By the time Rachel and Santana made it to the cabin with the girls, everyone except for Santana had fallen asleep. Rachel's head was leaned against the window and someone was snoring. Santana just hadn't figured out who it was yet. Slowly, Santana nudged Rachel, waking the slumbering woman.
"We're home." Santana whispered excitedly. Undoing her seat belt, Santana jumped out of the jeep and turned around to get Samara out of her seat. It took a moment before Rachel gathered her bearings and jumped out to the same on the other side of the jeep, releasing Sierra.
"I'm sorry I fell asleep, I didn't mean to." Rachel looked across the backseat apologetically.
"It's okay babe. You've only been asleep for like fifteen minutes or so. I wasn't by myself for long." Santana smiled. She knew Rachel was tired and probably one of the first things she planned to do was take a nap with her wife if the twins stayed asleep long enough. She felt like they had been going full force all day, dancing around with nerves waiting to pick up the girls.
"Where are we putting them down at? I don't feel comfortable putting them in their room right away because when they wake up they are going to panic." Rachel whispered worriedly, she shifted the tiny girl in her arms who was resting her head on Rachel's shoulder.
"Let's lay them down on the chaise, we can make a pillow barrier for them. It will be okay, if they panic when they wake up we will take care of it." Santana responded as she slung the girls backpack onto her shoulder and shut the jeep door. Slowly, she and Rachel made their way up onto the porch and opened the cabin door. Both women were a little disappointed that the girls were asleep for their first entrance into their soon to be new home, but it was okay. They would make up for it when the girls got to come home permanently.
After settling the girls with their blankets and stuffed animals on the chaise, Santana went about introducing Dax and Dahlia to the twins. It wasn't a huge concern seeing at Dax had spent plenty of time around Beth when she was a baby and Dahlia had already been introduced to Davis. When Santana went and retrieved the dogs from the studio, they immediately began attempting to snuff the twins, but Santana put a stop to that so that the girls wouldn't be woken up. Dax was trying to be his sneaky self by pushing his nose into Sierra's little sock covered foot when Santana and Rachel wasn't looking, or he thought wasn't looking. There were new people in the house who needed to play with him. For the time being, he would let them sleep while he and Dahlia kept watch over the cabin from their beds.
Santana was a little amazed at the protective stance that Dax had already taken with the twins. It was like he knew that these girls were very important and that they were there to stay. Rachel watched fondly as Dahlia took several of her toys over to the chaise and laid them down in the floor. The cuteness level in the cabin was about to explode through the roof.
No sooner than when things felt like they were settled for a moment, Sierra began to whimper in her sleep. Rachel and Santana were both on their feet and into the living room just as Sierra started to wail. The baby raised up and looked around sleepily with big tears running down her face. "You're okay baby." Santana cooed as she picked Sierra up and cuddled the tiny tot to her chest. Rachel had sat down on the couch next to Samara's head preparing to pick her up as well seeing as when one twin cried the other joined soon after. However, Samara remained blissfully asleep which Rachel was thankful for.
"Bebe? Raffe?" Sierra cried into Santana's chest. Santana reached over to her right and picked up Sierra's giraffe, placing it under her arm.
"There's your giraffe baby. We need to go find a bebe though." Santana stood up, still holding Sierra close to her chest and made her way into the nursery searching for a pacifier. Sierra continued to whimper, clutching tightly onto Santana's shirt. Her little eyes scanned the new room that they entered, what was this place? Suddenly interested in the new room and completely forgetting about her bebe, Sierra began wiggling in an attempt to get down out of Santana's arms. "What is it love? You want to check out your room? Maybe Mama can wake your sister up and she can come and explore too." Santana spoke a little louder at the end of her sentence so that Rachel would here her.
"Don't worry, we're awake now. No tears, but I think it's because she woke up and I was right there." Rachel stepped into the nursery and sat Samara down on her feet. The little girl looked up and Santana and Rachel hesitantly. "Go ahead baby, this is your room."
Taking a few wobbly steps, both girls began to wonder around the room. Both women watched as Sierra gravitated immediately towards the purple bed while Samara took a liking to the orange. Santana smirked, she had been right all along. Sierra stood on her tippy toes, patting the bed and laughing, her tears completely gone. Samara had lost interest in her bed and began to walk towards the book shelf. There was just so much stuff to look at and touch, oh how she wanted to touch everything.
Plopping down on her little butt, Samara began to carefully pull books off the shelf. She studied each cover for a moment before dropping it down to her side. Santana smiled at the actions, even with a room full of toys within her reach or in the toy box in the corner, Samara chose to play with the books. Maybe it was just hopeful thinking, but Santana could already imagine Samara being a famous writer one day. She thought about things like that a lot. What would the girls be when they grew up? Would they take after she and Rachel or would they become mathematicians or scientists, the things they could do would be unlimited.
"Mama, bebe?" Sierra looked up at Rachel hopefully. Mami may have thought that she forgot about her bebe, but she actually hadn't. She just wanted to check out her bed first.
Rachel smiled as she accepted the pacifier that Santana had in her outstretched hand. "There's your bebe. Do you two want to go see the play room and meet the doggies?"
"Ruff, ruufff." Samara barked at Rachel who was trying so hard not to burst out laughing. Santana on the other hand couldn't contain her self.
"Where on earth did you learn that silly girl?" Santana laughed as she picked Samara up and swung her around before sitting her back down on her feet. Rachel took Sierra's hand as all four walked back out into the living room where Dax and Dahlia were waiting patiently. Both women squatted down, resting on the balls of their feet as they stopped in the middle of the living room. Santana waited a moment before calling the dogs over to her. Sierra was a little more reserved in her greetings, choosing to lean as far back into Rachel's front as possible. Samara on the other hand had no reservations as she let Dax and Dahlia both lick her face before wrapping her little arms tightly around Dax like he was the greatest stuffed animal to ever live.
Santana looked over to Rachel and smiled. It was the start of their weekend and so far things were going okay. Sierra was letting Dahlia sniff her hand, laughing at the puppy; Samara looked as if she was about to try and ride Dax, which Santana knew immediately she was going to have make sure that didn't happen. They still had to show the girls the playroom and get dinner ready, take baths and eventually put the girls to bed, but for now they were content to sit on the floor and play with the dogs enjoying their first moments as a family.
Santana patted herself on the back as she finished blowing up the twins inflatable bath tubs. It was getting close to bath time and probably what would be the worst part of the day, bed time. After spending a good while playing with the dogs, Santana and Rachel had given the twins an official tour of the cabin that ended in the playroom. The girls had been delighted and immediately began to play with one of the floor puzzles that Santana had laid out. They didn't really understand what they were doing, but to them it was one of the greatest things in the world.
Dinner had been an interesting time that ended up being far more messy than anyone had anticipated. Both twins had ended up covered in their pot pie that Rachel had made. Santana shook her head and peeped into the kitchen where the girls still sat in their high chairs. Rachel was keeping them entertained as to give Santana plenty of time to get their bath tubs ready. Santana wanted to thank whoever invented these things as they were plenty big enough for each girl to have ample play room, yet small enough that they fit in the shower at the same time and allowed room for Rachel and Santana to walk around. Santana was ever thankful that when she had remodeled the bathroom many years ago that she chose a large walk in shower, who knew that one day she would be sitting baby bath tubs in there.
"San? Are you about done?" Rachel called out from the kitchen.
"Yeah, I am just going to start filling these up so they're plenty weighted when the girls get in them. We definitely don't want them to tip over." Santana responded as she stood up and walked through the kitchen and into the bathroom.
"Okay, while you do that, I will start stripping these two little messy monsters and then one of us can go get pajamas and diapers." Rachel blew a piece of hair out of her face. She was tired and close to being ready for bed herself. However, she knew that they were in for the long haul tonight and most likely tomorrow night. If she could handle all night rehearsals and doing eight shows every week, she could definitely handle this.
"How do you think we're doing so far?" Santana asked Rachel as they worked simultaneously dressing the twins in their ladybug and caterpillar pajamas. The twins had absolutely loved playing in their bathtubs, splashing around and tossing their toys out only for Rachel and Santana both to pick them back up.
"I think we're doing great." Rachel looked over her shoulder and smiled at Santana. Her eyes twinkling with love and happiness watching her wife dress one of their babies. Santana blew a raspberry on Sierra's tummy making the little girl screech and try and wiggle away from her Mami.
"I think so too. Now...it's time for these two little ones to have a cup of milk, have a bed time story and rock with Mami and Mama." Santana picked Sierra up off of her bed and snuggled the little girl to her chest. She turned and pulled up the bed rail on the outside portion of the bed before doing the same to Samara's bed. While Santana done that, Rachel had ran to get the twins cups of milk, she stopped when she entered the room and flipped on the shelf lights that Santana was so enamored with. Those lights had been one of the very reasons why Santana didn't want any other shelves to put in the girls room. They looked cool and they were the perfect soft night light for the girls.
"Mami, do you want to read to us?" Rachel was in the process of shifting Samara around in her lap, attempting to find them the most comfortable position in the glider. She handed the little girl her sippy cup, chewy and stuffed horse before grabbing a light blanket to cover them up with.
Santana nodded her head before picking out a book and settling down in the glider opposite to Rachel. They had decided to keep both gliders in the nursery and place them at forty-five degree angles at the end of each bed. They wouldn't stay like this forever, but the women wanted the girls to be able to see each other as they fell asleep. New, scary places didn't seem so scary when you had someone there with you. "Okay, we're going to read The Very Hungry Caterpillar." Santana announced after Sierra was settled in her lap almost the same way that Samara was settled in Rachel's.
Both girls were already struggling to keep their eyes open before Santana even made it halfway through the book. Santana predicted that if either girl had trouble sleeping tonight, then most likely it would be Sierra who's tired little eyes would pop back open looking for her sister every time she was almost asleep. The sippy cups were long forgotten as Santana and Rachel rocked back and forth and continued to read. They listened for the heavier breathes from each girl to know that they were truly asleep before even thinking of standing up.
When the girls were sound asleep, every floor board creak seemed to be ten thousand times louder than what it normally was. Santana and Rachel both took turns giving each twin goodnight kisses and making sure that all of their special items were in the bed with them before turning on the baby monitor and sneaking out of the nursery leaving the door partially opened. Santana just knew that Dax would end up in the nursery, sleeping on the rug that lay between the girls beds.
"I think that went pretty well. First night and it only took us an hour roughly to get them both to sleep." Rachel whispered as she studied the baby monitor, making sure it was turned up to a proper volume.
"We will get faster, I mean it was our first night." Santana shrugged her shoulders before peering into the nursery. She knew that they twins were asleep, but she felt odd about just walking away from the nursery room door. What if they woke up crying?
"Then we will check on them." Rachel responded. Santana didn't even know that she had said that last part out loud. "Come on you, it's not our bed time yet and I want a little bit of ice cream before we shower and change into our pajamas. It's okay, they're okay." Rachel reassured Santana when she saw the woman's hesitancy. "You can't stand here by their door all night love."
"Can we make up a bed on the couch then? I don't want to be too far away tonight." Rachel smiled as she nodded before standing on her tippy toes a bit to give Santana a kiss. Of course they could make a bed on the couch for the weekend, it would be much more convenient for the time being. Santana was grateful that Rachel had agreed to the couch bed, relief immediately washed over her. She knew she couldn't do this every single night after the girls moved in, but for now, it was fine. In Santana's opinion, bed time couldn't have gone better, the first day and night to their super special weekend was almost in the bag and it had went amazingly. It was the perfect precursor for hopefully what was also going to be an amazing day tomorrow.