"Well this one and me don't get along," she offered as she sat down. "Patrick is his people and I monopolize a lot of time. He sheds on my things in revenge. I feed Ella candy and let her play with him, it works out.
"She's pretty good. I know I speak a lot of Greek around her, and Jacob does the German side. It's not bad to grow up multilingual I feel." She watched as Ella strayed to Jayden. Her daughter could pick out the shy ones, and so Ella offered one of her stuffed toys as a token. She smiled at Jayden. "She's trying to make you feel better. Ella, love, come to mama he's settling in."