Hi Folks! I am updating this fic after twins Lily and Mimi have arrived and are about a month to six weeks old. Harvey and Donna need to adjust just like every other set of new parents. However, we know we've other things for these two on the horizon. Hope you like this little update and promise bigger things to come. Thank you to everyone who is reading, reviewing, and following. So grateful! Love - Carebearmaxi.

Little One

Chapter 25

The first month with the new babies was ageing. Lily and Mimi could not seem to agree on their feeding schedules. Donna was expressing milk and nursing as fast as she could. At the end of the first two weeks they took the babies to the pediatrician's office for their first shots and their wellness checkups. Harvey kept up with the schedule has best he could. It was times like these that he could have used a kind word of advice from his own mother. He could not voice how ironic his whole relationship with his mother had been now. He never regretted mending fences with her, but he was sorry that she was not here to help with her two newest grandchildren.

Donna's body seemed to be cooperating well, at least, getting back to her pre-baby weight. Her boobs were a good size before but now they resembled giant udders. Harvey seemed to like them, but they were both so tired from two babies who seemed to have tummy troubles that even after a month they could not find the time to be together. Donna was beginning to feel like a cow as well. She looked in the mirror and her body though back to being prebaby weight, but she noticed that not all the weight was distributed in the same spots. Plus, she was weepy and sometimes just wanted to go away from her children and Harvey. Her mom told her she probably was suffering from a bout of postpartum depression. Donna hoped it would dissipate soon because she had heard horror stories about how bad some cases could be.

She thought she could cope with it all until she accidentally crept into the home office/guest room where Harvey was in a face-to-face meeting with Louis. Harvey sat with his back to the doorway. The carpet in the apartment was thick and Donna was barefoot, so she basically came to stand silently in the doorway where Harvey could not possibly see her. It seemed Harvey had called to complain about how Donna had changed since giving birth. At least that was how Donna read the portion of the conversation she had heard.

"So, Harvey what are you saying?" Louis asked. He was obviously on his computer in his study. Lucy had grown so tall that she was toddling around on her legs as Sheila kept up behind her.

"She's very irritable and she's weepy. Donna never cried unless she was in pain or really, really upset. I'm just saying. I'm home. I love helping with the twins, but she seems to be yelling at me saying I haven't done anything right and then she does it all over again. I thought her hormones were screwy when she was pregnant, but now she's just different."

"When was the last time you had a date night?" Louis asked and Sheila raised her hand in the back and said, 'Brilliant suggestion, honey!'

"I can't remember. It must have been way before the twins' birth. Did that work for you and Sheila?"

Louis gave a little conceited laugh and said, "Harvey, you have to remember. Donna needs to be there for the babies' now. She wants to be there for you, too, especially if you're helping as much as you say are. Remember, her focus cannot be all about you as it has been for fifteen years."

Harvey smirked and said, "I think you have a point, Louis. I'm not asking her to just focus on me. I grew out of that a long time ago. Of course, I want my wife back, but I do know that our little girls really need their mom right now."

Louis turned around from the camera and signaled to Lucy. "Hey, Lucy, come say hello to Uncle Harvey."

Sheila stood behind as Lucy went easily into her father's arms. Louis lifted her to the laptop on the desk. Fascinated, Lucy put her hand up to the screen.

Donna smiled as she saw Harvey wave to Lucy on the screen and use his "baby" voice to talk to the toddler.

"Lu…cy…hi..honey. Harvey said smiling widely. "You're walking!" Lucy smiled and looked up at her daddy.

"Yes, that's Uncle Harvey. He gave you your play kitchen!" Louis said and pointed to Harvey's face on the screen. Harvey waved again and called for Lucy.

"House?" Lucy asked as she pointed.

"Yes. He has two little girls that you can play with when they get older," Louis said and held the baby's hands and kissed them.

"Okay, daddy, Lucy needs her nap," Sheila said as she walked back into the room and right up to Louis to take Lucy from him.

"Hi Harvey," Sheila greeted. "Go easy with Donna. Remember she's the one that pushed those two adorable girls out into the world. Her body is still adjusting to what happened."

"Of course, Sheila."

"Take her out. Rachel and Mike can take care of the babies. James should be old enough that they can manage all three."

"Mom and Dad Paulsen haven't gone back to New York quite yet. They were such help for the first two weeks I will see if they can put off going back for a few days."

Sheila then waving Lucy's little hand at the computer screen left the room.

"Take care. As soon as you can come back here for a visit, we would love to see you."

"We still have our second wedding planned in Tuscany in late October. Look for an invitation. I'm not sure if we'll get back to New York before that."

"Regardless, anytime, Harvey."

"Thanks, Louis. Give Sheila our best and kiss Lucy for us," Harvey said about to finish the conversation.

"I will. Take care of those girls. Give my love to Donna."

"Sure thing."

The screen went blank after that. Donna hurriedly went into their bedroom to check on the babies.

Donna remained in the bedroom trying alternating between just watching Lily and Mimi sleep. She had a hard time not to want to pick them up and just hold them all the time. She was fascinated by them and she was loathing the day soon when they would be removed from the master bedroom into the nursery. Her nephew, Troy, had labeled one side "LILY" with a big painted sign with "Lily" written in script teal green outlined in a rainbow of colors forming the background. For Mimi, Troy had painted another sign with "Amelia" written in script hot pink colors outlined in a rainbow of other colors from the background of that sign. At the time when Troy was constructing and painting the signs, Harvey and she were not sure if they were going to call her by a nickname or her full name.

Finally, hearing Harvey not come into the bedroom but down the hall to the living room, she found her notebooks that she had started almost a year ago. The one labeled "babies" was just about finished. The jobs that really needed her attention were the notebooks labeled "business" and "second wedding."

Donna sat on the bed and opened the one labeled "business". Designer Duds had to be put on hold for a little bit until Donna came off self-proclaimed maternity leave. Her online presence had been telling little bits of every month as Donna's pregnancy progressed. It worked as a marketing tool and a camaraderie approach with other mothers and mothers-to-be. The last entry Donna had made on the website was only about two weeks before the twins' early births.

Donna had some orders that had come in the meantime and Donna was doing her best to fill them. She had put out a notation on her website that she was filtering the orders through her sister, Charlotte, while Donna was on maternity leave. So far, everything had been running smoothly with the exception of packages being delivered to their apartment from the wholesalers and designers. Charlotte had been good enough to retrieve the packages and reship or transmit Donna's wishes to the designers who had been plaguing her with children's clothes designs for weeks.

As far as moving the online presence to a brick-and-mortar business, Donna was still in limbo about the space on which she had placed an offer. Harvey had heard nothing for weeks now, but he promised he was inquiring on a periodic basis. So was Tracy. Tracy volunteered to help him with his personal work as Donna had not been in a business mood the last month of her pregnancy. Harvey tried to reassure her that there really was no news on the front; but, unfortunately, when Donna said she would call the realtor herself accusing Harvey of not getting the job done, he had mistakenly put on his Harvey Specter "corporate-lawyer-but-husband-and- protector-first" attitude. Donna taking his tone of voice and manner in the wrong light railed on him a few nights ago as they changed the twins' diapers together.

"Donna, I know you know what you're doing, but I am your lawyer. I want to be your mouthpiece on this to make sure nothing goes wrong."

"Harvey, I used to do that this type of thing for the firm and for you for a long time."

"Donna," Harvey had said as he had walked up to her and placed his left hand on her upper arm in a soothing manner. His other hand gently restraining Lily from rolling off the changing table. He was pretty confident that a month old child would not roll off the changer, but Lily was aggressive and was trying to turn over already.

"Let me do this, please? I want to help you, and…"

"So, you want me to let you do all the work because you think as a mother I can't handle business inquiries as I did before I became a brood mare with your babies?"

Harvey had removed his hand and alternating restraining hands on the baby rolled up the sleeves of his white dress shirt preparing to do the diaper change. They had stood in the nursery at the changer. Harvey had volunteered to change Lily while Donna held Mimi standing next to him.

"No, Donna, of course not. By the way, you didn't say no when you found out you were pregnant. It's not just me in this scenario."

Donna got disgusted and took Mimi and walked out of the room. Harvey looked down at his baby girl as he rubbed some Vaseline on her navel. The silly stump of a cord was hanging by a thread, so he had to be gentle.

"What's going on with mommy, Lily? She's mad at daddy. You didn't hear me say anything bad, right?" Harvey had asked his daughter as he put a little powder on her bottom. Lily just looked up at her dad with her big brown eyes.

"Yeah, I'm with you, kid. I didn't do anything. I LOVE MOMMY VERY MUCH!" Harvey overemphasized in a loud voice so Donna would hear him from the other room.

As Harvey picked up the baby and rocked her in his arms, he looked up and Donna with Mimi still in her arms pouted and stood in the doorway of the nursery.

"I love daddy very much, too. I'm sorry, Harvey. You're right. I should let you handle this. You are my go-to guy," Donna said as she had made her way to Harvey with the Mimi in her arms. He held Lily. They kissed.

"Let me change Mimi. I seem to be getting good at this."

Exchanging babies carefully, Donna took Lily and looked into her eyes and said, "Mommy has her little Lily now."

"Go have a seat in the living room. I will be done with Miss Mimi Specter in a minute," Harvey said kissing Donna once again. He watched as Donna turned with Lily in her arms walk out of the room.

"Now, Miss Mimi what surprises do you have in your diaper for daddy…."

That was last week. The biggest event that happened in the meantime was that Lily's cord stump finally fell off. Mimi's had dropped off two weeks prior to their brief exchange. They were both getting to know each twin because even at six weeks they were definitely developing personalities.

Lily was aggressive and was the one trying to roll over at two weeks old. Mimi was more of sedentary baby and just liked to be pampered by either parent. Donna thought that Mimi was definitely going to be a daddy's girl. Who knew?

"Hey, Donna, I need to talk to you…oh…you're working. I'll be back in a minute. I have to make a call."

"Harvey?" Donna called but Harvey had hot footed it to the other room.

"Hi, Clara?"

"Harvey, you can call me mom, you know," Clara Paulsen said smiling when she heard the voice on the end of the line.

"Ok," Harvey said still feeling uncomfortable calling someone other than his own mom "Mom".

"How are my two little granddaughters?"

"They are beautiful. I'm amazed at how big they are getting."

"You and Donna need a night out, right? You want Jim and I to babysit?"

"Now I know where Donna gets her gift from," Harvey said smiling. "Yes. We're snapping at each other. We're both so tired and Donna's been crying a lot."

"Say no more. Almost all our packing is finished for the move back to New York. Charlotte, her husband, and Troy have helped us a lot. What night?"

"Tomorrow night?"

"Harvey, even if you and Donna just want to spend the evening sleeping at home in your bedroom, I am willing to take care of Mimi and Lily so you can do that. You should take advantage while I'm here because I am not sure who would volunteer so fast."

"I bet Charlotte would. She and Donna seemed to have mended their fences. What about with Jim?"

"I'm not sure, Harvey. Jim hasn't talked about banishing her to South America as he had threatened a long time ago."

Harvey laughed to himself.

"Ok, I will let you know later what time tomorrow."

"Sounds great, honey. Harvey, you're a good husband and father. Donna always knew you would be."

"Thanks…mom. Talk to you later." Harvey hung up his phone and smiled. Just for a minute, he thought he could hear his own mom's voice say those words to him.

Coming back to their bedroom walking resolutely, he breezed into the room and spotting Donna still on the bed with her business notebook in front of her said, "You and me, business meeting tomorrow at 7 pm sharp." Then he walked back to the living room.

Donna smiled comforted by his tone of voice because now somewhere buried deep was still her boss, Harvey Specter, Corporate Attorney who had respected her and trusted her with all his business affairs and command his moral compass in all directions.

She called to his back, "Good thing I already rearranged your calendar for that."

She could hear his laugh and smiled at the sudden change in the air.