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[alt_molly]

I stopped by to visit Tonks this weekend, and my goodness, she looks about ready to pop!

I know she has plenty of help, and she's already an experienced Mum, but I'm dying to ask whether I might come stay with her and Remus and Sirius and Bea, after the baby comes. Not right away, of course, and not for long. Do think if I ask the idea would be welcome or unwelcome? Or is it the sort of thing where she would say 'Yes' while gritting her teeth, waiting for me to leave her in peace?

It might help a little, if only to help keep Miss Bea's nose from going out of joint. I don't want to intrude, but oh, it IS my first grandchild!

What is your advice? Should I ask? Or would you be more comfortable asking her for me? It might be less embarrassing for her to tell me through you, if she wants to say 'No.'

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[alt_charlie]

I think that would be a lovely thing for you to ask her, actually. I'm going to try to be there as long as I can -- Bill and the Twins are concocting a 'family emergency' illness that I'll be needed to help out with -- but I'm reliably informed that the more hands in that first few days or so, the merrier. (Not that I need to tell you that.)

She's so ready for this baby to come! Big as houses and so ready for this to be over. I'm going down this afternoon to give him a little father/son talking-to about hurrying up already.

(...Merlin. I think that's the first time I've actually said something like that. It's normal to be totally floored at the idea of parenthood right about now, right?)

Also. We're not telling people the first name we've decided on yet, if you do that you get everybody poking their wand in and having Opinions, but I did want to tell you one part of it so you aren't broadsided out of nowhere when we announce it. Tonks and I decided a while back, we're going to give him 'Theodore Arthur' as middle names. (It works better in that order with the first name we've chosen.) Because both of us are who we are at least partially because of our fathers, and we wanted his name to reflect that a little.