Hey! Guys! I know! Two chapters in a row in one night! Wooo! It'll be a couple days before I can post another chapter. I'm having surgery on my wrist today and won't be able to type for a while. Luckily my lovely wife has volunteered to type for me. :) She's slow...and we do have a newborn...but I promise it'll be up by next Sunday.

Goodbye my Lovelies!

Chapter 2

Stef and Lena had fed the kids dinner and then called everyone into the living room to talk. Stef smiled at her three babies, Callie was still covered in paint from the days art class, Brandon was looking from Lena to Stef trying to figure out if he was going to get in trouble yet and Jude, sweet little Jude climbed up on the couch next to his big brother.

"So, guys, Mama and I wanted to talk to you about something." Stef told them

Brandon's eyes grew, I'm gonna get in trouble now, he glanced at Callie, who of course was oblivious.

"What about, Mommy?" he asked her

"Well B, Mama and I were thinking, and do you remember when we used to take in kids that needed a home?"

"Like me, Mommy?" Callie asked, jumping up.

"Yes baby, like you and Jude." Stef told her.

"Are we gonna do that again Mommy?"

"Yes honey, there is a little boy and a little girl who need a home for a little while. Are you guys okay with that? The little boy's name is Jesus and the little girl is Mariana."

Callie's eyes lit up, "Can Mari sleep in my room Mommy? I'll share my bed with her!"

Stef and Lena laughed, "Yes honey, you and Mariana will share a room. Remember, we call people by their real names unless they tell you that you can call them something else." Lena told her, "Brandon, you'll be sharing a room with Jesus since you're only a year apart."

Callie was unable to hold in her excitement any longer and jumped up from the couch.

"I'm gonna go get my room ready for Mari-Mari-Marinana!" The little one hugged her mothers and ran up the stairs.

"Well, it seems she's okay with it." Stef told Lena, "Are you sure you're okay with it B? I know it's a big change, but we don't want Jude to have roommate right now."

"Yea, I'm okay with it. Me and Jude need someone to wrestle with any way since I gotta be easy with him."

Jude nodded his head in agreement as if he knew what his brother were talking about. "I okay with it too. I let him play with my Legos." Jude told them as he got up, "Love you Mommies"

Brandon glanced back and forth between his mother's once again.

"Am I in trouble now?" He asked them.

Stef winked at Lena, "For what Bud?"

Brandon's eyes widened with confusion. He then realized he could play this to his advantage.

"Oh, nothing. I'm um gonna go get my room ready for Jesus." He said running from the room.

The moms couldn't hold in their laughter for another minute and busted out. Brandon came back into the room.

"Mommy?"

"Yes"

"I took my Gameboy to school today and got in trouble." Brandon confessed to his mother as he stared at his socks.

Stef grabbed her son and tickled him, "Oh buddy, I know. You aren't in trouble. Just don't do it again. Games are for home, not school."

"Okay Mommy." He told her as he began to run up the stairs.

"Hey! Tell Callie and Jude it's ten more minutes until bath time.

"Okay!" He called from the top of the stairs.

Lena looked at her wife "You get bath time for the boys. I've gotten soaked the past three nights."

Stef kissed her love. "Challenge accepted."

Later that night

All three kids had been excited to get things ready for Jesus and Mariana's arrival the next day. Callie and Brandon had helped put together their old beds, and make room in their extra closets and drawers. Callie had even made them a card. It wasn't until they got the kids in bed and retired to their room and fallen asleep that Callie came in and climbed in their bed.

"Mmm. Callie, baby. What's up?" Lena asked her. Usually their daughter didn't bother to wake them up unless there was no room in the bed for her. This time she had tapped on Lena's shoulder.

"I gotta talk to you and Mommy." She whispered, Lena saw a look of worry in her daughter's eyes.

"Can't it wait until the morning?" Lena asked

"No, it's 'portant."

Lena nudged her wife awake. "Hmm!? What? What's on fire?"

"Mommy I hafta talk to you and Mama. It's 'portant."

"Apparently, since it couldn't wait until morning."

"What if Marinana doesn't like me and doesn't wanna share a room with me?"

"Is that what this is about? Baby, we talked about this." Stef told her, "Mariana will be a little scared at first, so you'll have to give her space."

"Like B and Jude hafta give me when I have a episode?"

Six months after they had gotten Callie and Jude they learned that Callie had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and went into what they called 'episodes' every so often.

"Yes baby. Like that. We don't know what Mariana and Jesus have been through, so it may be a little scary for them at first."

Callie regarded her mother's as she rubbed her fingers on the bridge of her nose and her eyes drooped a little.

"Come here baby and snuggle with your moms. It'll be okay." Stef told her as she held her arms out. Callie climbed into them and fell asleep immediately upon laying her head on Stef's chest.

"You better scoot over here too, Love. She'll be groping for your hair any minute now." Stef chucked as she put her arm around Lena and fell asleep.