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There's coffee brewing, pancakes keeping warm in the oven, and a cupcake with an unlit candle waiting for Noah. It was his seventh birthday today, and every year it never got easier. It felt like it was only yesterday when she brought Noah home. He had changed her life ever since then and the years had just flown by.

Each year she did this for him. Every morning she'd get up early to make him a special treat, along with a few presents. Yet this year it would be completely different.

Peter was here.

He hasn't spent the night due to a case he had been deeply involved with, and needed time to himself to go over the case files. But he'd promised Noah and Olivia that he would be there first thing in the morning for breakfast.

She finished cutting up a few pieces of fruit and tossed them in a bowl before heading down the hall to wake up the birthday boy. Olivia stood in the doorway watching him sleep for just a few extra moments. It was hard to believe that he really wasn't her baby anymore. He was starting to need her less and less as time went on, and before she knows it he'll be heading off to college.

She crawls into his full sized bed next to him and runs her hand through his luscious curls. "Good morning sweet boy," she kisses his forehead and is met with his smiling baby blues.

"Is it my birthday yet?" Is the first question he asks and she can't help the chuckle that escaped her.

"It is- happy birthday," she grins and kisses him again. "I love you so much. You know that?"

"I love you too mommy," he sits up and crawls into her lap for snuggles. She covers his cheeks in kisses and hugs him one more time before he was already heading towards the living room.

"Is this for me?" Noah sat on the couch and pointed to the presents on the coffee table.

"It is and tonight when we have cake I got you a few more," Olivia had to admit that she went a little overboard with the gifts this year, but he was her one and only baby. "Go ahead and open them!" She grabbed her coffee cup from the counter and went over to join him. He began ripping through the wrapping paper and smiled brightly when he saw the race track he'd been begging her for.

"Thanks mommy!"

"You're welcome-" she had been interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Good morning," Peter stood in front of her with at least four bags full of gifts.

"Peter, I need for you to turn around right now and return those gifts," she stuck her arm out to block him from getting into the apartment.

"Not gonna happen," he stole a kiss from her and snuck his way past her. "I heard there's a birthday boy here," Noah ran to give Peter a hug and laughed when he dropped all the bags and picked him up. Him and Noah had gotten so much closer over the past few weeks, and it was nice to see the two most important men in her life bonding.

"It's me!" he hugged him tight before placing him back on his feet. "Are you coming to my party later?"

"Wouldn't miss it for the world," Peter ruffled his amber curls and looked back at Olivia who had been admiring them from the doorway. "I got a few presents but we're gonna have to wait until tonight to open those," he sighed but thankfully didn't put up an argument.

"How much longer until tonight is here?" they both chuckled at his eagerness to get ahold of those gifts.

"You still have school and so much more to do until then honey," Olivia made her way over to the breakfast bar to grab his cupcake she'd made and a lighter. "But until then how about we blow out some candles?" she lit the big seven candle and went over to Noah, getting down on one knee to be on his level.