Happy New Year all! To celebrate the end of a decade, we have these wonderful snapshots, which you shall receive about one a day! It's all the moments you might have wanted to see but couldn't be fit into the stories. Visits to Addison, friends meeting family, babys' firsts, and their meeting with Michael, it's all here! The timing is approximate, we planned this out after writing Heart Trouble, so we fit things in as best we could.
Okay, I must admit, I was kind of expecting Callie to announce a pregnancy, what else would be momentous enough to go hand in hand with Arizona trying to win her back? But expecting something and actually hearing it? WOW! Who else had a similar reaction?
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First tooth - 2011 - 8 months old (Christmas time)
"Um, Arizona?" Callie calls her wife into the nursery as she sees the blonde head pass by the room.
"Yes, Calliope?" Arizona pokes her head around the door frame, balancing a stack of towels that will be going into the hall closet. With eight month old twins and 80+ hour work weeks, simple household chores like laundry have fallen by the wayside. On the first day off the two have shared in almost a month they've agreed to catch up on all the laundry and cleaning while trading off with the kids.
"What's this?" The blonde sets the towels down on changing table while joining Callie by Carter's crib. Their oldest has been particularly fussy lately and just a few days ago they'd determined that the infant had begun teething and picked up numbing cream from the clinic that very day.
The oldest Robbins-Torres is happily gnawing away on Callie's cream covered finger. Arizona wipes away a trail of drool from her daughter's chin before looking into her mouth at the top tooth that's coming in.
"That just doesn't look normal, does it?" Arizona smiles at Callie's worried tone, leaning in to place a kiss on the taller woman's cheek. Liam got his first tooth in with no problems, so the oddity of Carter's first tooth obviously threw the woman for a loop.
"It's fine, Calliope. Two of her baby teeth fused together. It's normal and it won't affect her adult teeth any more than if they'd come in normal. Don't freak out so much." She gives their daughter a kiss and one more to Callie before returning to her chores.
"When did you become the rational and level-headed one in regards to our children?" The only response to her question is her wife's laughter ringing through the hallway.
