I’ll Rearrange The Stars For You

Once they got back downstairs, Peter was kicking his legs to be placed on the floor so Tony let him go, laughing to himself since Peter only used him for a ride down the stairs.

Peter walked towards Morgan and Pepper shyly then once Pepper saw him, she walked over to him and kneeled in front of him. “Look how cute you look, Peter.”

Peter smiled and pointed at Tony. “Tony helped me get dressed and-and I pick red underwear and socks!”

Pepper smiled up at Tony. “You helped him get dressed?”

Tony nodded. “Yep. He asked me to help him so I did.”

Pepper stood back up and went to go kiss Tony. “That’s so good. So you don’t think he’s in his teenage mindset?”

Tony wrapped his arm around her waist. “Maybe still a little bit. He’s really quiet but I know that’s because he’s still getting used to everything.”

Pepper pressed another kiss to Tony’s cheek and left his side. “I’m going to cook a late lunch slash dinner now.”

Morgan stood up from where she was folding all of Peter’s clothes into piles and grabbed Peter’s hand. “Come, Peter, we can go play again.”

Peter grabbed onto Morgan’s hand and held his other hand out for Tony then the three of them walked to the playroom but seconds later they were walking back. “I’m gonna put together Peter’s car seat while I’m in there and then can you help me bring in the other boxes so I can build those?”

“Yeah. Just let me know.” Pepper said as she took out the chicken to let it thaw out.

Tony picked up the car seat box and then followed his kids into the playroom again.

“I wanna go down the slide.” Peter said to Morgan and Tony watched as he set the box down and sat down himself on the foam mats. Morgan helped Peter climb up the slide steps even though there were only three steps. She helped him sit down and then she ran around to the front of the slide to catch him.

Peter giggled once he was in her arms. “That was fun! I do again!”

“Okay, Peter. I’ll help you back up.” Morgan said and helped Peter climb back up the steps again.

Tony continued to watch the two play together while he opened the box and pulled out the car seat. It was really big which he liked because that meant Peter would be safe in the car.

He took all the plastic off and grabbed the cups that attached onto it. “Hey, Pete. Come check out your new car seat. Morg, can you bring him over?”

“Yeah! Come, Peter. I’ll take you there.” Morgan said and then Tony looked up to see Morgan walking over while she carried Peter in her arms with Peter’s feet just barely dangling off the floor and Peter’s back to her chest, pretty much getting choked.

“Be careful, Morg. You’re gonna hurt him if you carry him like that.” Tony warned her but once she put Peter down, he was fine and walked over to his side.

“I wouldn’t hurt him, daddy. He’s my baby brother now so it’s my job to protect him.” Morgan sat on her knees in front of the car seat and then Peter walked over to her and sat down next to her in the same position.

Tony felt his heart melting once again at how amazing of an older sister Morgan already was. She kept calling Peter her baby brother and treated him like he was a baby but he was okay with that. Also the fact that Peter was following her around now and copying her was adorable.

“You’re so sweet, little miss. I’m so proud of you.” Tony tipped her chin forward and Morgan beamed at him. “Okay! Now, Peter, stand up and sit in your car seat then we’ll strap you in and see how you fit.”

Peter stood up and sat down in the car seat with a huge smile on his face. Tony couldn’t help himself, he reached forward and pinched Peter’s chubby cheeks and then Peter was giggling.

Morgan laughed and did the same thing as him and Peter pushed their hands away but was laughing. “Dad, I wanna buckle the straps up.”

“How about I do that part and you unbuckle them just because I have to adjust it.” Tony said to her then pulled the buckle from between Peter’s legs and buckled him up with both kids watching with wide eyes. “Does that feel good? Nothings poking you?”

“No, I wan’ see Morgan’s one.” Peter said and Tony froze because it was the first time Peter had said Morgan but it sounded more like ‘Moogin’.

“Peter, I don’t have a car seat seat like yours. Mine just has a seatbelt and it’s pink! My favourite colour.” Morgan reached out and cupped a gentle hand on Peter’s cheek and smiled at him. “You’re so cute.”

Peter grinned at her, his tiny baby teeth making an appearance.

Tony was soaking up everything in that moment because he was witnessing his kids interacting for the first time and it was a beautiful sight to see.

“Can I unbuckle him now?” Morgan asked, pulling Tony from his thoughts.

“Yeah, okay so you press the red button and you see these pop out?” Tony explained.

“Hey, you said I could do it.” Morgan complained once Tony did it.

“You can, I’m just showing you.” Tony put the buckles back in. “You try but you have to put your hand behind the piece so you don’t push down and hurt him.”

“Okay… like this?” She asked and Tony nodded so she continued until Peter was free. “Yay!”

“Yay! You did it.” Peter clapped his hands together and stood up.

“Now when we go for car rides I can put you in your car seat and take you out too.” Morgan explained and Peter was nodding his head.

“Your turn. You go in and I put it on you.” Peter explained and tried to push Morgan into the car seat but she stopped him.

“No. I’m too big. I’m nine, Peter. You’re only five.” Morgan explained to Peter and held up five fingers on her hand then helped Peter do the same.

“Do you monkeys wanna help me and mommy?” Tony said but then realized that he just referred to Pepper as Peter’s mom as well but Peter wasn’t reacting.

“Yeah! Let’s go, Peter!” Morgan grabbed Peter by the hand and started running up the steps but Peter couldn’t keep up with her and fell onto his stomach. “Oh no!”

Tony felt his heart drop but he was immediately standing up and picking Peter up at well. “Are you okay, Pete?”

Peter lifted his hand up to his face and then his face scrunched up before he broke out into tears and started crying loudly.

“Oh, baby. Come here.” Tony lifted Peter into his arms and began rocking him back and forth to calm him. He was aware that Peter wasn’t crying because it hurt but he was crying out of shock and attention. He had already gone through his phase.

“I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to make him cry. I’m such a horrible big sister.” Morgan yelled but Tony was quick to use his free hand to hug her against his side.

“No, Morg. It was an accident. You didn’t know.”

Just then, Pepper came running in with a wooden spoon covered in sauce. “What happened?”

“It’s okay. Morgan just ran too fast with Peter and he fell.” Tony explained and then Morgan wrapped her arms around Pepper's waist.

“I hurt him, mommy! I didn’t mean to.” Morgan said in a panic.

“Shh, it was an accident. It’s okay, little miss.” Pepper said to her to make her feel better.

Tony kneeled down so he could put Peter on the floor. He tried to turn him so he could look at Morgan but he had his arms wrapped around Tony’s neck and his face buried in his chest. At least he was no longer crying.

“Peter, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to hurt you.” Morgan said then rubbed Peter’s back. Peter slowly pulled away from Tony and wiped his cheeks then reached forward to hug Morgan.

As they hugged, Tony and Pepper watched them with wide eyes. It was such an adorable sight.

“It’s okay.” Peter said and then after their hug, he went back to Tony’s side and tried to sit on his leg.

“Morgan, can you watch your brother while we bring the rest of the boxes in from outside?” Tony asked as he stood up, lifting Peter into his arms again and placing him on his hip.

“Yeah, I can.”

Tony placed Peter back on his feet once they got outside onto the deck. Morgan was at his side immediately and grabbed onto his hand to hold while Tony and Pepper made three trips to the car and back to bring everything upstairs into what will soon be Peter’s bedroom.

“Dinner will be ready in twenty minutes.” Pepper announced right after Peter was back on his hip.

“Okay! We’re going upstairs for twenty minutes to get everything else out of Peter’s bedroom.

Once they got upstairs, Tony turned the light on and continued to hold Peter while he debated how he should design Peter’s bedroom.

Since the room wasn’t needed at all before Peter, there was just one small bed inside with a few bins of winter clothes. That was it.

They never had any guests come over and Morgan already had her bedroom so this room was useless until now. It was perfect for Peter as well since it was right across from their bedroom while Morgan’s was down the hall.

“So, here’s the plan,” Tony started. “we’ll move all the bins into the hallway along with the bed and then we’ll start putting together the dressers and Pete’s new bed.”

“Yes sir!” Morgan said in a deep voice as she started moving all the bins into the hallway.

“Can I put you down, bud?” Tony asked Peter but he shook his head and laid it on Tony’s shoulder. “You tried, baby?”

Peter nodded his head so Tony leaned his head against Peter’s. He could imagine how tired Peter would be since everything was still so new to him and he had just gotten back from being dusted.

“Alright. Back to having one arm and multitasking then.” Tony said to no one but himself. He used to be an expert at this back when Morgan was a baby since he would always have to hold her to get her to sleep so everything he did was one handed.

Once all the bins were out of the room, Morgan rushed back in. “Bug, can you help me lift the mattress off the bed so we can drag it into the hallway?”

Morgan grabbed the opposite side and helped Tony lift it up and drag it into the hallway just as Pepper called them down for dinner.

Peter was clinging tightly onto Tony’s side so he didn’t think he was going to be letting him go for dinner.

Pepper smiled at the sight of the two of them but she didn’t say anything. She placed all the food onto the dining room table along with the glasses but she placed a sippy cup down for Peter then sat down.

“It was so weird to make four plates.” Pepper said while she poured Morgan her own glass.

“Mommy, me and daddy are going to build Peter’s bedroom after dinner.” Morgan explained as she took a bite of her broccoli.

“I don’t know if we’ll have time tonight.” Tony said as he shifted Peter on his lap so he was facing the table. “It’s already late and you still have to get ready for bed.”

“Aww. No fair.” Morgan whined.

“I promise tomorrow we will. We got such a late start to the day today.” Tony promised her. He was excited to build the furniture tomorrow with his two babies.

Tony cut up Peter’s chicken and held the fork out for him to take a bite which he did. “Dad, I wanna feed him.”

Pepper laughed. “Not tonight, Maguna. You finish your food. There will be plenty more dinners.”

Tony looked over at Pepper. “Our first dinner as a complete family.”

Pepper smiled back at Tony but Tony didn’t have the chance to stare at his wife any longer because Peter was reaching for his sippy cup. Tony reached across the table and handed it to him then he started eating his own dinner while Peter was drinking.

Peter held onto his sippy cup while he reached forward and picked up the chicken with his hand to eat.

It was entertaining to watch but it didn’t last long because Peter’s eyes were falling closer and his head was falling forward.

Tony grabbed the sippy cup out of his hands and turned him around so that Peter could lay his head on his shoulder and sleep while they finished eating.

After dinner, Tony helped put all the dishes into the sink and clear the table off. No one would be doing any cleaning tonight.

“Do you wanna pick out Peter’s pyjamas for him?” Tony asked Morgan before they headed upstairs.

“Yeah. I wanna pick him something comfortable.” Morgan went over to the boxes of half folded clothes and grabbed blue and grey pyjamas that said I’m a dreamer on the top.

“I love it.” Tony admitted and then they all headed upstairs. It was already past Morgan’s bedtime and way past what would be Peter’s bedtime but they had to fall into a schedule and that would take time.

“I’m gonna help with Peter’s bath.” Morgan said and moved to grab a towel but Pepper stopped her.

“Peter isn’t going to have a bath tonight because he’s already sleeping so daddy’s just going to change him into some pyjamas while you missy brush your teeth and get your pyjamas on.” Pepper kissed Morgan on the forehead then pushed her in the direction of the bathroom.

She walked out into the bedroom and sat on the bed, handing Tony the pyjamas for Peter.

Tony gently laid Peter onto the bed and hesitated. “Should I leave him in his clothes or change him? I don’t want him to wake up and freak out.”

Pepper was digging through her nightstand table to find Morgan’s lavender hand cream but she paused to look up at Tony. “He won’t freak out, Tony. He’s probably not even going to wake up anyways.”

That was true. Tony could see that Peter was out of it so he pulled off his pants and underwear and grabbed the pyjamas to roll up by the ankles so he could pull it up easier. He then carefully lifted Peter into a sitting position to take his shirt off and replace it with his pyjama shirt.

Peter’s head was falling everywhere and it was painful for Tony’s neck to watch but it didn’t even wake Peter up so he must be really out of it. He picked Peter up again and laid him down in the middle of the bed. He wanted to keep Peter within arms reach at all times.

Morgan walked back out of the bathroom and saw that Peter was in her parents bed. “I wanna sleep with you guys too.”

“Morg, Peter’s sleeping with us since he doesn’t have a bed and daddy wants to keep him close tonight.” Pepper explained to her but she could still see that Morgan wasn’t happy.

“Please. It’ll be like a fun sleepover.” Morgan looked up at her mom with puppy dog eyes.

Pepper sighed and looked over at Tony so Tony gave in. “You can sleep with us but you have to actually sleep. No sillies.”

“No sillies.” Morgan promised then climbed into bed on Peppers side and laid down next to Peter. “He’s so cute.”

“He is. Can you watch him for me while I get ready for bed?” Tony asked her before going into the bathroom and shutting the door.

He quickly got ready for bed and then he went into the bed to join his kids. He couldn’t believe he got to do that. Usually he was joining his one kid in bed and having nightmares about the other one but now he got to have both and he still didn’t know what he did to deserve it.

Morgan was looking at Peter’s face since the five year old was turned to her but after Tony lied down, Peter must have sensed him there even in his sleep because he rolled away from Morgan and turned into Tony’s chest.

“He loves you, daddy.” Morgan whispered.

“You think so?” He asked her as he ran his fingers through Peter’s curls.

“Yeah. I know so.” Morgan smiled at him and then they continued to stare at Peter until Pepper was getting out of the bathroom and joining them in bed.

The family of four all drifted off to sleep pretty quickly while they watched their youngest sleep. Tony was the last one to actually shut his eyes just because he was still scared that this whole thing was a nightmare of some sort and that he was going to wake up and Peter would be gone.

Tony didn’t even remember falling asleep. He was looking at his son and the next thing he knew was Morgan was waking him up.

“Dad, wake up. Wake up, dad.” Morgan whispered and shook him awake.

The first thing Tony did was open his eyes and check to see that Peter was still there which he was so he sighed with relief. It would take a lot to break that habit.

“What’s wrong?” Tony asked her as he sat up in bed. He looked over at the clock and saw that it was 3:17am.

“The beds all wet.” Morgan said.

“What do you mean?” Tony asked and reached his hand over to feel where she was lying but it was dry. “It’s not, Morg.”

“Yeah it is. By Peter.” Morgan explained and pointed to Peter so Tony reached his hand and felt under him and felt that it was wet.

“Oh. You’re right.” Tony moved his hand away and thought about what to do for a second. They had taken the bed cover off after Morgan was potty trained and stopped sleeping with them but now they might have to put it back.

“I can help you clean it up.” Morgan was already getting out of bed and it looked like all the sleep had drained from her face.

“Thanks, bug. Can you go get me new sheets and pyjamas for Pete, please?” Tony got out of bed as well and tossed a pillow at Pepper. “Wake up.”

Pepper immediately sat up and looked around. “What?”

“Peter wet the bed. Morgan went to grab new sheets and pyjamas but we don’t have the bed lining anymore.” Tony explained to her as he pulled the blankets off of Peter and turned the bedroom lamp on to get some light.

Pepper looked over at Peter sadly. “Aw, the poor baby. It’s okay. You take care of him and I’ll try to clean up the bed.”

Tony gently shook Peter awake. “Hey, bud. Wake up for me.” Peter tried to bury his face into the pillow but Tony stopped him. “Open your eyes, Pete.”

Peter did as he was told and started to rub the sleep out of his eyes but then he must have felt the wetness between his legs because his face scrunched up then his hand was moving down there. “All wet.”

“I know, it’s okay.” Tony reassured him then Peter was lifting his arms up so Tony lifted him off the bed and set him on the floor just as Morgan walked in.

“Here you go.” She handed Tony the pyjamas and then patted the top of Peter’s head. “It’s okay, Peter. Daddy will help you.”

“Thanks, Morg.” Tony grabbed the clean pyjamas from Morgan and then took Peter into the bathroom to change him.

“I-I sorry. I didn’t mean to.” Peter said quietly while Tony grabbed the package of wipes on top of the toilet and sat down on the closed toilet seat.

“Hey, don’t be sorry. It’s not your fault.” Tony cupped his cheek and went to go take his wet pants off but he paused. “Do you want me to help you?”

“Uh huh.” Peter nodded his head then held onto Tony’s arms for support as Tony pulled down his pants and helped him step out of them. “They’re dirty now.”

“Yeah,” Tony smiled at that as he grabbed a wipe. “they are. Here, use this to clean everywhere.”

Peter looked down at the wipe and shook his head. “No. You do it.”

Tony hesitated at first because he still wasn’t used to doing this with Peter and he would have already done it but he wasn’t sure what Peter was okay with just yet.

He started to clean Peter but he flinched, “Cold.”

“Sorry. Almost done.” Tony made quick work of cleaning him up and helped him change into the clean pyjama pants.

When they walked back out into the bedroom with the freshly made bed. Peter walked over to it and Morgan helped him climb up. “We put towels under the sheet so it dries all the pee.”

Peter looked at her. “All the pee?”

“Yep.” Morgan gently pushed Peter so that he was lying down but Peter started whining and tried to sit up so he could reach for Tony.

“It’s okay, Morgan. I’ll take him but thank you.” Tony lifted Peter off the bed and into his arms again. He felt Peter wrap his tiny arms around his neck and lay his head on his shoulder as he pulled back the blankets and got into bed with Peter lying on his chest.

“No, don’ wanna sleep.” Peter sat up in bed but Tony pulled him back down only for Peter to pull away from him. “Don’ wan’ to sleep.”

“Peter, you have to sleep.” Tony tried to lay Peter down again and this time he got him down but as soon as Peter’s head hit the pillow, Peter started crying. “Okay. I’m gonna take him downstairs while you guys fall asleep.”

“Are you sure? Do you want me to come?” Pepper asked but Tony shook his head and got out of bed.

“It’s okay, I got it. Come on, Peter.” Tony held his arms out for his kid and when Peter lifted his arms up to him, he pulled Peter up and held him on his hip. “You guys go to sleep.”

Tony carried his crying kid out of his bedroom and shut the door behind him and went downstairs. Peter kept his head up and continued to cry while he watched Tony move around the kitchen. He grabbed a sippy cup and filled it with water to hopefully keep Peter quiet and calm him down.

Once he had that, he brought Peter over to the sofa chair that rocked back and forth. He sat down, positioned Peter so that he was cradled in his arm like a baby and looked down at him.

“What’s wrong, Peter?” Tony knew that Peter was overtired but refused to go to sleep much like his teenage self.

“Not tired.” Peter cried out then rubbed his eyes and reached for the sippy cup in Tony’s hand. “Is it apple juice?”

“No, baby.” Tony handed Peter the sippy cup and watched him take a few sips while he rocked back and forth. It didn’t take long for Peter’s eyes to start to close but Tony continued to rock him on the chair since it was also relaxing to him as well. It was the same chair that he used to rock Morgan on when she was a baby and sometimes they would still cuddle up on the chair together and read a book.

Tony took the sippy cup from Peter only to have Peter put his thumb in his mouth and shove his face more into Tony’s chest.

He stayed like that for a few more minutes before carrying Peter back to bed and falling asleep there.

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“Pick me up! Pick me up!” Peter demanded while Tony was trying to make breakfast for everyone. Despite the night they had, everyone was awake pretty early which kinda concerned Tony because bye bye to sleeping in till 9am since Peter was definitely going to be an early riser.

They were all awake at 6:45am because once Peter woke up, he woke up Morgan and then the two of them woke Tony and Pepper up.

So after Tony helped Peter get dressed into his clothes and Morgan went to her bedroom to do that, both Tony and Pepper took turns watching Peter so they could get ready then they all went downstairs.

Now Tony was juggling making breakfast while Peter demanded to be held and Morgan set the kitchen island where they usually ate.

“Okay, come here.” Tony lifted Peter up so now he was doing everything with one hand again.

“Dad? After I wanna take Peter out to the swing.” Morgan said while she poured herself a glass of apple juice and then grabbed Peter’s sippy cup to pour him a glass too.

“Yeah, we can do that. Peter hasn't been outside in the yard yet so we could go show him around after. Maybe take him on our hike through the forest.” Tony suggested while trying to flip the French toast and try to keep Peter from grabbing onto anything so he handed him a wooden spoon.

“Yay! I’m so excited!” Morgan cheered.

Once they were all sitting down on the stools, Tony went to place Peter on his own stool because he didn’t want to start any bad habits of Peter sitting on his lap for every meal, only he seemed to have already started that habit because Peter screamed when he placed him on his own stool.

“No! I wanna stay with you.” Peter grabbed onto Tony’s shirt and tugged him closer to himself.

“Peter. I have to eat and so do you so just sit on this chair.” Tony said to him then yanked Peter’s hands off of him and placed him on the chair.

Peter picked up his sippy cup and threw it into the counter so it rolled onto the floor.

“I’ll go get it.” Morgan went to get off her chair but Tony stopped her.

“No, leave it. If he wants it then he can go get it himself.” Tony said and looked at Peter who stopped crying and slid off of his chair to go walk around the island and grab his sippy cup.

“Up.” Peter said to Tony so he picked Peter up and placed him on the stool since he was too small to get up himself. “I wanna sit on you now.”

“No, eat your food, Pete.”

“Peter, you can sit on my lap.” Morgan said and then Peter was looking over at her then moving to sit on her lap inside.

Tony couldn’t be mad at the sight. It was so cute to watch them together but Peter was sitting uncomfortably on Morgan’s lap.

“How are you going to eat now, little miss?” Pepper asked, amused.

“Oh.” Was all Morgan said so Tony held his arms out for Peter. He definitely lost this fight but he didn’t really care. “Go to daddy, Peter.”

Tony looked over at Pepper to see how she reacted because Morgan referred to him as Peter’s daddy and Peter even turned to him and crawled over his chair to sit on his lap.

He didn’t want to react to it though since it wasn’t like Peter was the one calling him daddy, he wasn’t sure if Peter ever would.

After they were done eating, Morgan helped Peter off of Tony’s lap and grabbed his sippy cup for him. “It’s time to put Peter in the outside swing.”

“Is it a big swing?” Peter asked and grabbed onto Morgan’s hand.

“No, it’s a baby swing but I’m too big for it.” Morgan explained to him.

Tony and Pepper left the dishes for now since they didn’t want to waste time doing that when they had two kids to play with.

They all headed outside with no shoes or coats on since it was warm enough and that’s usually how they went outside. They didn’t have to worry about neighbours or anyone watching them since the whole property was private.

Peter kept glancing back to make sure that Tony was still walking with them when they walked down the steps of the deck and walked towards the set of trees in the middle of the field.

Peter glanced back at Tony one more time and smiled at him before he was giggling and running ahead with Morgan.

Tony watched his two kids run ahead of him and he swears that he’s had this exact same dream once upon a time. The only difference was that he wouldn’t wake up from this one.

Tony put his arm around Pepper and brought her close to his side to press a kiss to her temple. “What’s that for?” She asked him.

“Just because.” Tony answered her then let go and walked ahead to be closer to where Morgan was showing Peter the green swing with a bright yellow bar. “Do you like the swing, Pete?”

Peter looked up at Tony and nodded. “Yeah! I wanna go in.”

“Okay, hold on.” Tony lifted Peter up and held him with one arm while he lifted up the yellow bar then sat Peter in the swing and made sure he was strapped in properly.

“I wan’ Morgan to push me!” Peter yelled excitedly and grabbed onto the yellow bar as he kicked his legs back and forth.

“Okay! Hold on!” Morgan walked behind Peter and pushed the swing but he didn’t go that high even after a few swings.

“I wan’ higher!” Peter giggled out and kicked his feet more which was making it harder for Morgan to push him.

“Dad, can you push him?” She asked and switched spots with Tony so that she could stand in front of Peter.

“Alright,” Tony grabbed the back of the swing and held it back so Peter was pointed towards the ground. “do you want to go really high, Peter?”

Peter screamed. “Yeah! All the way high!”

“Okay!” Tony let go of the swing and gave him a push as well then Peter was swinging and screaming mixed with laughing which caused everyone else to laugh along with him.

Tony continued to push Peter on the swing even after his arms got tired because he loved the sound of giggles that escaped Peter’s mouth.

“I go off now.” Peter said once Tony slowed down. Tony walked around to the front to grab the yellow part so he could slow the swing down and then he lifted the bar up to grab Peter. “Is it the ocean?”

Tony placed Peter on his feet and looked up to see where he was pointing at and then laughed, “No, bud. It’s a lake. We can go swimming in it later if everyone wants to.”

“Yes! That’s gonna be so much fun.” Morgan hugged Tony around the waist in her excitement.

Peter watched her but shook his head. “I don’ know how to swim.”

“I can find Morgan’s old life jacket for him since Morgan doesn’t need it anymore.” Pepper said and hugged Morgan when she walked over to her.

“Yeah, either way we’ll be there to watch them but he doesn’t have a bathing suit.” Tony picked Peter up and held him close to his chest while they walked down to the lake. “What do you say, Pete, you gonna swim in your birthday suit?”

Peter laughed and shyly buried his face into Tony’s chest. “No. That’s funny.”

“That’s funny? Do you even know what that is, mr?” Tony poked Peter on the side to get a bunch of giggles out of him while Morgan and Pepper laughed at them.

Peter lifted his head up and placed his hands on Tony’s shoulders. “I don’ know but I’m gonna eat you if you poke me ‘gin.”

“Oh really? I guess I’ll have to fill you up with something else then poke you so you’re too full to eat me.” Tony joked with the five year old who was shaking his head with a grin on his face. “No? Not gonna work?”

“No. Not gonna work.” Peter repeated so Tony kissed him on the nose then placed him on his feet.

“Peter, it’s deep so you have to hold my hand if you want to go near the water.” Morgan grabbed Peter's hand and then walked him down the mini hill then to the flat muddy area that led into the water. “When we go swimming later all of this gets really muddy.”

Peter squatted down and slapped the mud with his hand. “We can make mud pies and eat ‘dem after.”

“Yeah!” Morgan smiled over at Tony. “Daddy, can we finish building Peter’s bedroom set now?”

“That’s a good idea. You guys can do that while I clean up the house a bit and get lunch ready.” Pepper suggested since she had to wash a bunch of clothes because she knew her and Tony would have a ton of clothes to wash with a five year old boy in the house now and she wanted to get on top of it.

“Okay, let's go in before you guys get too messy.” Tony said and then the four of them went back into the house.

Once they got inside the house, Morgan ran to the stairs and waited by it immediately. Tony went to walk upstairs with her but Peter squatted on the floor and looked up at Tony.

“I need to poo.” Peter said but Tony already knew what he was doing before Peter even said anything.

“Okay. Let’s not go here.” Tony picked Peter up and quickly took him into the bathroom. He placed Peter in front of the toilet and pulled down his pants then lifted him onto the toilet.

He let go of Peter but Peter fell into the bowl and let out a surprised sound so Tony was quick to pick him back up and hold him up while he went poo. He would say it was awkward but it wasn’t at all since he already went through this with Morgan and knew it was a part of parenting.

Since the door wasn’t closed, Morgan walked into the bathroom and looked at Peter. “Did he fall in?”

“Yeah, can you go get me the wipes from our bathroom, bug?” Tony asked her and then watched her run off.

After Tony was sure Peter was done, he asked him. “Are you done?”

“Uh huh.”

“No more poop?” Tony asked, then thought about the last time he asked someone that. It must have been years ago.

“All gone.” Peter reassured him so Tony lifted him up so he was on his feet. Morgan walked in and handed Tony the wipes.

“Thank you.” He took them, pulled one out and handed it to Peter but Peter shook his head. “Wipe your butt, Pete.”

Peter shook his head again. “You do it.”

Tony didn’t want to compare Peter with how Morgan was at his age but he did know that at age five you should be wiping your own butt but couldn’t remember exactly.

He didn’t want to argue with Peter about this since he didn’t actually know how stubborn Peter would be. That would come in time. “Alright, hold your shirt up.”

Tony started wiping Peter’s butt but then Morgan walked over and was watching him. “Morg, what are you doing?”

“I’m watching so I know how to do it when I wipe Peter’s bum.” Morgan explained like it was obvious.

Tony rolled his eyes and grabbed a new wipe. “No, Peter should be wiping his own butt.”

Peter shook his head. “No. You do it.”

“Next time I’m not.” Tony tossed the wipe into the toilet and flushed it then pulled up Peter’s underwear and pants and stood up to wash his hands.

Peter went to walk out of the bathroom but Tony stopped him. “Hey, come wash your hands.”

Peter stood in front of the sink but he couldn’t reach it so Tony picked him up and helped him wash his hands before putting him back on the floor. He definitely had to make the house more accessible for five years olds again.

Tony walked out of the bathroom and into the kitchen to grab a drink for the kids and himself. Pepper smiled at him. “Were you guys having a party in there?”

“What age did Morgan start wiping her own butt at?” Tony asked without even realizing how weird that question was.

“Um, around four or five I believe. She used to get mad when we would try to help her, remember?” Pepper laughed at the memory. “Why?”

“Peter doesn’t want to do it himself.” Tony explained then handed Peter his sippy cup from where he was standing by his feet. “We also need to buy potty seats again because Peter fell into the toilet. Oh and we need to get step stools too.”

“I’ll put it on the list.” Pepper said to Tony but Morgan was pulling on his hand.

“Dad. Let’s go.” Morgan whined so Tony handed her her reusable water bottle and let her pull him upstairs with Peter to go put together Peter’s bedroom set.