A/N- I'm horrible...I know I said that I would probably have this up last week. But you know, life gets in the way of everything. I had a pretty hectic week, but now that it's "summer", the updates should be coming at a nice pace, if my muse finds me. I hope you enjoy this update.
"Mom, we're out of aloe gel…do you mind if I run to the pharmacy?"
"No problem, go ahead. Your father and daughter should be coming home soon."
"Okay, but I'm going to take Ethan with me. He seems to want to get out of the house, and it wouldn't be nice to leave you with my three crazy babies."
"Are you sure, Arizona? I'll be fine for a couple of minutes."
"It's fine. I don't want you to go crazy and run away from us." They both let out a little laugh as Arizona buckled Ethan into a baby carrier. For being only a month old, he sure was growing pretty fast. "Just make sure that Sofia doesn't touch her burns."
"I've dealt with sun burnt children before. You used to turn as red as your favorite swimsuit."'
"I remember that suit. I never wanted a new one, no matter how desperately needed it was. Oh, I better get going before they come back and Sofia starts to whine."
Once in the car, Arizona decided to go by the hospital. They would have burn cream and she really missed her wife.
"How about we go visit momma? Does that sound good? But if we go, you can't tell your sisters." Arizona was talking to a sleeping baby. The car was their sanctuary; one simple car ride would put the babies to sleep instantly.
In a couple minutes, they pulled into the hospital. Arizona grabbed the diaper bag and the carrier, and then made her way in the main entrance. She paused for a second; the last time she was here, she was taking Charlotte home.
"Arizona!" Startled, Arizona turned around then smiled.
"Teddy! How have you been?"
"Never been better; let me see your beautiful baby." Forgetting that she was holding Ethan in his carrier, she gave Teddy a confused look. "The baby…in the car seat."
"Yeah…Ethan's here with me today. We came to get some burn gel for his older sister."
"Hi there, Ethan," Teddy cooed as she lifted the baby out of his cozy place. "He's so big, Arizona. And he's a handsome little boy; aren't you?"
"Hey, have you seen Callie?"
"She was heading into an on call room the last time I saw her. But there was an emergency trauma patient that I think she was paged for."
"Oh okay, well, do you mind watching Ethan for a couple minutes? I want to go get some gel for Sofia."
"Of course I don't mind watching my god son. I don't have any patients right now."
"Great, thank you Teddy. I'll be right back."
"Take your time; I haven't seen this little man in almost a month."
"Funny, Teddy," Arizona went to the burn ward to retrieve a couple packets of the gel. She missed being in the hospital and working with the tiny humans, but she has four at home that she had to take care of.
"Blondie!"
"Mark? Hi, can I help you?"
"Actually, yeah; I know I was supposed to take Sofia tomorrow, but…"
"It's fine; she's happy with her little sisters and brother at home."
"Really? Because I can…"
"Don't worry, Mark. Maybe next week date night can fall on another day."
"Arizona, I can take her…it's just…"
"No Mark, don't bother. Have fun tomorrow; go out with Lexie, whatever. I have to get this gel home to Sofia."
"Is she okay?"
"She's fine Mark. She got sunburn at the pool with her papa."
"My poor baby, did she fight him about the sunscreen?"
"Yes, she did. Bye, I'll talk to you later." Well, this whole schedule thing was failing them. They planned on Mark taking Sofia every other Thursday through Sunday, but it wasn't working. Maybe they shouldn't have a schedule but Sofia still had a right to see her father and vice versa. Arizona never thought that Mark would let a relationship get in the way of his time with his daughter, no matter how much she didn't like him.
Arizona almost forgot that she left her best friend with her son, as she was about to walk through the main entrance. It wasn't until she realized that she was carrying a diaper bag but no baby.
"Shit," she ran back to the nurses' station she left the duo at, and laughed at the sight. Many of her friends were gathered around, trying to stop Ethan from crying. Her poor child was probably hungry. "Is everything okay here?"
"Oh, good, you're back. He's got a good set of lungs on him. He started crying, like, five minutes ago. We can't get him to stop."
"Did you check his diaper?" Arizona asked as she walked to the crying infant.
"Well, no, but I don't…"
"It's okay; he doesn't need a diaper change. He's probably hungry."
"You know all of that just by looking at him? You can't be that good."
"Oh my friend, but I am. Ethan gets really fussy and moves around a lot when he needs a change. I should go feed him and leave. Sofia is probably making things a living hell at home for my parents."
"Okay, fine, on one condition."
"What's that?"
"You don't be a stranger around here. We all miss you. And I wouldn't mind seeing more of my god children."
"Our door is always open, Teddy."
"I never get out of this place. I'm lucky if I can go home."
"Alright, maybe I'll come by tomorrow. We're taking the kids out anyways."
"Thank you. Bye Arizona."
"I'm home. Sorry it took me so long, Ethan needed to be fed."
"Mommy," Sofia yelled, running towards the blond. "I got some owwies at the pool."
"I see that, baby. That's why I went to get you some gel. Let me see your owwies."
"Okay mommy, but they hurt. So be careful."
"I will sweetie. Let me go put Ethan down for his nap and I will be back." Her only son fell asleep on the car ride home. It wasn't surprising, seeing as it was close to the babies' nap time, but none the less Arizona was glad. She laid him down in his crib and noticed that his sisters were already sleeping. Her parents were her saviors at the moment.
"Sweetie, are you in here?"" Barbra asked as she walked into the nursery. "Your dad and I got the girls to sleep a few minutes ago."
"Thank you mom; I'm going to go help Sofia now. Walking out of the room, Arizona was relieved that she didn't have to try and get all three of them to take a nap. "Sofia, come here," Arizona called as quietly as she could to her oldest child. Sofia came running to her almost instantaneously.
"Are you going to make my owwies feel better now?"
"Of course I am, Miss Sofia. Now take off that shirt of yours so I can put this cream on your back and shoulders."
"Okay, but remember, be careful."
"I fix tiny humans for a living; I can take care of my own beautiful, tiny human." Sofia's burn was a little worse than Arizona would have expected, but being the mom that she was, she had more than enough relief cream. She quickly squeezed the packet on Sofia's back.
"Mommy, it burns! Take it off!" Sofia cried.
"If you don't want to be in any pain later, you have to keep it on. Let me rub it in."
"But mommy, it hurts. I don't want it on."
"Keep it on, and don't think about asking your grandparents to take it off for you. They both know that you have to keep it on in order for it to work. Now quiet down before you wake up the babies."
"Can I go outside?"
"Sofia, you just got sun burnt. No going outside. Go play in your bedroom. You have enough toys in there to play with."
"Can you come play with me? Please mommy?"
"Okay, what do you want to play?"
"How about we play Princess? You can be the queen. Maybe nana and papa will want to play!"
"Why don't you go ask them?" Sofia ran out of the room and went to find her grandparents. Arizona was basking in the first moment of silence she's gotten since any of her four kids were born. But, like always, it ended abruptly.
The baby monitor started showing the noise activity of a crying baby. Then the house started to fill with cries. Arizona got off the couch and made her way up the stairs to the nursery. She couldn't wait until they were passed this stage of their lives…but she also never wanted it to end.
