Anakin was on a bench by the playground equipment watching his two children as they played.

Christopher ate sand. Anakin smiled.

Juliet jumped off the step side of the slide--Anakin caught her with the Force and smiled. Juliet blinked: that was not the expression she'd expected from her daddy when she did something that reckless. Being half ( Read more... )

No, Anakin had been told, it didn't matter that it was currently 26 degrees outside. Juliet was bouncing off the walls (literally, thanks to the Force) and if they ever wanted to see their security deposit again, it would be best if everyone went outside for a nice, family walk. They did that sort of thing all the time in Connecticut, and the kids ( Read more... )

Because of the election, Anakin and Rory hadn't gotten a chance to celebrate her birthday together, so they'd gone to dinner and then gotten a hotel room where they could celebrate being kid-free for a night.

Anakin was decidedly unpleased to discover that the last person to use their room hadn't turned off the alarm clock this morning. "Shut upIt ( Read more... )

Anakin was running a little behind today (for some reason Rory hadn't been all that anxious to let him leave the house...), but after getting a slightly garbled version of what had gone on last week, he had a feeling that people might be a little interested in checking in on him today ( Read more... )

Rory had been complaining about her back hurting today, so Anakin had taken Juliet with him to the island. He'd gotten all the way to his office and was in the process of unlocking the door when his comlink went off.

"Skywalker," he said immediately. "Oh....not back cramps. Contractions. I'll be there as fast as I can ( Read more... )

Anakin had searched DC for a restaurant that his pregnant wife would enjoy and settled on a place that made fried chicken, but in an expensive way ( Read more... )

Anakin was almost grateful for the relative coolness of the air--it stopped the wool he was wearing from being oppressively hot ( Read more... )

Anakin was halfway home when it dawned on him that the week he'd been stuck on the island (then stuck as a cat...) was the week of Rory's finals ( Read more... )

Anakin leaned over Rory to check the clock and let out a chuckle before pulling the covers back up. "We still have a few hours until Juliet needs to get picked up from day care," he said. "Any ideas what we should do?"

Since the last bit had been his idea...

[OOC: For his lovely wife!]

It was time for Juliet's first haircut--her blonde curls had stopped being adorable and had started getting knotted. And being sixteen months old meant that a patient and careful comb-through was not in the cards ( Read more... )