Having two newborns around the holiday really changed the feel of the whole house.
Thanksgiving was hosted at Cheryl and Toni's house as it had been for the past few years. The couple soon learned that it wasn't going to be as easy as they had thought.
Bentley cried through the whole dinner, so one parent would be standing with him trying to calm him down while the other ate and fed Juliet.
She was a much more calm baby than her brother. She loved to be held and be warm, so as long as one of the many people at the dinner was doing so she was fairly happy.
Bentley was the opposite. He only wanted to be held by his parents or grandparents. But with Alice spending the holiday up in Maine with Polly and FP in Ohio they didn't have any back support.
Jughead could see the small look of terror in Archie's eyes whenever someone asked if he wanted to hold Juliet. With only a few months left until Veronica's due date, he was growing more panicked.
This grew as Christmas approached.
Christmas was a surprisingly easy holiday for the twins. They slept through all of the activities and only woke up for a family photo that surprisingly turned out really well.
There wasn't any pressure for them to impress the babies with presents knowing they wouldn't remember it. So they exchanged gifts with each other and bought the babies a few new toys and clothes.
On New Year's Eve, the whole Jones family was out by 10:30. Betty had cooked dinner and went to check on Jughead and the twins to find them both asleep on their snoring dad's chest. She took a photo before waking him up so they could take the twins to their cribs.
By this point the twins were on a set schedule:
Wake up
Eat
Nap
Eat
Play
Nap
Play
Nap
Eat
Bath
Bedtime
Betty also was starting back to work in the New Year.
She agreed to work part-time at the register on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday until 2 pm while a nanny watched the kids.
It was tough for her to go to work but they needed the money.
By the time the end of January came the twins were just over three months old. That was when Juliet caught her first cold.
Everything in the house came to a standstill.
All of her efforts went into caring for her little girl. Jughead went to work at nine and was home about five. In those seven hours alone with two kids was taking a toll on her.
Alice tried to stop by when she could but she also had a newspaper to run, so her time was limited.
Juliet had been sick for three days now.
Each night she had become more and more restless, and when she was restless she got upset and fussy.
Not wanting to wake Jughead up she quietly moved to the crib they moved into their room where Juliet was lying awake and coughing.
Juliet normally would fall back asleep after a short walk around the house. It had now been close to thirty minutes of her walking around the living room.
