Bun in the Oven - Sequel to Cooking with Bucky

Chapter 27 -- Bucky is a Dad!! 😍😍

James returned to my bedside and handed Grant to me.

"I was wondering what was going on. I thought you disappeared. Who were you with?' I asked him.

"I saw Steve. He was holding our son, Grant, and was sitting in that chair!" James said as he pointed to the chair in the corner of the room. I looked around and saw Sam, Michelle, Karen and Eric huddled as if in a powwow. My cousin Paul and his wife were nowhere to be found.

"So that's who the elderly man was in the room! I saw him sitting there with our baby and was wondering who that was!" I said with surprise.

"He wants to meet you! He said you're a very, good woman and wants us to have more kids." James said with astonishment.

"I'm not surprised. I'll be honored to meet him when that happens." I said as I rocked our baby.

"I told him to come by the end of the week. I also told him where we live. He did mention it's the Stanford house and knew your grandparents!" James sounded like Marty McFly from the Back to the Future movies.

"Looks like you had a great conversation with him. I hope he does appear soon!" I said as we first hear Grant make some gurgling sounds. Soon after that the others left. Sam and Michelle were last as they came up to us and congratulated us again.

"Congratulations you two! It was nice to meet Grant this afternoon. I like that he's named after Steve too! I hope he grows up to be just like his dad!" Sam said and left. We just laughed at him when he said that. Soon the nurse entered the room and brought her important supplies and the registration form for the baby's name. We took care of all that and his name. She said we should get his birth certificate sometime in the new year. She also said that because of Christmas coming up it will take longer than normal. We said it would be fine if we have to wait.

"It's amazing to be parents now! We're going to take care of him while he grows up!" I surprisingly said and marveled at such a wonder he is.

"Yeah, I still can't believe he has a head of hair! I wonder what he's going to look like growing up! I guess when Loki saw Grant, he was about four or five. We can ask Loki if he miraculously pops up one day!" James said as he cupped his right hand around Grant's head. Grant's head was a little bit bigger than his dad's hand.

"Mmm... do you want to hold him and have some time with Grant? I think the nurse will want to take him to the nursery before we have dinner." I gently said thinking the same thing as James.

"Sure, may I sit in the chair next to your bed? I don't want to take someone seat!" He asked.

"Yes. No one else is going to come in and sit there." I laughed. When everyone came in, Karen sat in that chair to get a look at Grant. She pretty much sat there the whole time until my cousin Paul came in the room with his wife. She needed a comfortable chair to sit in because she was exhausted from taking care of a young baby. She managed to tell me she's pregnant again! I wished her good luck!

Now James is sitting there and trying to do baby noises to Grant. Grant seemed a little uninterested in his dad doing these weird noises.

"When do babies smile?" James asked me as he looked at Grant.

"Uh... according to what I read, they start smiling as early as they are born. Is he smiling for you or just in general?" I asked and looked at the two.

"He's not smiling but I saw something like smile earlier when his eyes were closed." James said.

"Maybe he likes being snug in his blanket or he's passing gas." I said.