I do not own Hetalia okay? I'm glad to see that this story is getting a good traction but anyway,enough of this A/N, on with the fic!
December 25th 1915
(from the diary of Natalya Jones nee Arlovskaya)
Christmas day. It is my son's first Christmas. I will admit here in the pages of this journal I was scared he wouldn't make it to this day. Do not get me wrong, Nikolai is a very healthy child, and has strong lungs. And those come from Fredka, not me despite what big brother claims about when I was a child myself. I tried to get Katyusha to confirm or deny my suspicions that Vanya is just trying to make his friend seem better but she wouldn't say a word. He is very active though, little Nikolai. He is rolling around and crawling a little bit but not much just yet. From what I am able to gather this is normal for a child his age.
Fredka got him a ball he could chase around and said he was going to teach him how to play baseball when he was old enough. Oh brother, those two with something like that. The hardware store will see a lot of visits from Alfred F. Jones because of broken windows. I've seen Fredka play a little bit with a few of his coworkers and he is a "good swing" and has a "million dollar arm" as his friends put it and I asked Vanya exactly what they meant and he explained he is good at the game. But a child is not born good at this. And because Nikolai already seems to be strong, he is going to make the childish mistakes and possibly break a window. I already have a debate on who will teach him to shoot, Fredka or Vanya. You see back in Russia, he was a decent hunter and brought home a fair amount of meat in lean times. One of the best shooters in our village. But Fredka claims that is another duty of a son's father. Katyusha says both should try and let the child pick who he thinks is better to. Those two will spoil him, I swear.
But as it sits right at this very present moment, it seems that he is healthy and happy. I have gotten him over the croup and he is not showing any signs of the illnesses the neighbor's children had. We should be able to stay back at the house full time a little past Epiphany. That is when the neighbors will not be contagious anymore. I'm blessed that big brother lives close by and is willing to put up with us. Nikolai is a very loud child. Maybe this means he will have a good voice.
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