“Oh my god, look at that smile. I still can’t believe he might be ours. Is he really, re

“Oh my god, look at that smile. I still can’t believe he might be ours. Is he really, really going to be ours?”“He’s always been ours,” my husband Jaime insists. “And Sweet Jesus, I can’t get over how cute he is. Especially since he’s off the breathing machine and using his brand new lungs all on his own, we can see that fat little face without all the tubes in the way.”“He’s is so ours.” I give a dreamy sigh, then look around for a nurse. “Can I pick him up?”“Sure,” she says, “Just remember to support his head.”I look at Jaime. “Should I?”Jaime smiles. “Yeah, do it.”Delicately, I wrap the blanket around his wriggling body until I’ve essentially burritoed the infant. I lift him with two hands, then slide one hand under to support his back while my other hand moves to cup his head. I gently raise him and pull him to me, terrified of dropping him. “Oh my god,” I murmur. “He’s so small.” I show him to Jaime while I grin like an idiot. “Say hi, Henry.”Henry babbles and waves his hands in the air. Jaime wraps his enormous-looking hands around Henry’s tiny fists and then let’s him grab onto Jaime’s fingers. “Hey little guy,” Jaime coos. “He’s looking at me. I wonder what he actually sees, like if his eyes work like mine are right now. I wonder what he thinks is going on…what he thinks of me.”“Well,” I say, “I think he’s happy. Not as happy as I am right now, but probably pretty close.”Jaime kisses me, then leans over and kisses Henry on the forehead. “I gotta agree with you there.”I watch Henry look around and move some more. “Is he really going to be ours?” I repeat.Jaime glances at me. “I don’t see anyone else here wanting to be Henry’s parents.”I look up. We’re alone here, besides the staff. After a moment, I respond. “You know, I’m so used to waiting for the damn phone call to come that this almost feels like a joke, that Barbara is gonna call us again and say oops! Thanks for being placeholder parents while we found Henry some real, straight ones! Bye!”Jaime chuckles, but he looks a bit terrified. “That - that won’t happen. She called us first remember? She said, ‘I got a cousin that works OBGYN at the rural county hospital, she just tipped me off about a baby being abandoned.’ Barbara even told us that we likely wouldn’t have gotten a call about Henry at all because don’t live around here, but she pushed us to the front because we’d been waiting so long. She told us foster care hadn’t even been called yet.”I sniffle. “I think Henry’s smiling because he’s got people and luck on his side now. Before he was all alone in this big world. Jaime, how could anyone just walk out on this baby? This precious, healthy, adorable baby?”Jaime shrugs and shakes his head. “I don’t know. They must have had a good reason. Maybe that reason is that we’re supposed to be his parents instead.”I walk over to a rocking chair and sit down. Once Henry is balanced on my lap, I remove my shirt and hold him skin to skin, like the books said to do. I’d sat up late and read them a thousand times. “We are his parents,” I say. I bounce Henry a little. “Whaddya think? Looks like you’re gonna be raised by a couple of homos, Henry, you lucky boy.”This makes Jaime snort loudly. “MIchael, don’t say that, you’ll warp his mind.”“I honestly don’t think he understands a single world we’re saying.”Jaime is quiet for a moment. “I just had a thought - I mean, what if some of the words we’re saying, he’s literally hearing them for the first time?”I blink a few times. “Woah. That’s deep Jaime. You’re not high are you?”“Well not right now…”I snicker. “Later then. Cause once he comes home, there’ll be no more of that for a long time.”“Yeah until he gets to be 13 and starts smoking it himself.”“Jaime!” I roll my eyes. “Don’t be silly. Our perfectly behaved baby boy would never sneak pot behind our backs, would you know?”Henry makes some noises. I beam. “Good lord. It’s true. It really is true. My sister was right.”“What is…?” Jaime asks.“Everything I love the most has a penis on it.”Across the room, the nurse startles us when she bursts into laughter.____________Text is fictional. -- source link

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