Oscar wasn't cutting it - too short, for one, but he's still too little, and when Raleigh'd been packing up the gift bags that just sort of seemed to multiply over the last few months, she'd rolled her eyes at his quizzical look. "Well, you're no help."
But here she is, not late (miracle!) with bags in one hand, and maybe she's got to back into the door, but whatever. Spencer and Joel's baby is going to be the most spoiled baby in all the land, that much she knows, and pretty much... well. She's been picking up things since the first time that they told her that they were going to have a baby, and she's been stowing it all away and had no idea just how much stuff there was.
She'd bundled it up into groups so it wouldn't be a million things, but... well. There's the stuff that's book themed-- the Charlotte's Web Blocks and the Paddington Bear Rattle, along with their respective books as well as Alice in Wonderland and some other books; there's a little bag with stuff for them - tea, a thumb drive with a couple of audiobooks of the books she'd seen them reading more than once, and a card that both talked about just how much she knows they'll be the best dads ever, it promises that if they ever need a babysitter, she'll be around-- and that she's got food covered for the first week after the baby's born. There's a third bag, that's stuff off the registry. Nothing flashy or big, just the boring little things that hadn't been picked up yet when she'd looked at the wishlist.
When she sees the giant pile of gifts, she realises that this kid's going to be the most-loved child in all of Siren Cove, and she's honestly glad. If Spencer and Joel want a village to help, they've got it, and they more than deserve it. Once she sets down her burden, she sighs, tucking a lock of hair behind her ear as she turns around. She'd been thinking about this part - wrangling everything here without it being overbearing, not knocking over other things on the table, that kind of thing - that she hadn't actually thought about the fact that now? They're at a party, and maybe she should meet Joel's mom, but also Erin, once she finds Joel and Spencer, but they're already busy talking to people, and... She didn't even know where to start.
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Oscar wasn't cutting it - too short, for one, but he's still too little, and when Raleigh'd been packing up the gift bags that just sort of seemed to multiply over the last few months, she'd rolled her eyes at his quizzical look. "Well, you're no help."
But here she is, not late (miracle!) with bags in one hand, and maybe she's got to back into the door, but whatever. Spencer and Joel's baby is going to be the most spoiled baby in all the land, that much she knows, and pretty much... well. She's been picking up things since the first time that they told her that they were going to have a baby, and she's been stowing it all away and had no idea just how much stuff there was.
She'd bundled it up into groups so it wouldn't be a million things, but... well. There's the stuff that's book themed-- the Charlotte's Web Blocks and the Paddington Bear Rattle, along with their respective books as well as Alice in Wonderland and some other books; there's a little bag with stuff for them - tea, a thumb drive with a couple of audiobooks of the books she'd seen them reading more than once, and a card that both talked about just how much she knows they'll be the best dads ever, it promises that if they ever need a babysitter, she'll be around-- and that she's got food covered for the first week after the baby's born. There's a third bag, that's stuff off the registry. Nothing flashy or big, just the boring little things that hadn't been picked up yet when she'd looked at the wishlist.
When she sees the giant pile of gifts, she realises that this kid's going to be the most-loved child in all of Siren Cove, and she's honestly glad. If Spencer and Joel want a village to help, they've got it, and they more than deserve it. Once she sets down her burden, she sighs, tucking a lock of hair behind her ear as she turns around. She'd been thinking about this part - wrangling everything here without it being overbearing, not knocking over other things on the table, that kind of thing - that she hadn't actually thought about the fact that now? They're at a party, and maybe she should meet Joel's mom, but also Erin, once she finds Joel and Spencer, but they're already busy talking to people, and... She didn't even know where to start.