She isn't necessarily wrong about the wrapping, but Spencer thinks he would have at least found a more tactful way to describe it. April's gifts do stand out against the rest, though, the other gifts that he suspects had been taken to be professionally done for the occasion but in some way, that makes what she's given them all the more endearing.
"My brother was horrible at wrapping gifts," he says suddenly, and maybe his dead brother isn't the most appropriate topic to bring up at a baby shower but it's a fond memory so Spencer supposes there isn't harm in it. "The last gift he gave me was for my twenty-seventh birthday, the night before because he was always so impatient even for things that weren't for him, and he'd resorted to just rolling it in newspaper and taping it down in random places that barely kept it together."
He ducks his head to laugh, painful though the memory may be because it's the last one he has of his brother alive, but even so, he'll never forget the look of anticipation on Dane's face as Spencer had easily plucked apart the newspaper to find the leather jacket that still hangs in his closet upstairs.
"Anyway, Joel and I will be unwrapping the gifts and sending out the thank you cards. Some people have brought gifts specifically for Erin, as well, though, which is lovely. We're sending her on an all-expenses paid spa day after the baby is born, one of the ones that serve champagne and the like? Hopefully she'll like it." He pauses, frowning. "Do you think she'll like it?"
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"My brother was horrible at wrapping gifts," he says suddenly, and maybe his dead brother isn't the most appropriate topic to bring up at a baby shower but it's a fond memory so Spencer supposes there isn't harm in it. "The last gift he gave me was for my twenty-seventh birthday, the night before because he was always so impatient even for things that weren't for him, and he'd resorted to just rolling it in newspaper and taping it down in random places that barely kept it together."
He ducks his head to laugh, painful though the memory may be because it's the last one he has of his brother alive, but even so, he'll never forget the look of anticipation on Dane's face as Spencer had easily plucked apart the newspaper to find the leather jacket that still hangs in his closet upstairs.
"Anyway, Joel and I will be unwrapping the gifts and sending out the thank you cards. Some people have brought gifts specifically for Erin, as well, though, which is lovely. We're sending her on an all-expenses paid spa day after the baby is born, one of the ones that serve champagne and the like? Hopefully she'll like it." He pauses, frowning. "Do you think she'll like it?"