Matthew and Pidge
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What... Is that?"
Colleen and Samuel laughed at their six-year-old son as he stared doe-eyed at the bundle in Colleen's arms.
"Your new baby sister." Samuel mused, ruffling Matthew's mop. "I thought that you'd know that with your big brain."
Matthew stuck his tongue out at his father as he pulled himself up onto the hospital bed by his mother. "Mama, can I hold her?"
Colleen hummed as Samuel helped Matthew settle back against the pillows beside his mother. "Of course, darling." She gathered the pink bundle and helped Matthew hold her.
Matthew giggled and held her as best as he could, trying really hard to support her head and pet her cheek at the same time. "She looks funny!" He sniggered. "I love her! Can we keep her?"
Samuel slapped a hand over his mouth and hunched over to keep himself from bursting out laughing. Matthew grinned up at his mother, his bottom tooth missing. Colleen smiled and kissed his forehead. "Of course, sweetheart."
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"No, no, no!" Matthew squealed, tearing the wires away from Katie. The ten-month-old blinked owlishly, then her face scrunched up and became red. Matthew gasped as Katie began to scream and cry. "No, Katie!" Matthew picked her up and rocked her unsteadily. "Don't cry, I'm sorry, okay? But you can't eat those or you'll get hurt!"
Katie nuzzled him, fisting his shirt. She calmed down and cooed, wide amber eyes searching her brother's messy room.
Matthew continued to rock her, and sighed. "I don't like it when mom and dad make me watch you. You try to eat everything." Katie giggled, tugging on his shirt. Matthew grinned and kissed her head. "Love you, Katie-Kat."
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Katie whined and pouted. "Bubba!" She cried as she ran on her chubby little legs. Her black dress shoes clacked on the wooden floors. "Bubba!"
"Katie?" Matthew rushed downstairs. "What's wrong?"
The two-year-old squealed and darted towards her older brother. Matthew laughed and picked her up. He nuzzled his nose into her cheek and Katie laughed. "Bubba! Mama need you!" Her eyes sparkled.
Matthew chuckled and tugged on the bow his mother must have tied Katie's bangs into. "You're too cute, Katie-Kat." Katie giggled, wrapping her arms around his neck. Matthew held her as he went in search for his mother.
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"Katie!" Matthew gasped once he finally found the five-year-old.
Katie pushed herself to her feet and grinned up at her brother. She held up her mother's laptop. "Fixed it!"
Matthew blinked and took it. He inspected the laptop, then eyed the tools and the wires on the floor. "What... Did you do?"
The younger girl giggled, fingers tugging on the frilly pink skirt of her dress. "What big brother does! Fixed it! Mama's laptop works now!"
Matthew sat on the couch and opened it. Katie climbed up on the couch beside him. A smile spread across Matthew's face as he played around on the laptop. "You really took it apart and fixed it?" Katie nodded eagerly, the curls their mother put her hair into bouncing. Matthew laughed and threw his arms around his tiny sibling.
Katie squealed and returned the embrace with her short arms. "How'd you fix it? How'd you know?" He asked, pulling back to look in her large eyes.
"Watching you!" She pointed up at him. "I know'd exactly how to fix it by watching you!"
