A/N: This was written for nezoid's birthday, a friend I met on tumblr! She's been great since as far as I can remember, really. It wouldn't make sense for me to do anything BUT write her a fic today! Plus, I haven't written a ton about the kids lately. So, yeah, have some silly family shopping fluff.
Have a great day, Dio :D
"Andy!" April yelled for what felt like should have been the last time today. "You can't... ugh, you're gonna hit her head on something."
"What? I never hit anyone's head on a door!" Andy claimed, holding Lucy's tiny fists in his hands, the little girl straddled on his shoulders. "Huh, baby? Daddy never let you run into anything!"
"Well, okay. Whatever," April scoffed again, rolling her eyes.
"Oh, I get it," Andy said, walking past Jack and Robbie corralling Sam around while Victoria smacked her feet around inside of the shopping cart. He walked closer to her and leant down just a bit. "You think I'm too tall to do it!"
"Well, just because they've got, like, a hundred dumb signs and they're all on wires and if she hits her head she'll cry and babe I don't need that right now-"
"Well, if I'm too tall-" he lifted Lucy up gingerly, letting her gasp in surprise and then giggle with curiosity like only a toddler could. "Then you, babe-" he said, perching Lucy on April's shoulders. Hands went into her hair and then around her neck in a little, balancing embrace. "Are perfectly tiny!"
"Shut up," April muttered, turning around, her hands now around the child's fists palming her shirt."C'mon guys," she called out. "This store is lame."
"Lame!" Jack and Robbie repeated, loudly.
"But what's lamer?" Andy asked seriously, catching up to the horde of demons he called his family.
"Uncle Nerd?" Robbie guessed, referring to Ben who, the first time Roberta said a word to him, was instantly declared a nerd. From then on out, that was his nickname.
"I love you so much," April said almost absentmindedly, looking down the aisles and wondering just how in the hell they were going to fit everything into that stupid car of theirs.
All in all, minus the spill in the cereals aisle that was caused mostly by Jack and a little by Andy; and the way that Robbie bounded off at one point to steal a single gummy bear from the candy section; and at the register when Lucy wouldn't let April put her down despite a sore neck and needing to get groceries onto a conveyer... well, it was just another day for the Ludgate-Dwyers.
