I don't own CSI: Miami and all mistakes are mine, and as you know I'm not very good with punctuation and grammar.

Calleigh pushed the shopping cart through the car park. Phoebe was sitting in the seat of the trolley happily talking about how they were going to see Uncle 'Ewic' and Aunt 'Awex', as she called them. Opening the car, Calleigh loaded the bags into the trunk and locked the car up and pushed the cart to the bay.

Calleigh checked her watch and frowned, "10:45. Get home, put the groceries away and tidy up a little, which leaves us at about 11:30" Calleigh wracked her brain to find some way to keep a very excited Phoebe occupied for another hour and a half.

"Mommy, we go see Daddy now?" Phoebe asked pulling Calleigh from her thoughts as she gently lifted the child from the cart.

"Well not yet honey. We're going to go home first, but how about you and I get your stroller out of the cupboard and walk to the park for a little while and then go have lunch with Daddy?" Calleigh asked the little guy.

"PARK!" Phoebe shouted as Calleigh strapped her into the car seat.

Calleigh laughed at her little girl's excitement "Well, I guess it's decided then."

Calleigh sat on the park bench in the playground watching Phoebe sliding down the slide, climbing on the frame and running around 'Ah, to be a child again' Calleigh smiled. The smile fell from Calleigh's face as a shudder crawled up her spine. She slowly surveyed the rest of the park 'that feeling isn't going away' Calleigh thought 'Mental note, talk to Horatio about that.'

"MOMMY!"

The cry pulled Calleigh from her thoughts as she looked around the park for Phoebe. Jumping up from the bench Calleigh rushed across grass to Phoebe who was sitting on her bottom, crying and clutching her knee.

"Oh honey, what happened?" Calleigh asked as she gently scooped up her child and walked back to the bench.

"I-I-I felled d-d-d-own" Phoebe answered in between sobs.

Calleigh gently cuddled the little girl for a second and then took a look at her knee.

"Oh sweetie, that's a bad graze" Calleigh said trying to comfort her crying child, "that's a lot of blood honey."

"Mommy, i-i-it stings" Phoebe cried. Calleigh sat Phoebe in the pushchair and went round to the basket, getting some wipes and looking for a band-aid. 'No band-aid, great well done Calleigh.'

Moving around to the front of the stroller with the wipe, Calleigh tried to gently apply it to Phoebe's knee when she suddenly pulled it away.

"No, 'dey' sting" Phoebe said quickly.

"Honey we need to clean it up and then we're gonna go see Daddy and get a band-aid okay?" Calleigh watched as Phoebe slowly took her hand away, "Okay I want you to hold that on there just for few minutes before we get to Daddy's work, okay?" Phoebe nodded and Calleigh stood and pushed the stroller.

Calleigh flashed her badge to reception and said a quick hello to Paula as she came out of the elevator. Pushing the stroller and crying child into the break room.

Horatio looked up from the files on his desk and watched as Calleigh lifted the little girl from the stroller and sat her on the counter top. The streams of tears on Phoebe's cheeks pulled Horatio from his office and into the break room.

"Hey, what's going on?" Horatio asked concern obvious in his voice.

"Fell down in the park, pretty bad cut" Calleigh gave Horatio a sad smile. "Any band-aids?" Calleigh asked.

"Yeah" Horatio answered, pulling one from his pocket.

Calleigh raised her eyebrows, "Wasn't expecting that."

"Carry them all the time" he smiled.

Calleigh wiped the cut and gently placed the Tinkerbell band-aid on the child's knee.

Phoebe gasped in surprise, "Mommy, wook Tink'bell!" Phoebe gave her parents a huge a smile. "Fank you Daddy."

"No problem sweetheart, come here" Horatio picked up his little girl and sat her on his hip. Phoebe wrapped her arms around his neck and snuggled into her father's chest. "You okay, sweetheart?" he asked his wife and giving her a quick hello kiss.

"Yeah I'm fine, it just broke my heart seeing her in so much pain. It must have really hurt though because she never usually makes that much of a fuss" Calleigh answered worried. She quickly brushed it off, "Forget it, I'm probably just overreacting" she said moving over to the couch while Horatio switched the coffee machine on and followed.

Sitting down Horatio pulled Calleigh into his side and looked down at her, "You're a mother sweetheart, it's not called overreacting, it's called maternal instincts and yours are always right" he gently kissed her temple then moved to her lips.

Calleigh smiled at his reassuring voice and kissed him back before pulling away and smiling, "Hello" she said before returning to the kiss as Eric, Ryan and Alexx entered.

"Hey Pheebs!" Eric smiled at his godchild. "Pizza good kiddo?" Eric asked receiving an enthusiastic nod from the two-year old. "Good because we already ordered" Eric laughed pulling out five mugs and pouring coffee into each.

Horatio set Phoebe down on the floor and chuckled as she ran right passed Eric and Ryan and straight to Aunty 'Awex'.

"Hello Baby" Alexx said smiling as she hoisted the child up onto her hip.

"Aunty Awex wook I got a boo boo" Phoebe said pointing at the bandage on her knee.

"Oh sweetpea, come here" Alexx said "Let's make that all better" Alexx smiled and gently kissed the bandage. "And Janie asked if we were having another barbeque soon so I decided that we would have one on Saturday" Alexx smiled as the child's face lit up "but I was wandering if you could convince Mommy and Daddy to cancel any plans, you think you can do that?" Alexx asked. Immediately, Phoebe squirmed out of Alexx's hold and ran straight to her parents.

"Pwease can we go Mommy pwease?" Phoebe pleaded putting her hands together.

"Hmm, I suppose. I don't think we're doing anything. What do you think Horatio?" Calleigh asked.

"I can move a few things around" Horatio joked. Looking at the child's pleading eyes Horatio couldn't help but give in. "Come here sweetheart of course we can go" he smiled when Phoebe kissed his cheek and hugged him.

"Fank you Daddy" Phoebe whispered.

"Anything you want princess" Horatio kissed her head gently as she snuggled into his chest. Calleigh noticed her eyes closing and motioned for everyone to be quiet as Phoebe quickly fell asleep against Horatio.

"Wow, how longs she been fighting that? Wish I fell asleep that fast" Ryan whispered sitting down at the table holding the newly delivered pizza. "What about her dinner?"

"I gave her something before we came out, she should be okay till she wakes up" Calleigh said standing up and going over to the table while Horatio lay Phoebe down in the stroller laying the back of it down and getting the blanket from the basket and covering her with it. "Sleep tight sweetheart" he kissed her head gently.

Calleigh stood at the stove stirring the Bolognese sauce watching the news when she heard a squeal come from the living room and watched as a two year old girl shot into the kitchen and wrapped around her leg.

"Mommy help" she giggled.

Horatio crept around the island on his hands and knees and crawled up behind Phoebe. He gently tapped Calleigh's lower back so she knew he was there, and quickly pulled the little girl off the ground and into the air. She squealed in shock and giggled when she noticed her Dad.

"Not in the kitchen" Calleigh warned them both and looked at Horatio, "I thought you'd know better" Calleigh said pointing the wooden spoon at him.

He licked the end of the spoon tasting the sauce, "Mmm very nice" he said smiling and kissing her when she suddenly turned her head away.

"Don't suck up to me, you keep doing that in front of her she's gonna learn that and have us wrapped her finger before we know it" she signed when she realised he was tickling Phoebe "Oh what the hell, she already got you" Calleigh smiled, "now go on in there both of you" she pushed him gently.

She watched as her family moved into the living room, Phoebe's giggling still echoing throughout the rooms.

After dinner, Horatio and Calleigh had spent time with Phoebe doing Jigsaws and drawing pictures.

Bathing Phoebe had ended with a lot of water on the floor and even more over Horatio who was now changing his shirt. Calleigh dried off her daughter and changed her into her diaper and pyjamas as Horatio came in to tell her a story. Grabbing Phoebe's favourite book off the shelf, he waited while Calleigh said good night and tucked the child into the toddler bed and kissed her head goodnight.

As Calleigh went to move away, Phoebe kept a tight hold on her hand, "No Mommy stay" Phoebe cried.

"Okay sweetheart" Calleigh smiled. Phoebe liked having both her parents there when she fell asleep. She'd actually told Calleigh just two weeks ago that she liked having both her parents protecting her when she slept, 'Such wise words from a tiny girl' Calleigh smiled at the moment.

Horatio begin the story and Calleigh gently ran her hands over the child's head to soothe her to sleep. Calleigh listened as Horatio voice got quieter and quieter until eventually, not even a quarter ways into the story, Horatio stopped.

Calleigh and Horatio both stood and kissed her one last time before leaving the room. Horatio pulled the door ajar and turned to his wife. "Come on, a nice warm bubble is in order for my girl."

"And a massage?" Calleigh asked hopefully.

"I'm sure we can manage that" Horatio chuckled.

The night was quiet with a long bath and a quiet movie, Horatio switched off the lights and carried Calleigh from the couch to the bedroom and slipped her gently under the covers. He switched off her lamp and moved around to his side of the bed. Slowly getting in he pulled her to him and rested her head in its normal spot on his chest. Reaching to switch off the lamp he kissed her temple.

"Good night Handsome" Calleigh whispered placing a gentle kiss on his chest.

"Sweet dreams Sweetheart."

A few cute moments from Calleigh's, Horatio's and Phoebe's day. I'm gonna write some nice family based chapters before the drama starts. I love writing them as a family :D

I'll try and update soon as possible :D