"Mama mama mama" three year old Anthony shouted as he ran over to Nikki and the other three adults who were lounging outside on chairs. "Loo' mama" he grinned as he stopped by her deckchair and held up his hands that were clasped around something.

"Anthony if that is a spider you are in big trouble young man" Nikki told her son as she put ten month old Adam on the floor and let him toddle off towards his uncle Leo, holding his arms up for a hug which Leo complied with.

"Why?"

"Because mummy doesn't like spiders" Nikki replied, grimacing at the thought of what her son held in her hand.

"Not 'pider mama" Anthony shook his head "Loo'"

He held up his cupped hands to her and opened them slightly for her, allowing Nikki to peer inside at the butterfly caught in his hands.

"It butterfwy mama" Anthony grinned and brought his hands to his face to look at it closely, brining his hand right up to his eyes and looking at the insect in his hands. "Mama like butterfwy?"

"Yes mummy does" Nikki nodded and leant down to pick up her son, putting him on her legs and kissing his messy blonde hair lovingly. "They're pretty"

"Uh hu" her son nodded, once again looking at the butterfly that had settled down in his cupped hands. "Tony keep it?"

"No sweetheart" Nikki shook her head as she lounged back on the chair and observed her son closely as he pouted at her, his light brown, almost green, eyes pleading with her.

"Why?"

"Because it's a wild animal and wants to go back to its family" Nikki explained and glanced at Harry who was chuckling at her, before he turned back to his conversation with Janet.

"Oh" Anthony gasped and looked around the garden "Where famy?" he shrugged and looked back at Nikki before hopping off her legs "I go find butterfwy famy" he shouted in excitement as he ran off back along the garden to the part of the garden where he had found the butterfly.

"I think you two have a budding entomologist on your hands" Leo chuckled as Adam crawled off his lap and toddled over to Harry who pulled him onto the end of the deckchair and let his son sit there, his parents chuckling.

"I think we do" Nikki nodded, turning on her side so she could see the other adults better "He almost had a fit yesterday when I had to get rid of a spider in the bathroom"

"I'm sorry, who had to get rid of the spider in the bathroom?" Harry interrupted with a pointed look and Nikki sighed while the older couple chuckled at them.

"Harry had to get rid of the spider in the bathroom" Nikki amended with a smirk in her husband's direction "He had to follow Harry outside to make sure that the spider was alright and wouldn't get in the bath until he had"

"And then we have Sammy the budding marine biologist" Harry motioned to the pool where the rest of the children were, the seven year old having called over five minutes beforehand that he was going hunting for sharks to save them from nets.

"Thomas the pilot" Janet added and Nikki nodded.

"No idea where he got that from" she looked pointedly at her husband who raised an eyebrow at her and tried to look innocent.

"Tony found famy mama" Anthony grinned as he ran over to the adults again, showing his hands to Nikki as he did so. "Butterfwy gone" he pouted and Nikki chuckled and leant over to kiss him.

"Definitely a budding entomologist" she giggled and Anthony frowned at her.

"Wha' enymolgist mama?"

"It means you want to study insects when you're older" Nikki laughed and Anthony nodded eagerly before running over to his siblings and 'cousins'.

"Tony going be enymolgist" he shouted at them and the adults laughed loudly, Harry and Nikki smiling proudly at their boys before turning back to their conversation with the older couple in between them.


Any situations you want to see the Cunningham clan get into? When they're either younger or older, I don't mind really.

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