getaway.

"She thinks it'd be good if she stays with Dad so we can go away for a little bit."

Arizona smiled. "Yep! But we'll be home before you know it, okay?"

She bent down to kiss her girl and Sofia grabbed onto a piece of her hair. Arizona unclenched the baby's fist and Sofia giggled.

"Is it funny to pull Mom's hair?" Callie asked. "I don't think so!"

"You're almost ready to go to your first party, Big Girl," Arizona told her little one as Callie did up the costume. "It'll be so fun!"

"You think so?" Callie asked in response to Sofia's cooing. "Just wait until you're old enough for the candy! Then it's really fun stuff."

"I told a few of my little buddies in Peds. that you were coming when I was there earlier," Arizona told her daughter. "They're excited to see you."

"Are you a popular girl?" Callie asked, picking the baby up. "What do you think?"

"I think so," Arizona smiled. "Who doesn't love Miss Sofia?"

"Dr. Robbins…?" one little boy who had been Arizona's patient since he was a year old asked at the party.

"Yes?" she smiled.

"That's your baby?"

"Yep," she nodded. "Sofia, this is Nolan. Can you say hi?"

"She can't talk," he said. "She's too little."

"I know," she chuckled. "But she likes to coo. She talks in her own little way."

"Oh," he said. "My baby sister only knows how to say 'Dada' and 'dog,'" he said, pretty unimpressed.

"She'll learn more words soon."

"I hope so," he said. "Or else she's boring."

"You think so?"

"Yeah."

Arizona noticed a little girl in the back of the room, who wasn't really participating in any of the Halloween activities. She didn't know the girl, but she felt bad that it didn't seem like the tiny blond was having much fun.

"Sof, say 'see you later, Nolan,'" she told the baby, waving her hand for her. "We're gonna go make another new friend."

"Bye, Sofia," Nolan smiled.

Arizona made her way over to the little girl. She could tell by the cast on her left arm that the child had had some sort of Orthopedic treatment, and she wondered if Callie had been her doctor.

"Hi," she smiled. "I'm Dr. Robbins and this is Sofia."

"Hi," the child replied.

"Are you feeling okay?" she asked.

"Yeah."

"Is something wrong?"

"I don't know where Mommy went," she told her. "She was here and she said 'be right back' but she not comin' back yet."

"I'm sure she'll be back in a minute," Arizona said.

"Yeah?"

"I do," she nodded. "She probably just went to talk to your doctor or something."

"You know Dr. Callie?"

"Yep."

"She maked my arm better."

"She's good at that," Arizona smiled.

"I like her."

"Me too," Arizona agreed. "Right, Sof? We like her."

"The baby know her, too?"

"She's Sofia's Madre," she smiled.

"What's that?"

"Her mommy," Arizona said. "Sofia gets two mommies. Me and Dr. Callie."

"Mommies are the best," she smiled.

"Sofia's lucky to have two, huh?"

"She like Halloween?"

"I think she does," Arizona said. "What do you think?"

"It fun," she said.

Callie came over with a tall blond woman that Arizona assumed was the little girl's mom. The little girl lit right up.

"Sof, did you meet Penelope?" Callie asked.

"We did," Arizona answered. "We're meeting lots of new friends."

"She so friendly," Penelope said.

"She is," Callie agreed.

"Do you miss her already?" Callie asked the next day.

They had just dropped Sofia off at Mark's and started driving to the bed and breakfast. It had been about twenty minutes, and Callie was already feeling bad about being away from their baby girl overnight. Of course, Sofia had spent the night at Mark's before, but this was different. This time, Callie and Arizona would be away for the night instead of so close anyway.

"Yeah," Arizona said. "But we won't be gone long and she'll be fine. That's what I keep telling myself."

"Are we too overprotective?" she wondered.

"Maybe a little," Arizona laughed. "But I think most mamas are."

"Good."

"And we need this."

Callie smiled. "Definitely. It's been a good couple days. Sofia enjoyed her first party, and now we're taking our first trip away from her."

"One of those is decidedly happier than the other, though."

"Oh, once we get there, it'll be happier," Callie said. "A night full of happier."

"I like the way you think," Arizona smiled.

Their relationship had changed lately. Of course, part of this was due to the adjustment they had undergone when Sofia was born, but Arizona's coma and recovery didn't exactly help. This little vacation would hopefully restore some of the passion that they were both missing so much.

"This trip is all about us," Callie told her. "We were supposed to take it before Baby Girl even got here, and we're going to enjoy it just as much. We'll just have to get over missing her."

"And we will," she agreed. "We'll be back to her so soon."

"Yeah."