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Its morning time and everyone is asleep. Elijah of course is always up before everyone on most days. When he wakes up he cries for absolutely no reason

Alexis opens her eyes and stares at the ceiling for a second then sits up and climbs out of the bed to go get Elijah.

"I'm here. Stop crying. You gone wake everybody up."

Alexis picks up Elijah and grabs his toys out of the kid corner in her room, sits him down on the rug and spreads his toys out

Elijah grabs his toys and starts playing with them while Alexis stands over him just watching

"Don't move. Lemme go get you a diaper"

Elijah looks up at Alexis and crawls over to another toy

Alexis runs out of her room & into the little boy's room to Elijah's stuff and grabs a handful of diapers and a pack of wipes then runs back into her room and sits down with Elijah

Crystal wakes up, sits up and gets out of bed the goes to sit with Alexis

"How long ya'll been up?"

"Not long. Maybe like 10 minutes. Why you up?"

"I heard movement and a kid so I was just seeing what was going on plus you were missing from the middle"

"You just wanted to be up"

"Girl, please"

Alexis lays down in Crystal's lap and picks up one of Elijah's toys trying to play with him

"He likes the other one"

"Which one?"

"The book that sings and has the lights"

"Oop that one isn't in here"

Alexis grabs Crystal's hands and turns over holding Crystal's hands close to her and closes her eyes

"What are we doing today?

"What you wanna do? I have today & tomorrow free then you know I go to LA for the week"

"Why they doing things outside of Atlanta? My goodness. It's hard for me to just up and leave with 4 damn kids"

"Y'all will be fine. Its only a week then I'm back for a lil minute

Iman gets out of bed and comes over to Alexis & Crystal and stands in front of them silently rubbing his stomach then glances at Elijah playing with his toys

"Well good morning to you" (Alexis)

"Right. Just in people face wit ya junk out" (Crystal)

"Lemme feel it rq" (Alexis)

Alexis reaches her hands out towards Iman. Iman moves closer to her reach and laughing then grabs the top of his shorts and pulls them down stopping at his lower abdomen

"Sike nah im just playing. Later though maybe"

"You no fun!"

Alexis looks up at Crystal holding her face with both hands.

"We gotta get dressed and go back to your house then go to the mall or somewhere since you leaving again soon"

"Well ima go shower and then when I'm done we can switch out and I'll watch Elijah. The other kids must be waking up cause I hear them in their rooms"