6:05
"Mike...he's up again, its your turn."
Beside him, the man in question groaned quietly, but turned over and sat up, running a hand through his tousled hair. He stood quietly after taking a moment to wake up, stretching before heading down the hallway to the nursery. When he reached the crib, Levi's face was beet red from his crying, but with being picked up and cradled, he calmed a bit.
"Hey buddy...you okay? Hungry?" With Mike talking, the infant did stop crying, though he fussed and sniffled. He carefully held Levi against his shoulder as they set off for the kitchen. The cold tiles under his feet brought Mike out of his sleepy daze, and he walked a little faster to the fridge, where a bottle was already waiting to be warmed. Mike put in in the microwave for a few seconds, carefully bouncing Levi while they both waited, since he had started crying softly again.
"Its okay, its alright lil buddy, I promise. Shh.." He said quietly, kissing the child's head gently as the microwave beeped at him. Mike opened it to retrieve the bottle, testing its contents on the back of his opposite hand, which took him a few tries as he was holding Levi. When he was satisfied with the temperature, he made his way back to the nursery, chuckling quietly when he noticed Levi reaching for the bottle.
After getting him to take the bottle and while Levi was drinking, Mike looked around the room. It'd been three weeks since they'd brought Levi home, a tiring few weeks, but they were both still elated.
From this his thoughts wandered off as he continued admiring the colorful room. The walls were a soft yellow, like most other things in the room, but there were orange circles here and there. Erwin had stenciled those, after declaring just yellow was too boring. The furniture was wood, a dark color and still shiny.
He was brought out of his thoughts by Levi gently pushing on the bottle, having taken to playing with it now that it was empty. Mike smiled at him before setting the bottle down on the table beside the rocking chair, leaning down to kiss his head again.
"All done already huh? No wonder you get hiccups every time." Mike sighed, standing with him again to very gently burp Levi, and hoping to whatever god was up wherever he didn't spit up again. Once Levi was good to go, instead of taking him back to the crib, Mike carried him to their room, sitting on the bed and very gently setting him down between them. Erwin shifted quietly, though he'd fallen asleep once again, and Mike lay on his side to make sure Levi stayed safe in such a big bed. He kept the pillows away from him, and kept the blanket no higher than his chubby waist. Within a few minutes, Levi was asleep once again, and Erwin had turned to face them, resting his hand over one of Levi's, balled up as usual near his face. Mike merely watched for a moment before smiling, and sitting back against the headboard, taking his book from the nightstand and opening to the last bookmarked page.