The Stark-Parker

12 Months

June:

Morgan Happy Stark-Parker was born in the afternoon of June 3rd, to parents Anthony Stark(O) and Peter B. Parker(A). She was 4 pounds and 8 ounces, had a patch of dark hair in her head and when she opened her eyes for the first time, she had Peter's eyes. Her first name was unisex and they both found it cute and "Happy' was a clear tribute to their dear friend. May was in the room with them when the baby came and helped to give the first bath and feeding for the first time. Peter could only cry during the first day and Tony could only glance wondering at the baby.

Every Avenger got to hold the baby and give congratulations. Nobody will ever admit it, but Fury's eyes got all watery holding the new Stark baby. Because of Pepper's mad skills with the media they didn't have any trouble getting out of the maternity, but they knew they had to be open about this. The baby got so many snuggles and kisses (Tony had shaved to not hurt the child) and Peter and Tony holder her close to their hearts, making more skin-to-skin contact.

When Morgan was three days old, they took a candid, black and white picture of her tiny hands holding Tony's pinky finger and they post it. Peter writes "a love I've never known before" under the photo and Tony caption is a simple heart. Those pictures reach one million likes in about 2 days and the media went crazy. The baby's first sunbath is at the Penthouse terrace and when she's 2 weeks old they go out in public for the first time and walk around Central Park with her.

May went with them to the Penthouse during the first week, she helped to give the first bath and helped them figure out how to bottle feed her, burping and recognizing her cries. But as soon as she left, Peter and Tony discovered something interesting: Morgan was colic baby. She would wake up screaming in the middle of the night, and then she would shrink herself into a tiny ball and just be miserable until they could calm her down. She slept through the day and was wide awake for most of the night. That made them rethink the whole 'family' thing. The first time it happened, they got so scared that they rushed to the ER in search of help.

Morgan spender almost 7 diapers a day and was bottle-fed at least ten times. Tony and Peter slept between her naps (she slept almost 17 hours a day, but she woke up a lot during those times) and they barely got out of the house. They were lucky Peter was on vacation and that Tony decided to work only in September. And when June 19th, Father's Day came, they cried holding their daughter. It was difficult, not impossible

July:

Tony and Peter learned how to take care of the colic and slowly learned the baby's sleep schedule. They mastered the art of holding her just right and of calming her. Peter would sing 'In the wee small hours' for her when she was awake in the early mornings. Tony finally went back to doing exercises, he couldn't go back to being Iron Man just yet, but he could start losing the baby weight. It was weird, looking at his flaccid belly and realizing it would never be as it was before and that practically every being could be hotter than him right now in his Alpha's eyes. Well, he considered himself lucky enough just for the fact he didn't have the baby blues.

The Fourth of July was a memorable night, Tony always thought that that one-Fourth of July with his family was the most beautiful that he would see, until he spends that Fourth of July with his Alpha and newborn Morgan (she was one-month-old on the fourth of July). Tony and Peter spend that day with the Avengers and Ted and MJ, doing a barbecue in the Terrace.

They were worried that Morgan would get scared of the fireworks noise because she was napping when the dawn came, but that was the thing, Morgan was such a fuzzy child that when she slept, it was for real. And when the beautiful fireworks started to blow high in the sky, Morgan just opened those big brown eyes (oh yes, Morgan's eyes ware brown just like her fathers) and silently watched the sky light up.
And Tony and Peter went back to their home smiling for each other.