“Mm…your kid before five in the morning.”
Jasmine groaned as the baby's screams drew her from her slumber before quickly being accompanied by Amira's shouts of "MOMMA!!!!". Jim's words were a grumble into his pillow, his blue eyes not even opening to watch her silhouette crawl from the warmth of their bed and stumble in the darkness to the door that led to the hall. On her way out, she grabbed his jacket, pulling it on over her nightgown before vanishing in the direction of their son's room.
The ten month old had already dragged his little body to standing by the time she made it to the doorway, wailing and crying with a ferocity he hadn't had since he'd started sleeping through the night. Flicking on the light, she crossed the room to lift him from his crib and into her arms and his six year old sister appeared in the doorway.
"Mommy, I had a bad dream..." Jasmine's answer was gentle as she smiled at her daughter, bouncing the babe in her arms to calm him down.
"Go crawl in bed with Daddy" With a nod the girl darted away and the princess was left alone to return her attentions to her son whom had already started to quiet down. Jim wouldn't appreciate it when Amira told him that Mommy had been the one that told her to wake him, but at the moment his irritation was the least of her worries.