A/N Yes, Dana coming to visit is going to cause some issues...

Stef cleaned the apartment the next morning after everyone else left for school. She was determined to have everything as perfect as possible for Dana's visit. Brandon and Callie would have to share a room still; there was just nowhere else to put either of them. Dana may object, but the kids would also be sharing Callie's bed again. At least the sheets would be clean, she reasoned.

Jude fussed and Stef went to check on him. She, just like Lena, could not get enough of holding her newborn son. "I know that your Grams will really like you, Little Man. No one could resist your little cheeks or your sweet nature. We are really going to need your help, though, Baby. Mama is very worried that her mama is not going to like all of us. You, sir, are the glue that binds us."

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Lena got a text that said it would be a good time for her to go by the preschool room and see her kids. She smiled and replied before she made her way down there. The kids were having center time when Lena arrived. She observed Callie and Brandon playing with their individual groups.

Brandon's group was closer so she went over there first. "Hey, B! It looks like everything is going well over here."

"Mama!" He said as he jumped into her arms. She gave him a little kiss. Lena sat down on the floor and Brandon sat on her lap. She talked with the other kids in the group and helped them complete their center activity.

Callie observed from across the room. She was not bothered by Lena holding Brandon first because she knew she would get a chance in a little bit. Ms. Roberts told them to stay in the center she put them in until the timer went off. Callie was trying really hard to listen today.

"Who is that hugging the kid who you say is your brother?" The girl from across the table asked Callie.

"That is our mama. She is the Vice Principal here. Maybe you can meet her when she comes over here. Mama is so smart. She is the one who started teaching me how to write my name. She could be a teacher, but instead she is the boss."

"How is she your mom? She doesn't look like you or that boy. Families look alike."

"She isn't my mom, she is my mama. My mom has blond hair and her job is to keep the whole city safe from bad people. My mama is over there with my brother. And we do have the same last name. We are all Adams Fosters. Yesterday was just a mistake." Callie explained to the little girl.

Lena noticed Callie's heated discussion and decided to go ahead and make her way over there. "Hey, Baby." Lena said as she took Callie into her arms and kissed her head. "Are things going well for you today?"

"Yes, Mama. I ask Ms. Roberts and she said that so far I was earning a happy face today."

"That is great, Sweetheart! Is this your new friend from your table?" Lena asked indicating the girl near Callie who she had been speaking to.

"She does sit at my table, but I am not sure she is my friend, Mama…" Callie said giving Lena an odd look.

Lena turned to the little girl. "I am new here this year. I am the vice principal of this school, Ms. Adams, soon to be Mrs. Adams Foster. I am Brandon and Callie's Mama. And you are?"

"Kelsey." She said in a quiet voice.

"Well, Kelsey, I would like to tell you what I know about families just to set the record straight. Families are built around love. Sometimes there are families that all have the same last name like you referred to yesterday. Other times, families are built differently. Sometimes kids come in through adoption like two of my kids. That means that they may not look like me, but yet they are mine. Callie and Brandon have a mom and a mama. Someone else may have a mom and a dad. You might even find kids who are living with grandparents, aunts, uncles, or kids still looking for a forever family. Do you understand what I am telling you?"

Kelsey nodded, but didn't speak.

"You aren't in trouble yet, Sweetheart, but I don't want to hear that you have said unkind things about any of your classmates or their families. I think that you just didn't understand before, one of the reasons we got to school is to learn."

The timer buzzed indicating it was time to move centers. Lena moved with Callie, Kelsey, and their other two table mates. "Will you guys show me what you are supposed to do here?"

"Mama, you know about the alphabet letters… We are putting the letters on these cards. See, there is a picture of a cat. We put these letters on top of the letters under the cat. It spells a word."

"Very nice, Cals. I can see that you are good at this activity. What if it was a picture of Callie? How would you make that word?"

Callie carefully chose the letters of her name and put them in order. "C-a-l-l-i-e. That spells Callie."

"Kelsey, do you know what it would look like if it was a picture of you? How would you make your name?" Lena asked.

"I don't know."

"Well, maybe Ms. Roberts can help us learn to make your name." Brenda brought Lena a piece of paper with Kelsey's name written on it big enough to work with the letters. Lena directed the four kids to work together to make Kelsey's name and then they did the same for the other two in the group. "I hope I can come back and play with you again sometime, but right now I have to get back to my job. You should continue working together because I can see that you could become good friends."

Lena gave Callie a hug and a kiss and then went over to Brandon and did the same before she left the classroom. She would continue encouraging Callie to be friends with Kelsey. The girl herself was not so bad, like Brenda said, rather she just didn't know. Lena probably couldn't be able to make it back to the classroom again that day, but she hoped that this would be a foundation for the rest of the day.

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Everything went smoothly in line for lunch. The other kids accepted that Brandon and Callie were lined up together at the front of the line as Brandon was now going by Adams Foster. Kelsey didn't even object, Lena's words either sank in or scared her, either way she was being nice.

Callie started to settle next to Brandon during rest time. "Callie, I want to remind you to make a good choice right now. Remember that yesterday being next to your brother got you in some trouble."

Callie thought about it for a little while and then found a place where she could be alone. As a result of her move, she was able to take an hour long nap that she needed to have a successful afternoon. Half an hour before the end of the day, Brenda let Lena know that today had gone well and that it looked like Callie would get her stamp today.

Lena let Stef know and she went by a bakery on the way to the school and bought a cookie for each of her big kids for a treat. At the end of the day both mothers were waiting outside the door with Jude for the kids. Karen was there to pick up Matthew as well as several other parents.

"I love these pictures the kids drew of their families." Stef said pointing at the display. "I love how Brandon drew me in purple. I can only tell it is me because I am the only one in the family with yellow hair. I think that is you in red right next to me."

"Yes, I think you are right. I see my dark curls all over my head. Brandon is quite an artist. I think he even put Mike in his picture. Jude seems to be missing, though. That's kind of odd." Lena was still concerned over Brandon's relationship with Jude.

"That kind of looks like Jude's basinet. Maybe he is sleeping?" Stef asked and then moved over to another picture. "I can see Jude right in the center of Callie's picture. He is just as big as whoever is holding him, which is probably Callie herself. It looks like my mom made in this picture as well. We might have to send her a copy of this one."

"Here is Matthew's picture. Did you look at it yet, Karen?" Lena asked and Karen walked over to her.

"I had not really looked very closely, no… I like the way he drew all of his brothers as heads with hands and feet. He even got about the right color of orange for Grant and Dylan. It is interesting that he added a dog to the picture."

"I didn't remember seeing your dog when we were at your house…"

"We don't actually have one. The boys have been asking and we said would look into it when they were a little bigger. He must think that will be soon. I am kind of hoping to adopt a girl instead." Karen laughed a little.

"We aren't getting a dog any time soon either." Stef said laughing with her.

The door slowly opened and Ms. Roberts started dismissing kids to go to their parents. Callie proudly ran up to Stef and Lena showing them her smiley face stamp. She received a hug and kiss from each mom before Brandon came out of the room. He also had a stamp and also got hugs and kisses. The first week of school was particularly busy for Lena. She was thankful that Stef came so that she could take the kids home with her. After this week, Lean would have to take Brandon and Callie home every day.

"Okay, Babies, since you both had a fantastic day, you may both have a cookie. When you are done, you may play. Let's try not to take out too many toys right now, though. Grams is coming in tonight and I have already cleaned your room."

They kids sat down with a cookie and a glass of milk each. "Mama came into class today and showed my new friend Kelsey how to spell her name. Then we were friends. I want to have Kelsey come over and play. How about tomorrow?"

"I am happy to know that you made a friend today, Callie! Grams is going to be here for a week, we probably won't have friends over while she is here. Maybe after she leaves or maybe when we move into our new house. That way there will be enough space for you and your friends."

"Can we move tomorrow, Mommy?" Brandon asked.

"Not tomorrow. It takes a long time to buy a house. It will be a few more weeks before we can move."

"Moving takes too long." Callie observed finishing up her milk.

"I agree, Little Bug. Um… I have never met your grams, Callie. Do you think that you and B need to change clothes before going to the airport with Mama?" Stef asked.

Callie looked at her purple shirt and Brandon's Batman clothes. "Mama likes for me to wear something nicer when I see Grams."

"That is sort of what I was thinking. I washed the clothes you guys wore to 'Meet the Teacher Night' at school. I laid them on your beds. Before you play, I would like you to go ahead and put them on. When Mama comes home, one of us will do Callie's hair."

The kids scurried to their room to get dressed. Stef took Jude into the kids' room to watch them play. She smiled as the kids worked together to put together a road for their cars to drive on. As they played they talked and giggled. These were the moments Stef lived for. She laid Jude down on Callie's bed and picked up a car to join the kids.

When Lena got home she was pleasantly surprised to come home to a spotless apartment and her kids dressed perfectly to meet her mother. She was very thankful that Stef had thought about all of those things. Lena did Callie's hair while Brandon and Stef picked up the cars and road. They loaded all three kids in the van and drove to the airport.

Lena licked her hand and smoothed down Brandon's hair while she nervously waited for her mother's flight. "Eww, Mama that is gross." Brandon complained ducking out of her touching his head again.

Stef dragged her little boy toward her. "Mama just wants your hair to stay down and look nice, B. It is okay to have a little bit of Mama spit in your hair." Secretly, or maybe not so secretly Stef was also disgusted by this practice.

Brandon and Callie gave Stef weird looks. "Maybe Mama could put her spit in your hair then, Mommy." Brandon said.

"Mama can put as much of her spit in my hair as she wants to, B. She just doesn't want to, right, Love?"

Lena exaggerated licking her hand and reached for Stef's hair. Stef ducked away causing both kids to laugh. "See, Mommy, you don't like it either."

"Okay, B, I won't put any more spit in your hair, I promise…."

Callie all the sudden took off running. Stef ran after her, but the girl was already attached to who must be Dana Adams. Before Stef could get on to her for running off, Callie had already let go of Dana and started running again. This time she ran to a very elegant looking woman who looked to be a few years older than Stef.

"Excuse me, ma'am. I am sorry that my daughter ran to you like this…." Stef turned to Callie. "Come on, Bug, we need to go help Grams get her things so we can go to dinner."

The other lady eyed Stef suspiciously. "I am not sure who you think you are, but this is my daughter. I came into town just to see her and my newborn son. I would appreciate if you did not talk to her."

Stef took a few steps backward. "Let me guess, you are Gretchen?"

"Then you must be Lena Adams's current fling? Dana said she had picked someone up… Her tastes must have changed significantly or she was desperate. No matter, I am here now. You can just do whatever it is that you do."

Stef just stared at Gretchen unsure what to make of what she just said. Callie in the meantime was wiggling to get back out of her arms. She had meant to run to Gretchen, but had not meant to be trapped by her. Now, she wanted to go back to her Mommy. "Quit wiggling, Callie Rose. If you don't stop Mommy is going to leave you here in the airport."

Callie looked at Gretchen and then back at Stef trying to reason out exactly who was Mommy. "Mommy would never leave me here." Callie said squirming more and reaching for Stef.

"Please, put Callie down now." Stef stated looking at Gretchen more carefully.

"Right, like I am going to put my child down because you said so. You are not her mother and you never will be. You saw that she ran away from you to be with me. Now, where is my son?"

Dana by this time had already greeted Lena who was holding Brandon's hand, and told her that she brought a surprise for her. Lena expected to see her father and was more than disappointed to see Gretchen instead. She was downright angry to see Gretchen holding an obviously distressed Callie. "You have to be kidding me, Mom, you seriously brought her to see me!?" Lena practically yelled in the airport. "We have no room for her to stay with us and she has no right to any of my children." Lena stormed over to Gretchen leaving Brandon and Jude a few feet away, and reached for Callie. "Please give me my child, right now!"

Gretchen laughed. "You mean our child? Is that our son that you left over there in the carrier? I guess I could give you this one back for the chance to hold that darling little boy."

Stef walked back to the two boys and held on to Brandon tightly. She was not certain on Callie's custody, but she got out her phone to call into work. Gretchen would not be leaving the airport with any of Stef's children.

"None of my three children belong to you, Gretchen. Give me back my child now!" Callie had never seen Lena this angry and now began to cry as well as thrashing around to get down.

Gretchen tightened her grip on Callie to keep her still. "Are you for real Lena? Do you not remember how you became a mother? I worked and earned the money that we needed to get this child. I paid all of the bills so you could stay home with her. You repaid me by waiting until I was gone on a business trip and moving with my child. Until Dana called me I had no idea where the two of you went. Callie is mine and I think I would like her back. I am sure you have no room in your tiny apartment for Dana or me either one. We will gladly find a hotel, but Callie will be staying with us."