Sierra slowly blinked her eyes open. She was in a room, but this wasn't her normal room. Looking to her left she saw her sister sleeping away. Wiggling around in her bed, Sierra dislodged the blanket that was draped over her. The little girl sat up slowly and rubbed her eyes. She could see light coming from the other room, who was in there? Deciding that she didn't want to stay in bed any longer, Sierra crawled to the end of her bed where the opening was next to her bed rails. Giggling to herself, the tiny girl crossed the length of the nursery, the feet of her pajamas causing to her slip on the hardwood floors. Thankfully she didn't fall. Carefully the little girl contemplated her next move. Should she stay and play with the toys that looked very interesting or should she go investigate the warm glowing light coming from the living room? Turning to look at her sister, Sierra decided that she should go investigate, playing alone just wasn't that much fun anyways. Slowly the little girl pushed the door open, gasping in delight when she saw her Mami and Mama laying on the couch.
Santana stirred in her sleep when she heard a door creak. Thinking it was just Dax or Dahlia finally making their way into the nursery, she turned over, careful not to dislodge Rachel and began to slowly fall back into a deep sleep. That was until she heard the unmistakable giggle of one of the girls. Was she dreaming? When she didn't hear it again, Santana determined that she was in fact possibly dreaming, but then she felt something on her arm. A little startled, Santana sat up right on the couch rubbing her arm where she swore she thought something was crawling on her. She didn't mean to wake Rachel up, but with the quick motion it was inevitable that she had.
"What's going on?" Rachel mumbled sleepily.
"I thought something was crawling on me." Santana responded while still rubbing her arm. In the midst of trying to wake herself up, she hadn't taken the time to turn around and actually look down in front of the couch. If she had, she would have seen Sierra sitting on her butt about to start crying.
Rachel sat up, looking around Santana for anything that may have been on her. She started to laugh when she peered over Santana and looked down in the floor. "I think there was a lady bug on you." Rachel nodded her head towards the floor.
"A lady..what?" Santana turned around and looked down. Her heart broke immediately when she saw Sierra sitting in the floor with the biggest pout on her tiny little face. "What are you doing in here love?" Santana asked as she leaned over and picked Sierra up, sitting the little girl in her lap.
Thinking she was in trouble, Sierra's face officially crumbled into tears. It didn't help that she had gotten scared when Santana jumped awake. All she wanted was to wake Mami so she could play.
"Oh no, baby don't cry. It's okay. Did Mami scare you? I didn't mean to." Santana comforted Sierra against her chest, rubbing circles on the tiny tots back.
As if on que and sensing her sisters crying, Samara woke and immediately burst into tears at being all alone in the nursery. Rachel was quick to scramble over top of Sierra and Santana and make her way into the nursery. Santana could hear Rachel shushing Samara, trying to get her to calm down. Come on, we can go in here with Mami and Sierra.
Mami? Si si? Samara murmered. Her crying had already dissolved into whimpers, her immediate comfort at seeing Rachel evident.
"Look, there's Mami and Sisi." Rachel pointed as she adjusted Samara on her hip and walked back into the living room. "Do you think they will stay in there once we get them back to sleep?" Rachel asked as she sat back down next to Santana who was rocking back and forth with Sierra.
"I think they should, I mean they made it almost the whole night anyway." Santana nodded to the clock on the wall that read four, forty five.
After what felt like forever to Santana and Rachel, both girls fell back into deep sleeps. Samara had taken residence on Rachel's chest, her head tucked into the side of Rachel's neck. Sierra had went completely limp, laying across Santana's arms like she was still a newborn. Instead of moving the girls back to their beds, Santana and Rachel both had decided to just stay where they where. Santana snuggled into the corner of the couch while Rachel laid against her side. Santana was lucky she didn't have to pee because she was trapped. She knew this was a dangerous game they were playing, letting the girls sleep with them like this, but they could worry about that later. Right now, Santana was content to hold her girls and catch a few more hours of sleep before their fun filled day of breakfast at the diner, visiting the new fun center in St. Lawrence, maybe some shopping and then returning home for dinner. It was going to be an amazing day, that is, if the girls could handle it. Santana knew at some point, most likely during shopping that the girls were going to need a nap, if not they would have two incredibly cranky little girls.
Once everyone was awake, Santana took a moment to fix she and Rachel some coffee before they started getting themselves and the twins ready to head out. Rachel took her turn in the shower while Santana worked on getting both girls dressed. It was...interesting to say the least. Dressing two wiggly almost one and half year olds by yourself was a struggle. Both wanted to play and investigate their room instead of listening to their Mami that it was almost time to go bye bye.
"Sierra, time to get your clothes on please." Santana called from her spot on the floor between the twins beds. Samara was already dressed in a fresh diaper, an under onesie, blue jeans, a long sleeve shirt and her little sneakers. Sierra was partially dressed at least in a fresh diaper and her onesie, but she still needed to put the rest of her clothes on.
"No, Mami." Sierra laughed as she scrambled onto her bed to try and get away from Santana.
"Yes, lady bug. Don't you want to go see the neat stuff at the fun center with me, Mama and Samara?" Santana raised her voice in an excited way hoping to get Sierra interested. Rachel had discovered the fun center when they were looking up things to do with the twins. Apparently this place had themed rooms where the children could learn about the world, space and the ocean, among other things. There was also a very big tumble room accompanied with giant inflatable slides and a bouncy house. To be honest, Santana was excited to play on the inflatables, but she would never actually admit that out loud.
"Wet's go!" Samara began to chant as she ran around in circles. Santana began to wonder if the little bit of morning milk that Samara had had sugar in it.
"Someone is excited to get going." Rachel chuckled from where she had appeared in the doorway of the nursery. "Your turn San."
"Mama! Go bye bye?" Sierra asked pointedly at Rachel.
"We're all going bye bye, but you need to get dressed first." Rachel walked over the bed, reveling in the feeling of having Sierra fall into her arms. Santana looked on with a little bit of disbelief. "Why didn't you let Mami get you dressed?"
"Sam." Sierra said as she shrugged her shoulders, like it was the most logical explanation in the world.
"Was you trying to give Mami a break since she was busy dressing Samara?" Rachel nodded her head, causing Sierra to nod hers as well. Sierra probably had no idea what she was agreeing to, but it was cute nonetheless.
Santana couldn't help but to laugh, her girls were beyond silly. "Well since you want Mama to dress you, I am going to go get ready myself. Do we need to add anything to their diaper bag before we go?" Santana asked Rachel as she stood up and handed over the outfit, socks and sneakers that she had in her hands.
"I don't think so. They've already had their milk and I moved their sippy cups of juice over when I came through the kitchen. We already have extra diapers, pacifiers, wipes and a few snacks packed. Double check me just to make sure and see what you think, if we need to add anything or not." Rachel went through her mental check list. As far as she knew everything they would need for today was in the diaper bag, but it never hurt to check.
"I trust you, but I will look just so you don't start worrying about it later on today if we need something that we wished we had thought to bring." Santana kissed Rachel on the temple and then Sierra on the forehead before leaving the room. Samara had finally stopped running circles and was busy reading a book in the twins little reading corner.
Once everyone was ready to go, the Berry-Lopez family headed into McKinley for breakfast. The girls enjoyed their little pancakes to the max, Santana was glad that she had in fact checked the diaper bag and changed both girls out of their nicer shirts into two older ones, deciding to pack the nicer shirts. Syrup was not your friend, they were just lucky that the girls hadn't gotten it on their pants or in their hair.
Now they were all back into the car ready to make the short trip to St. Lawrence for the day. The twins really had no idea what they were about to experience, they were just excited to be out and about. Rachel was taking every opportunity she could to snap photos, she wanted to make sure that they remembered every moment as their first outing as a family. Santana was quiet as she drove, smiling as Rachel was stretching her arm as far as it would go to try and get the camera around the sides of the girls cart seats.
"Well, Sierra just fell asleep on me." Rachel huffed as she looked down at her latest picture, noticing Sierra's eyes were closed. Deciding that her arm was tired and she needed to be in her seat right, Rachel slipped her camera into the glove box out of the way for now.
"That's okay, let her sleep. You can take tons of more pictures at the fun center. They will turn out better than snapping side shots of them back there." Santana replied as she rested her hand on Rachel's thigh.
"Do you think they are going to have fun?" Rachel was a little skeptical that the girls might not actually enjoy anything the center had to offer.
"I think they will. Even if they don't like a certain room, I am sure they will enjoy the tumble room. I know I would have when I was little." Santana laughed as she put the jeep on cruise.
Rachel scoffed at Santana saying she would have enjoyed it when she was little. "You're going to enjoy it now at thirty one years old."
Santana gasped in mock horror. "Who told you that?"
"No one had to tell me." Rachel cackled. "It was written all over your face when I reserved four arm bands, instead of two."
Santana sighed, realizing she had been caught. So much for never admitting that you were actually still a big kid at heart. "Yeah..well. While, I am excited to play in the tumble room myself, I am more excited to play with the girls in there."
"Me too." Rachel squeezed Santana's hand that was still resting on her thigh. "I can't wait until we get there."
"We still have about a half an hour before that, so sit back and relax. Maybe Samara will decide to take a nap too and they will be refreshed and ready to play." Santana looked in the rear view mirror at the girls car seats, she couldn't see Sierra at all, which meant she was curled up like a little bug, however she could see Samara raising her hands up and down letting her Mami know that she was wide awake.