Two weeks later on the twenty fourth of November, the household woke to a blanket of snow covering everything outside. Harry noticed this when he climbed out of bed at half past six in the morning to tend to a screaming Darius who was in the cot at the end of the bed. Wandering over to the window Harry glanced out and smiled slightly when he saw the soft covering of snow in their large garden, knowing that this was the twins first proper snow that they could play in.

"Does he need feeding?" came a muffled voice from the bed as Harry manipulated the whimpering baby in his arms into a more comfortable position.

"No he's just lonely, aren't you son?" Harry replied and went to sit on the bed as Nikki turned to face her husband and youngest child. Sitting on the bed next to Nikki he held Darius in one arm then brought the other to Nikki's face to move some of her blonde hair to behind her ear. She kissed his hand slightly then lay back down again. "It's snowed" Harry told her and Nikki made a noise to show she had heard him "I'll take Edward and Graham out later"

"and build a snowman?" Nikki giggled as Harry nodded enthusiastically and grinned. Nikki sat up as he did this and reached out to take Darius from his fathers arms and held him close to her chest where she placed a kiss on his forehead. "Wrap them up warm, I don't want them getting ill"

"I know" Harry sighed and Nikki blushed slightly

"Sorry" she apologised "I know you know but…"

"You just worry" Harry finished and leant over to kiss her as she nodded.

"Mama" came a call through the baby monitor and Nikki turned to Harry.

"I'll get him" Harry said as he stood up and Nikki nodded and looked back down at her now sleeping son in her arms.

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"Come on then you two" Harry said to his two older sons as he crouched down in front of them and did their coats up and ruffled their hair. Nikki shook her head, a grin on her face as she stood on the other side of the kitchen, bottle feeding Darius. Harry then opened the door and Graham, being the more braver of the twins, made his way carefully over to the open door and looked out at the white blanket that covered the garden. He was wary of going out but followed as soon as Harry walked out, Edward following quickly behind him. Nikki walked over to the open door and stood watching her boys play in the snow, pulling Darius closer to her chest and wrapping the blanket he was in even tighter to him to keep the three week old baby warm. She giggled slightly when Edward fell onto his bottom in the snow and looked around with a confused look on his face. He reached out and placed his gloved hand on the snow and then brought his hand to his face and inspected the snow that was attached to the blue glove. Nikki smiled to herself and turned back into the house to take Darius into the warm and put him down for a nap. Ten minutes later when she came down from the bedroom she saw Harry and the twins standing in the kitchen.

"They were getting cold" Harry explained and Nikki nodded and crouched down in front of Edward and gently tugged his wet coat off, the scarf and gloves soon followed as Harry did the same to Graham.

"Let's give you two a nice warm bath then" Nikki told her sons and picked Edward up into her arms, she could feel him shivering slightly.

"Bath" he said and clapped his hands. Both boys loved to play in the water and knew exactly what the word meant when one of their parents said it.

"Yes we need to get you warm" Nikki cooed as Harry leant over and stole a quick kiss from her.

"Where's Darius?" he asked as they both walked up the stairs to the bathroom.

"Asleep in our room" Nikki replied as she pushed the bathroom door open.

Harry placed Graham on the bathroom floor and quickly shut the stair gate that was positioned at the top of the stairs to stop the twins from getting to them. Graham walked shakily after his father and grabbed onto the doorframe of the nursery before looking back at his mother who was checking the bath water and grinned proudly at her causing Nikki's heart to jump in her chest.

"Come on you" she said to Edward as Harry walked out of their bedroom from checking on Darius "Bath is ready"

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"I'm exhausted" Nikki groaned as she flopped down on the bed after putting Edward and Graham to bed, Darius was asleep at the foot of the bed in his cot. Harry grinned at her from the doorway of the room as he unbuttoned his shirt and threw it in the washing bin, walking further into the room. He then walked over to Nikki's side of the bed and leant down to kiss her.

"Go to sleep" he told her as she reached up and ran on of her hands through his hair "I'll get up in the night if any of them need anything"

"You need to sleep as well Harry" Nikki told him, keeping her hands tangled in his hair.

"It's fine Nikki" Harry laughed and gave her another kiss before straightening up and walking around the bed to his chest of drawers to pick out a t-shirt for bed. "You get your sleep, you deserve it"

"Harry…." whatever Nikki was going to say was covered up by a yawn and she lay down in bed and turned on her side to watch Harry as he pulled his t-shirt over his head. Harry climbed into bed next to his wife and lifted one arm to allow her to move closer to him. She slung one arm over his stomach and he lay his arm over her shoulder and pulled her into his body and gave her a kiss before she lay her head on his chest and closed her eyes.

Everywhere in the country seemed to get snow in the last week or two...apart from where I live where there wasn't even one flake! There was bright sunshine! I wanted to play in the snow. :(...I'm such a child. lol!

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