"I really appreciate you doin' this, Linds," Danny said, handing her the diaper bag. "It took me forever to convince Austin that it's not selfish for the two of us to go to dinner."

"It's not a problem. She's got to get out of the house more often than to go to work anyway."

"I figure her birthday is a good a time as any. We won't be too late tonight. I'll have my cell on if you need anything."

"I think we'll be okay Danny."

"But it's just you with two kids."

"Adam will be home in a few hours. I promise, we're going to be just fine. You go, have a good time, don't worry about us."

He nodded and carefully handed a sleeping Isabeth to her.

"I think there's enough bottles in the bag and I remembered to pack some diapers this time too."

"Danny, you're going to be late if you don't leave soon."

"I know, I'm outta here," he said, leaning down to kiss his daughter. "Bye baby girl. I love you."

He turned and left the apartment and Lindsay locked the door behind him, setting the diaper bag on the floor next to the couch. She sat down in the overstuffed chair, pulling her legs up underneath her and cuddling Isa close. Colton looked up from where he sat on the floor giving her a questioning look and crawling over to investigate just who had taken over his space on mama's lap. Grunting, he pulled himself up into a standing position and tugged on her foot, trying to get her to pick him up too. She sighed and lifted him as best she could and he grinned, looking down at Isa and feeling a little less threatened.

"Mama?"

"What baby?"

He smiled and stretched out, laying his head on Isa's stomach and popping his thumb into his mouth.

"Well okay, I guess we can work with this."

She moved a little so her arms wouldn't fall asleep and reached down to pop the foot rest out. She could have gotten up and put both sleepy kids in the crib, but she was so tired herself it sounded like too much work. She could feel her breathing slowing down and her eyelids getting heavy and she went ahead and gave in.

"Hey Mother Goose."

Lindsay opened her eyes and yawned, wondering how long she'd been asleep. Both kids were still sacked out, but Lindsay was sure they would be up soon.

"Are you home early?"

"A little bit. I thought you might need an extra hand, but it looks like you've got it covered."

"You wanna help me get up?"

Adam took Colton from her and she stood up from the chair, trying not to wake Isa.

"Want to order some dinner? I'm thinking a little spicy Chinese."

"Sounds good. Let's go put these two down."

They went into the bedroom and managed to get Colton down, but Isa woke up, grumbling loudly at being disturbed.

"Hey sweet girl," Lindsay greeted, kissing her sleep sagged cheek. "Are you hungry?"

"She looks like Austin when she screams."

"I'll be sure to pass that along," Lindsay chuckled as they moved out of the room. She found formula in the diaper bag and made a bottle quickly. "Honey, do you want to feed her?"

"Yeah sure. Hand her over."

She chuckled and handed him the baby and the bottle, finding it even more endearing to see him with a girl.

"Hey princess," he greeted as she clamped her mouth around the bottle and stopped crying. "There, is that better?"

He wiped the tears from her cheeks and kissed her forehead, smiling when she looked up at him.

"I'm going to order dinner," Lindsay said, leaning over the back of the couch and kissing him. "Holler if you need me."

He nodded and she went into the kitchen, grabbing the phone on the way. She found the menu for their favorite Chinese place and perused it slowly, trying to narrow down the list from everything that looked good to what they would actually finish. She finally settled on a few things and placed the order, then moved to the counter to sort the mail. She could peek through to the other room, and smiled as she watched Adam talking to Isa. She always knew that she and Austin would bond with each other's children, but she didn't know Danny and Adam would take the same cues.

She walked out of the room and joined them on the couch, adjusting Isa's sock.

"Dinner will be here in half an hour."

"Good, I'm starved."

"I'm sorry, Ribsy," she chuckled, running her hand over his side. She turned so she was facing him more, then scooted closer and rested her chin on his shoulder. "What do you want to do tonight?"

"You think we can actually do anything with two kids running around?"

"Maybe if we hedge our bets. I was thinking we might be able to break out of our tie on Super Smash Brothers. I'll be Yoshi."

"What do you think Is, can your aunt Lindsay beat me?"

"I already had this talk with her and she is always on my side."

"Well then I guess we're going to have to break out the controllers and see what's what."

"I think we are the only thirty-somethings in the world that spend half their married life playing video games."

"Does that bug you?"

"Nah, I think it makes us memorable."

"Dorky."

"Lovable."

"Losers."

"Hey, at least we're together."

"Yeah and probably have a way better marriage than people who don't play video games."

"Or anyone for that matter."

"I think so too."

She smiled and ran her fingers through his hair, yawning a little.

"Hey Linds, do you think we can have a girl next time?"

She lifted an eyebrow and smirked a little, running her hand over Isa's face.

"I don't really have any control over that buddy."

"I guess not, but we can wish it, right?"

"Hon, why do you keep talking about having more kids?"

He shrugged and wiped a bit of formula off Isa's cheek.

"No reason in particular. Just something I think about sometimes. Don't you?"

"I'm too tired to think about it."

"I know. But every once in a while… I mean, you don't see it being just the three of us forever, do you?"

"No. I just figure it'll happen when it happens. We didn't plan on Colton, did we?"

"No, he kind of took us by surprise."

"I would rather be surprised. Because if we plan on it and it doesn't happen, we're both going to be disappointed."

"Maybe."

"I'd rather just do things without a plan. Because then it's always a happy surprise."

He smiled and kissed her.

"Okay, we'll be surprised, but don't jinx us or we'll end up with triplets and I don't think we would be very good at that."

"I'll do my best."

"As long as we don't give up practicing…"

"Adam."

"I love making you squirm."

She rolled her eyes and picked up the remote, turning the TV on and flipping through the channels, coming on a rerun of Cops.

"Doesn't it make you homesick when someone is trying to get away from the cops and they're drivin' a car with a homemade spoiler on the back?"

"That's not Montana, that's Kentucky!"

"All you hicks are the same to me."

Her jaw dropped and she applied a painful pinch to his arm.

"Hey, I was just teasing!"

She smiled and kissed the spot she had hurt, then rubbed his neck. She was about to make another smart remark when Colton started crying in the other room.

"I thought for sure he would stay down longer than that," she said, lifting herself off the couch.

"He found out we've got food coming."

She chuckled and made her way into the bedroom finding Colton standing up in his crib, holding onto the sides and crying pathetically.

"What's going on in here?" she asked, picking him up. He wrapped his arms around her neck and held on while she moved into the other room. She stopped on the way to the couch to grab him a few crackers.

"Dada!"

"Hey buddy. Did you have fun with mama today?"

"Dada," he replied, tugging on his arm.

"Oh I see what your deal is. Jealous at such a young age."

Colton made a face and grabbed Isa's foot, giving it a little pull. She squawked and spit the bottle out angrily while Adam chuckled and sat her up.

"Colton, you can't hurt girls."

"I think he just wants his daddy. Give me the girl."

They swapped kids and Colton smiled happily, biting into his cracker then offering half to Adam.

"No thanks man."

Frowning, Colton tucked the cracker into the pocket on Adam's shirt and patted it gently.

"Good thinkin'. Saving it for later."

Lindsay grinned and set the now empty bottle on the coffee table. Isa smiled up at her and stuck a finger in her mouth, drooling slightly.

"What's going on, pretty girl? You look so much happier now that you're fed. Do you want to play? Should we see what kind of toys Colton's got that you can steal?"

Isa hiccupped a giggle and Lindsay moved down to the floor with her, finding a few toys for her. Colton squealed and wiggled off of Adam's lap, crawling across the floor to them. He sat next to Isa and pounded on his toy drum with a rattle while she just stared up at him, unimpressed. He gave her the rattle and she turned it over and over in her hand then pounded on the floor with it. Colton giggled and crawled over to the toy basket, pulling out the drumstick that went with the drum. He pounded on the basket happily then frowned and dumped the basket, then started randomly drumming on different toys.

"He is so your kid," Lindsay commented, rolling her eyes up to Adam who grinned and got off the couch to join the kids on the floor. He was gentle with Isa, making sure Colton's drumstick stayed away from her head and that she had enough toys, while he still managed to keep his son entertained. Lindsay watched him with a smile, seeing once again what a wonderful man she had fallen in love with.