As the dinner progressed the girls began to get a little restless sitting in their seats. Seeing as they were in a closed off room, Santana and Rachel deemed it okay to let the girls walk around the table. The twins, still feeling out their new environment decided to stick close to their mothers, always making sure that both women were in their sights at all times. As expected, Beth was immediately smitten with the girls and tried to encourage them to go play with some of the other kids, but they preferred the company of their mothers. Sierra seemed to be fascinated in general by everything going on around her while Samara was more interested in where her next bite of food was going to come from. Was Mami going to hand her something or Mama? She didn't know, she just knew that she loved the bread that Mami had given her off of her plate.
Santana could feel Puck watching her every move and every time she caught him staring, he would just grin. It was as if he was telling her that she was doing a good job and that he loved seeing her like this. Santana was broken from her inner musings by Sierra patting her on the leg.
"Mami." Sierra giggled.
"What's wrong baby?" Santana asked as she turned to look down at the little girl who was patting the front of her diaper. This was something new that the twins had started doing when they needed a diaper change. "Did you go potty?" Instead of answering, Sierra began to do a little dance to show just how uncomfortable she was. "Rachel, we're going for a diaper change." Santana told her wife who nodded indicating that she had heard her before leaving.
"Mama, bite?" Samara asked while walking up to Rachel. Beth decided to take a breather and sat back down beside of Quinn, tickling Davis' feet that was sticking out from under the blanket that Quinn had him covered up with. The tiny baby boy gave his big sister a huge gummy smile.
"What do you want a bite of lady bug?" Rachel picked the tiny girl up and sat her on her lap letting her look over Rachel's plate deciding what she wanted. Samara made a grab for a piece of asparagus that was big enough for her to hold in her hand and nibble on. Rachel was surprised that Samara seemed to like it, she knew herself that when she was little she had hated it.
"Is that good cutie?" Quinn asked Samara who leaned into her mothers front, grinning at Quinn.
"Nom." Samara murmured before sticking her hand in Rachel's face offering her a bite.
"So it is good? Mama doesn't want a bite baby, you eat it." Samara only looked mildly offended that Rachel didn't take a bite. Oh well, more for her if Mama didn't want any.
A few moments later, Santana returned with a freshly diapered Sierra who seemed to be on the verge of dozing off. Rachel smiled at the sight of her wife carrying their daughter. It was one of those moments where the world just seemed to fade away as Rachel realized how truly in love she was with her wife. She hoped those moments never stopped in the future.
After spending the afternoon with everyone at the studio, Santana and Rachel decided to head home so that they could rest up for the next day. They just knew that all the grandparents were going to make the biggest fuss over the girls all day just like everyone at the studio had. Rachel held true to her promise that everyone would get to properly meet the girls before they left. Sierra and Samara were knocked out in their car seats from all of the excitement. It would take time for the girls to really warm up to everyone, but most of them got a small smile or laugh so that was enough to hold them over for a while.
"Today went way better than I could have ever hoped for." Santana said as she guided her jeep along the road heading towards the cabin.
"It really did. Everyone is so smitten with the girls." Rachel smiled while turning her head to look at Santana. She reached over and ran her fingers down Santana's cheek. "You know, I'm smitten with you."
Santana snorted. "Where did that come from?"
Rachel shrugged her shoulders, still wearing a dreamy smile. "I just realized how much I love you today and every day of our lives."
"I love you too." Santana took Rachel's hand into her own and kissed the woman's knuckles before lacing their fingers together and laying them on her lap. In that moment nothing more needed to be said. Today had went amazing, Santana had the three loves of her life at her side and tomorrow they would be spending the entire day with their family. In this moment nothing could shake her happiness.
As the evening turned into night, Santana was in the kitchen prepping an apple pie while Rachel put the finishing touches on a bowl of pasta salad. Even though Leroy had insisted that they didn't need to bring anything, Rachel and Santana both felt it would be nice to bring something. The twins were sound asleep in their nursery, still wore out from the day at the studio. Bath time had been super quiet, the girls barely waking up during the process. They hadn't even been awake long enough to have their nightly cups of milk or read a story. Both women knew that without a doubt both twins would be wide awake at the crack of dawn.
"We need to head to bed soon." Rachel mumbled as she placed the bowl of pasta salad in the fridge. "I will dress that in the morning, it will get soggy if I do it tonight." She cringed as she shut the door.
"Yeah, I'm not going to bake this tonight, just toss it in the oven at Leroy's." Santana motioned to the pie sitting on the counter. It looked almost too pretty to eat.
"Let's head to bed. We have a long day ahead of us." Rachel circled Santana's waist with her arms, hugging her from behind.
"It's going to be a great day though, especially when our parents see the girls." Santana smiled thinking about what their reactions were going to be.
"I can't wait." Rachel bounced a little on her toes making Santana giggle. Turning around, Santana placed a lingering kiss on Rachel's forehead before moving to her lips. Rachel broke the kiss and quickly grabbed Santana's pie to place in the fridge before grabbing her wife's hand and practically dragging her into Santana's studio. It wasn't the most convenient place to make love with her wife, but Santana did have a futon bed in there that was actually really comfy. For now, it would suffice.
Santana and Rachel both jumped awake at the sounds of loud screeching and wailing. One of those noises was in fact Santana's alarm while the other was her lovely baby girls. Scrambling around, she was trying to find her clothes while trying not to knock Rachel, who was also trying to find her clothes, off the futon and into the floor. Rachel erupted with fits of laughter watching Santana hop on one leg out the door. It would have been quicker if she had just stopped to pull up her pajama pants and then left, but at the moment she just couldn't see the reasoning. Shaking her head, Rachel too finally found some proper clothes and made her way out of the studio, through the kitchen and into the nursery. Sierra was sitting up in her bed playing with her giraffe while Samara continued to cry. Something seemed fishy...Sierra was just acting too innocent while Samara bawled her eyes out. This wasn't typical behavior, normally when one twin was full on crying, the other one was too. They just fed off each like that. Sierra looked up at her Mama with a big grin before standing up and bouncing on her bed.
"No, no lady bug. We don't jump on the beds." Rachel rushed to the tiny girls bed and picked her up, placing her on her hip. Walking over to Samara and Santana, Rachel reached out and ran her hand up and down Samara's back. The little girl had stemmed off some of her crying but her little face was still riddled with snot and tears. She was resting her head on Santana's shoulder, both of her hands tucked in front of her chest against Santana.
Neither woman had any idea what could have upset Samara so much until she untucked one hand to shove her tiny fist into her mouth. That was when they seen the tiny set of teeth marks on Samara's arm. Rachel's eyes nearly bugged out of her head. What in the hell?!
"Santana, look at her arm." Rachel nearly screeched.
Confused Santana gently pulled Samara's fist from her mouth to examine her arm. She hadn't seen it before, but now she could clearly see a perfect set of little teeth marks. "Sierra." Santana spoke firmly but gently. "Did you do this?"
"No?" Sierra answered while holding her hand out in an I don't know manner.
Rachel and Santana tried so hard not to laugh at Sierra's expression. It was just so cute, but they knew they had to handle this. Sierra didn't need to be biting people, especially her sister. "I think you did. There's no other people in this room and that's definitely not a dog bite."
"Doggy?" Sierra asked confused while looking at her Mama and Mami.
"The doggies didn't do that. We don't bite lady bug. That's a no no." Santana made sure to look directly into Sierra's eyes so that the little girl understood the message loud and clear. Biting was a no no.
"No no." Sierra shook her head. At least she partly? understood. Santana and Rachel at least hoped that was what she was saying.
"Right, no no. No biting." Rachel reiterated what Santana had said.
"No bites?!" Sierra yelled, horrified at the thought of not receiving food.
"Yes bites. But no bite-ting. You made not understand it now, but there is a difference. Mama and Mami would never take bites away from you." Sierra's shoulders seemed to deflate with relief. Santana and Rachel both shared a wary look with one another. They knew this wasn't the end of this, biting was a habit that a lot of children struggled to break. Maybe..just maybe they would get lucky and Sierra wouldn't do it again or she would do it again and Samara would bite her back. That however could either go two ways, one they have a set of twins who like to bite each other or they realize how bad it actually hurts and don't do it anymore. They would have to wait and see because they couldn't punish the girls for something that hadn't happened yet and may not even happen. There was also no way for them to know if Samara had done something to Sierra first to cause the biting. For now, they would just have to keep an extra eye on both girls to determine if this was random or if the girls were just picking at each other and it escalated into this.
Santana sighed as she examined Samara's arm. The bite didn't break the skin and there didn't appear to be any kind of bruise setting in, but she didn't blame Samara for crying like she did. Being bit hurt, especially if you were a seventeen month old who only had complete control of their feelings at random intervals. They were learning and testing limits with each other and their mother's, it was a part of growing up.
"Okay, so remember no no to biting and yes to bites." Rachel made sure that both girls heard her, just in case Samara had actually done something.
Santana chuckled while grabbing a baby wipe to clean off Samara's face. It was hilarious to her how you had to speak to children to get your point across. Did everyone partially turn into cavemen when they became parents?
"What are you laughing at?" Rachel giggled as she sat Sierra back down on her bed to change her diaper and put clothes on her.
"Us. No no biting, yes bites." Santana said in her best cave man voice making Rachel and the twins laugh. At least there was no more crying and the girls seemed to understand for the most part. Parenting was hard and this had only been a minor hiccup for now, but Santana thought they were doing okay so far.