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Little giggles and a tapping on Joe's face is what makes him open his eyes, noticing Willa sitting next to him and Delphine being the one tapping his face.

"Good morning!" Willa exclaims, putting her hands in the air.

He chuckles, sitting up and kissing both of their heads. "Good morning."

"Eat," Delphine says, signing.

"Eat?" Joe chuckles. "Alright, let's go see what Uncle Kev has downstairs."

"Up!" Delphine says, reaching up for him once he stands.

He sighs, picking her up before Willa stands on the bed, whining at him with her arms raised as well.

"Alright, alright," he says, picking her up too before leaving the bedroom and heading downstairs to find Kevin, Dani, the girls, Nick, Malti, and Pri already downstairs, the kids playing while Kevin preps some breakfast.

"Dada," Delphine says, wiggling so he'll put her down. Once he does, she runs over to her cousins, immediately slamming a toy around.

"Del, no!" Willa tells her, whining and snuggling into Joe.

"Okay," Joe says, sighing and walking over to Delphine, crouching down and placing a hand over hers to stop her from slamming. "No, ma'am. That's not how we play with the toy. This is how we play with it," he says, demonstrating for her.

She giggles, taking it back and slamming it around again.

"Delly, no!" Willa says, turning to her. "Don't slam toys!"

"Hey," Joe says, turning to look at her. "Why are you yelling at Delly? We don't yell at you like that. You don't yell at other people like that."

"I don't want her to do that," she tells him.

"That doesn't mean we yell at her, Willa," he tells her. "You do things I don't want you to do. Do I yell at you?"

"No," she says softly.

"Okay. So no more yelling."

"Okay," she says, cuddling back into him again.

Delphine turns, throwing the toy across the room, making Joe sigh, licking his lips. "Hey, alright, it looks like you need to throw some stuff. Alena can you show Del the game where she can throw?"

"Yeah!" Alena exclaims, excitedly walking over.

"Thanks, Lena," he says, kissing her head and walking over to the kitchen.

"You're welcome Uncle Joe," she responds, leading Delphine over to give her something to throw.

Joe sighs, plopping into a chair with Willa on his lap, still cuddled into him. "Willa, princess, don't you want to play?"

"No," she says, her finger lifting to her lip and picking at it.

"Hey, hey, no," he tells her, pulling her hand down. "You're gonna hurt yourself."

"Willa, sweetie, do you want to come color with me and Tini? I think we're going to color," Pri says, crouching down a little to face her.

Willa shakes her head, turning her head to hide her face in Joe's shoulder. "No."

Pri gives Joe a sympathetic look before walking away, starting to color with Tini as she said she was going to.

Kevin watches from the other side of the kitchen, blinking a few times and then moving back to cooking with Dani, wondering how he's going to get Willa alone to give her that hug he promised Addie he would... and give her the heart.

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