A/N: This one got long, because when you're dealing with such a large cast of characters it gets…busy, and it's not easy to toggle.

Prompt: I think it would be interesting to see the rest of the girls with the arrival of the baby boy! Because assuming you use the twins being twelve I would guess it's been a while since the liars had a baby to dote on! Hanna being all baby feverish! And I would love to see Lily and Grace introducing their baby brother to the rest of the liars kids and being protective and excited! Like sort of a barbecue to celebrate the newest arrival! Thanks in advance.

Playtime

The weather was perfect. The clouds were heavy and thick, so the sun wasn't too intense. The wind was trickling lightly through the air. Hanna and Caleb had picked out the pavilion closest to the playground so the kids wouldn't get too bored while the grown-ups partied.

The kids were, of course, circling the cake that said "Happy Birthday Hanna!" on it, waiting for the glorious moment they got to dig into the pure sugar. Hanna's little girl swiped her finger through some icing and then ran away giggling. The kids were having a blast. And the adults were, too.

Emily climbed out of the driver's seat and opened the back to get the stroller out. Her twins, who had just turned thirteen both leaned forward to look at their baby brother in his car seat. This was his first big outing and the girls wanted to make sure it was a good one.

"Do we have enough diapers?" Lily asked her mom, who was unbuckling her belt in the front seat.

"Yes, Lily." Alison mumbled, humoring her daughter.

"What about sunscreen? I heard that babies are really sensitive to the sun." Grace added.

"He's got it on." Alison had basically bathed her son in sunblock right before they left the house.

"Do we have his binky? He'll get really fussy without his binky," Lily said.

Alison paused and frowned. Crap. Had she remembered his binky? Was it in his diaper bag? She glanced in the rearview mirror at her daughters.

"Girls, would you stop backseat parenting me?" Alison nagged. "Help your mother get the stuff out of the back."

"She totally forgot the binky." Lily scoffed with a laugh as she climbed out of the car.

"I heard that!" Alison exclaimed.

"I got your back, Mom." Grace leaned forward and handed her the extra pacifier she'd brought. "I threw his favorite blanket in the diaper bag, too."

Alison reached back and grabbed the diaper bag while mumbling to herself about what a terrible mother she was. She climbed out of the car and Emily met her to get their son out.

"Don't forget his hat." Lily walked by them holding a large wrapped box.

"You expect her to make sure he's properly dressed? She put two totally different color socks on him this morning. And his shirt is on backwards." Grace followed her sister.

"You're both grounded until you're forty!" Alison called out after them.

"Babe, if they're still living with us when they're forty, we've done something terribly wrong." Emily laughed and reached inside the car. "What is up with you today?"

"Why do our daughters know more about our son than we do?" Alison asked grumpily.

"Because they haven't been awake for the past three weeks straight with him. They have the luxury of being well-rested."

Sam squeaked from his car seat and Emily leaned down and kissed his head.

"Not that we don't love every minute with you, buddy." Emily assured him as she reached in to unhook the car seat. The car seat doubled as part of the stroller, so it was convenient for them to just leave him there. It was especially important if he was asleep. They NEVER wanted to wake him when he was sleeping.

But he was wide awake right now, his curious eyes drifting around the park. Emily pulled up the sun visor on the stroller so he wouldn't be exposed to too much sunlight.

They walked over towards where all of their friends and their children had gathered. The kids were running around in various areas of the park while the adults mingled with one another. As they got closer they saw Lily and Grace talking to Aria and Ezra's six-year-old son. He saw them coming and he waved.

"Hi, Finn." Emily smiled sweetly at him.

He wrapped his arms around Aria and looked up at the adults with a shy smile. He was by far the most introverted of all the kids. He was still coming out of his shell. He'd always been quiet. Aria and Ezra had adopted him when he was two. He'd come from a broken home and was skittish. But after a month with Aria and Ezra he'd started to smile and loosen up and he'd been doing well ever since. He loved them both, but was particularly attached to Aria. He was a mama's boy.

"Hey, buddy, you want to meet your new cousin Sam?" Ezra leaned down until he was eye level with his son.

Finn nodded. He looked over the edge of the stroller curiously.

"It's okay. He won't bite." Grace poked the youngster playfully. "I might though."

Finn giggled and then leaned in closer. Sam looked up at him and Finn smiled.

"Hi, Sam." Finn reached into the stroller cautiously. He laid his index finger across his hand. Sam immediately latched on to his finger and Finn looked up at Aria and Ezra in excitement. "He likes me!" He looked at the baby and then back at his parents and decidedly said, "I want a baby brother. I'm gonna ask Santa for one."

"Uh…buddy, Santa doesn't exactly deliver babies." Aria laughed nervously.

"Then where do they come from?"

"Hey, let's go get a cupcake." Ezra suggested.

"Oh, yeah!" And his mind was suddenly on sugar instead of babies. But he hadn't forgotten about the infant beside him. "It was nice to meet you, Sam. I can't wait until you're older so we can play together."

He was such a sweet little boy. So curious about the world, but he watched from the sidelines for the most part. But Sam's arrival had definitely piqued his curisoty. Alison and Emily snickered as Ezra tried to keep his son occupied and not asking about where babies came from.

They heard an excited cry behind them. They turned around and saw several of their friends walking towards them.

"You brought me a baby for my birthday!" Hanna squealed walking up next to them, her husband Caleb beside her. "This even beats the vintage Vuitton dinette set Mona and Mike shipped over from France earlier this week. All other gifts can go home. This one wins."

"Hey, Han." Emily smiled. "Happy birthday."

Spencer and her husband Toby were right behind Hanna and Caleb.

"Keeping her out of the cake has been exhausting." Spencer joked.

"I told you we should have rented a baby to keep her distracted." Toby nudged Spencer with his elbow.

"Oh my God, he's doubled in size." Hanna leaned over and picked Sam up.

"You saw him two days ago." Emily teased.

"Oh, he's so big." She snuggled him. "What are they feeding you?"

Sam's face scrunched up, but he didn't cry. He'd gotten very used to his Aunt Hanna being all over him.

"You might want to let him breathe. Just a suggestion," Spencer said with a laugh.

"Are you kidding? He's not going to stay this little and let me do this forever. I'll take the time while I've got it." She looked at her husband. "Cami was crawling away from me the second she was mobile. I barely even see the girl anymore unless she wants money."

As if on cue, her nine-year-old daughter came jogging over to her.

"Mom!"

"Not now, Cami. Mommy is busy contemplating replacing you with a younger model."

"But I want some money for the vending machine." Cami slowed her pace, dragging herself the rest of the way.

"We literally have a table full of food." Caleb laughed at his daughter. Leave it to their child to have a feast in front of her and want 3-year-old stale chips from a vending machine.

When Cami got closer she saw the baby in Hanna's arms. She'd heard all about Sam, but she hadn't met him yet. She pushed closer to her mom.

"Aww, he's adorable." She cooed. She looked up at her mom. "Can I hold him?"

Hanna looked at Alison and Emily for permission and they both nodded. Grace and Lily both glanced at one another nervously.

"Maybe she should sit down?" Lily suggested.

"I know how to hold a baby." Cami scoffed. "I held Finn when he was little."

"And you dropped him." Grace gave her a hard time.

"I was five." She rolled her eyes. "And Finn is fine."

She motioned to Finn playing with a small model airplane he'd built with his dad. Ezra picked him up and made engine noises and Finn giggled and threw his arms out like he was a plane. Aria snapped a picture of the two of them.

"Choo choo!" Finn exclaimed loudly.

"You're a plane, not a train, buddy." Aria reminded him.

They were still working with him on vocabulary. He'd been a little behind in his development when he was a toddler because of the care he was lacking at home. But he was rapidly catching up to a higher percentile now that Aria and Ezra were in the picture. He was a very intelligent little boy.

"Well, he's mostly fine." Cami laughed nervously.

"It couldn't hurt for you to sit down." Caleb agreed with the twins. "This is a little different than sitting for a picture with a toddler in your lap."

Cami did what she was told. She sat down and Hanna gently put the infant in her arms. The young girl gasped in delight when she saw Sam looking up at her. He smacked his lips a few times and squirmed a little bit. His forehead crinkled and something that looked like a smirk washed across his face.

"He's smiling." Cami's face lit up in excitement.

"Look at that. Look how cute she is with him. God, I miss having a baby around." Hanna leaned in to hug Caleb.

"You just think you miss it." Caleb reached out and touched the baby's cheek, unable to ignore his spell-bounding captivity. "But remember all those sleepless nights we had with Cami when she was his age?"

"What I remember is rocking her to sleep and singing to her until she settled and then falling asleep with her in my arms."

"Funny. I seem to remember you telling me you wanted to neuter me." He was putting it mildly. She'd been much more graphic.

"Oh, that was just the hormones and lack of sleep talking." Hanna shook her head with a laugh.

Caleb chuckled and faced Emily and Alison, remembering exactly how much having an infant could rattle marital nerves.

"How are things going?" he asked.

"Oh, neither of us has slept in almost a month, all of our clothes are covered in substances neither one of us wants to identify, there are dozens of half-filled coffee cups scattered all throughout the house, we don't know where Lily and Grace are half the time, and we plot each other's deaths every night in the middle of the night when he cries," Emily said with a smile, leaning in to kiss Alison just to let her know she was teasing…mostly.

"Sounds about right." Caleb laughed.

Sam started whimpering in Cami's arms and she looked down and panicked.

"Oh no, am I doing something wrong? What does he need?"

"He just needs his favorite sister." Grace edged her way down next to Cami and took Sam from her.

His cries increased in volume. Grace bounced him to try and settle him down.

"Here, let me try." Lily followed Grace around.

Grace carefully passed her baby brother over to her sister and he almost immediately stopped crying.

"Hey, you were right." Cami laughed. "He just needed his favorite sister."

"Hey, I did most of the calming. It's like…opening a pickle jar. You work and work at it and can't get it and then the next person comes along and it's easy for them because you did all the hard labor."

"She just called you a pickle, peanut." Lily bounced Sam.

Sam cooed.

"I do all the hard work and you take all the credit. Unbelievable." Grace scoffed.

"You just described being a parent." Spencer tousled Grace's hair. "It's not an easy job…"

"Mom!" A whiny voice echoed across the air. Everyone turned around and saw Spencer's eight-year-old daughter Violet running towards them in tears, blubbering about something her sister had done. "Bailey wouldn't let me jump off the merry-go-round!"

"Girls, play nice…" Toby tried to interject, but before he could finish his other daughter was already jumping in to defend herself.

"Because it was going too fast. She would have busted her head open." Ten-year-old Bailey replied. She stared at her little sister. "Do you want to die on the playground? Because that's how you die on the playground."

"Like I was saying…" Spencer said under her breath. "Parenting." She shook her head.

"She thinks I'm a baby." Violet sulked.

"You're not a baby, Vi, that's a baby." Bailey saw Grace and Lily doting on their brother.

"Oh!" Violet exclaimed, her mouth falling into an 'o' as Lily turned towards them.

"Hey, Bailey. Hey, Violet." Lily picked Sam's arm up and made him wave at the girls.

Their fight was immediately forgotten the second they saw Sam. They quickly crowded around him.

The curious crowd continued to grow when Jason and his brood got there twenty minutes later. They had just gotten Sam settled back into his stroller when two excited voices shrieked from across the playground.

"Aunt Ali! Aunt Emily!"

Alison and Emily glanced at the two sandy-haired blue-eyed boys racing towards them. Jason's boys Leo and Maddox were five and six. They both looked exactly like Alison's brother. Of course, Jason's wife Danielle was also blonde-haired and blue-eyed.

"Hey, sis." Jason smiled.

"Alright, who invited this joker?" Alison teased.

"I was obligated to bring him." Danielle smiled. "Something about 'for better or worse'."

Jason grabbed her around her waist and tickled her and she laughed and playfully popped him.

"Hey, Dani." Emily waved.

"Hey, Em."

"You brought Sam?" Maddox danced around on his feet in excitement.

"Of course they did! You can't leave a baby home alone, duh." Leo rolled his eyes at his older brother.

Maddox leaned over the stroller and stuck his hands inside without hesitation.

"Hi, Sammy. Remember me? I visited you in the hospital. We brought you a teddy bear." He pat his arm like he was a puppy.

"Gentle, Maddox." Grace warned him.

Sometimes the excitement got the better of her cousins. Jason's boys were very outgoing, and they loved their new baby cousin. When Maddox and Leo had visited Sam in the hospital they had started tugging on his arms and fighting over him like he was a toy.

"I wanna hold him," Maddox said enthusiastically.

"Me first!" Leo pushed his brother.

"Boys, why don't you go play?" Jason suggested. The baby was durable, thankfully, but Jason knew that his boys would wear him out before everyone had their chance to spend some time with him.

"Finn, you wanna come?" Leo turned to Aria's little boy.

"Okay." Finn smiled.

"Girls, why don't you go with them? Keep them out of trouble?" Toby faced his daughters and the rest of the kids.

The kids wandered off to play for a while and the adults all took their time loving on Sam. After about thirty minutes the kids all came storming back to get drinks and gather around the baby again. They were fascinated by him. Sam's mouth fell open as he looked around at all the new faces surrounding him. They took turns holding him, cooing the whole time.

Alison and Emily barely saw their son all afternoon. Neither of them would admit it, but they appreciated the break. They found a shaded spot on a bench overlooking the pavilion and watched as their family doted on the boy.

"We should have charged a fee to let people hold him. We could have all three of their college tuitions paid." Emily smiled.

"Hanna would probably pay us good money for him." Alison nodded in agreement.

"You'd miss him too much." Emily laughed. "You freaked out when we went to lunch without him the first time."

"That was when I was still young and stupid and not sleep deprived." Alison yawned.

They heard a fit of laughter from the kids. It made Emily and Alison both smile. Alison reached out and took Emily's hand, their fingers lacing together naturally. Alison laid her head against Emily's shoulder and a content sigh came out of her mouth. They both hummed in delight.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Alison asked.

"Mmmhmm, he's going to sleep tonight." Emily breathed a sigh of relief.

They both closed their eyes and bathed in the sunlight, thoughts of a full night's rest dancing through their minds. Fortunately, they didn't have to wait until that night to catch up on their rest. Minutes later they were both asleep.