It was late
in the afternoon, Kate had just gotten one of the babies down for a nap along with the
toddler and she was rocking the other baby to sleep in the rocking chair. He was restless and every time he was almost
asleep something would cause him to wake up again. Finally Kate tried the one last thing she
could think of. She turned on the record
player to some old style mexican
guitar and started to dance with the baby, slowly swaying back the forth. She remembered reading somewhere that the vibrations from humming was soothing to a baby so she hummed
along with the music. Sure enough, not
long after, the baby was sound asleep.
She laid
him down in his crib and pulled a blanket up around his chin. She couldn’t help but just rest her chin on
the side of the crib and watch the baby’s peaceful sleep.
“You’re a
natural at this mother-thing.” Robby
whispered into her ear, he had come up behind her and rapped his arms around
her waist.
“So how was
it out in the field?” Kate asked, still
keeping her eyes on the sleeping baby.
“Fine, ya know, I never realized just how much work it is to run a
farm.” Robby commented, remembering how
hard it had been. “Oh, I came in here to
tell you that dinner is almost ready.”
“Oh,
okay. I’ll be there in a minuet. I just want to make sure they are all asleep before
I leave.”
Robby watch
her as she checked on the other two babies in the nursery. He couldn’t’ help but think what a wonderful
mother she would be. Then another
thought flashed through his mind, her rocking a baby with dark brown hair and deep brown eyes, not
just any child, his. How could he be
thinking that, he wondered to himself, they had yet to even go on their first
official date and he was already thinking of marriage.
Robby
waited for Kate to finish with the last baby and walked to the dinning hall
with her. Without thing he took her had,
his fingers rubbed the ring on her right hand, the simple pleasure of that was
enough to send chills down Robby’s spine.
For the first time it felt like a piece of him, that he hadn’t even
known was missing, had been filled.