Built On Trust

She's noisy

Shay is now 8 months old and constantly trying to get everything she can reach. After fighting with Brad for a few days he finally agreed that it's a good idea to start baby proofing the house.

I walk downstairs with Shay and put her in the living room with her toys then go into the kitchen to help Brad "I thought you were cleaning. It looks like you're playing."

"I am cleaning but these cabinet lock things are trying to kill me! The keep pinching my finger." He stars putting some of the cleaning products back into a now locked cabinet "Why can't we just not let her in the kitchen anymore?"

"Because that's mean." I get one of the baby gates out of the box and put it between the kitchen and hallway "How to I get this thing to stay on the wall?" I try to get it but fail "Brad you do this I'll do what you're doing."

He gets up quickly to switch spots with me leaving me with a huge mess to clean up "How many gates did you get and where do they go?"

I start sorting out everything before putting it away and looking over towards Brad to answer him "I think 4. That one, one for the bottom of the steps, the top and so she can't get in the dining room." I finish putting all the cleaning products away and move on to little things we have laying around that she could choke on. Once I'm done with that I help Brad as we work on sharp edges so she doesn't hit her head.

"I think we did pretty good." Brad says as he stands back looking at everything "Now we just need to do the bathrooms and TV Stand cabinets."

"We can do the TV Stand now. I want to have her take a nap while we do the bathrooms since we can't see her." I walk into the living room and pick up Shay then sit on the couch to feed her "She's just noisy, she wants to see what she's been missing these past few months."

Brad starts to work on the cabinets on the TV Stand "She's lucky she's so cute and I don't want her to hurt herself. This is a pain in the ass." He tries and fails to get the cabinet locked, pinching his finger again "You should do this."

"I can't really do that right now." I motion towards Shay eating "Whenever she's done eating I will." I watch her for a little "She's getting tired."

He walks over and sits on the couch next to me reading the instructions for the cabinet locks "I don't know how I got these on in the kitchen, they're like impossible."

"I didn't think they were hard. Maybe they just don't like you." I rearrange Shay once she stops eating and give her to Brad "Here, I'll show you." I go over to the cabinet and put the lock on with no problems "See, it isn't hard."

"Then you can do the rest." He gets up and grabs Shay's blanket and walks towards the stairs "I'm going to take her up so she can nap a while. I'll work on the hall bathroom."

I turn around from where I'm working "There shouldn't be much in that one. I have to clean all my stuff out of ours." I finish the cabinets downstairs then go up to the hall bathroom where Brad is already done so I go to our and find him "I guess I should clean this?"

"That would help a lot." He starts pushing all of my stuff to one side leaving his to have very few things "I don't understand why you need all that stuff."

I start to go through different products sitting on the counter throwing away some "I don't even remember buying some of these." I put all my makeup in a storage case and my hair and skin products pushed to the back of the counter "Is that better?"

"Much." He puts the locks on the toilet and the cabinet the right way for once "Hey, I can do it!"

"I knew you could." I laugh at his excitement "If I can you can." I notice Brad isn't paying attention to me or facing me so I take it as a chance to have some fun.

I get the hose from the shower and turn the water on then stand there spraying Brad with it. He doesn't even notice at first until I put the water on high.

"What the hell are you doing?!?" He jumps up right away taking it from me.

I fight with him trying to get it back causing water to go all over the bathroom "Give it back!" I half yell, half laugh.

Instead of giving it back he pulls on the front of my shirt and puts the water so it's freezing and let's it fall down my shirt "Paybacks a bitch!"

I quickly take my shirt off and grab a towel to wrap around me for warmth "You're an asshole! At least I didn't have the water freezing!"

Brad leaves to get me another shirt and comes back with one of his sweaters "This should warm you up." He takes the towel from me and throws it in the laundry pile "You're still a bitch for doing that."

"I know I am." I smirk getting up and walking over to the rest of the stuff "Well, it's really a mess in here now."

"And it's all your fault." Brad jokes before putting the shower hose back and drying the floor "When is she ever in our bathroom? I don't get why we have to do this."

"She'll be in more once she can walk, they get in everything." I finish with all the cabinets and push everything that was moved forward back again "We can't really stop her unless we run after her."

"Just buy another gate. It's going to get messed up again anyway." He points out the obvious "That would be easier."

"But what about when we give her a bath in here?" I point to where the bathtub and counter are to prove my point to him. He finally agrees it should be done and we finish the other little things that need to be done before I hear Shay crying.

I walk over to her room where she is standing along the side of her crib crying "Hi sweetie." I gently pick her up and get her to calm down before I change her and take her downstairs where I put some baby shows on and sit on the couch with her watching them for a little. We sit there for a while until she tries to get up so I go out to the kitchen just as my brother and Ashley walk in.

"Hey," Alex walks over to where Shay is and picks her up "Is Brad here? We have to ask you guys something."

I go upstairs and get Brad then we walk downstairs to find them all on the couch.

"What's up?" Brad asks them.

"Well we kinda have a favor to ask you guys a favor." Ashley says kinda quietly "If you don't mind."

"Of course. Anything." I watch her and Alex play with Shay.

" We were wondering if we could get married in your yard?" She asks then goes on to explain "We don't want anything very big, just you guys, our parents, my brother and maybe some friends."

Brad looks over at me for a minute while he thinks about it, then answers them "I think we could do that. It sounds like a good idea." I agree with him and they tell us some other ideas.

"We also wanted to use Shay as the flower girl and have both of you in the wedding." Alex tells us, hoping we'll agree to it all "If you don't want to then you don't have to."

"We could do that. I don't know how she'll be with walking, so someone might have to carry her, but it can be done. When are you planning on having the wedding?" I ask them.

"Well, that's kinda the hard part. We were hoping to have it in the next month or 2."

"A month or 2." I repeat to myself thinking about all this "Well, it'll be hard, but that can be done." I reassure them.

"Thank you guys so much!!" Ashley tells us excitedly "I can't wait for all this to happen!"