I can try to help

Don't put your hands under a knife

"I know bambina, i'm sorry but everything's fine now" I comfort

"up" I lift her up onto my hip

"Do you want to go see Andy and Meredith?"

"wan' leo" I walk over to the bed and reach over to hand it to her

"Andy 'n Merdith"

I walk over to the living room where Meredith is curled up on Andy's lap looking around the room.

"You two want to play? We've got some blocks and action figures"

"blocks" I hear Meredith quietly say

She and Maya crawl onto the floor and get out the blocks.
When I'm satisfied they aren't listening I ask

"How old is she?"

"3-4, you know how old Maya is?"

I think for a second,

"3-5? I haven't come in contact with that many 3-5 year olds besides Maya"

She nods and looks over at Meredith, sees that she's not looking then says

"I'm kinda glad she finally slipped, I mean she hasn't for like a week. Which is a dangerous combination with 3 kids and work both causing a constant level of sleep deprivation."

"Yeah, I mean she was bound to slip at some point" I confirm her worries.

We keep talking until Maya says "hungry, mama"

"You hungry too girl?" Andy asks Meredith, she nods

"How about we go have some apples"

They both nod their heads excitedly as I go over to the kitchen to cut them up.

As I start cutting Maya immediately puts her hands on the cutting board under the knife.

"Maya!"

"Mmm?"

"Why did you put your hand under the knife?"

"I wanted to see what would happen"

"I'll tell you what'll happen, you'll get hurt. No more putting your hands under the knife"

"Ok"

I continue cutting up apples and Meredith tries to grab them when i'm not cutting

"Aye!" Andy says scooping Meredith up and putting her on her hip

"Wait, until she's done cutting."

"But i'm hungry."

"I know, kid, but I don't want you to get hurt"

"But I'm Hungry."

Andy sighs, exasperated

"Apples are ready!" I cut in

"Yay!!"

They eat happily until Andy decides it's time to leave. Luckily there is not another argument. By now it's pretty late.

"Maya, time for bed"

She extends her arms up and I put her on my hip and bring us to the bathroom to brush our teeth.

I help her change and get us both into bed.

"Mama?"

"Si bambina?"

"I love you"

"I love you too bambina, so so much"

I fall asleep holding my baby girl happy with the world.

AN: I think this is a short chapter, but i'm honestly not reading these things. See ya