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Snapshot: February 14, 2013

Brennan awoke to two very strange and yet pleasing occurrences.

The first was a pair of lips kissing down her neck, the feeling of Booth's unshaved chin rubbing against her shoulder making her skin tingling.

The second being the smile of the tiny girl kneeling in front of her on the bed when she opened her eyes. "Mommy!" Cristina exclaimed, throwing herself on her mother.

Brennan received the attack graciously, hugging her daughter and rolling onto her back so that the baby was now straddling her hips, just below her slightly rounded tummy. Brennan was now in her second trimester. Far enough along that they were able to get the exciting and somewhat overwhelming news that they were getting two babies instead of just one.

Booth had actually fainted. Brennan had just stood there, staring at the doctor in shock.

Eventually they'd gotten over it.

As much as they could any way.

Now, Brennan couldn't be happier to be having twins, especially now, looking at the one absolutely beautiful and mild-mannered baby they'd already brought into the world, smiling down at her.

Brennan smiled softly back. "Happy birthday, Cristina." she said, kissing her baby's chubby cheek.

Cristina smiled brightly. "Happy Vawentine's Day, Mommy!"

Brennan couldn't suppress an 'Aww!' as she pulled the little girl closer, settling her between her and her father. Booth scooted closer and placed a big sloppy kiss on her cheek. "Happy birthday, Princess!"

Cristina giggled and hugged her father's neck. "Love you, Dada!"

Booth beamed at her. "I love you too, Crissy." he said softly, kissing her cheek again, before leaning over her to kiss his wife. "I love you too, Bones."

Brennan smiled into the kiss. "I love you too, Booth." she said when they pulled apart.

Suddenly a large mass jumped up on the bed with them. Brennan instinctively shielded her belly as Teddy moved to lick her face. Brennan turned from him, causing the puppy to lick her neck, a much less pleasing sensation than when Booth was doing it before. "Teddy!" she scolded, but the puppy was undeterred.

Until Booth pulled him off. But then he started licking his other master's face, pawing at Booth's face, trying to gain more leverage. Booth chuckled, pulling the excited mass of fur away from the face. "Looks like Teddy wants a little love too, eh?"

Brennan chuckled. "It would seem so."

Cristina giggled and held out her arms for the puppy. Booth waited until Teddy calmed down a little before handing him over to the baby. Not surprisingly, Teddy seemed to go limp in Cristina's arms, obviously recognizing the need to be gentle with the small human. He wagged his tail and licked her fingers as she stroked his ears and down his back. He'd always done this for her, since the first time Booth scolded him for knocking the baby over the first time they played. Brennan had explained that he was responding to the punishment and learning from it and that's how dogs had been domesticated for centuries.

Booth just compared him to Pavlov's dog, which greatly annoyed Brennan.

But for whatever reason, Teddy had never really been rough with Cristina, not even when they played. In fact, he'd become downright protective of her, like Booth was with Brennan.

Now he lay there, in her lap, practically limp with pleasure as the baby scratched his ears and kissed his head affectionately.

Booth and Brennan smiled at the scene they created and Brennan almost went for her camera but the scene was over almost as soon as Booth asked Cristina if she wanted breakfast.

The puppy perked up first, recognizing one of the words he'd come to familiarize was synonymous with 'food'. He jumped up and began to bark, and wag his tail as if begging for food.

Booth chuckled and scratched his ears, before reaching over him and picking up the baby girl, to carry her downstairs, Teddy following on his heels.

Brennan sighed and stood up, stretching for the day ahead and rubbing her tummy absently as she thought about what strange and interesting thing she'd have for breakfast as she felt a craving coming on.

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Later that night, Booth and Brennan watched in amusement as Cristina sat in a sea of wrapping paper, Teddy and Bentley at her side, watching in rapt attention as she tore open gift after gift, her eyes widening with each new reveal.

Michael Hodgins sat nearby, handing her each new present and watching in excitement as she opened each new gift. They clapped for almost every new toy as their parents and friends watched in amusement, one Angela Montenegro snapping a photo at every chance she got.

When all presents were unwrapped and set aside, Booth practically swam through the wrapping paper to reach his daughter and pick her up, kissing her cheek and carrying her back through the wrapping paper sea. Angela did the same for Michael and Hodgins came through with a large garbage bag, picking up all the trash as a favor to Brennan and Booth, before joining everybody in the dining room where Cam's daughter, Michelle, was just placing the elegant-looking birthday/Valentine's day cake on the table.

"Wow, Michelle," Angela said, eying the cake, hungrily. "This looks amazing!"

Michelle beamed. "Thank you, Angela! You'd be surprised how much time you have when you take a year off of college. I learned how to make a million calorie-filled, delicious things while I was off. This is just one of them."

"Well, it looks delicious." Booth complimented. Michelle beamed again.

Booth placed a squirming Cristina into her high chair, situated next to Michael's and in front of the big, chocolate, heart-shaped birthday/Valentine cake and leaned over to light the one-shaped candle in the center, while Brennan turned off the lights and walked over to stand next to her husband as they all sang:

"Happy birthday to you

Happy birthday to you

Happy birthday, dear Cristina (Crissy/Baby Booth)

Happy birthday to you!"

Everybody clapped as Cristina huffed on the candle and it blew out. Cristina beamed at them all and giggled when Booth and Brennan each planted a kiss on her cheek, before turning to smile into the camera.

Angela snapped a photo just as Hodgins placed the first piece of cake in front of Cristina and she took two handfuls and smeared them into her parents' faces, giggling as they each protested reverently and Angela snapped a hundred more photos, chuckling as she did so.

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