Mia's POV
I sneezed, and the twins giggled.
"Mama, you sound like a baby elephant," Alexander announced, bouncing on my bed while I tried to wrestle him into his tiny dress shirt.
I warned Alexander not to poke my face with Gas's beard he found just now.
"But Mama, it's so fluffy!" Alexander held up the suspicious clump of fur. "Gas is growing a winter coat!"
"Gas is shedding his summer coat," I corrected, finally managing to get his shirt buttoned. "And please put that down."
Goodness, there's nothing harder than raising two four-year-old boys and trying to get them into proper suits.
Especially when those suits were custom-made.
I had gone all out for this cruise dinner.
"Mama, this shirt is scratchy," Ethan complained, tugging at his collar with the kind of precision that suggested he was trying to determine the exact thread count of the fabric.
"It's not scratchy, it's just new," I said, moving over to help him adjust his tie. "Once you wear it a few times, it'll feel softer."
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