More baby time! I hope you all love it. Let me know. I've been reading up about babies and development and all that because really I don't know anything. I've never had a baby. So if you've had a baby and you think I'm making a mess of things, let me know about that too :)

Jane stretched out on the living room floor, laying on her belly, facing her little girls who were doing the same. "Look at you guys, holding your heads up," she said excited. Margo's dropped to the floor a couple seconds later, Elliott soon followed. "Well you can keep working on that one," she continued, sitting up and getting between her babies, rolling them over to tickle fat little bellies. Their two sets of eyes looked up at Jane, a new skill they had recently mastered, and one that Jane thought was awesome. They actually looked at her now, with those huge hazel eyes that looked just like Maura's. It made the whole world dissapear around her, and those eyes were all she saw.

Jane laughed as Dorothy wandered into the room and immediate came over to inspect her new family members. Margo reached for the droopy, fuzzy face in front of her. Maura hated when Jane let the pets get close to the babies. She thought Dorothy was going to swallow them, but the big dog had become their burly protector, sleeping outside the nursery, always being where the babies were. She was patient with them, and gentle, like she understood that they needed her protection. That they couldn't protect themselves.

Jo wanted to play with them. The little terrier didn't quite understand that the babies were fragile and couldn't jump around with her, she was just excited that there were humans the same size as her. She was currently outside in the sun, barking at squirrels and away from delicate little girls. Bass wasn't interested at all. He just lumbered around following his usual schedule as he slowly made his way through the house.

Dorothy laid down beside the blanket and Jane reached over to pat her big head, before turning her head back to the babies as Margo let out a saliva filled gurgle. "I agree Ms. Channing," Jane said, playing with their feets as they kicked them up in the air. "Mom left some milk for you in the fridge. Let's have lunch and then we'll go out for a walk in the sunshine. We'll go see if we can get there in time to meet mom when she gets out of her yoga class. How does that sound?"

Elliott answered for them, with a spit bubble followed by a sneeze. "I'll take that as a yes." Jane said, smiling at them as she picked them up carefully and made her way to the kitchen where a double swing contraption had become her favourite piece of baby furniture. Putting it front of the dishwasher during a pots and pan cycle calmed them down like nothing else. She could also feed them at the same time without much fussing. Which was very useful when she only had her own two hands.

Maura had started back at lunchtime yoga, eager to regain her pre-baby body. Jane was happy to watch the twins for a couple hours while Maura got back in shape. She knew it was important to her wife, Maura was very excited to fit back into all her designer clothes. Selfishly, Jane was excited to get her hot woman back, make love again, when they were less exhausted of course.

Smiling at the thought, Jane pulled a chair up in front of the girls and held their warmed bottles as they swayed slightly. "Yummy, yummy, yummy, I got love in my tummy," she sang softly. Neither twin caring that her singing was horrible. "And as silly as it may seem, the lovin' that you're givin', is what keeps me livin', and your love is like peaches and cream." Both girls drank hungrily, their stares moving from Jane to their bottles. Both of which were soon empty.

A towel spread across her lap and one on her shoulder, Jane plucked them from their swings for some hearty burping. She still couldn't change their diapers at the same time, but she could burp them simultaneously. She laid Elliott across her lap and Margo on her shoulder and patted their little backs softly, until she got the results she wanted and some full, happy babies.

"So we're going to try to get you into that bondage contraption thing your mom bought," she said, cradling them and heading back to the living room. She laid them back down gently on their blanket, while she pulled on her shoes and readied a few diapers and necessities into her pack that a couple of years ago had been reserved for hiking. Jane smiled thinking about how things had changed, and for the better.

"Okay," she said, always talking to the girls, always engaging them in one sided conversation. Maura said it would help their development, but that wasn't Jane's primary motivation. She liked talking to them like they understood, sometimes she was convinced they did, looking at her with those big eyes.

She took the hammock like contraptions off the back of the couch, and slung them diagonally across each shoulder, sitting down, she fixed Elliott's little sock that she had managed to wiggle off a little. "Okay so Margo in here," she said gently laying the little girl in her soft fabric cocoon. "And Elliott you go on the right. Comfy?"

Both girls just put their hands in there mouths and slobbered. "I'm taking that as a yes too," she said, smiling at them as she stood up and slung her bag onto her back. "You guys are gonna be great exercise for the shoulders. Alright," Jane continued, grabbing her keys, before remembering to go let Jo in from out back. She patted both dogs on her way back to the front door. "You two be good. Me and the wee ones are going out for some sunshine."

She locked the door, and then let her pinky fingers be used as pacifiers, as she headed through the neighbourhood. She stopped for a desperately needed coffee and an espresso brownie. "So good," she moaned to herself, taking a big gulp. "I love you girls, but you wear me out like crazy."

Jane stopped at a little market to get strawberries for Bass, he was running low. "Oh my god," she heard from beside her and turned. A lady, probably in her 40s, was looking over, peaking in on Elliott. "They're so tiny," she said.

Jane smiled. "Ya. 5 weeks on Sunday."

"And you're so thin already."

Jane smiled wider and shook her head. "No, I didn't actually give birth to them. My wife did all the heavy lifting."

"Oh," was all the lady responded with, before turning back towards the display she'd been looking at.

Jane shot her a look. "You got a problem ma'am? My babies not so cute anymore? I think lesbians make the best looking babies."

The woman just walked away.

"Bitch," Jane muttered and payed for her strawberries.

A familiar clerk smiled sympathetically at her. "Just ignore her. She's a cunt all the time," she said, peaking over at the twins. "Awww, they look like your wife with dark hair. They're very adorable.

"I don't think it's just the babies that are adorable."

Jane turned towards the voice and grinned foolishly at the sight of Maura in her yoga pants and hoodie.

Maura looked down at both babies in their slings. "Don't they look cozy," she said, kissing each of their dark heads softly. Both girls responding to the presence of their mother by looking up at her with wide eyes. "Hello my babies," she whispered. "And hello to you," she continued, kissing Jane softly on the lips, and fixing the collar of Jane's polo that was trapped under various straps. She smiled at the clerked and thank her as they left.

"I find this butch maternal thing you have going on, very, very, sexy."

Jane's lips turned up to form the familiar Rizzoli grin. "Oh yeah?"

Maura nodded and took one of Jane's hands, heading out of the market and back on the sidewalk. "Oh yeah, and when we manage to get more than 3 hours of consecutive sleep, I plan on showing you."

Jane laughed. "I never thought I'd trade sex for anything, but I am definitely willing to trade sex for sleep at this point."

Maura squeezed her wife's hand. "I agree. I nearly fell asleep at yoga as soon as I laid down on my mat, but I made it through. What did you and the girls do while I was gone?"

Jane smiled. "We got that big fluffy blanket out that Ma gave us and we spread it out in the living room and layed around and practiced our head lifting. Which is still a work in progress. Then we got in our swingy thing and had lunch and big burps, and then we thought we'd go out cause it's so nice and see if we could get to yoga to meet you but I guess we were a little late."

Maura leaned over and kissed Jane's cheek. "You are so cute. How about we walk to the Commons and go to the frog pond?"

Jane laced their fingers together. "Sounds great. I really want to go back and punch that old bag in the face."

Maura held tight to Jane's hand. "It's not worth it. She's a miserable lady, who's just jealous that we have love in our lives and she will be never know what that feels like."

Jane sighed. "What if people give the girls a hard time the rest of their lives, because of us?"

"Then, unfortunately, we're just going to have to prepare them for the prejudice and bigotry that exists in the world.

Jane nodded and sighed again. "It just sucks."

Maura reached over to rub Jane's arm with her free hand. "It does, but we've surrounded ourselves with friends and family and people who love us without hesitation, and the girls will grow up surrounded by that love and our love, and that's what they'll know. We won't be able to protect them from everything, especially with what we see everyday at work, but we'll make sure above all else that they're loved at home and prepared for some of the cruel realities of the world. We'll do our best and what's best for them."

Reassured as always by Maura, Jane leaned over to kiss her wife's temple. "You're having the sex talk with them too."


Maura laid out on the living room floor with Margo, smiling at her baby, tickling her little feet as they kicked up in the air. Jane was on the couch fast asleep along with Elliott who was laying on her mom's chest, her dark little head tucked under Jane's chin, a strong hand on her back, holding her little body tight and safe.

Maura reached for her camera which was now always near and took a couple pictures before turning back to Margo, who had nearly managed to put her whole hand in her mouth. "What are you doing, silly girl?" Maura asked, bringing her face down to blow a raspberry on a chubby, pink cheek. Margo wiggled at the contact, her free hand reaching out for her mother's hair. Maura pulled back grinning at her baby, and that's when it happened, her own expression mirrored by tiny features, showing off nothing but gums.

"Jane, Jane! Wake up!" She exclaimed.

Jane opened her eyes, but stayed still for Elliott's sake. "What is it?"

Maura smiled wide and Margo continued to mime her. "Margo smiled."

Holding Elliott tight as she sat up, Jane slipped to the floor and was greeted with another big gummy smile. Maura had picked the camera up and taken a series of pictures.

"That's the greatest thing I've ever seen," Jane said awed. She laid Elliott down who had started to stir. "Can you do that too Ellie?"

"Tickle her," Maura suggested.

Leaning forward Jane pretended to eat a soft belly. "Nom, nom, nom," she said with a growl, and then it happened again. Maura had the camera at the ready, recording another gum filled smile.

"It's so awesome," Jane said, bringing her face to Elliott's and rubbing their noses together as her baby rewarded her with another grin.

Maura was doing the same with Margo making faces and tickling. It was Elliott who released a delighted squeal as Jane pretended to devour her little foot. "I could listen to that all day," Jane said, sitting up.

Margo let out a loud laugh as Maura tickled under a fat chin. "It's wonderful," Maura agreed, tears starting to fill her eyes.

Jane wrapped an arm around her wife. "They have your goofy smile."

Maura slapped Jane's shoulder. "My smile is not goofy," she said, before tackling Jane to the floor. "Take it back."

Jane hollered and held Maura to her tight, making the onslaught of pinches and slaps stop, but she gave in. "It's not goofy. It's not goofy. It's beautiful and amazing and it lights up my life."

Laughing Maura sat up to find her two daughters squirming and still smiling. "Want to take these two smiling monkeys out for some sunshine after their lunch?"

Jane sat up and wrapped her arms around Maura's steadily shrinking waist. "Sounds great. Make me a sandwich too woman."

The palm that pressed into her face, let Jane know that she could make her own damn sandwich.