Swings and a birdie

Summary: On a Saturday, Sam takes his two kids to the park.

Sam Swarek loves taking his kids to the park on his days off. He and Andy try to do things with them whenever they find the time in their busy schedule, and he is a firm believer in activities that doesn't involve being coped inside the house.

So, the park.

Andy is at home. (hopefully asleep). She`s having the worst time of her life with pregnancy number two (already). It's still a little hard to believe is the thing.

Kid number three. At least for him in the most biological way. Three kids in three years, is what they are getting themselves into here.

Ava is two and a half and Mason is barely six months, which makes him think that maybe they shouldn`t be having a third kid just yet. (Vividly remembers the day he came home from shift and found his wife in tears on the toilet upstairs. Four pregnancy tests in hand. And Mason was only three months old. Andy couldn`t be happier. Turns out the tears was the happy kind. Just... uh his wife!)

He feels bad though. She hadn`t even started her birth control yet, and her body was still pulling together from a pretty dramatic childbirth that could have ended entirely different (thank god!)Yeah, Andy is having none of that. ' Mother nature', she explains whenever Sam brings it up. Mostly when he witness what pregnancy does to her. The nausea, the dizziness and the lack of appetite. (Pistachio ice cream and pealed apples is what Andy manages to eat and then keep down. He lets here eat whatever she wants', whenever she wants. She`s just... she is... becoming his hero, is the thing. And.. Yeah, whatever the wife wants, the wife gets. It`s the doe eyes he thinks is what does it for him.

Secretly, he wishes for another girl this time. A girl that is completely one hundred percent Andy. It, yeah, that would be great he thinks as he gently rocks Mason`s stroller.

Ava is safely placed in one of those kiddy swings, the once where you actually have to lift them up and place them in. Yeah, it makes him think she is a bit safer in one of those.

"Daddy, look at me! I`m high! Like the birdies Daddy!", Ava squeals. He chuckles. His Ava. She is... a lot like himself he thinks. Not all that much resembling from her mother. But he finds himself thanking god for that more often than not. He doesn`t mean to have those thoughts, but... Yeah, in a perfect world, Andy would be her mother and not Marlo.

They manage pretty good though. The whole co-parenting thing. It`s not the kind of family they wanted, but it`s the one they built, and it is pretty great. He peaks down on his son, and notices that he`s sleeping. He joins his girl on the swings. Just a few meters away from the stroller, and he`s got his eyes on it the whole time.

"Is it a big bird princess?", he ask, pushing the swing a little bit higher.

"It was a big birdie daddy! Can I go high too?"

He chuckles. "Ah, no Ava, birds fly very high, that wouldn`t be very smart. I wouldn`t want you to get hurt".

"No hurt Daddy, I want to fly".

"Tell you what. I`ll fly you down from the swings. It`s almost lunch time princess".

Ava giggles and raises her tiny hands up in the air. "Fly Daddy!"

She flies down from the swing, and lands safe and sound next the stroller.

"Come on Ava, let`s go home".

"I want mama".

His heart goes soft. Mama. Ava started calling Andy mama when she started to understand that she`s got a different family than most. Andy was mama and Marlo was mommy. It works is the thing.

"Me too", he says, and can`t wait to put her arms around her.

The ride home goes without a hitch. Ava wants' to tell mama about the swing and the birdie. She got to fly too.

With both his kids in his arms, he lets them inside carefully. If Andy is a sleep, he is not going to wake her up.

Turns out, he`s got nothing to worry about. His wife is perched on a bar stool behind the kitchen island making lunch.

"Mama, we are home!", Ava calls when she spots her stepmother in the kitchen.

"Hi! How was the park? Did tou have a good time princess?", she asked scooping her up, which earned her a well known look from Sam, telling her not to push it. Like she shouldn`t be lifting heavy or straining her body to that point. She glares back with the same 'tone'. Yeah, Andy`s having none of it.

"I sat on the swing and I was as high as the big birdie mama!". With the amount of enthusiasm Ava showed, she got that the trip to the park was successful.

Sam felt like a good daddy.