Alexander- Seven months Old
Poppy and Henri - Nine months old
Salvador - Seven months old
Nikolai - Eight Months old
Helena - Six months old
Sunneva- Seven months old
Oh! I should also mention that this isn't going to be the last story of these little families I post here! I have a third, and final, story of these small families I'm going to be posting here as well with updated children profiles and what not! This third story will be the last one in this little series thing I got going on!
"Ber! Are you home from work?" Finland asked when Sweden walked in then smiled softly as he hung his coat up, cracked his neck lightly a few times and adjusted his glasses when he walked into the living room where his wife sat. He beamed up at Sweden, sitting on the floor legs open and Aili holding his fingers standing up happily and bouncing a few times, bending her knees with joy. Finland smiled brightly. "Welcome home!"
"Thank you." Sweden replied softly walking over, taking his shoes off and leaving them by the living room doorway and he then walked across sitting next to Finland, Aili's mismatched eyes locking onto him and she squealed reaching for him and he smiled. He remembered how tiny she was when she was born, just a pure year ago, the doctors worrying that because Finland gave birth in his seventh month there would be problems, lagging, but here she was moving steadily along with any other child her age. "How is she?"
"Perfect~ The doctor said she'll be walking soon!" Finland chirped as Aili squeezed his fingers excitedly as if understanding her mother perfectly. "He said to hold her up on her feet and walk with her as much as possible and before we know it she'll be walking! I heard Prussia's son, Fritz, is close to walking as well!"
"I know, I went by and saw Austria before coming home. He wants to set up a play date for Aili and Fritz, interact with babies their ages." Sweden replied as he felt Finland smile when he then kissed Finland's temple softly. "Hungary also had her baby."
Finland gasped excitedly, violet eyes sparkling like stars. It'd been the biggest thing floating around the Nations lately, who's the father Prussia or Macau, everyone curious and Finland being friends with Austria, was eager to know. "Who's the father?" Finland asked with a narrowing of his eyes then but curiously making Sweden's lips lightly twitch.
"Prussia. I saw a picture of the child, she has his silver hair and her mother's eyes. Silver hair and green eyes, she'll hopefully be like her mother." He replied when Finland cheered lifting his fingers with Aili's hands and she giggled wildly like this was a fun game. "I also saw Austria's newest addition as well."
"Who does he look like?" Finland asked smiling now as he tilted his head and Aili squeezed his fingers tightly, excitedly again, her green-blue eye bright and her violet eye sparkling like her mothers both with the excitement of a baby.
"He has his Austria's violet eyes and Prussia's silver hair. Two babies with silver hair but they look strangely like a pair you know? Green and violet eyed babies that look the same but different." Sweden replied when he then paused as Aili cooed at him bouncing herself again, knees bending crazily but cutely. "Remember how you asked for a baby? Back when she was maybe three or six months?"
"Mhmm?" Finland lightly hummed helping his daughter lightly bounce on her feet and lifted her up just a bit making her squeal. Sweden smiled softly, feeling exactly like the onlooker that he was, and cleared his throat lightly.
"Well I've thought about it a lot since she turned a year old," Sweden began clearing his throat again as he watched and Finland finally looked up curiously and Sweden found it both a little easier and harder to force the words out. "What would you think about another baby?"
And Finland's jaw dropped as his eyes brightened in shock.
"Uncle Fin!" Sven shouted when Finland stepped in, Aili a cute bundle of heavy fabric as the snow lightly fell outside and he was setting her down to stand with no wobble whatsoever, was in the process off taking his coat off and smiled at his nephew.
"Look at you!" Finland chirped as he helped Aili get her own heavy coat, hat and gloves off and she giggled through it all as he did so. He then picked her up, balancing the one year old on his hip and stared at the eleven year old and smiled. He reached out mussing up Sven's light blonde hair lightly and he smiled softly, the smile an echo of his mother's.
"Finland." Norway greeted with a tiny twitch of his lips when he walked forward with Nikolai on his hip, the eight month old gurgling lightly as he played with a necklace on his mother's neck, a little stone of his birth month Denmark must have given him.
"Norway! Look at Nikolai! He's so big now!" Finland cooed at the baby who actually cooed back bouncing lightly as Aili whined curling her little arms around Finland's neck and hug him tight, her tiny fists holding his shirt in her hands tightly. "Sorry, she's only one but she's as possessive as her father I swear it."
"It's fine," Norway smiled softly at his niece, her hair lightly curling at her neck, hair the blonde color matching her mother's. "It's hard to believe she's one years old, you know?"
"I know!" Finland babbled out before he could stop himself as he then bounced the one year old who whined in protest and he smiled softer. She was clearly in the personality swing of Sweden as they referred to it. She had his personality which would swing to Sweden's and they just called it a personality swing. "I actually need to talk to you, Nor."
"So it wasn't a leisurely visit after all," Norway smiled lightly then in amusement as Nikolai's blue eyes shined as he played with the chain lightly. He then turned on his heel lightly to the living room. "Sven, take Abe upstairs and play while I talk with your Uncle for a few moments. He needs to have an adult talk."
"Fine." Sven sighed out then walked to the living room ushering Abel upstairs as he whined and Finland smiled softly at the sight of his nephews as Aili rested in his arms like familiar smelling blonde doll in his arms. He sat down with her face still tucked into his neck and he watched Norway place the eight month old on the floor where he sat and played with some toys gurgling.
"So, what's going on?" Norway asked crossing his legs, intertwining his fingers on his knee and stared at Finland with interest in his dull blue eyes. "It's not ever day you just travel from Sweden to Denmark with a one year old out of the blue."
"We-Well, um, you see," Finland bit his lip lightly, chewing on it softly before sighing out."Berwald asked what I would think if we had another baby."
"Oh? I thought you wanted to have lots of babies." Norway remarked blinking like someone just sent a jolt through his system and he was now awake and alert. "Isn't that what you always wanted? Ever since you got married to him?"
"I know!" Finland snapped which was uncharacteristic of him then he took a breath and let it out shutting his eyes. "I know, I said I wanted a lot of babies. But when we found out how...how hard it was just to have Aili I definitely wanted to get on the horse and have more while I had a good chance."
"But?" Norway finally filled in when Finland went silent and he shifted back to lean against the back of the couch, drumming his fingers on his knee as he looked at Finland. "I'm sensing a but."
Finland snickered at the use of his words and Norway smiled in response, accepting almost. He sighed though, when Norway got serious again, and he spoke again. "But I'm not sure anymore. I love having a one year old, I love my daughter, so much. I want all my attention on her and with her growing so much...I just don't think I could handle another baby so close together. But at the same time I do want a baby."
"So you're seeing the pro's and con's of having another baby, basically, and it's hindering your answer to him." Norway replied nodding softly as Finland cringed lightly and felt Aili finally turn around in his arms, looking down at Nikolai curiously and he smiled softly when Aili crawled out of his lap into Norway's. He was easily becoming her favorite Uncle out of all the Nordics.
"Yeah." He breathed out then looked at his hands and frowned. "I don't want to hesitate, I want to give a yes or no. I was so ready too when she was around six months but now...now it's different. I feel all torn and pulled in different directions. He's my husband, I want to give him children."
"I know." Norway replied when Finland finished and the Finnish man looked up in surprise, violet eyes wide. "I...slightly felt like that when we first had Sven and Denmark, the idiot, was talking about another baby. I made him wait up until Sven was five years old before I made my decision. Like the other month, we decided no more kids for a long while. Three is enough and they're all boys as well! They'll take up time and patience so four kids is not in the plan now. But it's okay, Finland."
"Huh?" He blinked when Norway reached out and covered his hand lightly, hesitantly, almost as he smiled softly.
"It's okay. If you don't want a baby right now. Focus on Aili as much as you want no one is going to kill you if you don't have another kid right now, it's alright to take time to have kids! Hell, it could be ten or twenty years before you want another kid!" Norway then gave a light, barely there, squeeze as he smiled softly at Finland. "It's perfectly fine."
Finland stared at the soft, kind smile and barely there squeeze with wide eyes. He never thought he'd see such a smile on the normally blank faced Norway but having kids must have done something to make him softer. More approachable. After all, Finland was here! Talking to him! He then turned his hand palm up and squeezed Norway's hand and smiled gently. "Thank you, Nor. I appreciate hearing that from someone that isn't myself!"
"You're welcome." He replied standing up with Aili on his hip, shifted their instinctively, when he bent down to keep Nikolai from shoving a dirty looking pacifier in his mouth and smiled twirling it around his finger. "Not today, Niki. Now, would you like some coffee, Fin?"
Finland blinked then jumped up with a smile and nodded. "Yes! Thank you!"
