“This is good I thought Malaci and Miley would resent them for a while.” Bette said looking at the kids in the living room

“Malaci is close to Kaitlin I honestly thought it would be longer for them to bond like this.” Tina answered joining Bette in the doorway.

“They are like each other” Bette said

“What do you mean?”

“Well, when Miley was a baby the only way I could get her to sleep was to read her a story, no matter what age she was. That’s the only way we can get Ashley to sleep.” Bette said smiling

“He used to just go to sleep himself, would stay awake and play until he tired himself out. Then he would be sleeping most of the night, he would only wake up when he was hungry” Tina laughed.

After lunch Tina and Bette decided to take the kids to the park and meet Alice and Dana, it was a nice enough day and they hadn’t taken the twins out much. After getting everybody ready they left the house and walked to the park. When they got there Alice and Dana had already got a picnic bench for them, Alice, Dana, Bette and Tina sat with the twins all day and Malaci and Miley played all day.

"I can’t believe the size of them" Alice said peering over the pram at the twins, Ashley lazily looking around as though she had seen everything. Kaitlin seemed like she wanted them to put her down so she could go play with all the other children

"Their beautiful, they will break loads of hearts between them" Dana exclaimed

Malaci and Miley ran over with a couple of their friends and instantly went to the twin they were closest to, Malaci to Kaitlin and Miley to Ashley.

"What’s it like having twin baby sisters?" Dana asked them

"Well, I think Ashley is going to be like me" Miley went on "She likes listening to books being read and good music, well obviously when I play it"

"Noisy at night. But Kaitlin she smiles loads, Ashley just looks around and sleeps. Kaitlin stays awake and plays. I think she’ll really be everything I wanted" Malaci told them

"Yeah, what’s that?" Tina asked

"Well, I wanted a brother, to play football with and teach how not to do homework" He smiled "Ashley will probably be like Miley, into books and stuff I don’t think Kaitlin will be"

Alice and Dana laughed

"What if she’s a girly girl?" Dana asked raising her eyebrows and Malaci

"Don’t underestimate the power of a big brother" they all laughed, he playfully punched Miley’s arm "Your it" he shouted running away.

After about 5 minutes of watching Malaci, Miley and all their friends playin Ashley was asleep in her pram. Kaitlin was still awake and when Miley fell she giggled

"I think we’re going to have problems with her" Bette said tickling Kaitlin

"What makes you say that?" asked Dana

"Well when Malaci hurts himself she doesn’t make a sound and when Miley hurts herself she giggles. She looks at Miley funny and ignores her and when we put her food away from her she screams the house down, even when it’s empty. I think she does it because it annoys us" Everyone laughed at Bette’s idea and went back to chatting about a holiday they had thought about going on.

It didn’t take long before the twins were sleeping. Malaci and Miley both went for a shower and went to bed for school the next morning. Bette and Tina went to bed the same time as the kids, they had forgotten how tiring it was to have a baby in the house let alone two.

“I’m that tired I can’t get to sleep!”  Bette said cuddling into Tina.

Tina was already asleep. Bette smiled and was soon fast asleep too.