At 8:00 Thursday morning, Emily walked into the twins' bedroom and gently shook them awake. Addiesan opened her eyes and smiled sleepily at Emily.
"Happy Birthday Baby Girl." Emily said, picking her up and setting her in her lap.
"Mommy I'm four today!" Addiesan said happily just as Bella Grace was starting to wake up.
"Yes you are. My babies are growing up so fast." Emily said giving each of the girls a hug and kiss.
"Mommy we're not babies!" Bella said.
"Really? Then what are you?" Emily asked playfully.
"We're big girls Mommy!" Addiesan said.
"Well, then I guess my big girls are growing up, huh?"
Bella nodded. "Mommy can we call Aunt Jenny?"
"Well, actually, Aunt Jenny went to work."
"But Mommy, it's our birfday." Addiesan said.
"I know baby, and Aunt Jenny said to tell you that she will be here in time to have lunch, ok?" By this time, Emily had brought the girls downstairs where there was a large mound of presents sitting by the couch.
"When's that Momma?" Bella asked, before turning, her eyes lighting up at the sight of all the presents.
"Lunch will be in about 3 hours, ok? But for now how about we call her and then you two can each pick out a present to open early?" Emily suggested.
"Yeah, yeah! Let's do it!" The girls answered.
Emily pulled out her cell and speed-dialed JJ's number before putting it on speakerphone and setting it on the coffee table. The phone rang a couple of time before JJ answered.
"Would this happen to be my two favorite nieces calling me?" JJ asked.
"Yeah Aunt Jenny it's us!" The twins said.
"Well then, Happy Birthday, baby girls."
While the girls were talking to JJ, Emily walked into the kitchen to pour herself a cup of coffee. Emily could hear a distinct tone of sadness in JJ's voice and walked over to tithe girls. "Guys, why don't you go pick out a present while I talk to Aunt Jenny for a minute." Once the girls were preoccupied with picking out a present, Emily took the phone off speaker and held it to her ear. "Jenny, what's the matter?" She asked, using the name that she often used as a child when trying to get JJ to talk about what was bothering her.
JJ sighed, "It's nothing, just-Hotch gave us the next two weeks off and...I kinda caught a glance at the case before it was transferred to another team."
"What was it about?" Emily asked, then turned to the girls and said "Yes you can open those."
"Kids. Ages 3-10. They were being taken from a park and they all had blonde hair and blue eyes. There has been five taken so far and only two were found alive. And Emmy, one of the kids was a boy who was four-years-old, he was beaten and bruised and he's in a coma right."
"Oh, sweetie, I'm sorry." Emily said, knowing that she would have immediately thought of Henry when she saw that. "Why don't you go and get Henry, and then come over early ok? The girls are already asking about you." After receiving an 'ok' Emily's hung up and turned to see the girls were still holding their presents they had picked out in their laps.
"How come you didn't open your presents yet?"
"We wanted to wait on you Mami." Bella said, mixing her English and Spanish.
"Well gracias, Mija." Emily answered back, also mixing her English and Spanish.
The girls tore into their presents each wearing a look of pure happiness on their faces.
"What did you guys get?" Emily asked.
"A Frwozen movie!" Bella exclaimed at the same time Addie said, "A Dockers kit." referring to Doc McStuffins.
"Mommy can we watch this now?" Bella asked.
"Sure we can." Emily took the movie and opened it up, sliding the disk into the DVD player.
Emily left the tv menu and told the girls to go wash their hands while she got the ingredients out for French toast and strawberries. When the girls got back from the bathroom, Emily helped them up onto the chairs. She let Bella stir the pancake batter while she helped Addiesan crack the eggs. Emily was just putting the pancakes on a plate and handing out forks when JJ walked in the door and she was almost knocked down by a mini-blonde haired boy.
Henry turned to the wins and held up two bags. "Happy Birthday Bella, Happy Birthday Addie." He said and held each bag to its correct owner.
The girls tore into their presents and both take out a matching set of Minnie Mouse earrings and a Minnie Mouse necklace. The jewelry matches the Minnie Mouse dress that the girls picked out to wear.
"Thank you, Aunt Jenny!" They both say.
"All right girls, eat your breakfast and then we can watch your Frozen movie, ok." Emily tells them and sets their plates I front of them then turns to get JJ and Henry a plate too.
After breakfast, every one sits down to watch the movie. At 10:30 Emily presses pause on the movie and then takes the girls upstairs to get ready for their party while JJ starts carrying a few of the birthday presents down to the car. Finally, everyone is ready and they all head over to JJ's house where Emily and JJ set up and decorated with a Cheetah Girls themed birthday decorations the night before.
I know this short, but I'm going to make the next chapter the entire b-day party from the moment they walk in to when it starts to die down. Don't worry though, this is going to be the Disney tickets birthday one.
It was a tie, with Puppy present - 3 and Disney tickets - 3. So I picked number 2.
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