"Come on Nathanial, say daddy" Harry cooed to the eleven month old that he had sitting on his lap facing him in bed. The child just giggled and babbled to Harry in baby speak, clapping his hands as Harry sighed loudly. Nikki giggled from where she was sitting next to him, turning on her side and glancing at the time. Their five month old twins would be waking up for breakfast very soon. "Are you going to say 'daddy'?"
"I don't think he is" Nikki laughed as she sat up a bit more and snuggled closer to her two boys, kissing Harry on the cheek and tickling Nathanial's tummy, making the baby laugh loudly and squirm on Harry's lap. "He's going to say 'mummy', aren't you Nathanial?" she asked the baby who grinned up at them and made her heart melt in her chest like it always did when any of her children smiled at her. Harry had been trying to get their eldest to say 'daddy' for quite a long time now but to no avail.
"Sammy has his daddy's appetite" Nikki chuckled an hour later as they sat in the kitchen having breakfast, the youngest twin suckling from greedily from his mother. Harry looked up from where he was placing a bowl of porridge on the table just out of Nathanial's reach and smiled at the two of them.
"I'm getting jealous" Harry commented with a cheeky grin as Nikki rolled her eyes. He then sat down next to Nathanial and then sighed, shaking his head. "Silly daddy forgot a spoon" he sighed, standing up.
"Spoon"
Both Harry and Nikki quickly looked at the child who was grinning and clapping his hands, his eyes wide with excitement as he tried to reach for his breakfast.
"Did he just.." Harry asked Nikki as Samuel stopped suckling and Nikki brought him to her shoulder to burp gently. She nodded quickly, biting back tears as she did so, hearing her little boy's first word was exciting and terrible at the same time and it had shocked her slightly. Harry quickly grabbed the baby spoon and sat back down again, smiling at Nathanial as the child grinned happily at his father.
"Spoon" Nathanial laughed again as he motioned to the object in Harry's hand. Harry just stared at his little boy with a shocked look on his face as the reality of what was going on set in. "Spoon"
Harry laughed and leant forward to kiss Nathanial on the forehead, ruffling his blonde hair gently.
"You are a clever boy" he grinned, ecstatic that his little boy had said his first word. He scooped some of the breakfast onto the spoon and shook his head. "But really? Spoon?"
"Spoon" Nathanial grinned, motioning for Harry to feed him, and Nikki smiled along with him as she placed Samuel in the baby carrier next to her. She then stood up and walked around the table to her oldest, scooping him into her arms and cuddling him to her chest as Nathanial chewed slightly on the porridge.
"There's my clever grown up boy" she chuckled tearfully as Nathanial kept repeating his first word, loving the attention that he was getting from his parents. Nikki stroked his hair gently as Harry stood up and kissed the boy's cheek. "Saying your first word already, eh?"
"Honestly Nikki" Harry chuckled as he walked into the bathroom where Nikki was bathing Samuel after breakfast. Nathanial and Theo having a nap in their rooms. "Spoon?"
Nikki giggled loudly and shook her head as she tickled Samuel's stomach, making the baby squeal and kick his legs, water splashing over the side of the baby bath.
"What a first word" Harry laughed as he knelt down next to the bath and gently took Samuel from Nikki's hands, supporting him in the water as she stood up and wiped her eyes slightly. "You okay sweetheart?"
"Yeah" Nikki nodded as she sat on the side of the bath and watched as Harry played with their little boy. "It's just, they're growing up really fast. Nathanial's already said his first word and..." she bit her lip and shook her head.
"Hey" Harry whispered, taking her hand in his and pulling her down gently onto his leg, wrapping his arm around her waist and kissing her on the lips. "They're still going to need us for a lot more years, I promise"
"I know. I'm just being a mummy, fretting over her babies growing up too fast" Nikki nodded again, wiping her face and chuckling tearfully "I love you"
"I love you" Harry replied, kissing her again. "You know Leo isn't going let me live Nathanial's first word down. I kept telling him that he was going to say 'daddy' or a version of it, any day now"
Nikki just giggled loudly, turning slightly when they heard Theo start to cry from the bedroom next door.
"You okay here?"
"Yeah" Harry nodded, tickling Samuel's tummy again "We're fine aren't we Sammy"
Nikki smiled at them both and kissed Harry on the cheek as she stood up from his lap, ruffling his hair as she walked out of the room to sort Theo out. A loud giggle escaped her mouth as she thought of the teasing Harry was going to get from Leo when he found out that Nathanial's first word was 'spoon'.
No idea where this came from. Posting this in celebration of finishing my last rs exam :D. Might be more later if my internet connection doesn't pack up again.
Actually, if you could help me that would be nice. I have ideas for new one-shots but I was wondering if you would like to give me word prompts with your reviews, just to keep me going if I get stuck. Any words will do and I'll try and make a oneshot with it.
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