"Oh," Alfred said, with a tone that implied it had never before occurred to him that they might have more children. Of course he had considered it, but not in a very serious way — and he was not inclined to do so now, either. Orion was barely even one, so by the time he's five seemed like a whole lifetime away. "I mean, yeah. Sure. But I don't have to take them all at once."
MJ made the most Alfredy of sets and then two years later she made it EVEN BETTER