Once a wife twice a baby.

[Sephy]

Chris smiled with closed eyes. "I know" He said softly. "Please be around for a long time"

"Milky" Max whined.

[Anon17a]

Mary was a little surprised. Usually she heard that from Tony.

[Sephy]

Chris kissed his mom's cheek. "I'm too uses to you being around. I love you too. Almost as much as Tony loves you." He wasn't sure if he could rival his baby brother in that respect.

Max took the bottle and suckled gently at the nipple.

[Anon17a]

"Well just as an advantage, out of all your siblings you've been with me the longest cause you're the oldest." Mary said happily and smiled at him as she gently held his cheek. "How would you feel... If I was gone?" She asked

Lauren kissed him some more before Thea took over and laid Max in her bed and smiled

[Sephy]

"I would feel destroyed" Chris said softly. "Think about Tony, I'm not sure he would be able to survive without you"

Max smiled grew as he nuzzled into his auntie. He finished his bottle and was half asleep.

[Anon17a]

"Yes I know. But enough about Tony. What about you?" Mary said as she held his face and looked deeply into his eyes.

Thea tucked him in and held him close to her.

[Sephy]

"I wouldn't be much better off. Mom you're important to me. You always have been. I wouldn't know what to do after you're gone. I would be almost completely heartbroken" Chris told his mother.

Max nuzzled into his auntie before drifting completely off.

[Anon17a]

"Oh Chris.." Mary said as she held his head to her chest and hugged him tightly and kissed the top of his head. "I want you to know that Mommy will love you forever. Without you, I would never even be a Mommy at all." She said

[Sephy]

Chris sighed softly as he listened to his mother.

Max softly snored as he slept.

[Anon17a]

"Sometimes.. I wish I could turn back the clocks. To just when it was you, me and Dad. Not that I don't love all my children and grand babies. It was just a much simpler time. Plus you were more clingy and adorable." Mary chuckled

[Sephy]

Chris rolled his eyes. "I couldn't have been that clingy."

[Anon17a]

"Well not super clingy like Tony. Just normal baby clingy. You'd be okay if we left the room for a little while but cried if we had to leave you behind." Mary said as she nuzzled his head

[Sephy]

"How was Thea. Remind me" Chris asked his mother.

[Anon17a]

"Thea? Aww she was a real sweetie pie. Dad was over the moon when she was born. Very attached to Dad that's for sure. She'd cry if he left her alone or even with me sometimes." Mary said and smiled at him. "But I do miss the trio. Dad, you and I. We were still living in a 2 bedroom apartment. I'd set you in the playpen while I did the chores as you played and watched me." She said as she remembered happily.

[Sephy]

Chris was now at age 1. He barely knew any words besides mama, dada, and a few other small words. He was content watching cartoons on the couch with his mommy holding him.

[Anon17a]

Mary gave him soft kisses as she spent some time with her sweet little boy. She recently found out that she was pregnant again but was only a few weeks along. "You enjoying your cartoons, snookums? You know you haven't napped yet today." She said. For some reason Chris just didn't want to go down for a nap on that day.

[Sephy]

Chris babbled softly to his mommy. He wasn't tired and didn't realize that his mommy was trying to put him down.

[Anon17a]

Mary sighed softly as she looked at him. "My sweet baby." She cuddled him close as she gently rubbed his back.

[Sephy]

Chris clinged to his mommy with a soft coo. He looked like he was going to sleep, but he wasn't actually. His eyes were just closed.

[Anon17a]

Mary started to hum to him softly as she turned off the tv and walked around the apartment while bouncing him gently.

[Sephy]

Chris giggled happily as he enjoyed his mommy's playfulness.

[Anon17a]

Mary was surprised he started giggling! She was trying to put him to sleep. "Oh baby.." She sighed as she carried him to the spare room which was now Jason's office to do his trades. "How are your trades going, my love? Our little one hasn't napped all day.."

[Sephy]

"It's going fine, my sweet." Jason replied back. Over the last year Jason's skills with trading have grown quite fast. He was making a decent living and only getting better.

[Anon17a]

"That's great, honey." Mary said and kissed his cheek. "Not yet, I suppose." She said as she handed Chris to Jason

[Sephy]

Jason held his son to his chest. "Sweet boy, you're going to be a big brother" He cooed to Chris.

Chris only smiled and nuzzled into his daddy.

"Sweetie?" Jason said trying to get Mary's attention. "Could you look these over" He handing her pages of house listings. On one was their future home. Only it was smaller and had a more open lawn. Thea's and Tony's rooms were added in months before their births.