You're Beautiful To Me

After breakfast we take the kids into the living room and Anna's eyes light up when she sees the pile of brightly wrapped presents under the tree, the lights on and flashing and she squirms around until I put her down and once her feet hit the floor she takes off as quick as she can, running over to the tree and Frank, Mikey and I follow her, Miles babbling away happily as he clings to Franks shirt and Frank pulls a face at him, making him giggle and we all sit on the floor, me pulling Anna into my lap and Mikey hands us a present with her name on it before handing Frank and Miles one of Miles' and I let Anna tear at the paper, unwrapping the new stuffed unicorn we bought her. "Wow" she exclaims as she crushes it to her chest and I let out a soft chuckle as I lean down to press a soft kiss to the top of her head. After all the presents are open I slide Anna out of my lap and leave the room to get a garbage bag, coming back to pick up all the discarded wrapping paper and Anna is preoccupied with showing her unicorn around the living room but when I reach for the last piece of brightly coloured paper Miles reaches out and grabs it, scrunching it in his fist and when I try to take it he tugs it back and lets out a giggle, waving the paper in the air. "Oh so it's like that is it?" I say playfully as I kneel down infront of him, sitting the bag aside and I reach out and start tickling Miles' sides, making him shriek and giggle as he falls back onto his back, his legs kicking out as he tries to fight me off and Anna comes running over and drops her unicorn, hitting me on the arm as she says "No dada." I stop tickling and remove my hands from Miles and Anna turns to him and dives ontop of him, wrapping her arms around him in a cuddle and he lets out a squeal before he starts to whine and Frank laughs as he gently pulls her off him as he says "Baby Miles is still a little small to rough house with yet." I chuckle softly as I reach down and pick Miles up, cuddling him to my chest and he makes a small contented noise and nuzzles his face into my neck as his hands clench into fists in the front of my robe.

After Anna goes back to playing, Mikey and Frank playing with her I take Miles in to change his diaper and as I put his new onesie back on him he lets out a small yawn and brings a hand up to rub at his eyes. "I know, me too baby" I tell him softly as I pick him up, my stomach feeling unsettled again as we go into the kitchen for a bottle of warm milk and when it's ready I take Miles into my room and we lay in bed together, Miles snuggled against my chest as he drinks his milk and when he's done I sit the bottle aside and pull the blanket over us and we fall asleep together, my whole body feeling exhausted. A few hours later I am woken by a small hand grabbing at my nose and lips, a small noise escaping Miles' lips and I crack my eyes open and say "What do you think you're doing? That's my nose" and Miles giggles before rubbing his face in the front of my robe. I sit up and lay Miles back on the bed beside me, checking his diaper before scooping him up again and we leave the room, finding Frank and Mikey laid out on couches in the living room watching an old horror movie and when we walk in Frank looks up and smiles at me. "There's my two sleepy heads." "Da" Miles exclaims as he points to Frank and I cross the room and hand him to Frank, watching him snuggle into Franks chest as Frank sits up and makes room for me on his couch. "Where's Anna?" I ask quietly as I sit down and Frank tells me she's taking a nap so I curl up next to him and make myself comfortable. "Baby are you feeling ok?" He whispers to me and I nod as I say "Yeah my stomach is just a little unsettled but I feel better after that nap." Frank nods slowly before saying "Please don't be mad but you have a doctors appointment tomorrow." "Frank" I groan out and he quickly adds "Baby you've been tired and sick a lot recently, I just want to make sure you're ok." "Ok" I agree, feeling too worn out to argue about it and I lean in to rest my head on Franks shoulder, Frank putting Miles down so he can crawl around and play before wrapping his arm around my waist and before the movie is over I am asleep again, unable to keep my eyes open any longer.

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