Sophie
Adam said he would be my Daddy! I have always wanted a real Daddy! Now how to find out whether Mommy loves Daddy or not. After my talk with Daddy, he holds my hand as we head back to the living room for our picnic.
“Where have you two been? The pizza is getting cold,” Mommy says.
I giggle as I look at Daddy “Shhh, it's a secret.”
“Yeah, it’s a special secret between Sweet Pea and me.” Daddy winks at me before having a seat on the floor next to Mommy. I giggle again. Mommy looks so confused, this is going to be so much fun.
“Okay, if you say so. Now, who is ready to eat?” Mommy says with a smile.
“ME!” Mommy’s pizza is my favorite. It’s better than the kind the man brings to the front door, although I have only had that once.
Mommy gives Daddy and me a plate, and we dig into our dinner. I watch Daddy look at Mommy, his eyes sparkle like twinkle lights when he looks at her.
“I wonder if I have a baby brother if his eyes will sparkle like that.”
Uh oh! I said that out loud!
Daddy starts to cough really loud, so I put my pizza down and climb into his lap.
I whisper in his ear, “I didn’t mean to say that out loud, but you think it helped?”
He looks down at me with the same sparkle in his eye, “I’m sure it did, but Mommy might have questions. Are you ready to answer them?”
“I sure am. Will you help me?”
“Of course, sweet pea,” he laughs.
“What are you two whispering about? Sophie, you know what I say about that,” Mommy says.
I look over, scared that she is mad, but she is just pretending.
“I’m sorry! But it is about our secret. It wouldn’t be a secret if we told you!” I say to Mommy with a giggle.
“Okay, baby. Now, what is this about your little brother’s eyes?” Mommy looks confused.
I think for a minute before I answer. Daddy said he wanted me to help him let Mommy know how much he loves her, and I need to make sure Mommy knows I want him to be my Daddy. Oh, I have an idea.
“Adam’s eyes sparkle when he looks at us, and I like his eyes very much,” I say with a smile.
Mommy looks at Daddy, and her cheeks turn pink before she looks back down at me. I can feel Daddy shaking against my back from laughing.
“They do, huh? I don’t see anything, but he does have very nice eyes.”
“Since, Adam loves us, I want a baby brother with eyes that sparkle just like his.”
Daddy and Mommy both start to cough really hard. I look up at Daddy with a big smile on my face. I am sure I did exactly what Daddy wanted, now Mommy will tell him that she loves both of us too. Come to think of it, I wouldn’t mind a baby brother either.
Isabel
I am not explaining the birds and the bees to my four-year-old! I look up at Adam in a panic, I don’t know what this secret is between the two of them, but he is going to fix this. Once he catches his breath, he picks Sophie up off his lap, so he can look her in the eye.
“Sophie, I do love you and your mommy very much, but just because I love you both, does not mean you get a baby brother,” he says to Sophie.
Wait, he said he loved me?
“That’s right Sophie. Babies are a lot of work and take time. So, I am not saying you will never get your wish, but it will be a long time before it’s an option. And what if you get a little sister instead?”
She tilts her head to the side for a moment, before answering.
“Yes, that’s okay. As long as we can both call Adam ‘Daddy’,” she says with a huge smile plastered across her face.
I again look up at Adam in shock, but what I see surprises me. He looks down at Sophie like she is the most precious thing in the entire world. I always wished that Jason would look at her like that, that he would be the father that Sophie always deserved.
“Sweet pea, what Mommy said is right. It takes time and a lot of love to make a baby, but most importantly, it takes a family. Although we all live here in this house together, your mommy and I are just friends, but know that I love you very much no matter what.”
Sophie looks up at him like he just crushed all her dreams. I have to turn away in order not to cry. This is how Jason should be with her, giving snuggles, love radiating from every pore. Instead, it is Adam, my doctor who barely knows anything about us.
“Come on, let's finish dinner. Mommy makes awesome pizza, doesn’t she? I have never had pizza this good, ever, and I have even been to Italy,” Adam says changing the subject.
Sophie’s eyes light up, “You have?” She scurries over to her plate of pizza and begins to rattle off questions to Adam. I turn to see Adam looking at me.
He really does have a small twinkle in his eye when he looks at me.
I give him a hesitant smile, and I am rewarded with one of his blinding smiles and a wink before he turns to answer all of Sophie’s questions. I don’t know what the future holds for us, but what I do know is that Adam is going to be a part of our lives for a long time to come.