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Carina is sitting on the bed folding the three baskets of clothes that had come for the laundry but had yet to make it to their final destinations. They had kept up with washing and drying, but the final stages of folding and putting away always seemed to take much longer. Carina sat carefully sorting the folded clothes into unique piles based on the owner. A stack of small shirts and pants for Alex, Maya's Henley's and sweatpants, and Carina's piles, mostly consisting of pajamas and shirts.
Alex strolled in carrying his Spiderman action figure, stopping just as he got to the bed. "When is Mommy getting home?"
"Mommy should be home soon. She just texted a few minutes ago that she was leaving the station," Carina responded, watching Alex's face light up at the thought of Maya being home soon.
"Yay. I want her to play superhero with me," Alex cheered. "What are you doing, Mamma?"
"Folding all of our families clothes, so we all have clean clothes to wear again next week," Carina smiled as she tossed a pair of socks at Alex.
"But why?" Alex questioned.
"Why, what tesero?" Carina questioned.
"Why are you folding them if we are just going to wear them again?" Alex asked using his five-year-old logic.
"So we can put them all in our dressers and easily be able to find them," Carina smiled.
Alex then wandered over to the baskets and pulled out a pair of Maya's boxers. "These are Mommy's," he exclaimed as he held them up.
"Si," Carina smiled.
Alex then began to put them on, stepping one foot in at a time and pulling the large garment up around his waist as best as he could.
"Do I look like Mommy now?" Alex laughed as he walked around the room holding the boxers onto his body.
"So much, bambino. I almost can't tell you apart," Carina laughed as she continued to fold clothes.
Alex then reached in the basket again, finding one of Maya's Station 15 t-shirts. He quickly began to pull the shirt over his head, finding the armholes and pushing his hands through. The shirt swallowed his small frame, looking more like a dress than a shirt. He then began to tuck the shirt into the boxers and continued dancing around the room holding the oversized clothes onto his little body.
"What about now, Mamma?" Alex laughed as he twirled around the room.
Carina's face lit up at the sight of her son walking around in her fiancé's clothes, having such fun. "Si, tesero, so much like Mommy," Carina giggled, grabbing her phone to take some pictures.
"Wait, I know what I need," Alex said as he waddled into the closet holding the clothes onto his body still.
A moment later he emerged wearing one of Maya's Station 15 baseball caps, which was oversized for his head also.
"Now I could go to the firehouse and no one would know I wasn't Captain," Alex continued as he noticed Carina taking pictures with her phone. Alex started to strike some poses, hamming it up for Carina, who had decided to take a short video.
Just as Alex was dancing around, Maya walked into the bedroom, noticing Alex dancing around in her clothes.
"What do we have here?" Maya asked, smiling at Alex.
"Mommy, do I look just like you?" Alex beamed as he ran towards Maya, who scooped him up, holding him close, and continued twirling with him in her arms.
"You do, buddy. I don't know how Mamma could tell," Maya smiled as she looked at Carina, who was still snapping pictures of them.
"I wasn't sure it took me a two take," Carina laughed.