Double the trouble
Tony loved listening to the two toddlers giggling away about something on the drive to the park.
He had absolutely no idea what they were saying no matter how hard he tried to make out a word. It was cute to drive and listen to them instead of how he used to listen to his music on full blast.
He parked the car in the parking lot and saw that there were a lot of people in the park but they were going on a hike so they didn’t have to worry about all the people.
Tony got out of the car and made sure to take Peter out first so he didn’t think that he was being left inside the car again.
“Hi baby.” Tony smiled at him and unbuckled Peter from his car seat then lifted his two year old into his arms. “Are you ready for our walk?”
Peter nodded his head as Tony shut the door and walked around the car to get Arlo from his car seat. Arlo was reaching out for Peter once Peter was in view but Tony couldn’t give Peter to the other toddler just yet.
He lifted Arlo out of his car seat and then held both boys on his hips, shutting the door with his foot. “Okay, you guys need to listen to me because when I put you down, you can’t run off. Otherwise we’re going right back home. Do you understand me?”
Arlo was nodding his head and sticking out his tongue while Peter was pointing to the park in the distance. “I wan’ go ‘dare!”
“Peter, did you hear what daddy said?” Tony asked him and Peter was looking at him then nodding his head. “What did I say?”
“Um, Um, you go park.” Peter answered him with confidence. Tony rolled his eyes at the toddler.
“Don’t run off.” He said simply then placed both boys on the ground. Arlo stayed close to Tony’s legs while Peter ran ahead three feet then stopped.
Tony knew this was going to be stressful if he made it stressful. He knew what he signed up for, he was bringing two two year olds on a hike so he knew it was going to be wild but that was okay.
He didn’t want to carry both diaper bags so he put mostly everything into Peter’s bag and put that on his shoulders then he shut the trunk.
“Alright, boys. Let’s go.” Tony announced and started walking. He waited for the toddlers to walk in front of him before he began walking more. “See that forest there? We’re gonna walk on that path there.”
Peter reached out to hold onto Arlo’s hand and Tony melted at the sight. He was already taking his phone out to snap a few pictures of the two of them. He wanted to try to not use his phone unless it was for an emergency but he knew he couldn’t resist taking a few pictures of them here and there.
Once they made it into the forest, there were three paths to choose from with an estimate of how long each path would take and a map of what it looked like.
Tony didn’t want to go on one that long and confusing when he was outnumbered so he chose path three that was approximately an hour long and had a small river you had to cross.
“This way.” Tony pointed to path three. Both boys looked up at him and then started walking down the pathway that he pointed to.
It was actually really nice. Tony was enjoying it a lot for the first couple of minutes. The boy’s were still holding hands, Peter had to stop at every rock in the ground and touch it and there were a lot of rocks so that was already going to double their time.
Peter let go of Arlos hand and started running up ahead while he giggled about something. “Peter. Stop running please.”
Peter continued to run down the pathway which started to get Tony’s heart pounding because it was a straight path but it was starting to curve off and Tony didn’t want to lose sight of his kid.
“Peter! Stop running!” Tony called out to him again. Peter wasn’t a fast runner with his tiny legs but he was definitely getting really far.
Tony took off running after Peter while he kept glancing back at Arlo every so often to make sure he was okay. He caught up to Peter and grabbed him by the arm then kneeled down in front of the toddler.
“Hey. I told you to stop running.” Tony spoke firmly. Peter’s giggles were dying out. “Do you want to go back to the car?”
Peter shook his head, his bottom lip already trumbling. “No. I wan’ go ‘dare.”
“We will go there but you can’t run away from daddy.” Tony spoke slowly so Peter understood.
Arlo had caught up to them and held onto Tony’s arm. “I wan’ baba.”
“Okay…” Tony looked around for somewhere to sit and spotted a fallen down tree that they could sit on while they had a short break. “Let’s go sit down over here.”
Tony had to hold both boys’ hands as they walked over the sticks and leafs to get to the log. He picked Peter up first and sat him on the log and then lifted up Arlo.
“Dada, I wan’ baba.” Peter made grabby hands out for Tony while he was digging through the diaper bag to grab both of the bottles. He found Arlo’s first and handed it to him and then found Peter’s.
He went to grab his water bottle but he paused because both of the toddlers were drinking so loudly. It was as if they hadn’t drank anything in days. He also couldn’t help but take his phone out again and snap a few pictures of them.
He sent one of them to Arlo’s mom for an update just so she wouldn’t worry about them too much.
After their water break was over, Tony put all the waters back into the bag and picked the toddlers up one by one and put them back on the ground so they could continue with their walk.
“Look at the red bird in the tree.” Tony pointed up in the tree and then both boys stopped and started looking around wildly. He kneeled down behind them and pointed up in the trees.
Peter squealed excitedly when he saw it which caused Arlo to do the same and then both of them were screaming happily.
“Do you know what he’s called?” Tony asked to stop the screaming. People might think he was killing them in the forest.
Peter pointed up at the bird. “Birdy.”
Tony smiled at him. “Yeah, but he’s called a cardinal.”
Arlo attempted to repeat it but he didn’t do a very good job.
“Nice try. Let’s see what other animals we can find.” Tony said then stood up so they could continue walking.
They got to a particular big hill that wasn’t on the map so Tony sighed. The hill had rocks and sticks sticking up which you would think would make it easier but all Tony could see was both toddlers bashing their faces in so he grabbed onto both of their hands and practically carried them up the hill.
Not even a second later, Peter was running ahead again. “Peter! No, stop running.”
Arlo took off running this time too so Tony had no choice but to take off running after them as well. He could hear water around too and he had absolutely no idea how deep the water was so he quickly grabbed onto Arlo’s arm and then grabbed Peter’s shirt with his other hand.
“Okay, we're going home.” Tony lied, he didn’t plan on taking them home but both boys had to think that since they couldn’t keep running ahead like that.
It was just him there, it would be different if Pepper was with him or if it was just Peter but when one kid ran off, then that made the other kid left alone and unsupervised while he went to go chase the run away.
“No! I stay! Dada.” Peter started whining loudly. “I wan’ stay.”
Tony let go of both boys and knelt down to be closer to their eye level. “No more running away from me. It’s not safe. What if you get lost in the forest and a bear takes you away?”
Arlos and Peter’s eyes widened. “Oh no.” Arlo said in shock.
Tony nodded. “Oh no exactly. We can walk until we get somewhere safe to run.”
Peter reached up to grab onto Tony’s hand once he was standing up and then Arlo copied Peter and did the same thing.
“Me too.” Said Arlo.
The three of them continued to walk on the pathway, both toddlers swinging on his hands every so often until they simultaneously let go at the same time to walk ahead of him.
It was funny to just stay back and watch the two of them. Peter would pick something off the ground every so often and then show it to Arlo while they babbled on about something with each other.
Tony watched as Peter picked up a small pebble and put it in his mouth. “Peter. Out. No, give me that.”
Tony grabbed Peter by the arm so he didn’t run off and choke on the pebble. “Open your mouth.”
Peter grinned but kept his mouth closed so Tony had to force his fingers into his kids mouth to pull the freaking pebble out. “That’s yuckie. Don’t put things in your mouth.”
Peter waddled away from him and ran up to Arlo to catch up to him.
Tony quickly realized that he had a wild kid. Peter had ran away from him multiple times, encouraged Arlo to do the same and had put things in his mouth all while Arlo wasn’t doing any of those things.
It could simply be because Arlo is with a friend and his friend's dad and not completely comfortable doing those things while Peter is since he’s with his dad and is comfortable doing those things but Tony isn’t sure.
Tony heard some voices up ahead and then he saw a dog walk around the corner on a leash.
Peter screamed excitedly and ran back over to Tony. “Bear! Bear! It big!”
Tony held Peter’s head while Peter barreled into his legs. “It’s a dog, Pete.”
The women walked out with the dog accompanied by a man and they smiled at the toddlers then looked up at Tony. The man’s face fell once he realized who he was looking at and Tony mentally cursed.
The woman held the dog closer to herself. “His name is Brandy.”
Peter jumped up and down on Tony’s foot as he looked at the dog. “Doggie!”
Arlo came running over and hid behind Tony’s legs.
“We better get going on our way. It was nice to see you.” The woman said and continued to walk away.
Peter waved at the dog. “Bye bye.”
Tony's heart melted at the sight. Whenever Peter did that little wave, his heart grew in size.
Peter walked behind Tony's legs to look at Arlo. He shrugged. “Wha ‘dare? Come.” Peter took the other toddlers hand in his and led him back into the path. “It bear but not, it doggie.”
“Do it be’ong ‘da’re ones?” Arlo asked but Tony had absolutely no idea what he was asking. Apparently Peter did since he was nodding his head.
A few minutes later, they were reaching the stream of water and the sound was so relaxing. It sounded so loud where it blocked out all other sounds. Tony walked in front of the boys so they didn’t fall into the water that was up ahead.
It wasn’t necessarily deep but it was still water and water of any kind was dangerous for a child if an adult wasn’t present.
Peter excitedly ran up to it and squatted down just in front. He patted his hands into the water and then licked his hand.
Tony rolled his eyes at his kid. He stood over the small stream of water so that it ran between his legs. He held out his arms for whatever toddler would come to him first which looked to be Arlo.
“I’m gonna lift you over the stream.” Tony told the boy as Arlo reached up for him. Tony lifted him up and carried him over the steam but there was still another stream that was a lot deeper, it was more of a small river. “Stay here, Arlo.”
Tony watched the boy look towards the river excitedly so he grabbed his arm, “Actually, sit down. Sit on this rock here and don’t move.”
Arlo sat down on the rock and waited patiently while Tony had to cross the stream again to grab Peter and lift him over the water while he giggled and kicked his feet excitedly.
Once both toddlers were on the right side, Tony quickly debated how he was going to get the boys over the much deeper water. There was a log that they could cross but it would be hard to get them both across without the other one following and falling in.
He decided to bring Peter over first since he knew that would stop Peter from following him. He held onto Peter’s hands in front of him like a parent teaching their new baby to walk so they could cross the log.
“Walk across the log, Petey.” Tony told him. “You Wait here, Arlo.”
It was actually fairly easy to get across the log. Peter seemed to like crossing it which was fun. Once they made it across the log, Tony sat Peter on a rock and put the backpack down so hopefully Peter would stay. “Can you hold the bag for me?”
Peter nodded his head so Tony walked across the log and held out his hand for Arlo then did the same thing to get across the log.
Peter was trying to open the diaper bag while he opened and closed his fist desperately which Tony knew meant that Peter wanted his milk but it was too early for that.
“Baba baba.” Peter said and then looked up at Tony.
“Are you boys hungry? Should we have lunch now?” Tony asked them and both of the toddlers were nodding their heads.
“Yeah, hun’gy.” Arlo said and rubbed his stomach so Tony looked around and found a grassy patch between some trees where the sun was shining on. All they had to do was jump over another small stream of water.
“Okay. Lunch time.” Tony picked the bag up and lifted both boys across the water then they sat down and eagerly waited for the food while Tony grabbed a picnic blanket that Pepper had thankfully packed for them.
He laid it out, “Come sit on this so your bums stay clean.” Tony told them which resulted in both boys giggling.
Peter helped wipe off Arlo’s pants on the back and then turned around. “My turn.”
Arlo did the same to Peter, missing a bunch of dirt but it was adorable anyways. Tony watched the two of them interact with each other and how cute it was.
He handed both boys their sippy cups while he got the food out but then he saw the diapers and realized that he totally forgot about diaper changes.
He pulled out Peter’s diaper and looked at him. “Do you need your diaper changed?”
Peter shook his head but Tony knew he did need a change so he held his arms out for Peter to get up and come to him. Peter did so, standing up and walking over to Tony so Tony stuck just hand down the front of his pants and felt that his diaper was full.
“Lay down.” Tony told him then Peter laid down in front of him while Tony grabbed the wipes. He pulled Peter’s pants down to his ankles and unstrapped the front of the diaper, pulling it down.
He didn’t know how this had slipped his mind. He was doing diaper changes every hour, sometimes more than that with Peter. It had been a good two hours since he last changed his kid.
Tony lifted Peter’s legs up so he could wipe his backside and then folded up his diaper.
Arlo crawled over to him and grabbed Peter’s sippy cup. “I wan’.”
Tony watched Arlo take Peter’s sippy cup and hand Peter his. Peter looked at the new sippy cup in his hand before plopping it into his mouth.
Arlo grabbed the dirty diaper and went to run away with it so Tony had to sit up and grab his arm. “Hey, that’s dirty. Give me that.”
Peter took that opportunity to roll onto his stomach and stand up. He had his pants around his ankles when he started running on the grass while he laughed mischievously.
“Peter. Come back here.” Tony watched Peter run away diaperless and then fall into his hands and knees in the grass. He turned back to Arlo who was still holding onto the diaper. Tony was scared of the full diaper opening up and exploding. “Arlo, let go.”
Peter kicked his shoes and pants off and made a run for it in the grass, running freely. Tony finally got the diaper from Arlo and stood up to go chase Peter.
“Peter. What do you think you’re doing?” Tony caught up to his kid and lifted him into his arms. He couldn’t be mad at him at that moment since he was just trying to have fun and it was funny to see.
Peter continued to giggle, even as Tony picked up his forgotten pants and shoes then sat back down on the blanket. He laid his kid back down and struggled to hold him still while he put a clean diaper on him and left him like that.
He would put his pants on when they started hiking again.
Tony looked at Arlo. It was his responsibility to change the boy’s diaper as well but he paused because the only diaper he had ever changed was Peter’s.
He had to do it though. He reached into the bag and grabbed Arlo’s diapers then patted the spot where Peter just was. “Come, Arlo. Time to change your diaper.”
Arlo stood up and walked over to Tony then laid down in the same position that Peter was just in. He pulled his pants down to his ankles and hesitated before undoing the diaper straps.
It was just different. If he got Peter’s pee or poop on him then he was okay with that because Peter was his kid but if that happened with Arlo, he would be disgusted at that.
He had to do what he had to do so he undid the diaper straps and pulled down the front of Arlos diaper, lifting his legs up to quickly wipe him clean and then he was putting a fresh diaper on him and pulling his pants back up.
Tony grabbed a baby wipe and thoroughly wiped his hands clean before he grabbed the food out of the bag.
Arlo crawled back over to his spot. Both toddlers were watching with wide eyes as Tony handed them their food.
Pepper had made them all peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with some ham slices, cheese and goldfish as well as some chopped up strawberries, grapes and blueberries.
She really went all out. It made Tony love her even more. He should take her out to a fancy restaurant for a date night sometime soon. Along with Peter.
Peter started to eat the food and chewed it loudly like he always did. Between the two of them, all Tony could hear was munching going on and it sounded funny.
He bit into his own sandwich but then Peter was standing up to look at his. “Wan’ bite.”
“You want a bite of mine when you still have yours?” Tony asked and laughed when Peter nodded his head seriously. He rolled his eyes but let Peter have a bit anyways and then Peter was getting comfortable in his lap.
Arlo was bouncing up and down in his spot while he ate which caused Peter to do the same on Tony’s lap.
“What are you guys doing?” Tony asked while he poked Peter in his stomach.
Both of the toddlers laughed some more and then Peter was standing up to go sit next to Arlo and eat his food with him.
They ate in silence for a few minutes while Peter and Arlo ate almost all of their food. Tony could tell they were both full when they started squishing the berries in their hands.
He reached forward to grab the containers from them and closed them. “Okay, all done. How about you guys go rinse your hands in the stream of water over there?”
Peter looked at where Tony was pointing to and then went to stand up to go walk towards the water. The water was safe for them to rinse their hands in since it wasn’t deep. It barely passed Peter’s ankles when he walked in there.
Tony quickly grabbed Arlo to take off his shoes so he didn’t get those wet while he was in the stream.
Tony watched them while he packed everything back up in the diaper bag. He looked up and watched as Peter sat down in the stream, soaking his diaper in the process.
He couldn’t be mad at him. Peter was being a toddler and having fun so Tony let him. Arlo seemed to find that fun as well because he sat down next to Peter, dressed in his pants still.
Tony sighed. They were going to do what they wanted to do but he wanted to take his wet pants off of Arlo so he stood up and pulled down the boys pants so they were just in their diapers and shirts.
While he watched them play in the water, giggling nonstop, Tony pulled out two clean diapers and pants for the boys to get changed into after they were done playing.
He took out his phone to record them and take a few pictures of them. It was so funny to watch Peter because his eyes were focused on his own kid mostly.
Peter was standing in the water then he would lean down to put his hands in the water so that his butt was sticking up in the air and he started shaking it.
Tony couldn’t stop laughing at his kid. He was too precious for this world and Tony wanted to protect him from everything bad that might come his way.
He stood up to kneel down by the water and then Peter was standing up and holding onto Tony’s knees for support. “Daddy. ‘Da water go like sp’ash.”
“Show me how the water splashes.” Tony said to Peter and watched him sit in the water, on top of the pebbles and began hitting the water with his hands. “Woah! That’s so cool, baby.”
Arlo was tapping Tony on the arm to get his attention. “Me too! I do it!”
Tony then watched as both toddlers sat in the water and started splashing the water excitedly. It was definitely a different experience to have to look after two toddlers for the day but Tony loved it and definitely wanted to do it again.
They were giggling loudly together and the sound was so perfect and innocent but definitely double the trouble.
Peter stood up but his diaper was sagging down so much that half his butt was showing. Tony tried to pull it up but it only fell back down right after.
“It’s time to go now boys. We still have to finish our walk until we get back to the car.” Tony had no idea how much more longer their walk was. They had definitely finished about half the walk by now.
They had been on the trail for about an hour and a half so they should have about twenty more minutes left of walking ahead of them.
Tony just hoped that they didn’t get tired and start to fall asleep anytime soon.
Peter started tugging on the front of his diaper and walking over to Tony, clearly uncomfortable with the river water in his diaper.
Tony pulled the wet diaper off of Peter and put it in the plastic bag with the rest of the dirty ones since there was currently no garage around. He sat back down on the blanket and grabbed the wipes.
“Arlo, come over here where I can see you, buddy.” Tony told the other toddler who was still splashing around. He came running back over and pulled off his wet diaper himself, tossing it to the side.
Tony hoped that Peter didn’t learn how to do that because that wouldn’t be fun to have to clean up.
Tony did his best to wipe down Peter’s legs and diapered area so that he could get most of the water off of him. The water was probably fresh but he could never be too sure and preferred it if he cleaned most of it off his kid.
Peter laid down and let Tony dress him in a clean diaper and pants then put his socks and shoes on. Peter yawned and stuck his thumb in his mouth which Tony hated because it was nap time but they were in the middle of the forest.
He handed Peter his water and sat him up so he wouldn’t fall asleep.
“Come, Arlo.” Tony did the same with Arlo. He wiped him down and then put a clean diaper on him followed by some clean pants and then his socks and shoes. “Do you want your water?”
“Yeah.” Arlo took his sippy cup from Tony and the two of them drank while Tony folded up the blanket and packed it back into the diaper bag. He took both cups from the toddlers after and packed those away and then they were back on their way.
It was obvious that both of them were starting to get exhausted because they were walking slowly ahead.
“Let’s see if we can find any more birds.” Tony said to hopefully get them to wake up a bit and it worked because both boys were now excitedly looking up at the sky.
The trees were covering mostly everything now so it was fairly dark in the forest to begin with. Arlo pointed up in the tree and started screaming excitedly.
“I see da birdy!” He yelled and then Peter was looking up at where he was pointing and started making grabby hands towards the trees.
“I wan’! I wan’!” Peter yelled.
Tony ran his hand through his sweaty curls. “He wants to be free, baby. You can’t have him.”
Peter put his arms down and turned to look up at Tony to say something but Tony couldn’t understand what he was saying. He was usually good at interpreting Peter’s baby gibberish but sometimes he had absolutely no idea so he just agreed.
“Yeah, Petey.” Tony said, not knowing what he was saying yes to.
Peter, content with the answer, continued to walk down the pathway with Arlo. Tony could see the sun coming up ahead through the pathway and as they got closer, he could see a field that went on for miles. He actually had no idea where they were.
He could see both boys starting to get excited and he knew what they both wanted to do. “You guys can go run.”
“Yay! We go fast.” Arlo said and then both boys were off. They were running through the grass together while Tony walked behind them so he didn’t lose sight of them even though the grass was quite short.
All he could hear was them laughing away even when they were way in the distance. Tony stood there and waited for them to get tired and come back to him.
It took longer than he expected but he enjoyed watching them run freely in the field. Especially Peter since Tony knew he was always on the go. He was definitely going to have his hands full with that one.
As they were running towards him, Tony took a bunch of pictures of them running for him. Peter reached him first and barreled into his legs so Tony kneeled down so he could press a bunch of kisses to his face.
Arlo came after and was making grabby hands. “Baba. Baba.”
Both of them were panting heavily so Tony quickly grabbed out both sippy cups and handed them to each toddler. He grabbed his own water bottle and took a few sips for himself.
Once everyone was done, they were crossing the field and back into another forest. At the entrance of the forest, there was a sign that read, Almost there! with a tiny map showing that they looped back around and only had to walk down one hill until they were back at the park.
Peter took off running once they were back into the forest and there were a lot more tree roots sticking out of the ground so Tony tried to stop him. “Peter! Stop running!”
Peter didn’t listen so Tony had to watch as Peter tripped over one of the tree roots and went face first into the muddy ground. He sat up and immediately started crying so Tony walked over to Peter and picked him off the ground.
“You’re okay. Look, you just have a little bit of dirt on your face.” Tony reassured him as he brushed all the dirt off of Peter’s face.
Arlo walked over to him and looked at Peter with concern. “It ‘kay. Don’ cry.”
Peter reached up for Tony, still crying so Tony lifted his kid up into his arms and then Peter stuck his thumb in his mouth and immediately stopped crying.
Arlo lifted his arms up for Tony as well so Tony bent down and picked up the other toddler.
He held both of them in his arms as he walked the rest of the trail which was actually only about two minutes. That sign wasn’t wrong when they said almost there.
Arlo kicked his feet once Tony walked back out into the field by the park and the parking lot so Tony put him on the ground but continued to hold Peter.
They walked back to the car and Tony took the dirty diaper bag out of the actual diaper bag to throw into the garbage and then headed to the car.
Arlo was lifting his arms up for Tony again so Tony decided to put him in his car seat first. He didn’t want what happened last time when Peter thought he was getting left behind.
After Arlo was in his car seat and buckled in, Tony walked to the back of his car and opened the trunk. He put all of Arlo’s stuff back into his bag so it would be ready for his mom to pick him up.
“Are you tired, Pete?” Tony asked him when he shut the trunk and went to go put Peter in his car seat.
“Uh huh. Wan’ milk.” Peter made his milk grabby hands and Tony realized that he probably should have planned it a bit better or he should have brought milk.
“I’ll give you your bottle once we get home, baby.” Tony told him. He placed Peter in his car seat but Peter started to cry so Tony reached over and grabbed the first pacifier he saw and handed it to Peter.
“I wan’ paci.” Arlo started whining so Tony finished buckling Peter up and then walked back to the trunk to grab Arlo’s pacifier. He handed it to him and smiled when Arlo thanked him, “‘Fank ‘ou.”
“You’re welcome, Arlo.” Tony shut the door and jumped into the front seat. He sent a picture of both boys in their car seats and nearing sleep to Arlo’s mom to let her know that he was driving back to the tower and she could come pick him up whenever she wanted to.
By the time Tony arrived back at the tower, he pulled up to the front since he could see Arlo’s mom waiting there by the gate that led to his private garage. He sent her a text to follow him inside the gate so they didn’t do their toddler exchange in public.
He pulled his car to the side and turned it off. He decided to just leave it out there for the night which he usually did when he had to move cars around inside.
Tony got out of the car and walked around the side to get Arlo out. “He’s about to fall asleep but we had a great time.”
Tony started to unbuckle the toddler from his car seat as his mom walked over to get him. “Aw I’m so glad. Thank you so much for doing this. I needed the day off plus it’s nice for him to play with a boy the same age as him.”
“Yeah, no problem. Pete and him had a blast. I’ll send you a bunch of pictures of him later.” Tony said to her then lifted Arlo up and handed him over to his mom.
“Mommy.” Arlo reached for her and placed his head on her shoulder once he was in her arms.
“Hi Arlo. Did you have fun?” His mom asked him and Arlo was nodding his head but his eyes were shutting. She then turned to Tony. “Did he go poop at all?”
Tony shook his head. It was weird getting asked that question but it was totally normal and this was his life now. He would want to know if Peter went poop if he was away for the day. “No poop but expect one soon because we ate a big lunch.”
Arlo’s mom laughed. “Okay. Thank you so much for everything.”
Tony started to get Arlo’s car seat out of his car and carried it over to Arlo’s moms car for her but as soon as he shut the door, he could hear Peter start to cry inside his car still.
“I got it. You go get your kid.” She said so Tony handed her the car seat and went to get his cranky kid.
He opened up the door and felt his heart break at the sight. Peter was crying and desperately reaching for him. “I’m here, baby. It’s okay.”
“Daddy! Daddy!” Peter cried as Tony unbuckled him from the car seat and lifted him up then placed him on the ground.
Tony shut the car door and went to go walk back over to Arlo and his mom but Peter was desperately reaching his arms up for him. “Dada! Up!”
“Come here.” Tony picked Peter up and pressed a kiss to his temple. He then remembered the diaper bag in the trunk so he grabbed both and handed Arlo’s mom his bag.
“Oh thank you. I almost forgot.” She took the bag from him and walked around the car to place it in the trunk so Tony took that time to say goodbye to Arlo.
“Bye Arlo. We’ll see you later.” Tony said and used Peter’s hand to wave to him but Peter was having none of it. He cried into Tony’s shoulder loudly.
“Bye bye.” Arlo waved to him with a new pacifier in his mouth. Tony never understood how toddlers could go through so many pacifiers.
After saying one last goodbye to the both of them, Tony carried Peter inside where he was going to give Peter his well deserved bottle of milk and put him down for a nap.
As for Peter’s very first play date, he could say it was a huge success.