uncle foxes! auntie foxes! foxes x nieces and nephews! Fox Jr.'s! good shit!
it's a Fox Gathering and Matt is playing the role of a basketball hoop for one of Aaron's girls while also trying to hold a conversation with Kevin. and every time he absently drops his arms the kid glares and says "i need to HOOP" and Matt very quickly reforms the hoop while apologizing profusely
Andrew tells one of the kids that their shoes are on the wrong feet and the kid (who always has this problem) looks down at his feet and sighs before suddenly going "i like them like that"
Dan is sitting near Kevin's kid. who suddenly asks her a math question (simple addition) and she answered quickly enough that the kid, being a literal child, was very impressed and started asking other very complex math problems and Dan, who is very much Not A Math Person started sweating and Neil ends up whispering the answers to her so she could save face
they're all at Allison's house and the sprinklers go off and Matt and Dan's kid asks if he can run through them but every time he would run up to them he would lose his nerve and realize he didn't want to get wet and run back to where everyone was. and he kept doing it until Neil ran through with him once
Renee is messing around with the kids and one of them clambers onto her lap and they do the thing where they push her hair out of her face with their palms to see her properly. it's adorable as shit
it's one of the kid's birthdays and Matt is joking with them and says "where is MY present" and she goes "oh. I don't have any moneys" and he goes "NO moneys??" and she shakes her head solemnly and he fishes some change out of his pocket and gives it to her and she says "thank you! but uncle Matty. I need PAPER moneys" and he's like. "...." and mentally he knows he's getting played but he opens his wallet thinking he'd give her a single or two but the smallest bills he has are twenties. and now he's going 'would it be irresponsible to give a literal two year old a twenty' and she's just watching him angelically, expectantly. and then Katelyn walks by and goes "absolutely not. don't you dare"
Andrew and Neil are spending a weekend at Aaron's and one night Katelyn is trying to wrestle her girls into the shower and one of them is reallyyy not having it ("i want to stay up to talk uncle Neil and uncle Andrew") so Katelyn gives up for a moment and leaves to give the other kid her shower and while she's gone Neil starts talking to the first kid and he tells her how King (who is her favorite out of their cats) is always so good about taking showers whenever he or Andrew try to clean them and how Sir hates showers and is always annoying about them. and immediately after this conversation the kid just up and ran off to go take her shower. both Aaron and Katelyn are shook for the rest of the night about how simple it was
(they come back from their showers and one of them starts excitedly telling Andrew about her soap that "she can get in her eyes and it won't even make her cry" and Andrew goes "yeah Neil has the same kind")
one of Aaron's girls overhears Andrew refer to Aaron as "my brother" and she gets very upset and indignantly tells him that Aaron "is MY daddy. not your brother" and it starts a whole argument with Andrew telling her that "he was my brother first" and "I've known him longer" and she just keeps going "he's MY dad. MINE."
most of them spoil their nieces and nephews, especially because with all their shitty childhoods they're determined to make sure their kids live good. but i feel like Nicky is probably the worst. and every time he goes and comes back from Germany he always gets them really expensive shit that has their parents saying "Nicky she's FIVE." but he just loves the he can do that
Allison is the "we should but we don't have to tell your parents about this" aunt
I like to imagine that all the foxes abuse the hell out of having so many "you know one time when we were in college, your mom/dad ... " stories and just gradually expose each other to their kids over the years
when Nicky tells his nieces and nephews stories from over the years Aaron usually has to break in with a "that is NOT how that happened, Nicky"
usually they'll all start arguing over the details of the story, children be forgotten
Wymack ALWAYS tells the stories best though. the foxes enjoy hearing him tell stories just as much as their kids do
(also very often when they're arguing about the details as mentioned they'll call him up and demand answers from him about Coach Coach was it me or Dan who Kevin nearly bludgeoned to death after ACCIDENTALLY locking your keys in and us out of the court that one time)
Matt and Dan's house is the favorite among the kids. it's just big and cheerful and has everything a kid could want. and Dan always has lots of fruit
Andrew and Neil's place is probably the least favorite though. even though the kids adore their uncles and there are cats, there's jack shit to do
one of the kids starts playfully screaming and Matt joins in. and at first they stop and look at him but then they just pick it back up and so does he
kid, demanding irritably: WHY does my knee HURT Andrew: cause knees suck
Matt's daughter and Kevin's daughter are best friends and they give their fathers makeovers as often as they can and just. sit with that mental image for a second. butterfly clips lip gloss and eyeshadow galore
one of the kids is in a bad mood and Neil tries to talk to him and he just snaps "NO stop I don't love you" at Neil in the way that kids do and Neil was Not Expecting that so his eyebrows shoot up and he looks around like tf? and the kid slouches over and goes "no I do. I do love you uncle Neil" and Neil just accepts the apology hug, still bewildered
Andrew did something to annoy Aaron so as retaliation Aaron taught his girls Andrew's phone number. so now Andrew constantly has these toddlers that are calling him 50 times a day just to say hi or that school was fun or to check on the cats
(poor man. just wait until they learn how to work their mother's ipad and the calls turn to FaceTimes)
or whatever
