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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 11:14 am
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Joanna beamed and bustled over to sit down on the side of the bed, then set the album in her lap as she spoke.
Her grin softened to a smile as she repeated herself, since he hadn't seemed to hear her the first time, "I said there's probably both! Mostly adorable though I think, these ones were taken before he could even really do anything too embarrassing." As she spoke she opened the album's cover to reveal a myriad of pictures, three on either side of a page, but she didn't spend very long on the first few pages. They showed a much younger, noticeably pregnant Joanna and a younger Daniel with brighter colored hair, as well as a young girl who couldn't have been more than five years old. Joanna hummed a little and flipped through a handful of pages before she paused with a triumphant 'aha!' "Alright, here we go!" So saying, she edged the album closer to Zevran so he could see better. The pictures had changed; she was thinner suddenly, and in nearly every picture was a newborn with wisps of blond hair and colorful eyes Zevran would find incredibly familiar.
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 11:33 am
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 11:45 am
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"Yes it is," she affirmed, her voice and her smile growing wistful and a little distant, though she couldn't help but chuckle a bit. "Flatterer! But yes," she turned the page to reveal even more pictures of both her and Daniel holding their new baby, and even one of the young girl holding him too. In most of the pictures though she merely stood nearby, watching with her blue eyes wide with awe. A colorful Eevee even made an appearance in the last picture. She tapped the picture with the girl holding her newborn brother. "That's Alex, of course, she was five when Abel was born. And I'm sure you recognize Isaac! Maria was still an Eevee then too, I think she's in a couple pictures here and there. Mmh, that's Alex's Vaporeon, that is," she added as an afterthought, in case the name was unfamiliar to her company.
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 11:58 am
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 2:18 pm
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Joanna smiled wistfully down at the pictures again. "It does, and it doesn't at the same time. Sometimes it feels even longer, but other times it seems like just yesterday he - all of them - were so young and small. Time and memories are funny like that, I suppose," she mused aloud, chuckling a bit. His other question gave her only a brief pause before she shook her head a little and turned the page to reveal more baby pictures. "Not really, although that could be because I've had four kids now, and most of them are grown. One even has her own kids now," she huffed a little, good-naturedly, and glanced askance at Zevran. Only one of them had their own children -- so far.
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 2:29 pm
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:03 pm
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With her Look given, Joanna chuckled a little and smiled down at the grinning baby as well. "Yes, I've had over thirty-five years of experience and time to get used to it in fact! And I love that one." A moment later she chuckled a bit more and went on, "Though that isn't saying much, since I love all of them."
As she flipped slowly through the pages, the pictures evolved to ones of the whole little family bundled up and out in the snow on the ranch. Joanna was more pensive though. "Mmh, Abel's told me that you didn't have any pictures like this to look back on," among other things, of course. A moment later she beamed at him and added, "That just means I'll just have to show you all of ours, hm? Show them to you, and maybe add pictures of you in here too. Oh yes, I have videos too! Would you like to see them sometime?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:42 pm
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 4:04 pm
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Joanna laughed at that, the sound bright and delighted. "I don't think I should comment on that, though I'm sure Abel could tell you without any trouble!" Her laughter subsided after another moment or two to simply chuckling. "I'll be more than happy to show you videos! Not tonight though, it's too late for that I think."
A little while later, after only going through maybe only half of the album's pages - the tiny newborn Abel had eventually grown to be around six months old and spring had come and gone into summer, the pictures interspersed with flowers and Alex in colorful summer dresses - eventually fully grown Abel returned after talking with his dad in the barn. Taavi and Aaron had already been sent out by his mother to avoid them overhearing any of her conversation earlier as well as whatever he said to Abel later, and for that the blond was rather grateful. Hearing idle chatter in the bedroom shouldn't have surprised him but it did, at least a bit, and he walked back into the room with an easy smile on his face and his thumbs hooked into his pockets. "What's this then?" He asked, his tones teasing gently even though he could easily see the photo album the two were still looking through. "Ahh, sharing embarrassing baby pictures of me, are you?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 4:12 pm
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 4:57 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 5:03 pm
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 11:43 pm
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Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 3:16 pm
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 4:05 pm
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"Oh, it was," Abel affirmed readily, smiling down at the pictures. Then he returned the smirk along with a chuckle. "There are videos, I've seen them plenty of times before. But I suppose I can tolerate watching them one more time with you, if I have to," he finished with a weary, resigned sigh. As if he actually minded!
Eventually Joanna left the pair of them - mostly Zevran, really - to continue looking through the rest of the album at their leisure, and headed off to bed. Not too long after that came another knock at the bedroom door, this one after somewhat heavier footsteps that hinted it wasn't Joanna that came back to say good-night again. Abel hummed a little as he got up to open the door, and surprisingly probably no one, admitted his father into the room.
Daniel halted abruptly after entering the room and awkwardly rubbed a hand over the back of his neck. "I uh, I hope I'm not interrupting anything, or... anything."
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