Rolling.
It was a late night in Republic City, about 2 o'clock in the morning. Mako was walking up the stairs to his and Korra's apartment building, completely exhausted from a daylong shift of patrols and paper work. He made a quick work with the lock on the front door and did his usual routine when arriving home; dropping his keys off on the table by the front door, locking the front door behind him, turn off any lights that were left on, and then head straight for the master bedroom to either get ready for bed or to just fall on the bed and go to sleep. Once he reached the bedroom, his tiredness decided to take over and he just fell down on the bed and let himself fall asleep.
After about ten minutes, Korra walked into the bedroom after tending to her three month old girls, completely tired, and fell on her side of the bed, landing on her husband's back and waking him up.
Mako jumped a little a tried to look around to see what was going on. "Korra get off." He said once he realized that his wife was on his back.
"No. You move. You're on my side." Korra mumbled into his back. "You're belt hurts." She added before moving slightly so Mako's police belt would quit poking her.
"Korra, I know we're both tired, but just roll off, please." Mako said once more, too tired to even push her off.
"No. Your daughters have kept me up most of the night." Korra said stubbornly, still refusing to move.
"Alright right then." Mako said before pushing himself up, causing Korra to roll off to his side of the bed. "I'm guessing the girls were trouble today?" He asked as he turned his head to look at her.
Korra was lying on her back with her eyes closed. "No, they were fine. I'm just getting drained a lot faster when they get hungry." Korra said with a yawn toward the end. "I'm thinking about switching them to the bottle." She said lastly once she was done yawning.
"Whatever you think will be good for your health, and theirs." Mako responded as he tried to go back to sleep.
Korra just shrugged her shoulders. "Oh, and Anali is starting to roll over too."
"Full on or just half way?" Mako asked.
"Half way right now." Korra answered. "Ama is still rocking though." Korra finished as she rolled on her side and moved closer to her husband.
"She'll get there." Mako yawned as he put his arm around her and fell back asleep.
The next week, Mako was enjoying his day off by watching his daughters at home while Korra was at the doctors to talk about how to wean the girls to bottle feeding. Mako was lying down in the master bedroom,, with Anali lying down beside him and Ama sleeping on his chest as the end result of another one of her tantrums. Anali was making her usual sounds that she started to make, Korra referring to it as her i"talking"/i, while she stared up at and watched the ceiling fan. She then made a loud scream before smiling and turning her head to the side. Mako looked over at her to see what happened, and then just smiled when he saw that she was just being her joyful self. Ama stirred on his chest for moment from her sister's scream, making Mako turn his attention to her. He started to rub Ama's back to calm her back down, Ama stretching out slightly as a result before settling back down. Mako then looked back at Anali, finding her now on stomach and holding her head up a little as she looked around at her new surroundings. "How did you get that way?" Mako said as he sat up, gently settling Ama on the mattress. He then picked up Anali and held her against his shoulder as he place a pillow toward the edge of the bed. "You're lucky you're tiny or else you would've fallen off." He said before kissing the top of her head and lying her back down. Once Anali was back on the bed, she looked over at the new object beside her and reached over to try to touch it. As she reached over her body ended up on its side and fell over to her stomach, making her laugh when her face hit the covers under her. Mako smiled at her, a chain reaction that always happened when he heard either of his girls laugh.
The front door could be heard open and close toward the front of the two bedroom apartment. "I'm back." Korra yelled as she walked in and started to look for her husband and daughters. She then walked into the master bedroom and raised an eyebrow at him while she smiled slightly. "Did you three have a nap or something?"
Mako shook his head at her. "No, Anali woke up a little bit after you left and Ama just finished a tantrum a few minutes ago." Korra walked over and lay down on the bed next to Ama and lightly ran her fingers through her growing black hair. "So what did the doctor say?" He asked after a bit.
"He said that I could switch them over to a formula, but it would take a while for them to fully take it. Then he suggested to syncing up their feeding times since I said that they've gone from being hungry at the same to different times. But doing that would tire me out more." Korra said as she continued to run her fingers through Ama's hair. She then looked past her to look at her other daughter that seemed to be happy with looking around the room. "Why is there a pillow next to her?" She asked after noticing that there was big pillow next to Anali's small body.
"She pulled one of her secret rolling tricks again. So I placed it there so she wouldn't roll off the bed." Mako shrugged as he explained his answer, leaving out the part that he actually got to witness Anali rolling over, something Korra hasn't had the chance to see for herself yet.
"Sneaky little girl." Korra smiled before laying back down and rubbing Ama's back.
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