"Happy birthday my baby girl"

I smiled softly as I watched Phil cuddling Lilly close to him. So it was finally the twins birthday. It felt like we'd been planning this for weeks, when really. It had only been about a week. We'd pretty much done everything to let the twins have the best birthday ever. We invited Chris, PJ and Carrie. We thought about inviting Alex and Charlie but, yeah. It would still be fine with just the three of them. There's only a little while until everyone was due to arrive actually.

Phil was currently sitting on the lounge floor with Lilly and Sam sitting in his lap. Well more Sam pulling the most adorable pout and trying to push Lilly away because she was getting all the attention. I grinned, diving down onto the floor and scoping Sam into my arms.

"Hey little guy. Are you getting all jealous of your sister?"

I teased, ruffling his hair gently. He smiled up at me, standing up on his little wobbly legs and throwing his arms around my neck. I swear he's a little monkey or something. Well, he acts like it most the time.

"Not long till they get here"

I nodded, flashing Phil a small smile. He gently reached over and ruffled Sam's hair.

"Come on you two. We need to get you ready"

It was only then I realized we were all actually not dressed for the day. I mentally kicked myself for not paying enough attention. Again. Sam somehow managed to slip out of my arms and climb onto Phil's lap. Phil laughed, hugging Sam tightly

"What is it Sam?" he asked, looking into Sam's bright, brown eyes. Sam looked thoughtful for a few seconds before smiling widely.

"up"

He pointed to the stairs. Our gazes followed his hand, us both smiling as we realized he actually understood what was going on.

"Lilly?"

I said softly, tapping her shoulder gently. She turned around, smiling instantly. She quickly crawled onto my lap and looked up at me. It was so strange. Well, not really strange, but. It was hard to get to grips that they were actually growing up. Actually understanding things now.

"Come on, let's go get dressed"

Lilly lifted her arms up, looking into my eyes as if she were asking me to pick her up. I smiled, lifting her into my arms before planting a small kiss on her forehead.

"Let's get you all dressed up and looking beautiful then"

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Smiles were all around as we sang happy birthday. PJ had his arm around Chris as they both swayed slightly while singing as loudly as they could. If I didn't know better id say they were having some sort of weird competition to see who could sing the loudest. Carrie sang at fairly the same volume. Smiling widely as she gazed at us. Phil was standing beside me in front of the huge cake while he held Sam in his arms. I sang happily as I held Lilly, grinning down at the cake. We has a special cake made. We got one that you can get a picture on, you know. The ones that they sell in. well, anywhere really. There was a large picture in the middle of us all. And I really mean, us all.

The picture was taken maybe only a few weeks after the twins were born. In the picture Phil and I were sitting on the couch/ both of us smiling at the camera while we each held one of our babies. I think Phil was holding Sam. I really couldn't be sure though. We'd received several matching outfits as gifts that were colours like yellow and mint. And for some reason we'd decided to dress them in the matching outfits that day. They were both wearing their little yellow outfits, looking adorable as always. Chris and Pj were on either side of us, grinning at the camera as they both tried to squeeze in. and then finally there was Carried sitting on eth floor, smiling up happily at the camera she had just placed on timer and ran into position. It was a really cool picture to be honest.

On the edges of the cake there were little pink flowers on one side and blue on eth other. It was truly beautiful cake. Kinda of a shame to be eating it. Well. It is in a cake after all. Cake has to be eaten. I think that's an unwritten rule of life.

"Happy birthday, Lilly and Sam. Happy birthday too you"

We all finished singing together. I looked down to Lilly who was looking between me and the rather large red and white 1 candle that stood just to the side of the picture on the cake. The flame swayed softly as Phil and I both leaned forward to blow out the candle for the twins. Everybody did their three little cheers, coming closer with each cheer until we were all huddled closely around the cake laughing softly.

"Happy birthday Lilly"

Carrie chimed as she gently poked Lilly's nose with a wide smile spreading across her face.

"You can hold if you want" I offered, flashing her a small smile. Carried nodded eagerly, holding her arms out towards me. I carefully handed Lilly over to her, my smile growing wider as I watched Carrie hug her tightly.

"Look how big you've gotten Lilly. You're gonna grow up to be a beautiful young lady before we know it."

I looked over to Phil to see Chris and PJ were currently attempting to hold Sam between the two of them while they tickled him, making Sam squeal with laughter.

"Look how big our little Sammy is getting" PJ cooed, grinning at Sam.

Phil noticed me looking and began to make his way over to me.

"Our little party seems to be going well" Phil whispered softly, draping his arm around my waist as he nuzzled his face into my neck. I wrapped my arms around his back pulling him closer as I nodded. I knew he couldn't really see me nod but I'm guessing he felt it because as soon as I had performed this action I felt his lips curve into a smile against my skin.

"It's nice to have a moment to ourselves like this" he smiled, looking into my eyes now. "Yeah, I guess it is" I replied, gently pressing my lips against his. He kissed me back slowly, softly running a hand through my hair and pulling me closer.

"Hey you two! Stop making out and cut the cake. We're hungry over here"

A small smile formed on my lips as I pulled a way to see Chris with a cheeky smile plastered on his face. He seemed quite proud of his little outburst there

That boy hasn't changed at all

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So we all sat down and had some cake. Chatting and laughing like usual. That was a few hours ago now. We were now sitting on the couches having a little drink. Well, Chris was getting pretty drunk while PJ was trying to stop him from consuming anymore alcohol. Carrie and Phil were having some conversation about the good old days. Or, something like that. I had the best job of keeping an eye on the twins.

Lilly was sitting with her teddy bear. Rebilling on in her own little language to it as she always did. Sam seemed to be sort of mesmerised by Lilly's bear. He was just kind of staring at her, a small smile covering his face. He sort of shuffled over to her and pushed the bear away. I was expecting Lilly to hit him or at least start crying but she just looked into his eyes. It was like they were communicating just by looking at each other.

Sam held his hand out to her, still looking into her eyes. She took his hand and they both began to shuffle forward slightly. I watched them curiously, trying to figure out what they were doing.

Suddenly I understood

They both stood up, wobbling unsteadily then began to slowly walk forward. I just watched in pure amazement as they both wobbled together, somehow holding each other up. I seriously couldn't keep my eyes off them as they took another step. I looked over to Phil, hoping he would look around to notice this. As on cue he did indeed turn around. A small gasp escaped his lips that seemed to grab the rest of the rooms attention

"They're walking!"

He squealed as he quickly scrambled onto the floor, holding his arms out to them.

"Come on. Walk over to daddy" he grinned, motioning them over. I slid onto the floor next to him, being pulled out of the weird trance I was in long enough to mirror Phil's actions.

"Come on Sam, you can do it" Called PJ from his place on the couch behind us

"You too Lilly. Come on" Carrie grinned encouragingly.

Before I knew it the room was full of encouraging words as the twins made their way over to us slowly. Their hands firmly clasped as they displayed looks of pure concentration on their little faces. They both seemed to let go of the others hand at the same time, just before they wobbled over to us. Lilly fell into my arms, grinning up brightly as me. Sam did the same with Phil, squealing as Phil lifted him into the air and spun him around. I hugged Lilly tightly, such a huge grin tugging at my lips that my face actually began to ache.

"They walked. Both of them!"

Chris announced, as if we hadn't quite caught onto that yet. We all laughed at his little, half-drunken outburst from him. PJ smiling as he wrapped an arm around Chris' shoulder and kissed his cheek.

"They sure did"

"Well, that was a surprise" Carrie added, standing up to ruffle Sam's hair who was currently still being held in a very proud looking Phil's arms.

"I know. I didn't expect that at all. I'm so proud" beamed Phil, hugging Sam while the grin just wouldn't leave his face.

"I think we can tell you're pretty proud Phil" I teased, standing up and giving him a little kiss on the cheek. I was proud too. Really proud. I think I'm a little more in shock though. I mean, that was amazing. Them helping each other like that.

Just. Wow