After a brief pregnancy, Meadow gives birth to Belhonor Wingrave. The Overseer forgot the nooboo pictures (Ambrose kept catching the kitchen on fire before a wall was built around the cooking area and access was only given to Meadow, and unfortunately the entire stressful infancy has been lost to the sands of time). Belhonor is an adorable toddler, looking remarkably similar to Ambrose.
Ambrose and Meadow took to parenting like fish in water. They took shifts potty training, teaching to walk, teaching to talk, and when Belhonor would wake up in the middle of the night screaming her head off for one reason or another, it was generally Ambrose who took the lead in getting up to comfort his daughter. It wasn't long before he talked to Meadow about having some more children - he'd like twins, as he'd love for three kids to graduate college.
"Three? That seems like an arbitrary number," Meadow observed upon hearing his plans.
Ambrose did not have a good answer for her. "It's kind of like there's an invisible force rolling dice," he agreed.
They settled on three.
Meadow gets pregnant soon after their discussion. Inconveniently, she goes into labor while working on the portrait of her husband while their guests are playing darts. "I can probably hold it until I finish," she says, while quite literally bursting at the seams with a baby.
"No, I don't think that's how that works," says Matthew Picaso, who is mildly horrified by the ordeal.
(It was not how that works. They had to restart the painting.)
It isn't twins. She gives birth to Benedict Wingrave in her living room with paint supplies everywhere, and unfortunately there's no second baby lurking anywhere else. She decides that she's been through that enough, thank you very much, and so they make the decision to adopt a baby the same day Benedict was born. Belvedere Wingrave arrives shortly after, much to the excitement of the parents.
Belhonor likes her new brothers, though she doesn't like how much they cry. But she's content with her parents fussing after them, and it's a good thing they'd spent so much time getting all of her basic toddler needs learned as the two nooboos keep them busy. Belhonor really doesn't mind - if they're distracted collapsing from exhaustion and running around keeping the babies happy, then they won't mind when she wakes up in the middle of the night to play with her xylophone.
