Rory tilted her head and looked at her daughter.

"Lib, what are you doing?"

Libby was looking through her legs at her mother.

"Dex size." Libby replied.

"Jess." Rory called.

"Yes?" Jess appeared.

"Our daughter is doing dex size."

Libby bent down and touched her toes again.

"Your mother must have left on one of her exercise tapes."

"Hey Lib, how about we go and feed the duck?" Rory suggested.

"K." Libby replied.

"We need to put on your shoes and your coat."

GG

"Mom?" Rory let herself into the Twickham House.

She heard her brother cry from the kitchen.

"Hey Mom." Rory walked into the kitchen where Lorelai was sat with William.

"Hey Rory."

"What's wrong with grumpy?"

"He's getting a tooth." Lorelai replied. "He's a little grouchy right now."

"What about Casey?"

"Not so far. She's asleep in the other room; I'm trying not to wake her up."

"I guess that's a good idea."

"So what do we owe this visit?" Lorelai inquired.

"My two year is touching her toes, doing 'dex size' as she like to put it."

"Oops." Lorelai replied.

"Yeah." Rory agreed. "She's taking a nap now; I took her to feed the ducks."

William cried again, and there was a cry from Casey.

"Let me have him." Rory said.

"Thank you."

Rory took him and opened the refrigerator. Lorelai had placed a few of the teeth devices in there. Rory extracted one.

"This might help Will." Rory held it on William's gums, to cool them down. Rory rubbed his back in small circles as he sucked on the cool teether and drooled.

"Wet diaper." Lorelai said when she carried Casey in a few minutes later.

"That would wake me up too. Hey Casey."

"Does Jess know where you are?"

"Yes. I'm stopping by the diner for dinner on the way back. I can stick around for a while."

GG

"Dinner's here." Rory announced when she got home.

"You took longer than I thought."

"Will's teething and woke Casey up so Mom needed a hand for a while."

"It was bad enough with one kid teething, let alone too."

"Casey isn't yet." Rory explained. "Where's Libby?"

"A B C D E F G…" Rory heard being sung from the other room.

"Never mind." Rory replied.

"I'll go and put this on plate." Jess took the food from her.

"Hey Lib." Rory went to where Libby was dancing around in front of the TV to her alphabet video.

"Mommy."

"You have a lot of energy kid."

"Mommy dance."

"Okay." Rory danced around with Libby for a few minutes.

"Smile." Jess said before snapping a few pictures.

"Smile for Daddy." Rory told Libby.

Jess took some more pictures.

"Dinner's ready."

TBC