chapter 45:
delilah is one year and 3 weeks old.
she has started to be aware that any hand in front of her belongs to her mouth.
that now everyone offers her their hand when she is placed in their arms.
she has started to sleep in the morning and wake up at late-night hours, causing adam to be late for his work, many times before.
rose has been sleep-deprived for over a week, causing her to use the help everyone has been kindly offering.
"how is she?" asks adam through his camera.
rose and adam face-time every day during his breaks.
"she woke up an hour ago, I fed her and dodo, changed her diaper, and cleaned dodo's litterbox."
adam has fallen in love with her, again over the last couple of months.
witnessing her be a mother, working so hard to care, and try to be the best mother makes adam want to take her heart out, hug it, and place kisses all over it.
bless her.
"don't tire yourself out, love." he furrows his brows, before blowing on his coffee (a habit he picked up from rose) and sipping from it.
"I'm not tired at all, don't worry about me" she says.
adam has heard her say this sentence over 10 times, then crying in the middle of the night.
"I'm always going to worry about you, you know that."
"I'll probably need your help when you come, though because I can't bathe her, by myself."
adam smiles fondly at her. "thank you for asking me to help you, ro."
he watches through his phone as rose gets up to place the pacifier between delilah's lips.
"I'm making pasta, for us tonight, is it okay?"
this is the third night in a row that they have pasta.
she doesn't have time to cook.
"more than okay, sweet girl."
rose smiles fondly at him, "you need to go, don't you?" she pouts.
adam looks at his watch and finds it 14:54.
"not for another 6 minutes. can you place her on the phone?"
rose turns the camera so adam can have a clear view of his daughter on the floor with her knees bent and dodo's toy in her mouth.
"dada's girl, what are you doing?" coos adam. "playing with dodo, aren't you?"
delilah isn't looking at the screen but the moment she hears her father's voice, she wiggles and smacks her lips together.
"she's close to saying dada, every day" rose informs him, as adam screenshots his family on the floor, with rose's hair in his daughter's mouth, and dodo licking delilah's elbow causing her to giggle.
"you want to say dada, little baby? or mama?" smiles adam.
"maybe, she'll say dodo" jokes rose.
'I hope she does, so that no one gets his feelings hurt' they both think.
delilah and dodo have been spending their mornings together, and eating together, getting cleaned together, and sleeping together.
and all of these moments have been captured and hung up on the fridge.
