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The twins ate cinnamon rolls, pulling them apart and said "They have lots of ponies. I am sure she will bring enough for us."

Eric calls Natalie "Hi...yes thanks! We were wondering if you could bring ponies and and horses over for us to ride in the morning...uhuh...yes great! Please bring 3 ponies and a few horses and of course Sonja wants Adonis....okay great thanks see you in the morning." He comes back "Everything is all set!" He sits next to Sonja and takes a cinnamon roll to eats.

Vladimir says "These are delicious you kids did a really good job!" Aki and Yuki smiles "Thank you. Sophia helped us and we made lots."

Eric was happily eating the sweets. They were small so he ate three. "These are addictive ...you might not get any Nate." he jokes.

The twins say there are lots don't worry Nate. Enough for you and Josh."

Vladimir liked them too and ate three and grabbed one more. "You kids did a good job I like these." He generally didn't need to eat but he liked the rolls. He mostly ate to be social.

Peter finished and said "I will be off now. Gaby are you ready? It will be dark soon. Just call if you need anything. I will visit in a couple of weeks to check on Aislina."

Peter waves goodbye as he flies off with Gabriella into the clouds.

Vladimir says holding up his sticky fingers from the cinnamon rolls, "Let's wash our hands then go and tackle building that tent."

The twins laugh and say "Yeah!" They run off with their grandfather to the bathroom to wash their hands. Aki says "Come on Sophia let's wash our hands."

Josh goes to wash his hands too and says "I will carry the tent upstairs for you and put it in your room. He goes to get the tent and carries it up to the twin's room then opens it taking out all of the parts for them to assemble. It looked pretty simple as he looked at the instructions. He says "You just need to unfold the poles and snap them together then you thread them through the channels and you have a tent.

Vladimir listens as Josh explains and smiles. It seemed simple. "Okay you little ones, help grandfather put the poles together..."

Eric gets the camera and takes pictures of them putting together the tent.

Lissa comes upstairs with Alex so he can play too. He played with the box, sitting in it.

Vladimir let the kids put the poles together for him, pretending to be all thumbs. "Here Sophia, you help me with this one. Good job Aki and Yuki. You guys do this one next....Now, lets see how to fit the poles into the tent...oh you see, you put the poles through these holes....Amanda and I will hold the material up and you three can push the pole through the holes slowly...." As the kids pushed, the tents started to take shape.

Yuki says "Look it pops up into the tent shape." Aki says "Need to push slower, it is stuck here....okay now push...."

Lissa laughs as Alex is cleaver and goes to hid in the box. "He's pretty smart. Peek-a-boo!"

Aki and Yuki stop "Okay" as Sophia fixed the wrinkle then start to push again...then they did the other poles. Soon the tent was finished. Vladimir tucks the ends in the corners. "Well it looks pretty good. Why don't you kids try it out." As they watch the kids piling into the tent, Vladimir says to Amanda "Your choice of presents was an excellent idea."

Lissa smiles as Alex seemed to be having fun. "I don't know Sonja, it seems he likes that box a lot!" she laughs. She opens the other end so it was like a tunnel and he could crawl out. "Did you like that Alex?" She lets him do it again since he seemed to have lots of fun.

Lissa was grateful to Sonja for wanting to buy Alex a tunnel set but she felt guilty for letting her pay for everything. She figured the box was fine. She grew up poor so they played with boxes and used their imagination, and she didn't want Alex to be spoiled. She says "Thanks we can tape some soft fabric on the edges...maybe use a old blanket. She laughs as Alex crawls back and forth giggling.

Aki and Yuki hug their grandparents. "Thank you we love it!" They then gather up blankets and pillows for their sleepover. .."This is gonna be great!," says Aki. Yuki gets their Nemo plushies and bears then hands them to Sophia to put on the blankets. "Here..."

Lissa sighs at Sonja. 'What could Aislina possibly need?"

Aki sees the flap for the window. "Wow cool!" Yuki looks in from the other side neat!" The twins didn't wear shoes in the house so they jumped inside to check it out.

Vladimir was very happy watching the children. He heard Sonja and Lissa talking about the box and looks at Alex. "So you like that box little one? I know a few things about boxes...." he laughs then transforms the box by putting a rich velvet fabric over the entire box inside and out. "There now it is soft." He thinks of his own son when he was a baby. Soon his son would take a mate like Sonja and have children. "Are you sure Sonja? I wouldn't want to impose..." he says to be polite but he really wanted to stay.

Eric says "I insist...you should stay." As he watched how happy her parents were.