Cecilia - Seven months old
Wilhelm - Six months old
Aaliyah - Six months old
Réka - Nine months

"Look at her, toddling around~" Ladonia happily cooed at his daughter who giggled running around the living room with her plush seagull, much like her father's, and smiled at Ladonia happily. Sealand smiled as he looked at the one year old running around.

The parents of said children had met, talked about why the children didn't age up to twelve months and only grew to nine months old jumping straight to the body of a one year old was beyond their guesses but it was a bit...nerve wracking. The children, were of course, micro nations but to what or where they had no clue but they seemed to either grow incredibly slow or grow fast like many nations did and it was indeed nerve wracking as well. But staring at Helena's bright, happy face, he could see a single thing wrong with his daughter in the slightest bit.

"Can you believe she's so big already?" Sealand asked when Ladonia smiled looking up at him, the chain around his neck a neon sign with his ring glinting the light of the room at Sealand like a wink. Ladonia looked at the small child flapping her seagull happily and squeal when she hugged it to her cheek, marveling at the texture on her delicate skin and squealed once more.

"I know! It feels like just yesterday she was sitting up, learning to talk and stuff." Ladonia replied as he actually lightly cocked a hip, rotating to lean against his right leg and crossed his arms over his chest giving him a slightly sassy stance. "Of course, that might as well have been yesterday rather than two or three months ago."

"The kids are growin' up fast!" Sealand shrugged when he watched Helena, briefly, get entranced by the cartoons on the TV before going back to running from the couch to the love seat happily. Her little seagull flapped with her and she laughed like it was a real bird following her and not just her arms waving when she ran which made the stuffed animal move. "I talked to Seborga the other day. And Wy."

"Oh?" Ladonia cast a curious look at Sealand who nodded and looked at Ladonia and smiled. He then reached out lightly tapping his promise ring and Ladonia blushed, like he'd been reminded of something.

"Yup. Did you know she matured, like we did? She got a lot more attention and I guess more people have been influencing her popularity so she's just as mature as us." He replied nodding like his words offered all advice and he then grinned. "Seborga is actually dating her."

"No!" Ladonia replied when he snickered as Sealand playfully, lightly, shoved his arm and he grinned with a wicked glint in his blue eyes. "There's no way Wy would ever end up with Seborga. He's like Italy! No offense, Italy is a nice dude and amazing mom figure as far as I've seen, but the guy does have either sex or pasta on the brain. But while he's had a major growth in maturity with having kids and become, like, a functioning adult, Seborga has yet to have that."

"It might be happening soon." Sealand replied when he realized he was getting off topic and decided to come back to that when he noticed Ladonia looking at him with interest. "But back to the topic of the kids. Helena and Sunneva and all the other babies that aged like her, I talked to Seborga about. He said they're just fast growers now, out of the baby years, but they'll start aging slower like regular national kids or turn into a child over night."

"So..she's going to slow down? Or speed up?" Ladonia asked with wide eyes that locked onto the happily running baby, singing without any words, just sounds she picked up and it made it all the more cuter. "I don't want to go to sleep and find she's sprouted into a child with intelligent words and whatnot."

"Don't worry, I don't think that'll happen with her. It's just a feeling that, as her father, I just know of." Sealand replied then grinned at Ladonia kissing his temple. "Oh, by the way about Seborga and Wy?"

"Yeah?" Ladonia's eyes suddenly, strangely, lit up in curiosity. Although Ladonia always claimed that he could careless about the four of them or the members of their little Micro nation pact but he knew Ladonia was secretly interested in whatever it was that was going on with the other two.

"Wy is pregnant." He finally said when he walked into the room, Helena looking up then instantly shrieking with joy lighting up like she hadn't seen Sealand for years rather than moments before. He sat on the couch cross legged, then picked her up and plopped her in the little space of his lap and she kicked her legs with joy.

"No! Nu-uh, not Wy!" Ladonia plopped next to him, eyes wide, as Helena babbled softly bouncing her Seagull. Her parents both had the strongest feeling she'd be talking any moment now, and when brought up to her doctor, he said it was fine that she'd be talking any moment now and part of Ladonia kept tabs on her baby babble. "Wy would never end up with Seborga! Or pregnant with him!"

"Ohh but it's happened!" Sealand laughed when he got bopped in the face with the seagull and kissed his daughter's silky locks of golden-red that had grown out to her jaw and was thick but wispy at the same time. It made Sealand think of a flame at times. "She sent me this."

Ladonia watched as Sealand pulled his cell phone out, unlocked the screen which was a picture of Helena and it warmed his heart briefly, when he pulled up the text and held it out. Ladonia looked at the image on the screen. "Oh. My. God." Ladonia let out a breathless, incredulous laugh as he stared at the screen.

There stood Wy, the only girl of their group, hands on the rails of some beach that kept people from jumping off the stone walkway she was on. She had aged, from the small petite girl to a rather, still short, curved teenage looking girl her side pony tail still there but the curls seemed to become glossy brown curls that were more defined it seemed and she was actually grinning at the camera winking, her visible brown eye glowing happily. Next her was Seborga, grinning as well while holding up a peace sign with his fingers, his green eyes glowing just Wy's his brown hair ruffled in the wind that seemed to be more obvious than Wy's and his grin stretched from ear to ear. And there, straining against Wy's black tank top and white shorts, was a six month pregnancy belly.

"They look happy." Sealand noted when he smiled down at Helena's babbling and stroked her thick, wispy locks and she leaned into his hand softly giggling. "I'm happy for them, after all none of us expected to grow up so suddenly. It's like stuff is changing and we're changing with them. I don't know why I grew up, as I'm just some military fort in the middle of the ocean practically. You and Wy make sense for growing up so suddenly."

"I'm sure you've gotten some notice, Peter. Just accept it happily." Ladonia sniffed then smiled and actually pressed a soft kiss on Sealand's cheek which inspired an equally soft blush. "But yes, they do look happy together. I never thought Seborga would give up being the womanizer he was and that Wy ever viewed him like that or had feelings to be with him. Let alone have his baby!"

"I know! But so long as she's happy who are we to judge? After all, they'd been dating the past year or so, so it's not like this baby was unplanned. They used protection every time, she told me, which makes her think the condom broke one of those times. She's having a boy."Sealand explained when he blushed when he grinned sheepishly. "Some people would see Helena as an accident."

"True but she's a good accident!" Ladonia replied rather snappily at Sealand eyes narrowed lightly on him when Helena giggled waving her chubby arms and her blue eyes glittered at Ladonia happily. "Besides, she's so happy it's hard to believe someone like her won't grow up to do great things."

"I can see it~" Sealand kissed his daughter's silky cheek and she giggled grabbing his face when her blue eyes met his, narrowing softly. She opened and closed her mouth, bouncing lightly standing up on his thighs and whined. He blinked curiously at her when he felt her diaper for wetness but it was dry and he then felt her forehead. "Hm? What's wrong? I know you're not sick so what you whining for?" Ladonia listened to the baby whine and bounce before plopping into a sit but still gripped her father's face tight with her chubby hands, squinting with her mouth opening and closing a few times. She focused for what looked like a few minutes then smiled brightly and slapped her hands against Sealand's cheeks joyfully.

"Daddy!" She chirped finally like the word just exploded out and she squeezed Sealand's cheeks and pulled giggling happily. "Daddy!" Both her parents were actually, genuinely, shocked. She dragged her eyes to her mother and bounced with tiny excited baby breathes leaving her and her face glowed when she reached out just barely touching Ladonia giggling. "Mama!"

It took Ladonia's mind to catch up from his shock but by then Sealand was already doing what he had thought of doing instinctively. Sealand jumped, his face growing into a beaming smile that made his eyes glow and it was like watching it in slow motion when he raised the one year old over his head when he beamed at the giggling girl and shouted the three words that only best fit this situation. "That's my girl!"

Helena fell asleep soon after all the excitement had faded, her own excitement tiring out her tiny body so a nap came easily and fast to her. Sealand had spent a majority calling their parents then all their friends and England along with America to tell them Helena had finally said her first words and it made Ladonia laugh hearing how excited Sealand was. Almost like a little kid calling and looking around for Santa to come.

"Your Daddy truly is crazy." Ladonia murmured to the one year old slumped on his chest, her chubby cheek pressing against his chest as her dark golden-red lashes rested on her sleep flushed cheeks. Her tiny hands curled a few times, clinging to his shirt tightly like he was going to disappear and she nuzzled into his chest sighing happily. "And you are one sleepy baby, huh?"

He smiled very lightly squeezing her making her release a tiny squeak but smiled gently and he walked to the living room sitting on the couch curling up nearly the arm of the couch and Helena remained asleep against his chest. He stroked her soft, thick hair gently and smiled when Sealand came walking in looking so excited. "Everyone wants to hear her talk! It's so cute! America and England are excited to see her!"

"I bet so. After all, Helena adores America and America utterly loves her as well." Ladonia smiled softly when a yawn burst out of him out of nowhere, stroking his daughter's hair lightly a few times, wondering where the yawn came from as he was far from tired. He then grinned. "Look like I'm so bored I'm tired."

Sealand briefly forgot the babble he'd been spitting out a mile per minute it seemed and blinked, looking just as wide eyed and innocent as Helena for a moment, before he smirked in way that sent shudders down Ladonia's spine before he could help himself. "Well, we'll have to fix that before we get the torrent of calls and family wanting to see her, aren't we?"

Ladonia seemed to jump up carefully, Helena the heavy sleeper just like her father it seemed. "I'll go put her down and-"

"I got it. Let me put her down and you go make sure things are ready~" Sealand held his hands out and took the sleeping baby, her small body fitting perfectly against his chest and she cuddled into him letting out a breath. He turned walking to the stairs, climbing up them while Ladonia seemed to flit around, made sure things were in order down there and Sealand smiled. He walked down to the end of the hall, at least five rooms away from his and Ladonia's, he entered Helena's room walking over to the middle of the room smiling to himself still when he turned her mobile on and her little night light on. They'd recently switched her bassinet for a crib, one of the safest ones they could find, and he leaned halfway down and stretched his arms down and rested the one year old down and on her back, her little hands curled up lightly looking like the perfect little doll.

He stroked her thick locks of golden red hair, still marveling at how the color hadn't lost the intense brightness as when she was born and he smiled happily. He wanted her hair to remain that color, had since the day she was born, and was glad it held for her to mature into a one year old. Her hair was like the perfect balance between his blonde hair and Ladonia's red hair. He looked up when he heard the doors hinges lightly squeak and he looked up at Ladonia, smiled, and he caught the seagull that was lightly thrown at him and he placed down next to the cribs leg and then walked out of the room shutting the door behind him.

"You do know you're using that, right?" Ladonia informed him when his hand was taken and held tight, knuckles being lifted and lips brushing over them making his face burst into flames at the action. He looked at Sealand who grinned and began lightly carting the red head down the hall to their bedroom. "Peter?"

"Trust me, Erland, I'm more than prepared. Since she began walking I figured it'd be a long while before we could indulge in one another but she's asleep now and we have time to do it~" Sealand replied when he gave Ladonia's hand a soft squeeze upon approaching their bedroom, entering, and shutting the door behind the red head when he tilted his head slightly. "Hey, if I ever introduced you to Wy and Seborga in our current relationship what would you and I be?"

Ladonia looked at him curiously, sitting on the bed his legs tight together like they were bound by the ankles but he felt a flush rising in his face and pooling in his cheeks burning them. "What do you mean by that?"

"Like, do I say you're my boyfriend or lover?" Sealand asked holding both his hands on either side of him, palms facing up, like he was forcing Ladonia's to do a pro and con list right then there. Ladonia's face couldn't get any hotter, even if it tried too, he felt and he was fidgeting on the bed when Sealand dropped his hands by his thighs and Ladonia squeaked when Sealand all but jumped on the bed and was hovering just in front of the red head smiling. "It's alright."

Ladonia couldn't speak for a few moments when he looked at Sealand from under his lashes. His body was hot and he was twitching at the proximity of Sealand who was smiling, his lashes lowering like he was getting smug and Ladonia blushed. "Boyfriend." He mumbled finally only to make Sealand perk up happily and he felt a new blush rise and blend with the current one, his cheeks burning like it did. He opened his mouth to speak but very quickly found his lips busy and he found he was completely okay with that.