Chapter 49
The following week Mary-Claire and Harry had attended their sons funeral it was a small send off as he wasn't known by many people both of Mary-Claire's parent's came with Aoife, Clara was unable to make it due to her work commitments, she also had the company of her cousin Orla. Harry's Mum also came with his sister Annabella.
It was a hard day for both Mary-Claire and Harry, but they managed to get through it even though they both broke down at some point of the day. Mary-Claire found it really hard saying goodbye to Oscar as she had grown attached to him from when he was in her womb.
The past few days Mary-Claire had noticed Scarlett was now hitting some mile stones in her development as was now teething but was still to cut her first tooth, and she was trying her best to walk but every time she went to put her first foot forward she would tumble over, Mary-Claire had also noticed how Scarlett reacted to her name and to people singing around her.
Mary-Claire made her way down the stairs she has just done all of Scarlett clothes in the wash she had ironed them and put them away and now she decided she would spend some time with Scarlett who is with Harry in the lounge. Mary-Claire couldn't help but laugh when she got into the lounge Harry was lying on the floor with Scarlett sitting on his chest and she kept smacking his forehead.
"Having fun there?" Mary-Claire laughs as Harry looks over at her, "A little help?" Harry questions as he tries to lift Scarlett up off his chest but she was holding onto his top so he couldn't lift her as she has such a tight grip. Mary-Claire laughs and picks up Scarlett who starts to scream as she was unhappy that she was being removed from Harry's chest "D-D-D-D" Scarlett says as Mary-Claire sits her on her lap and brushes Scarlett's hair out her face.
"See Harry she's trying to say she loves you, isn't that right Scarlett?" Mary-Claire says to Harry and kisses Scarlett on her head, "Come on then Scarlett say Dada?" Harry says as he kneels down in front of Mary-Claire's knees where Scarlett was sitting on her lap. Both Mary-Claire and Harry try to get Scarlett to say Dada but all Scarlett could say is "D-D-D" they both agreed not to push her as they could see Scarlett was getting frustrated.
Mary-Claire stood Scarlett up on her feet and decided she would try and get her to walk by herself, Harry sat himself down and watches as Mary-Claire tries to get Scarlett to walk. It doesn't take long before Scarlett gets her sense of balance but she doesn't want to lose Mary-Claire's hands when walking, "Why don't you try standing her up over there and you come over here and call her?" Harry suggests as he messes with his phone bringing the video recorder up onto his screen. "You're not going to record me are you?" Mary-Claire says to Harry "No I'm trying to get Scarlett walking so I can show my Mum" Harry replies as Mary-Claire walks away from Scarlett and kneels down beside Harry and calls Scarlett over.
Scarlett looks at Scarlett a little confused first but Harry pulls a face at Scarlett and she begins to giggle "Come on then Scarlett, Go to Mummy" Harry says to Scarlett Mary-Claire gives Scarlett a little cheery smile "Mama!" Scarlett says with her arms over, Mary-Claire watches with anticipation as Scarlett looks down at the floor and she looks back up at Mary-Claire.
Scarlett takes a step forward but doesn't fall, Mary-Claire's face fills with excitement as Scarlett finds taking a step forward hilarious and Mary-Claire coaxes Scarlett to take another step forward which she does. "Come on darling that's it Scarlett nearly there" Mary-Claire says as Scarlett takes small steps towards Mary-Claire.
Harry continues to record Scarlett taking her first baby steps towards Mary-Claire, Scarlett finally reaches Mary-Claire and falls into her arms "Well done baby girl" Mary-Claire says as she pulls Scarlett into her arms and cuddles her. Harry stops recording on his phone and kneels down next to Scarlett "Wow, well done Scarlett" Harry says placing a kiss on Scarlett's head. Scarlett wriggles free of the cuddle and stands up and slowly walks away taking baby steps towards her toys.
They both sit themselves down on the sofa, they both sit and watch Scarlett playing happily with her toys, "I can't believe our baby girl has just taken her first steps" Harry says as he puts his arm around Mary-Claire's waist. "I know it doesn't feel like ten minutes since I held her for the first time, and I just looked at her in disbelief" Mary-Claire replies watching Scarlett play with a few baby building blocks.
Harry began to mess with his phone and Mary-Claire turns to look to see what he is doing "Oh Harry you're not uploading that video are you?" Mary-Claire says in embarrassment as she looks at herself on the video "Harry please no make-up" Mary-Claire moans "Oh come on MC you look beautiful all you little freckles standing on" Harry says looking at Mary-Claire "I'm uploading it anyway you can only hear your voice and well... your accent is the cutest" Harry says admitting how much he loves her accent "But at the end you can see you but it's so cute how Scarlett clings to you" Harry adds "If you must" Mary-Claire says as she tries to hide how blushed she has gone.
"Do you fancy going out somewhere for the day tomorrow?" Harry questions looking at the weather forecast on his phone "Well it is our first wedding anniversary tomorrow" Harry adds looking at the date "Gosh has it really 30th September tomorrow?" Mary-Claire questions "Yep, then it's your birthday four days after?" Harry replies "Oh god I'm getting old" Mary-Claire moans putting her hands on her face "MC you're only going to be 28 I'm 30 in December how do you think I feel" Harry answers feeling sorry for himself.
"At least we didn't start a family too early or too late" Mary-Claire says to Harry who nods with agreement. "I agree, seriously don't think we would have started a family if you had gone to Belfast for new year last year" Harry says to Mary-Claire as Scarlett crawls over to Harry and chucks her lamb at Harry who accidently picks it up by the wet ear, he panics and chucks it at Mary-Claire who squeals before handing the lamb back to Scarlett who's face if fully of delight as she finds it funny when Mary-Claire (her Mummy) and Harry (her Daddy) muck around like they are.
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