Our Baby

chapter twenty-eight

Chapter twenty-eight.

Today is marlena's baby shower.

Marlena stood in her robe as she rummaged through her closet.

one hand draped over her very pregnant belly. "

Mommy has nothing to wear to this thing, baby girl.

Marlena said to belle who's laying on the bed.

Marlena saw her black dress hanging at the end.

She pulled it out and draped it over herself for old times sake, just as johm walked into the room with belle's outfit.

A little formal for a baby shower, but I like it, Still my favorite of all your dresses.

Join told his wife.

Marlena smiled at john in the mirror.

Hmm, I wonder why, Seriously, though, I have no idea what to wear.

My last baby shower was in
the spring, Sundress, sandals.

It's much harder to look good in winter clothes, especially when
I have the center of gravity of a hippo."

"Hippo!.

Belle repeated as john changed her diaper.

Yeah, Mommy is a hippo.

Marlena said as she hanging the dress back in her closet.

By belle's second birthday, my goal is to fit in that dress again, so you and I can have date night."

Really?.

John asked his wife.

Really.

Marlena replied.

I Looking forward to it, just think, you're already thirty-six weeks.

Only four to go, hopefully, As long as Jellybean doesn't camp out an extra week like belle did.

John told his wife.

Marlena looked down at her belly, which barely fit under her robe anymore.

Marlena started talk to her unborn baby.

Please no camping out, sweetpea,  It's nice out here, I promise,and I promise we'll have a name for you by then, too.

"We're getting closer, and if we don't come up with anything by the birth, I think we'll just see the baby and know.

"I hope that happens to us if we can't decide, we're really getting down to the wire.

one of the biggest decisions we'll ever make still hasn't been made.

Marlena said as crinkling her nose at a gray dress in her closet.

"It will, that gray one is nice.

John said to his wife

Too drab for a baby shower. Plus, it's snug around the middle, so you can see my weird, pregnant belly button.

The less people who see that,
the better.

Marlena told her husband.

Before john could slip belle's pink dress over her head, she pointed to her own belly button with pride.

My button!.

Belle said.

Yeah, you and Mommy have cute belly buttons.

John agreed.

Belle's is cute, and Mine is like a button on an alarm clock.

You just want to push it and make it go away.