A few days ago, we watched “The Business of Being Born” — well, I fast-forwarded to the births in the movie. Jonas and Susannah are fast becoming experts in all this baby stuff. After we watched the scene where the lovely woman with curly hair squats in the middle of a quiet, dim living room and births her baby on the wood floor, Jonas and I had one of the best conversations ever.
“Mommy! Did you see that?”
“Yes, I love it.”
“That’s what YOU’RE GOING TO DO??!”
“Yeah, babe, that’s the plan.”
He sat in awed silence for a moment. Then he bounced his rump on the couch and exclaimed, “Wow. Daddy and me are going to the store, and we are going to GET YOU A PRESENT.”
His future wife is a lucky woman.