#toast babies

[motherhenna]

Blaming everyone on my dash for making me obsessed w THG and Everlark again goddamn y'all

[charlunday]

Here your dreams are sweet, and tomorrow brings them true.

Here is the place where I love you.

@ofthegreekgods and I were talking about grandparents everlark, and we came around to "what if they had a little granddaughter with brown skin and curly black hair" and that emotionally hit hard. Then we talked about Katniss learning to braid her hair. Then we talked about the sentiment of maybe this time I get to protect you. So yeah, you get this.

[littlerosette]

ever since i read that post that said that katniss would be the indulgent mom and peeta would be the “strict” dad i have Not been able to function. like can you imagine her pleading with peeta that yes! the babies deserve to eat a tray of cookies before dinner!!! while he’s like 😐

[springmagpies]

I love the idea of Katniss and Haymitch being able to communicate telepathically and that that ability never goes away. So after all these years there’s just random moments where they’re silently communicating and Peeta’s like… what’re you guys OH! You’re talking! Sorry! I’ll leave you be. Like imagine Peeta just comes in with his son on his hip and holding his daughter’s hand and they walk in to find Katniss and Haymitch looking across the dining table at one another with a plate between them that holds a single cookie and the little girl asks her dad, “why are mommy and Uncle Haymitch staring at each other.” And Peeta’s just like, “they’re talking.” “About what?” “I dunno, but it’s probably something about the cookie.” And he reaches for the cookie and they both just stare at him and he just laughs because even though he doesn’t know what they’re talking about he still knows them.

[thesweetnessofspring]

Everlark as parents--Katniss is definitely going to be the have-another-cookie, stay-up-an-extra-half-hour parent and Peeta will be the enforcer--"no, you've had two cookies already, now brush your teeth and go to bed, you have ten minutes."

But Katniss is going to be the super protective mom. The "I have to meet their parents before you go over to their house" and "no, I said no sleepovers" and "yes, I still have to walk you to school." While Peeta has to monitor her protectiveness and strike the middle ground. ("honeybee, you were going into the woods alone at her age, she can go to the grocery store on her own, it's only two blocks").

It keeps the toast babies guessing sometimes about whether what they're asking for is an indulgence their mom won't be able to resist giving them, or some unknown danger they hadn't even thought of yet.

[noxribles]

a spring day with gruncle haymitch and his geese🪿

[madzthemenace]

If i see ONE more person saying Katniss didnt want kids and Peeta forced her into it, istg I am going to pay for reading comprehension classes for them

[tellmelater]

what i need is the dandelion in the spring

[adsosfraser]

katniss and peeta finding an old sheet of paper wedged into his grandmother’s old sturdy recipe book that survived the bombing in the bakery’s safe. finding a silly little recipe for s’mores written in a child’s hand and they decide to try it out to pass the day. katniss goes on the hunt for marshmallow root out in the woods, peeta tries to perfect different square crackers at the bakery, and they all walk back from the train hand in hand with the very first chocolate that the new panem shipped to raise spirits as it’s nearing the anniversary of the reapings. katniss smearing the treat all over her face while she’s eating it with a grin and peeta just has to lean in to kiss her clean while cicadas are chirping in the district and lightning bugs are starting to flit around their backyard. they lay back in the grass as the ringing quiet swells around them and peeta keeps tracing circles with his thumb on her hand as they both trace the stars above with their eyes. fifteen years later a gummy infant chews on the graham crackers his father’s perfected and a little girl squeaks as her mother rubs down her entire face with a damp cloth to get the sticky marshmallow and chocolate off her face.

[motherhenna]

Saw this cute pose on pinterest and decided to reference it here for Peeta and his daughter! Doing a little dance in his art studio.

Remember every reblog and tag means the world!

[charlunday]

I know we all like to think about Haymitch being like a grandpa to the toast babies, but I raise you: Hazelle being like a grandma to them! Because tbh she's the more responsible one and experienced with kids between her and Haymitch, and she loves Katniss like a daughter.

But also imagine this from Gale's perspective. First white boy steals your girl, then he steals your MOM!!!!!!!

[littlemarianah]

POV. Peeta

A story about Rye Mellark.

I never expected a second child...

Willow had just stopped wearing diapers. She was a happy and laughing girl. She ran around the house with loud footsteps and jumped into my lap when I came home from work.

She was a miracle. Katniss got pregnant after almost a year of trying, after more than a decade of planning. The pregnancy was slow and difficult. Katniss looked completely destroyed every time I looked at her. I thought she would be the only one.

One day Katniss looked at me and said:

"I'm ready for one more."

And I asked "one more what?"

"Kid!" She answered me in the most obvious way possible. She spoke as if I had asked for one more. She always thought I wanted to have a big family. But I never said that. I think she was the one who wanted it, but didn't have the courage to admit it.

She started having dreams about a girl with blonde hair. She told me that this time she would be just like me, since Willow was so much like her. She was sure she was going to be a girl and we were going to name her Pearl.

In her first pregnancy, she craved wild berries, game meat, and forest roots; all the food she got in the forest, but she couldn't go and get it because of her huge belly and the harsh winter before Willow was born.

This time, even before she got pregnant, she wanted sweet and soft things. Like orange cakes, cinnamon rolls and gingerbread. She made me happy when she asked me for something that she was capable of doing. I cooked everything she wanted.

It didn't take long to finally become pregnant. Pregnancy was very different than the first time.

She was constantly smiling.

Her sexual desire was uncontrollable. She would drag me into the bakery storage room or onto the living room couch when Willow was taking a nap. She vocalized like she never did. She called me names or said things I never imagined would come out of her mouth.

She hunted almost every day and always made new dishes for us. She had much more strength than before. Once she dragged an entire deer from the forest to our house. I worried about how much effort she was putting in when she was nine months pregnant.

Rye was born at almost 42 weeks, her birth took a whole day and night. He was born on one of the hottest days in August. He was so fat and chubby that Willow's newborn clothes didn't even fit him.

Katniss thought he was a lot like me. Everyone talked about how Rye was my copy. Especially when he turned into a tall, burly, blonde teenager. But I always thought he looked like his mother. Even more so than Willow, who had Katniss's long, black hair.

Rye had Katniss's brave, silver eyes. They both had eagle eyes. Suspicious and attentive to everything. He had her sharp ears. And he had his talent for hunting. His hands were definitely like mine though. Thick fingers and large palms. Great for kneading bread.

At 14, he was already taller than his sister and mother. At 16, he looked 20. I didn't want him to help me at the bakery so soon, but I was old. Carrying those bags of flour all day with just one leg was too much for me at almost 50 years old. I was too weak for that. Rye started helping me when he was 15 and was much stronger than I was at his age. He had a talent in the kitchen. His breads were always perfect.

He was handsome but shy. He looked like my brother Bran, without the heartthrob charm. The girls seemed to like him. They always showed up at the bakery and bought a single cookie just to talk to him. Even though Rye looked older, he was still just a teenager. He would shrug his shoulders, get red in the face and flee to the kitchen as soon as he could.

He never had many friends. He spoke little. He would run away from school to go to the forest like Katniss used to do. She couldn't stay mad at him for that.

"He'll learn much more in the forest than at school." she said

I always warned him, but he said it was just this time. And he ended up coming home with a basket of berries and a fox again.

Rye was growing up and different from Willow, who went to study nursing far from District 12. He didn't want to leave our side. He kept carrying the heavy bags of flour for me and going into the forest to hunt with his mother.

He was always very kind, even too much.

He always let his sister have the biggest piece of pie for dessert.

He always helped me up the stairs, my legs becoming weaker as I got older.

One day I saw him talking at the back of the bakery. He whispered and a voice whispered back. They were giggling. She was a short girl with short brown hair. She started coming almost every day. Then they talked, giggled, and she left.

Until one day, they decided to get married. They were never engaged, and no one even knew that they were seeing each other. If Katniss liked to be secretive from the world, Rye was even more so. He didn't have a wedding and only invited me, Katniss, and Willow.

He just asked me to make a small cake with white icing and raspberry jam inside.

Rye's wife, Piper, was quieter than him. She had big brown eyes and got along very well with Katniss. The two used to sing. Piper knew how to please Katniss in a way I've never seen anyone else do.

The two moved to a cabin in the middle of the forest. 20 minutes walking from our house.

Then came the first granddaughter. A girl with black hair and honey eyes. Willow delivered her niece, there wouldn't be anyone better than her to do it. Since she had been a midwife for over five years at that time.

I remember the day Piper arrived at the door of our house with her belly too big for her. Rye hammered the door with his heavy hands, almost knocking it down. She moaned and cried until Katniss held her in her arms and carried her upstairs. Willow ran out with washcloths and basins of water. We never talk much about it, but Rye said she didn't have any family besides us.

Piper was so scared. She didn't seem to scream in pain, with each contraction she screamed in fear.

"Don't worry, Piper. All births are the same." I heard Willow say.

The girl asked me and Rye to wait outside. She didn't want us in there. Me and Rye sat outside and he put his head in his knees and didn't move until the baby cried. When she screamed from there, he moaned from here.

"Daddy, do you think she's going to die?" He asked me.

"She's much stronger than you imagine." I said.

And it was true.

They were parents at such a young age. Rye was 23 and she was 22. Such a hairy and chubby girl was born.

I later discovered that Katniss's black hair was the dominant gene in the family. They had four children. All with black hair.

Katniss lived more in the cabin they had in the forest than in our own house.

She taught our grandchildren songs and songs. She told about sewing and coal mines. She talked about her father. She talked about Prim. She talked about her late Great-Grandmother Ruth, who Rye's children never got to meet. She talked about her goat Lady Di.

"Where's your leg, grandpa?" the youngest boy asked me.

"I lost it in the Games."

"What games?" He responded.

They didn't know about them. That was something I could never get used to.

When my oldest granddaughter turned 12, we cut a cake and celebrated. That year marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the war.

[heavensbeehall]

Here's something I didn't know I had a strong opinion about but apparently I do: Peeta and Katniss's kids.

I saw some suggestions that there are more than two, possibly three. I think the Epilogue specifically takes place when there are two. Because "the boy" and "the girl" represent the tributes of District 12. The future. Haymitch always calls Peeta "the boy" (which I assumed was something he alwasy did to keep distance between the kids and himself). When Dean Highbottom assigns mentors he shouts "district 12 boy!" and "District 12 girl!"

That is why they are "the boy" and "the girl." Katniss and Peeta are the mentors now.

There might be three down the road but there are two in the epilogue in my headcanon. The next generation of tributes. Except they don't have to go to the Hunger Games, because their parents rebelled. They most assuredly would have had to go (Katniss says victor's children are often Reaped) if the Rebellion never happened.

[thesweetnessofspring]

Do you ever think that part of the reason Katniss doesn't want to have children isn't just that she might lose them in the Games, but because she knows what it's like to be a child who loses a parent? And she can't trust that she and a partner could survive in Panem? And the last thing she would want is to leave her child without a parent, as she was left without her father?

So when she has her own children, it's not just that they won't starve or be put in the Games. It also means that she believes she and Peeta are finally safe, too.

[laurasblogs-stuff]

I've been reading some things about Katniss' pregnancy and the possibility that maybe she didn't want children.

I think that is not the case, because in all the series she's quite sure of it (because of the world they live in and bla bla) so it would not be a problem for her to say no to Peeta if she really didn't want not one, but TWO kids.

Now, the thing I always found a bit strange when reading ff about her being pregnant, is when it's so easy for her to get pregnant.

Starting from the fact that she's 35, so not so old but not that young. The most important part is that she probably never had a normal menstrual cycle all her fucking life.

My girl never had a single period of peace, she was nearly dying from starvation at age twelve, which is the time when a girl is expected to have her first period. And then she goes through two fucking death arenas and she's sent to war with the love of her life that was trying to kill her, so I don't think that she could have a regular cycle at that time.

The war ends, she's 18 so now she could - NO! BECAUSE HER FUCKING SISTER DIED AND HER MOTHER LITERALLY ABANDONED HER.

What I'm trying to say is that, for me, the most absurd thing about the epilogue isn't the fact that she decides to have children, but the fact that she actually manages to get pregnant immediately when she decides that she wants to have kids.

It's sweet to think that they don't struggle while getting pregnant, but it's not realistic.

[everlarking-always]

The Toast Babies 💕

Their daughter is very much like Katniss - quiet, headstrong, loves nature and music - and follows her mom everywhere, trying to emulate her. She has a sharp wit that could have only come from Peeta, and no one can make her smile or laugh like he can. She takes it upon herself to look after her brother, of course. She has a meaningful nature-related name like Arden (meaning “a place of solitude and great beauty” like the meadow from Rue’s lullaby in the books).

The little boy is rambunctious and outgoing. Truly the baby of the family and a ball of endless energy. He is interested in everything and wants to know how everything works. His favourite word is "why?”, but luckily his parents and sister never seem to get tired of explaining things to him. @jenniferiawrence named him Atlas in her fanfic Give Me Your Wild, and that always stuck with me/seemed like a lovely name for him so credit goes to them for that headcanon, haha!