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"If Minjoon starts trying to fight London about holding Mina, just let them duke it out." Yuki tells Mr. Anderson as she takes her son's shoes off. "They'll be fine."

Minjoon starts crawling around the living room toward Mina's car seat. He pulls on it to stand himself on his knees and looks inside.

Mr.Anderson opens his mouth and blinks at her. "Is that a fair fight? London's one and half, Minjoon's only eight months."

"It is." Seokjin responds as he puts London down. "Trust me."

She runs to the car seat and frowns at Minjoon. He looks up at her and frowns back as he tries to pull the baby's car seat toward him.

London squats and takes Mina's pacifier out her mouth. She puts it on the floor and gives Mina hers.

"I'm still tryna figure out why she does that." Jania says as she watches them.

"I keep wondering why they're disappearing aaannd Mina has them all." Seokjin says. "But London cries when she gets home and realizes she doesn't have hers but won't take it back from Mina when we try to give it to her." He fishes around in London's diaper bag for the spare he brought, knowing she'd do this.

"Really?" Namjoon says as he starts laughing. "That's so cute."

"All fun and games until she's mad at you for the day because she gave her pacifier away." He says as he walks to give it to her. She takes it and puts it in her mouth and smiles at Mina. London looks up at her dad and points to the baby.

"Yeah, I know. You're matching now."

London squeals and starts clapping. Minjoon's eyes light up seeing her clap and joins her, kicking his feet as well. Babies bounce joy off of each other and there's no greater example of it than these two.

"I'm gonna cry." Jania says all of a sudden as she looks at the scene.

"Same." Yuki says as she blinks a few times.

London grabs her maracas from her bag and tries to give one to Mina. She holds it out for the baby but she just looks at it. It's bright and she hears the noise as London shakes it.

"Dada!" London says and shakes her maraca.

"She can't take it yet. She's too little to reach for it." Seokjin explains. London's little eyebrows furrow and she shakes her head.

"Baba!" She shakes her maraca at Mina.

"I know you want to give it to her but she can't reach."

London looks around at the adults and they're all giving her the same look. Her little lip quivers and she drops both instruments and starts to cry.

Minjoon picks them up and shakes one, setting the other in Mina's car seat. He smiles and drools before trying to put the toy in his mouth.

Seokjin picks London and holds him against her as he presses his lips into a thin line.

"Dadaaa!" London cries and points to the car seat.

"London, I don't know what you want me to do. She's not going to hold it all the way."

She cries harder and Mina looks in the direction of the screams but keeps turning her head to Minjoon shaking the maracas with a grin on his face. She sucks the pacifier as she sits there peacefully.

"Okay, okay." Hoseok says as he walks to Mina's car seat. He takes her out of it and puts her in her pink fluffy baby pillow. It's, unsurprisingly, customized with her first and middle name on it.