Mom showed up at our door and Matthew let her in. He had her sit in the chair and got another one and sat down in front of her with the birth cert. He told her about yesterday when he was working a job and found this baby. He told her that the baby had blue eyes and blond hair and that babies like that don’t survive in that area so he didn’t turn her in. He said they bombed the whole place into a pancake so she must have lost everyone. Matthew went on to tell her he brought her home and got a birth cert for her. He showed her the birth cert and explained he named her after her and that he gave her the name Hunter. So far Mom just listened. She had not smiled. When he was finished she said she had seen the news and was hoping he was not there. She then said let me see the child. Matthew took the child from me. Took her out of the blanket and held her up to Mom. Mom with a smirk smile said, “She’s not yours?” She was thinking Matthew had been going with someone before me and got her pregnant. She looked at Matthew carefully. Watching to see if he was telling the truth. Matthew said, “Not blood. I swear.” Mom then said, “I think you can understand why I asked being she looks just like you. Blue eyes, blond hair. You can even see you in her face.” Matthew replied, “That is why I didn’t give her to the government there. All the kids there are brown hair and brown eyes and the fact that there was no one left alive.” Mom reached out and took her. Holding her in her arms with a big smile she said, “She is so beautiful and you named her after me.” She kissed the baby on the forehead and said to the baby, “Your one of the family now so you need to be good for your new grandmother.” Tears rose in her eyes and she said to Matthew, “I can’t believe God gave you two children. We are so blessed. You have told everyone that works for you that no one is to know about this?” Matthew replied, “Yes and we have a birth cert to show anyone who questions it.” Mom was so happy. She now was going to have two grandchildren. Mom said, “Hunter, I guess I should give you back to your daddy even though I don’t want to, but I want to see a lot of you.”
She handed her back to Matthew and kissed him on the cheek. Mom said, “Why don’t you bring her to lunch and I will get a high chair and see if she can sit in it?” Matthew replied, “Sure, we will be there.” She then said, “Do you need anything for her?” Matthew replied, “No not right now but shortly we will need more diapers and clothes.” Mom kissed Matthew on the cheek and with a smile said, “I will see you later.” Matthew let her out the door. He then turned to me and asked what we had she could wear to lunch. I said I didn’t know. We threw away your clothes and her clothes that you guys were wearing last night. He said he was going to get dressed and go to security. That he would be back soon. He handed me Hunter, got dressed and was gone. I sat in the chair holding Hunter talking to her and after a while she feel asleep. I got the bed and pulled it next to the chair. I put her in it and she kept sleeping. I kept my hand on her hand so she would know I was there. I couldn’t believe she was ours. I had lost my heart to this tiny baby.
Matthew came back from security and he had two little dresses. One of the guys had a baby girl and the baby had out grown the clothes. He wanted to put one on but decided to wait until she woke up. Matthew said to me, “she must be wery happy with you because she is sleeping really well.” I said, “Of course I am her mother.” Matthew smiled almost to a laugh. Matthew said, “Is it ok if I go work on somethings until lunch? You seem to have everything under control.” I replied, “Sure. I will get ready about lunch time. You want to come back and pick us up?” Matthew said, “That sounds really good.” He gave me a kiss and was off again.
I went into the bathroom and brushed my teeth. I got clothes and put them on the bed. I sat in the chair, brushed and fixed my hair. When I had everything I needed to get ready I picked up one of the baby books and started reading about care of a 4 month and 5 month old.
We went to lunch and mom put a highchair between her and Matthew. She used the strap in the chair because because she was so small. She took a picture of the three of us to put in the baby book. Hunter did pretty well with apple sauce and oatmeal. Mom said she would plan meals for her. Matthew took a picture of Mom holding Hunter for the baby book. I was so hungry and ate like a pig. The whole lunch was really great. Mom wanted to start a reusable baby clothes for everyone. She said there was a small room off the living room to keep everything. Matthew said he was going to put Cindy in charge and tell her to meet with mom. After breakfast we went to the living room a few minutes to see what was on tv. There wasn’t much to watch. Mom came out to join us. When people would come into the living room they would look at us wondering where the baby came from because I still looked really big. Matthew ask Mom and I if he could go back to work for a hour and then he would come back and we would go to the gym. Mom and I said that was fine so he left us to enjoy having the baby.
The next couple of weeks was great. Mom loved helping taking care of the baby. When we would go to the gym we would take the baby and I would hold her while Matthew exercised and then we would switch. Mom started going to the gym with us to hold the baby. After a while she was able to sit in a chair rather than follow us around and finally we were able to leave Hunter with Mom and not have to take her to the gym. Cindy collected a lot of baby things for the reuse baby room and all the parents thought it was so great that Matthew was doing this for them. Matthew assigned Cindy to Mom to help her with the baby. He said he wasn’t going to take any out of town jobs until after Wyatt was born. He wanted to be home when I went into labor and also he was hearing rumbling about my safety.
I was getting bigger and so was Hunter. She started sleeping in her bed and Matthew went back to his meetings and working in the office. Everyone was over joyed. Matthew said once he didn’t know his life was going to be so great.