You're Beautiful To Me

After we finish the story Frank takes Anna to change her out of her pyjamas and Miles has settled down and is quietly chewing on the teething toy. I shift him around and cuddle him to my chest and he gurgles at me as his hand reaches up to touch my face. "You must be hungry baby boy, how about we try some yogurt huh? Something nice and cool" I ask him as I stand up from the couch and take him into the kitchen, pulling a small tub of yogurt from the fridge and grabbing a plastic spoon, gently taking the teething ring from Miles' mouth as I sit down and settle him against my chest, silencing his small whimpers by putting the spoon in his mouth and he sucks on the spoon, swallowing the yogurt and smiling as I scoop up some more. "Is that good baby?" I ask as I feed him another spoonful and he gurgles as he swallows it down, slumping further into my chest as he finishes the whole tub. "There we go" I say softly as I kiss the top of his head and grab the towel I used to clean Anna off with before, wiping his mouth before I stand up and get a small bottle of cold apple juice from the fridge, offering it to Miles and he starts sucking immediately, drinking almost the whole bottle by the time Anna comes toddling in dressed for the day and I reach into the fridge and grab her bottle of Apple juice, handing it to her and she starts drinking as her free hand clenches in the leg of my pants, tugging slightly and I reach down and remove it, taking her hand in mine and walking into the living room with her and Miles where we find Frank with his guitar.

After Anna and Miles watch Frank play for a while, Anna dancing around while Miles giggles and claps and crawls around we decide to head out to the mall for a while and when we get there we see that Christmas has exploded everywhere and I turn to look at Frank who is carrying Anna on his hip and say "Wait, when did this happen?" "Tomorrow's December first babe" he tells me and my eyes widen as I say "Well shit." Franks own eyes widen as he nods towards Anna and says "Babe, she's starting to pick up more and more words." "Oops" I say sheepishly as Anna completely ignores me, content with tracing the scorpion on Franks neck with her finger and Frank chuckles before leaning over to peck my lips. "Dada" Anna demands as we pull apart and I look over at her to see her lips pursed, ready for her own kiss. "I'm so sorry baby" I say playfully as I lean in and press a kiss to her lips before pecking her nose and making her giggle and Frank says "Hey what about me?" Making Anna turn her head and press a kiss to his lips. "Mmm slobbery, thanks baby" he says, making me laugh as we start walking again. We wander around for a while, buying the kids a new stuffed toy each before going into a department store and we buy a small fake Christmas tree and we let Anna and Miles pick out some colourful ornaments to go on it along with a long string of multi coloured lights to go on it too and once we get home I set it up in the corner of the living room, wrapping the lights around it from top to bottom along with some tinsel before I help Anna and Miles hang some ornaments on it and once we're done I plug the lights in, turning them on and they start to flash slowly, both Anna and Miles sitting on the floor side by side watching with wide eyes, Miles giggling and clapping as Anna bounces around on the spot and squeals in excitement, making both Frank and I smile wide at how cute they are.

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