"Look! There's her ship now!" Anna cried while pointing to a ship in the distance that was now coming into her view. She was in her room with Kristoff, Joseff, and Olaf and saw the ship from her window.

"Hooray! Elsa is home!" Olaf exclaimed and jumped up in joy.

"Hear that, Joe?" Kristoff asked his son, who was sitting up on the floor and playing with some toys. "Your Auntie Elsa is home!"

"Let's go and greet her at the docks!" Olaf cried and ran out of the room.

"We're coming, Olaf," Anna laughed. She motioned to Kristoff to pick up Joseff, then all three of them followed Olaf out of the room.

On her ship, Elsa was out on the deck, looking ahead at her kingdom that was coming into view better every time she came closer. She was feeling exhausted from the long journey back home overseas and was looking forward to some much needed rest and relaxation. But she also knew that Anna would swarm her with hugs and chatter once she (Elsa) finally stepped off the ship, and especially tell her anything new Joseff had done in the last month and a half.

Pretty soon, she could make out figures that looked like her family on the deck, so she eagerly waved to them, even though she felt they could not see her too well and vice versa. But it wasn't too long before the ship finally pulled into port.

Once it docked, the solders and crew members began to unload the luggage and take it with them as they walked off the ship. But they were unprepared and nearly fell off the ramp when Anna eagerly ran up it! As soon as Elsa came into her proximity, Anna threw her arms around her big sister and they both fell over!

"Oh!" Elsa cried once they fell. But Anna was too busy hugging Elsa to feel any pain. "Well, I can see someone missed me a lot," she said with a smile.

"Elsa, I missed you SO much!" Anna exclaimed. "More than I ever have during times that we were apart!"

Anna was hugging Elsa tight enough that the latter was feeling a lack of oxygen. Through the tightness, she said, "Well, can you let go of me for a moment? I need to breathe."

"Oops, sorry," Anna apologized, and she helped her sister stand up. Once they were both standing, Anna threw her arms around Elsa again, this time more gently. "I'm just so happy you're home."

"It's good to be back home," Elsa said as she returned the hug. "I missed you, too, Anna."

"I'm not the only one. Joseff really missed you, too. In fact, for the first few days after you left, he would not go to sleep for many hours after we put him to bed."

"He wouldn't?" Elsa asked curiously.

"No. I think you're a person he has come to recognize in his life, besides Kristoff and me. I mean, you're always with us whenever we put him to bed at night, and I think he sensed that you were missing. So yes, I think he missed you."

"Well, how did you manage over the weeks?"

"We decided to have Olaf spend some more time with him, and it seemed to work. Olaf occasionally kept him company at night, and then he'd eventually fall asleep." Anna shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know, but you made Olaf, so maybe he reminds Joseff of you, and that's why he got better."

Elsa smiled happily. "Well, I'm just happy to hear that I was missed. Did he do anything new as well?"

"Oh, yes, I can tell you all about them…but why don't we go see him and Kristoff now?"

So the sisters walked off the ship, down the ramp, and onto the docks, where the rest of Elsa's family was waiting. While they held hands, Anna stated, "Joseff, look who's finally home." She brought Elsa forward, and Joseff smiled widely and held his arms out.

Elsa walked over and hugged Kristoff. Then she turned to Joseff. "Oh, I missed you, too, sweetie!" She kissed his forehead, and he reached one of his hands up to gently pinch her nose between his fingers.

Anna linked one of her arms with one of Elsa's. "Come on! Let's get inside the palace and you can tell us all about your trip!"

While the family walked away from the docks and through the village square, Kristoff asked, "Did Anna tell you yet?"

"No. What did Joseff learn to do?"

"Well," Anna began, "shortly after you left, we found him, at one point, standing up in his crib!"

Elsa gasped excitedly. Turning to Joseff, she asked, "You learned to stand in your crib?" Joseff let out a baby giggle in response.

Kristoff continued, "And just a few days ago, he learned to stand up all on his own."

"You did?" Elsa said with a huge grin. "Oh, that's wonderful, honey!"

"Do you want us to show you when we get inside?" Anna asked.

"You didn't even have to ask, Anna! Of course I want to see him stand up!"

Less than a half hour later, the family was settled in Joseff's nursery. Kristoff had been holding Joseff in his arms when he finally looked over to his son and said, "Joe, why don't you be a big boy and show Auntie Elsa how you can stand up on your own?"

With Anna right beside him, Kristoff gently placed Joseff on the floor while helping to support him as he stood. Both parents stood right by their son, as they were worried that he still could fall, since he couldn't stand his own for too long just yet.

But he did just fine in the few seconds of standing on his own, and Elsa couldn't have felt more proud. She picked him up from the floor and held him in her arms. "Oh, sweetie, that's just wonderful! You're getting to be more of a big boy every day! Now it shouldn't be too long before you start to walk!"

Elsa adjusted Joseff in her arms and continued to hold him close to her. "Your mommy and daddy said you really missed me. Well, I really missed you, too." As she made a kissing face, Joseff "reciprocated" it by opening his mouth and pretending to bite her between her lips and nose! This was hilarious enough to make everyone laugh, including Joseff.

"You know something, honey?" Elsa looked her nephew right in the eye. "I love you."

Elsa kissed Joseff on the nose, which made him giggle, then he squished her cheeks in between his tiny hands. Anna and Kristoff embraced each other in their affectionate way as they watched.

Elsa knew that home was where the heart is supposed to be, and in her palace home in Arendelle, her family was that heart for her…and she was so happy to be back with them.