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"Mama! Mama!"
The shrill voice of a little boy rang through the house. Ash turned from the fridge right as her two year old launched himself into her arms.
"Hi handsome! Did you and Ryan have a fun time?" She asked as she shut the fridge door behind her.
"Yea! Pway trucks an cwimb!" Her son excitedly listed off.
"And what did Aunt Amy and Mommy say about climbing, Greyson Jude?" Ali asked as she walked into the kitchen.
"Nots to." Greyson looked down as he was reminded of being punished for climbing on the outside of the jungle gym.
"Why don't you go play before dinner, Grey?" Ash said as she put him down.
"Otay!" He yelled as he ran off to the playroom.
"No running!" Ali called after him.
Ash walked closer to her wife and pulled her into her. "And how was my beautiful wife's day with ARod?"
"It was nice. Relaxing. Until Ryan and Greyson decided they wanted to try to climb up the side of the jungle gym instead of using the stairs." Ali recalled her day.
“Did you get to the airport on time to drop them off?” Ash asked as she rubbed her hands over Ali’s back.
“Surprisingly, yes. We got stuck in a little traffic due to an accident, but we still got there with plenty of time for them to get through security. I just hope that Ryan and Elena both sleep on the plane for ARod’s sake.”
"And did our littlest angel behave herself?" Ash asked as she rested her hand on Ali's belly.
"She was moving nonstop the whole time. Kicked my ribs a few times so that wasn't fun. So, she pretty much was being her normal self these days." Ali told her as she went to get something to eat out of the fridge before going to look for Greyson.
"Well, only eight more weeks until she's here and keeping us up at night instead of kicking your ribs." Ash said as she followed her wife through the house until they reached the playroom.
"Remind me again why we decided that I get pregnant right after we adopted Grey?" Ali asked genuinely exhausted from being pregnant and keeping up with her two year old and wife.
"Because we want a big family and you wanted to have enough time to get back in shape for the next cycle." Ash reminded her as she wrapped her arms around her from behind. "Plus you really wanted to be pregnant."
Ali looked over at Grey as he ran his toy trucks up the slide in the middle of the room. "That does sound like something I would say." Ali joked. "Is dinner almost done? I'm starving." She said as she ate the couple of strawberries she took from the fridge.
Ashlyn looked down at her watch. "About five more minutes. Everything is ready, just waiting on the chicken to be done."
“I’m going to go change. I’ll be right back.” Ali told her and made her way to the stairs and slowly climbed them.
“Greyson, come on. Let’s wash our hands. Dinner’s almost ready.” Ashlyn said to get the two year old’s attention.
Greyson slowly got up and walked over to his mama. He held his arms up and waited to be picked up.
Ashlyn picked him up before tossing him up in the air and catching him, making him laugh.
“Again! Again!” He exclaimed as Ashlyn started to walk towards the kitchen.
“Again?” Ashlyn questioned as she stopped just outside of the kitchen.
“Again!” Greyson exclaimed once more.
Ashlyn obliged and tossed him in the air a couple more times before entering the kitchen. “Alright, time to scrub those dirty little hands.” She said over her son’s loud laughter that never ceased to bring a smile to her face.
After helping him wash his hands, Ash put him in his booster seat, strapping him in, and pushing him up to the table. She then went to get the chicken out of the oven once the timer went off.
“Mama, baby here?” Greyson asked as he tried to turn in his seat to look at her. “Not yet, buddy. A few more weeks and then she’ll be here.” Ashlyn told him as she began to plate the food.
“We pway?” He asked.
“Of course you can play with her. She won’t be able to play for a couple months though, because she will be too little, but once she’s big enough you can definitely play with her.” Ashlyn explained as she brought the three plates over to the table.
“Where Mommy?” Greyson asked as Ashlyn went to get three cups out of the cabinet.
“Mommy is changing her clothes. She’ll be down soon.” Ashlyn said as she filled her’s and Ali’s glasses with water. “Juice or milk?”
“Milk!”
She took the gallon out of the fridge, filling Greyson’s sippy cup, and putting it back. She brought the three glasses over to the table and sat down.
Ali walked into the kitchen, now wearing a pair of soccer shorts and an oversized shirt.
“Mommy! I pway wif baby!” Greyson exclaimed once he saw Ali.
“You want to play with your sister when she gets here?” Ali questioned as she sat down across from Ashlyn.
“Uh-huh! Pway trucks!” Greyson told her.
“I think she would love to play trucks with you. Maybe when she’s old enough to walk she can play soccer with you too.”
“Wif Sera an Emmy?” Greyson asked as he played with the food on his plate with his fork.
Ashlyn laughed to herself at the mention of the two girls. Greyson had a little crush on both Alex and Serv’s newborn daughter and Erin and Ella’s eight month old.
“I’m sure Sierra and Emilia would love to play with you too. They just have to get bigger before they can.” Ali answered.
“Otay.” Greyson said as he grabbed his sippy cup and started drinking out of it. Once he placed it back down, he went back to playing with his fork.
“Grey, can you eat some of that, please?” Ashlyn asked as she watched him almost fling a piece of food at Ali on accident.
Greyson stared at his food for a few seconds before deciding to use his fork the right way and picked up one of the pieces of chicken before putting it in his mouth.
“Thank you, buddy.” Ashlyn praised as she ate her food.
After dinner, Ali went to take all of their plates to go wash them.
“Al, I’ll do that.” Ashlyn said as she unbuckled Greyson and let him down.
“It’s fine. You cooked, I’ll clean the dishes. It’s only fair.” Ali said as she started to run the water. That was always their routine, one cooked and the other did the dishes, but as Ali got further along in her pregnancy Ash had been trying to get Ali to relax more, but Ali wasn’t having it.
“Alright,” Ash knew better than to push her wife. “I’ll go get Greyson ready for bed.” She said before walking out of the kitchen to see where Greyson ran off to. “Grey?” She called out when she didn’t see him in the playroom. She started walking back down the hallway to the front of the house.
“Rawr!” Greyson jumped out from behind the window curtain in the living room once Ash walked into the room.
Ashlyn pretended to be scared which made Greyson laugh harder. “Alright, little monster, bath time.”
“No.” He whined as he walked toward her. He wanted to play longer even though he was pretty tired from playing at the park all afternoon.
“Yes, bath time.” Ashlyn said as they walked to the stairs. She watched Greyson grab onto the railing and made sure to walk right behind him in case he slipped.
“Mama, pway socca?” He asked as they got to the top of the stairs.
“We can play soccer tomorrow, buddy.” She said as she steered him in the direction of the bathroom.
“Potty.” Grey told her the second they walked in the bathroom and Ash turned on the light.
“Alright, do you need help with your pants?” Ash asked.
“No,” He said as he walked over to the toilet, he turned to look at Ashlyn.
“I’m going, I’m going.” Ash said as she turned to go out in the hallway. Greyson didn’t mind his moms being in the bathroom when he first started being potty trained, but after Ali made Kyle teach him how to go standing up he didn’t let his moms stay in the bathroom unless they were in public.
Once she heard him flush the toilet, she went back in as he was moving his stool so he could wash his hands.
“Good job, buddy.” She held out her hand to give him a high five. He slapped his wet hand against hers. He laughed at the water flying everywhere. “Alright, stinker, let’s get this bath going.” She tested the water before plugging the drain. “Strip boy.” Ash laughed at him.
When the tub was filled enough and Greyson was stripped of his clothes, Ashlyn placed him in the tub. The bath was going as a bath should until Greyson decided he wanted to splash the water up at Ashlyn.
“Hey!” Ash laughed as she splashed the water back at him causing him to laugh with her.
“Mama wet.” Greyson laughed as he splashed her once more.
“What is going on here?” Ali laughed at the sight of her two favorites laughing and Ashlyn’s shirt dripping water.
“Mommy, Mama wet!” Greyson laughed as he pointed at Ashlyn.
“I see that. Did you do that?” Ali asked as she sat on the edge of the tub.
“Yea! Splash!” Greyson said as he splashed again, this time getting Ali wet too. This just caused him to laugh harder.
“Alright, that’s enough splashing, little man.” Ashlyn told him. “Let’s rinse your hair so you can get out before you get wrinkly.”
After his hair was rinsed, Ali grabbed the towel off the sink counter and held it out to wrap Greyson in it before picking him up out of the tub.
After they dried Greyson and got him changed into his pajamas, the duo tucked him into bed. Ashlyn laid down on his bed with him as Ali sat in the rocking chair that Ash moved from the corner of the room since she couldn’t get back up from sitting on Greyson’s low bed anymore.
“What story do you want to hear tonight, baby?” Ali asked as she looked at the rows of books on his bookcase.
“Night Night Struction!” He struggled with the last word.
“Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site it is.” Ash said as Ali grabbed the book from the shelf.
“Down in the big construction site, the tough trucks work with all their might, to build a building, make a road, to get the job done- load by load.” Ali read. By the end of the story, exhaustion caught up to Greyson and he was out. Ali put the book back in its spot as Ash gave him a kiss and climbed off the bed. She helped Ali up after she placed a kiss on Grey’s forehead and then carefully moved the chair back to the corner.
“Ready for bed, wifey?”
“I’m exhausted.” Ali said as she leaned into Ashlyn’s side as they walked to their room.