Who’s this?
Peter woke up in the middle of the night and crawled on top of Tony’s chest to poke him in the face. Tony woke up to chubby fingers prodding at his cheek.
He was surprised to actually have fallen asleep but now Peter was waking him up. “Pete?”
Peter sat up on his chest. “Daddy. Up.”
Tony opened his eyes and saw that it was still dark out. He looked over on the other side of the bed and saw Pepper who was fast asleep. “What is it?”
Peter hit his chest weakly. “You not hold me.”
It took Tony a few long seconds to think about what Peter was trying to say. It clicked that Peter wanted him to cuddle him so Tony lifted him off his chest and turned on his side so that he was holding Peter against his chest.
Peter stuck his thumb back into his mouth and fell asleep instantly but it took Tony a lot longer to fall asleep.
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When Tony woke up next it was to Peter making babbling noises. Tony sat up in bed and had to blink a few times until his eyes adjusted to the sunlight coming through the window.
He then looked over at Peter who had his feet up in the air at the end of the bed. When Peter saw that Tony was awake he squealed excitedly and crawled over to him. “Dada! Dada!”
Tony loved waking up to Peter’s face. It was his favourite sight. “Hi baby. Did you sleep good?”
Peter nodded his head as Tony hugged his baby to his chest. He felt that Peter’s diaper was extremely full so he would need to change that immediately so Peter doesn’t get a rash.
Tony kicked the blankets off of him and stood up. He stood Peter on the bed so he could start to take his onesie off then he took his dirty diaper off and carried it into the bathroom with him.
Peter slid off the bed and followed Tony into the bathroom. “Daddy go play?”
“Shh, Peppers still sleeping, Pete. You have to whisper.” Tony grabbed his toothbrush so he could brush his teeth while Peter sat on his foot and wrapped his legs around his ankle.
“Whis’er.” Peter repeated and looked up at Tony with wide brown eyes.
Tony smiled down at him then reached for the wipes that he found on the floor and held his toothbrush in his mouth as he stood Peter up and quickly wiped him clean so he could clean his teeth and Peter’s butt all at once.
Peter sat back on his foot and wrapped his legs around Tony’s ankle as Tony finished brushing his teeth. “You gotta let go of me now so I can walk.”
Peter shook his head and giggled. “I stay.”
Tony sighed happily then walked into the bedroom with Peter attached to his ankle. He went into his suitcase and pulled out grey track pants and a blue dinosaur T-shirt for Peter to wear then grabbed some blue jeans and an old black T-shirt for him to wear.
He picked the naked toddler up and set him on the bed. “I’m gonna go change then I’ll be right back.”
Peter shook his head and reached out for Tony. Tony really didn’t want Peter to start crying so early in the morning and wake Pepper and everyone else in the house up so he picked RoRo up and handed him to Peter.
“Stay with RoRo until I get back.” Tony told him and waited for Peter to nod his head before disappearing into the bathroom to pee and get changed.
When he walked out, Peter removed his thumb from his mouth and raised an arm up for him so Tony grabbed the chubby toddler hand and squeezed it.
He grabbed a clean diaper and gently pushed Peter on the bed which caused the toddler to giggle. Peter tried to stand back up but Tony held him down. “No, Pete. Lie on your back.”
Peter fell onto his back on his own and right when Tony went to grab his feet to lift his legs up, Peter rolled onto his stomach and tried to crawl away but Tony stopped him.
“Shh Peter. You’re gonna wake the whole house up.” Tony laughed while he was trying to be quiet as well.
Peter only started laughing when he saw that Tony was laughing as well. “You do, daddy.”
“Petey, lay on your back.” Tony tried but Peter shook his head. “Show me how still you can lie.”
Peter accepted the challenge so he laid on his back where he was in the middle of the bed so Tony had to drag him by the ankles to the edge of the bed and got Peter into a diaper then got him dressed in his outfit for the day.
“I win, daddy?” Asked Peter when Tony picked him up and set him on his hip to walk downstairs. He hoped no one was awake.
Tony presses a bunch of kisses to his face. “You did, baby. I’m so proud of you.”
“Yay!” Peter cheered for himself and clapped his hands together.
Tony got to the bottom of the stairs and rounded the corner into the kitchen where he was met with another mom and her own kid. The little girl was seated in a high chair and was being fed by the women.
They both looked over at Tony and smiled at the newcomers. “Hi there. I’m surprised to see someone else up so early.”
Tony laughed. “Yeah. Pete and I are early risers.”
The women pulled up another high chair. “Here. For your son. What does he like to eat?”
Tony glanced at Peter who was looking at the women and the other toddler with wide eyes. He had his thumb in his mouth as Tony thanked the women and placed Peter in the high chair.
“He’ll probably eat some bananas and dry cereal.” Tony said as the women happily got up to get Tony a bowl, spoon and the food. She placed it on Peter’s tray then looked at Tony.
“Can I make you a coffee? I’m cooking breakfast for everyone that will be ready soon.”
“Sure. Thank you.” Tony sat down in front of Peter and looked at the other toddler. “So is she your daughter?”
“Yeah. Her name is Ally and I’m Kat by the way. Short for Katherine.” The women, Kat said with a smile then placed a cup of hot coffee in front of Tony and sat down in her chair.
“I’m Tony and this is Peter. My son.” Tony loved the way that sounded every time he said it. He was cutting up the banana for Peter who was still looking at the two new faces.
“How old is he?” Kat asked and Tony thought that it was weird how that was a thing parents always asked.
“He’s twenty-six months. How old is your kid?” Tony surprisingly liked this conversation. It was simple and easy.
“She’s thirty-two months old. Is he potty trained yet?” That took Tony by surprise. He barely thought about potty training Peter. He wasn’t even sure what the proper age to do that was.
Tony laughed. “Oh. No. He’s not gonna be potty trained anytime soon I don’t think.”
Tony got Peter’s attention enough to feed him some banana.
“Everyone is ready for potty training at different times. You have to be ready as much as he is but if the diaper changes are no problem for you and he doesn’t mind them then why rush into it.” The woman fed her toddler some oatmeal as she spoke. “But let me tell you something, I have two boys and they were impossible to potty train. Girls are a lot easier in my opinion.”
Tony laughed. “Thanks for the boost of confidence there.” He joked.
“Parenthood is no walk in the park. I woke up with a diaper full of poop last night then to feet this morning.” She explained and Tony actually laughed at that. Pretty much describes Peter. “I’m working on potty training her now though so hopefully we’ll be done with diapers soon.”
Tony didn’t want to potty train Peter just yet. He wasn’t ready for the diaper phase to be over. He still had to get two more years out of it but what if Peter wanted to get out of the diapers. He didn’t seem to be in any rush to get out of them right now so that was good.
“Daddy more ‘nana.” Peter reached for the spoon that Tony held in his hand.
“It’s coming, Pete.” Tony smiled and fed Peter his banana.
“Mama baby!” The other toddler said excitedly and pointed to Peter who looked over at her as he was shoving his fist into his mouth to get the cereal in there.
“Yeah, he’s younger than you.” Kat explained then wiped the girls face. She picked her out of the high chair and set her on her feet. “I gotta run to the bathroom, do you mind watching her until I get back?”
“Oh Um, sure.” Tony didn’t have much choice since Kat was already leaving the kitchen and leaving her daughter with him.
Peter tried to look down at her but then stopped caring when Tony fed him again. Tony glanced down at the girl who was now lifting her arms up to him so he put Peter’s soon down and lifted her onto his lap.
Peter immediately burst into tears and started trashing in the high chair. “No! No! Go ‘way!”
Ally watched Peter with wide eyes and looked up at Tony. “He cry.”
“Yeah, he is crying.” Tony knew why Peter was crying and it was because he picked up the other toddler but he was surrounded by toddlers and couldn’t have Peter freak out every time one goes near him. “Breathe, Pete. You’re still my kid, I’m just holding her.”
Peter didn’t calm down. He was throwing his head side to side and kicking his feet to try to get out of the chair while he screamed some non coherent words.
Kat walked in with a concerned look on her face. “What’s wrong?”
Tony handed Kat her kid. “Peter isn’t used to being around other toddlers so he gets mad when I give them attention and not him.”
Kat nodded in understanding. “Oh. I’m sorry. Poor thing, he wants all your attention.”
Tony nodded but Peter wasn’t calming down so he unbuckled him from the high chair and lifted him into his arms. Peter grabbed onto his shirt and continued to cry loudly.
Kat watched on sadly and then put her own toddler down and started to walk out of the kitchen to give Tony and his kid some privacy. “We’ll leave you two alone.”
Tony mentally thanked her and then pulled Peter away from his chest to look at him. “Peter, you’re okay. Stop crying, baby.”
Peter shook his head and pointed to nowhere in particular while he mumbled something that Tony didn’t understand. He stood up so he could walk around the kitchen a bit in hopes of Peter calming down but that was no use now since he probably woke up the whole household.
“Shh, it’s okay.” Tony tried to calm Peter down but it wasn’t working so he grabbed Peter’s hand and gently tried to put Peter thumb in his mouth for him until he could go upstairs to grab his pacifier and RoRo.
Thankfully Peter stopped crying once his thumb was in his mouth and then he started to hiccup sadly every few seconds while he sucked on his thumb. Tony put the dishes that he used to feed Peter into the sink and then wiped down the high chair and left the kitchen to go upstairs.
He didn’t numb into anyone in the hallway which was what he was expecting which was nice. When he walked into the room that they were staying in he saw that Pepper was already awake.
Tony walked in and shut the door behind him. “Did Peter wake you up?”
She looked at him confused. “No. I woke up and you guys were already gone.”
“I mean with his crying.” Tony clarified as he searched for RoRo and a pacifier.
“No, I didn’t hear anything and I’ve been up for awhile.” Pepper yawned to which Tony raised his eyes at then found a pacifier so he took Peter’s thumb out of his mouth and replaced it with the dragon pacifier.
“I already fed him and I was talking to someone named Kat. Do you know her?” Tony asked Pepper who was getting out of bed and finding her clothes for the day.
She thought for a moment then shook her head. “I don’t know her. There’s a lot of new faces here.”
Tony didn’t say anything after that. All the faces here were new to him.
He sat Peter on the bed and then sat next to him as they both waited for Pepper to finish up in the bathroom. He got bored after a while so he took Peter’s pacifier out of his mouth and poked him in the stomach.
“Hey.” Tony said to him and poked Peter again which got a giggle out of him. “Why are you so cute, huh?”
Peter continued to giggle as he delivered pokes to Peter’s squishy stomach that ended up in kisses all over his face which Peter loved.
Pepper walked out of the bathroom and smiled at the scene in front of her. “Are you boys done?”
Tony didn’t realize that Pepper walked out so he stopped his kissing attack on Peter and waited for the giggles to die down before he was lifting Peter up into the air and then placing him on his hip but Pepper snatched him from Tony.
“Hey, that’s my kid.” Tony said with no heat behind his words.
Pepper pressed her own kiss to Peter’s cheek then smiled at Tony. “He’s my kid too.”
Tony liked the way that sounded. It sent butterflies in his stomach at the reality of what his life was.
He couldn’t help the kiss he pressed to Peppers lips but then he was slapped in the face by a small chubby hand. “Me too, daddy!”
Tony pulled away from Peppers lips and then looked at Peter in her arms who was trying to get a kiss from him. “You want a kiss?”
Peter nodded his head and opened his mouth which was his way of giving a kiss. Tony couldn’t ignore Peter’s request so he gave Peter a quick kiss to his cheek but Peter shook his head and let out a loud whine.
“No! Me too, daddy!” Peter tried to explain by slapping a hand over Peppers mouth.
“Pete, be gentle.” Tony laughed despite what Peter just did. It was funny regardless.
“Daddy! Kiss Pe’er!” Peter tried again to reach his face towards Tony so Tony crossed the distance and pressed a kiss to Peter but had to wipe his lips after from all the spit that Peter had dripping onto his chin.
Peter smiled and clapped his hands together. “Come here.” Tony reached forward and grabbed Peter into his arms, holding him on his hip.
They walked out of the bedroom and made their way downstairs and into the living room where a few more moms and their kids had joined. Tony felt Peter hide his face in his neck and his thumb went into his mouth again.
It was interesting to see Peter’s reaction to strangers and toddlers his age since Tony didn’t have anyone come into the penthouse that wasn’t someone that Peter already knew.
Pepper walked into the kitchen and Tony lost sight of her so he sat down on the floor near some baby toys so he could get Peter to play with them. He tried to pry Peter off of him and when that didn’t work Tony just decided to hold the toys in front of Peter’s face.
“Look, Pete. It’s a fire truck.” Tony rolled the large toy in front of Peter and then Peter was curiously turning around to look at what Tony had in his hand.
Peter made sure to keep his thumb in his mouth but he let go of Tony so he could turn around on his lap and point to the toy. “Fuck.” Peter said and pointed to the toy while Tony was trying to not burst out laughing at his kids' pronunciation.
“No, Pete. It’s truck. Truck.” Tony laughed but Peter didn’t seem to understand what he had just said which only made it more funny. “Do you want to play with it?”
Peter nodded his head so Tony pulled his thumb from his mouth and encouraged him to get off of his lap to play with the toy when another boy came running over to them.
Peter stood there and watched as the boy came over to him and bent down near the fire truck then started pushing it away. Peter turned back to Tony and pointed to the boy who had just stolen his truck.
Tony wasn’t really sure what to do since he couldn’t really steal the truck back from a toddler that wasn’t even his. Thankfully he didn’t have to do anything because the boy’s mom was bringing the fire truck back to Peter.
“Here, sweetie.” She handed the truck to Peter who only looked at her with wide eyes. The women then turned to Tony. “I’m sorry about that.”
Tony waved her off. “It’s fine.”
Peter walked back over to Tony and sat on his lap with his thumb returning to his mouth. “Is Peter playing with any of the kids?”
Tony looked up and saw Pepper walking towards them with two cups in her hand, she handed one to him and sat down next to him then took a sip of her own.
“Thanks and no he’s not. I think he’s just taking in everything.” Tony brushed back the hair from Peter’s forehead as he spoke.
“He’ll warm up to some of them soon hopefully. It’ll be a great way for him to make some new friends.” Pepper said and it really made Tony think. He hadn’t even thought about the fact that Peter literally had no friends right now. All of his friends were fifteen years old and probably had no idea what had happened to him.
Peter would grow up now with a new set of friends and most two year olds didn’t have many friends but it would still be nice for Peter to associate with toddlers his own age every once and awhile.
“Pete, how about you go play with those boys over there?” Tony pointed to two boys who looked to be at least two or three that were playing with the mini kitchen thing that was in the corner of the living room.
Peter looked towards where Tony was pointing and then removed his thumb from his mouth and stood up. “Daddy come.”
Tony looked at Pepper before standing up, taking Peter’s smaller hand in his and walking over to the other boys. Peter stayed close to his leg and tried to hide behind them as Tony spoke. “Hi guys. Can Peter play with you?”
The boys stopped what they were doing to look up at Tony and then down to Peter then they were smiling and nodding their heads. “Yeah! He play!”
Tony kneeled down to be at Peter’s level and gently pushed him off towards the other toddlers. “Go play, bud. I’ll be right over there watching you the whole time.”
Peter took a few steps forward but then glanced back at Tony and shook his head. “No. I s’ay wit’ you.”
He didn’t want to force Peter to play if he didn’t want to even though Tony wanted to watch Peter interact with other toddlers. Tony stood back up and Peter was making grabby hands towards him so Tony lifted him up and walked over to Pepper who was now sitting on the couch.
A lot more people had woken up and had come down to join everyone so the room was getting pretty crowded. Tony sat down next to Pepper and held Peter on his lap.
“He’s still pretty shy, is he?” Tony looked over to see who was talking and saw that it was Kat from this morning. Tony nodded his head.
“Yeah, everything is so new to him still.” He explained and glanced down at Peter who was still watching everyone with wide eyes.
“He’ll warm up and eventually you won’t be able to get him to stop playing with the rest of the kids long enough to change his diaper.” Kat laughed but was being serious.
Tony couldn’t picture that happening but he agreed anyways.
About an hour had passed and more people kept walking in and out of the huge living room but Peter still didn’t move from his lap. Peter had shifted around and for awhile he sat on the floor between Tony’s feet but he didn’t give an interest in going very far.
Tony actually liked the conversation that was happening. He liked how no one talked to him like he was Tony Stark or Iron Man, he was just another dad there and he loved that.
He took himself out of the conversation because his attention ventured onto Peter who was sliding out of his lap and standing in front of him with both of his hands raised to his mouth, Tony knew that Peter did that whoever he was in thought.
Without glancing back at him, Peter started walking over to a group of toddlers that were sitting on a play mat. There were five of them there and they all looked to be Peter’s age, maybe a bit older.
Tony watched proudly as Peter sat on his butt and picked up a toy and started playing with it. The other toddlers saw the new face that had joined them and immediately surrounded Peter.
One of them poked Peter in the face but Peter just pushed their hands away and stood up to grab another toy.
It was interesting to watch. Tony found himself watching Peter play amongst the other toddlers with amusement. It was like watching a tv show only better since it starred his kid in it.
Peter didn’t pay any attention to Tony or anyone other than the five other toddlers that he was playing with. Pepper even seemed to notice that Peter went to go play because she was watching him as well.
“See,” Tony looked over at Kat. “he’s warmed up and is playing now.”
“Yeah, he hasn’t even glanced over at me once.” Tony said to her then turned his attention back onto Peter who was hugging another boy.
His heart melted at the scene. The boy had blonde hair and was a tad taller than Peter but otherwise he looked to be the same age. Tony watched for a little while longer as him and the blonde boy slowly started to leave the other group of toddlers and went to go play in another spot together.
The two of them were playing with some giant LEGO pieces and Tony saw teenager Peter at that moment. He knew Peter was in his baby mindset and he didn’t know if Peter would ever appear in his teenage mindset again but Tony still couldn’t help but think of teenage Peter and how him and Ned would spend hours playing with their legos.
Tony watched on for a little bit longer as the two boys giggled together and stacked their blocks up until Peter was standing up and lifting his shirt up. Tony watched on curiously because he had no idea what Peter was doing.
The blonde toddler helped lift up Peter’s shirt and then was trying to tug Peter’s pants down as well until Peter had his pants around his ankles. Tony had no idea what was going on but he stood up to stop the two boys from getting his kid undressed in a room full of strangers.
Tony got up and walked over to them then kneeled down so that he was at their level. “What are you boys up to?”
The blonde boy pointed to Peter’s diaper and said something that Tony didn’t understand. He then turned to Peter. “I poo poo, daddy.”
“You went poo?” Tony asked as he peeled the back of Peter’s diaper back and saw that he in fact did go poo. “Let’s go get you changed then.”
Tony pulled up Peter’s pants and then thought about how the other boy was trying to take Peter’s pants off probably so he could change him. The thought was cute but if the boy did manage to get Peter’s poopy diaper off then that would not have been cute.
Tony stood up and grabbed Peter’s hand to start leading him upstairs but Peter reached his hand out for the boy. “He come too, daddy.”
“Uh, I think his mommy is gonna miss him so he can wait here for us.” Tony didn’t really want to bring the boy upstairs and then have a worried mom look for her kid.
Just then a woman walked over to them. “Hi, I’m Lucy. I’m sorry, I saw my kid trying to undress your kid and I just came to take him off your hands. It looks like you’re about to go change your son’s diaper so I’ll just-”
The boy cut his mom off as she tried to pull him away from Peter. “No! Mommy I stay!”
“Your friend is gonna get his diaper changed with his daddy and then he’s going to come back.” The boy stomped his foot.
“He can come if he wants,” Tony suggested. He really didn’t mind if it was okay with the boy's mom. “I’m just gonna change my kid real quick then we’re coming back down.”
“If you don’t mind him coming with you then sure.” The women looked grateful and Tony imagined that she wanted at least fifteen minutes of freedom from her kid to socialize.
“I don’t mind. What’s his name?” Tony asked, he was sure that Peter didn’t even know.
“His name is Arlo. What’s your son's name?”
“Peter.” Tony supplied.
“I’m guessing he’s about two…” The women guessed.
“Yeah, he uh, just turned two.” Tony wasn’t about to explain the whole de-aging thing to anyone.
“My son’s two years and three months old so they’re pretty close in age.” Tony nodded. Yeah, they were close in age and they got along so maybe Peter and this boy could be friends. “Well, I’ll leave you to it.”
Tony watched her leave and then started guiding Peter and Arlo towards the stairs. He stood behind both boys as they crawled up the stairs so no one fell down. Peter was obviously trying to beat the boy to the top and Tony could see that he was winning by far. He was proud.
“I did it!” Peter cheered for himself as the other boy managed to reach the top as well.
“Good job, Pete.” Tony ruffled his hair and grabbed Peter’s hand and then the other boy grabbed his other hand and looked up at Tony with bright blue eyes.
“I good too.” He said, trying to seek reassurance from Tony as well.
“You too, Arlo. Good job.” Tony wasn’t used to dealing with two toddlers but it sure would be funny to watch them interact up close.
They made it to the bedroom so Tony pushed open the door after letting go of Arlo’s hand and then both toddlers ran into the bedroom.
“You have poopy bum.” The boy pointed to Peter and said while Tony was grabbing a diaper and wipes.
Peter nodded his head. “Yeah. My daddy change me.”
Tony’s heart melted at that once again. Peter was just too damn cute. “Come here, Pete. I’ll change you now.”
Peter raised his arms up to Tony so that he could be placed on the bed. Tony laid Peter down and pulled his pants off of him but then the boy was tugging on Tony’s leg so he looked down at him. “Me up too.”
Tony didn’t want to say no to him so he picked the other toddler up and placed him on the bed. Tony wondered if the kid was potty trained or if he was in diapers still, he really hoped the kid was still in diapers because he was feeling a bit self conscious from not having potty trained Peter yet after that conversation that he had with Kat this morning.
Tony undid the straps on the diaper and lifted Peter’s legs into the air. The boy was sitting next to Peter and was watching what Tony was doing as if it was extremely interesting.
Tony rolled up the dirty diaper then tossed it into the diaper bag. He started wiping Peter’s butt then he looked at the boy who was watching him wipe Peter’s butt.
“Are you still in diapers, kid?” Tony asked. He suddenly felt like a creep asking that question but hey, he wasn’t the one watching someone else get their butt wiped.
The boy looked up at Tony and lifted up his shirt which revealed the diaper sticking out from his pants. “Yeah! Mommy change me.”
“Yeah, I’m sure she does.” Tony finished wiping Peter’s butt and then moved onto the front part then the blonde boy tried to reach his hand out to touch Peter’s private area but Tony stopped him. “What are you doing, kid?”
The boy looked up at Tony with big eyes. “I help.”
“It’s okay. I can do it. Look I’m almost done.” Tony looked at Peter’s face who was watching the boy with a bored look on his face as he tapped on his belly, waiting for Tony to be done.
“Oh you do it.” The boy said then went back to watching Tony finish up with the wiping and then put a clean diaper on Peter and put his pants back on.
“All done.” Tony announced like he always did when he was done with Peter’s diaper changing. He grabbed the bag and tied it before tossing it in the garage and washing his hands.
He walked back out of the bathroom and saw that Peter was showing the boy RoRo. “‘Dis mine. He mine.”
The blonde toddler tried to reach out and touch RoRo but Peter pulled his rabbit away. “No touch.”
Tony laughed at the scene going on in front of him before he walked out of the bathroom and held his arms out for whatever toddler reached him first. “Let’s go back downstairs.”
Arlo was the first one who lifted up his arms to be picked up so Tony lifted him off the bed and then placed him on the floor followed by Peter.
Tony took Peter’s hand in his and expected Arlo to grab onto his hand as well but instead Arlo grabbed onto Peter’s hand as they made their way to the stairs. Usually Tony would carry Peter down the stairs but he went first just in case both boys started tumbling down the stairs.
Peter stuck his thumb in his mouth and held onto the railing the best he could as he walked down the stairs. Tony could already see that Peter was becoming sleepy and that it was almost time for his nap.
Once they got to the bottom of the stairs, Peter took his thumb out of his mouth and both toddlers ran into the living room to go back to playing.
They ran over to the play kitchen set and started making a mess of that while Tony went to go sit down on the couch next to Pepper who still hadn’t moved from her spot on the couch.
She was drinking what looked like a strawberry smoothie as she looked up at him. “Hmm, you’re back. Did you change Peter’s diaper?”
“Yeah, his new friend came with us.” Tony pointed to the corner where Peter and Arlo were playing.
“That’s so cute. How old is the boy?” Peppers face softened once she saw the two of them.
Tony tried to remember what Arlos mom had said. “I think he’s a few months older than Peter.”
“I’m gonna go talk to them.” Pepper got up to make her way over to the two boys and Tony followed behind her.
“Daddy, I make b’ueberry.” Peter explained as he handed a pot of nothing over to Tony.
“Thank you, baby. This looks delicious.” Tony pretended to drink out of the pot but Peter stopped him.
“No daddy. Hot.” Peter grabbed the pot back from Tony, opened the pretend fridge and placed the pot inside he then stuck his thumb in his mouth as he continued to cook some food.
“Are you ready for your nap time, bud?” Tony asked Peter who shook his head and kept on playing.
Pepper crossed her legs and patted Peter on his diapered butt. “Wanna introduce me to your new friend, Peter?”
Peter looked at Pepper and then pointed to Arlo. “He play wit’ me.”
“I can see that.” Pepper smiled at the two but Tony didn’t want her to engage Peter in a conversation right now. Pepper then turned to the boy. “Hi, I’m Pepper. What’s your name?”
Arlo turned to Pepper and then to Peter. “Pe’er daddy change him.”
“Yeah, he did. Where’s your mommy?” Pepper asked the blonde toddler but he only shrugged his shoulders.
“I dunno. Wanna p’ay wit’ us?” He asked Pepper hopefully.
“I’d love to play with you after Peter has his nap.” She said softly.
“No nap.” Peter weakly protested even after Tony gathered him into his arms and stood up.
“Yes nap.” Tony said back to Peter and reached his hand down towards the boy. “Let’s go bring you back to your mom.”
The boy took hold of Tony’s hand then they all walked into the kitchen where Arlo’s mom was talking to a couple of other moms. She looked at Tony and then down at her baby and held her arms out for him. “Hi Arlo. Are you done playing with your new friend?”
Arlo shook his head. “He sleeps.”
“It’s Peter’s nap time so he’ll be done later to play.” Tony told Lucy, if he remembers correctly.
“Of course. It’s Arlo’s nap time soon as well so we’ll see you guys later.”
Tony waved bye to them with Peter’s free hand and then turned around to walk upstairs to the bedroom to put Peter down for his nap.