Milestones: A Potter Family Fan Fic
Eats Finger Food: Just when spoon-feeding begins to lose its luster, babies are ready to feed themselves. Between 9-12 months, babies develop better control over their hands and fingers, making it easier to grab small objects - like finger foods! Unfortunately, babies this age love to explore taste and texture, so food is not the only thing they'll try to pop into their mouths.
"James, here comes the Hogwarts express! Choo choo!" Ginny said as she plopped some apple sauce into James' mouth. James was very tired and Ginny wanted to feed him so he wouldn't be cranky later and she wouldn't have to wake up to feed him in the middle of the night. Harry had just left for a mission a couple days ago and James hadn't figured out that he was gone yet but Ginny knew he would soon and that would mean more crying because of missing Daddy.
James took the food in his mouth and his eyes started to close. "C'mon James, stay awake. Look!" Ginny made a funny face. James giggled and knocked over the apple sauce. "James, what did you do? Living up to your namesake aren't you?" Ginny teased. She went to the counter to grab a napkin when she saw James grab the apple sauce with his hand and slapped it close to his mouth region. Ginny laughed. "James, you're eating by yourself! You think you're such a big boy don't you!" she teased.
James continued to slap the food all around his face, eating about 50% of it. He got a lot on Ginny but she didn't mind. After he was done his face was very messy. There was applesauce in his hair, on his cheeks, pretty much everywhere on his face. "James, don't move I'm getting a camera. Daddy needs to see this!" She ran and got a Muggle camera and a Wizard camera. She held the wizard camera for a few seconds to get a quick video/picture of James laughing with the apple sauce on his face and then took a shot of him with the muggle camera. Ginny then turned the camera so it was facing her and James and took a picture with the wizard camera of her kissing James on the cheek, subsequently getting apple sauce on her lips.
She put down the cameras and took James out of the high chair. She brought him upstairs and cleaned his face. "Alright my baby, since you were so entertaining today and I just washed your face you don't have to take a bath since I know you hate them. Are you happy for being so cute?" she said as she tossed him in the air. Ginny then changed his diaper and put on his quidditch onesie pajamas with broomsticks, quaffles and snitches on them. She sat James down in his crib. "Oh, you're just so cute. I wish your daddy was here to see it." She smiled at him and patted his head.
Then James unexpectedly started to cry. Ginny realized that when she'd mentioned the word 'Daddy' James got sad because he realized that Daddy wasn't with them. She picked him up and started bouncing up and down while James kept wailing. Then she saw the phone on the wall. She picked it up and called Harry with her free hand. "Hello?" said Harry.
"Hey Harry, it's Ginny. And James. You can probably hear him. He misses you and I think if you talked to him he might stop crying."
"Oh ok." Harry said. Ginny sat down and put the phone near James.
"Buddy, don't cry. You don't want mummy to have to calm you. You're a big boy, you can do it on your own. And I miss you too, but right now I'm working, but I'm thinking about you all the time. I can't wait to come home and be with you and mummy. So when I get home, how about we all build another block tower like last time? Yeah, sound fun. It's a date, ok? I love you Jamie. Goodnight." And with that James stopped crying and had fallen asleep. Ginny put James in his crib and walked out of the room.
"Thanks babe. He fell asleep."
"Aww, I bored him enough to fall asleep. Only joking. So how are you doing?"
"I'm great. James was so cute today. The apple sauce spilled and he used his hands to get it all over his face."
"Oh, I'm sad I missed it."
"I'll send you the pictures. You're coming home soon, right?"
"If I'm lucky, a week. Max two for sure."
"Alright. Goodnight, I love you." And she hung up. She then magically developed the photos and put them in an envelope with a letter attached.
Dear Harry,
Here are some photos from tonight's apple sauce mishaps. We love and miss you! Hope you can be here for the next food fiasco!
xoxo, James and Ginn