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Age 2 weeks:
"I'm nervous, what if I drop him?"
"My God, Jude, relax, you aren't going to drop him."
"What if-"
"Stop right there, you're gonna freak yourself out, it will all be fine." Connor's phone started ringing. "It's probably his social worker now." Connor put it on speaker.
"Mr. Adams Foster, there's a problem." Jude squeaked.
"What's the problem is he okay?"
"That's the thing, you know how we told you his twin sister and mother died in child birth?"
"Oh God." Even Connor was pale now.
"It's not bad, it's just that there was a mixup and actually the girl, Amanda, was the one who lived, I have to ask, do you still want her?" Jude and Connor both sighed in relief.
They had somehow convinced themselves and each other that they were only fostering a kid until he found another home, but they both knew they would end up adopting him. Or as the information was now revealed her.
"Yes."
"Yes."
"Of course." Jude said as one more confirmation.
"Okay, wonderful, we will be over at around 2:00." The social worker hung up.
"It's a good thing Marianna wouldn't let us gender the decorations."
"I told you everything would be okay."
Jude looked Connor in the eyes and grabbed his hands, Jude was crying a little.
"We're gonna have a kid." Connor squeezed Jude's hand.
"We are going to have a kid together."
"I love you so much."
"I love you too."
At 2:00 Jude and Connor were introduced to their less then 1 year old daughter, Amanda. Amanda was very small. She had a little bit of brown hair and eyes that looked a lot like Connor's. Amanda had a few cuts and scars already. To Jude and Connor cuts and scars or not, Amanda was perfect.
Age 2: Amanda was giggling like crazy as Jude ran around the house with her on his shoulders.
It all started when Amanda said in her cute 2 year old voice "Piggy Back wide!" Jude couldn't say no to her.
Connor came in and saw Jude exhausted on the floor breathing heavily.
"Piggy back ride?" Jude just nodded and Connor threw him his water bottle.
"You know she's not sleeping, and is just in there playing with her stuffed animals."
"Why did we get her so many?"
"Because she wanted them, and her relatives were more then happy to get her them."
"You know, she named one after Brandon, but none of them are Marianna."
"Let's just not tell Mari," Connor added, "Which one is Brandon?"
"The cyclops dragon thing." They both laughed.
"I thought having a two year old would be boring, no more first crawl or first words, first steps, but she's just so amazing." the two sat in the rare silence.
"We should probably try to get her inevitably messy room cleaned up." Jude and Connor looked at each other for a few seconds before both yelling
"I call fun dad." Jude got up and started running to Amanda's room, but Connor ran past him and got there first.
"Sorry, babe." he said as he entered the room.
"Hi Mandy." Of course Amanda was in a too too and she had a pile of stuffed animals around her.
"Hi!" Amanda said very bubbly as if everything needed the exact same exclamation to it as saying "surprise!"
"Did daddy give you a piggy back ride?" Connor and Jude quickly found out that Amanda called Jude daddy and Connor papa.
"Yes!" Connor chuckled at Amanda's constant enthusiasm.
"Well, papa is gonna tickle you." Amanda giggled loudly as Connor tickled her. She wriggled all over the floor which gave Jude the time to pick up all her stuffed animals and put them in the very large bin.
"Daddy help!" Amanda shrieked in laughter.
"Sorry, Mandy I'm defenseless against the tickle monster, I married him." Jude sighed. He did marry the tickle monster, and maybe he would adopt the tickled princess.
Age 3: "I don't understand why we have to ask her."
"Because we need to know if she wants to be adopted."
"We're the only parents she has ever had, and its not like she's going to remember us asking."
"Yeah, but..." Jude sighed. "Having two gay parents isn't exactly every toddlers dream.
"Are you saying that Stef and Le-"
"No, I'm just saying we're asking, even though she's gonna say yes."Jude added, " and there's a chance she'll say no."
"There's no chance, Amanda loves us."
Age 4:
"Babe, do you know where my running shoes went?"
"No."
"Ugh, I'm gonna be late to work if I don't find them." Connor said.
"Just take the other ones."
"Fine." Connor quickly grabs his dirty sneakers and runs out the door to not be late.
"Mandy, do you know where papa's running shoes went?" Jude asked in a baby voice. Mandy just shook her head.
Jude handed her a toy and went to clean up breakfast, hoping that he could actually get work done today.
It was later in the day and Jude noticed that the family's groceries were running down. Jude carefully picked up Amanda and set her on the couch to help her put her shoes on.
Amanda squirmed all over the place and after a good 5 minutes Jude got them on her and she kept them on.
Jude was now looking for his dark blue canvas shoes. He wore them a lot and remembered putting them at the door, but now they weren't there.
Jude assumed Connor moved them in his panic to leave, so instead of giving Amanda more time alone that she would use to take off her shoes, he grabbed a different pair of shoes.
They came back and Jude made dinner while Amanda watched some kids show that probably had a moral lesson at the end.
"Hey, babe." Connor said as he came in and wrapped his arms around Jude's torso and kissed his neck it started chaste, but was quickly becoming more intense with the intent to leave a mark.
"Kid." Jude reminded Connor.
"She's 4 she's not going to remember." Jude pushed Connor away anyway.
Connor went up to Amanda where she was sitting. He kissed her forehead.
"Hello Mandy, at least you let me kiss you." he kissed her forehead again.
"Hi Papa." Amanda replied absentmindedly, her focus was on the talking animals.
The next day, Connor was looking for his shoes again.
"Con, you've got to be more responsible then this."
"I'm not losing them, they were right here." Connor was pointing at a spot near the door.
"Well you're gonna be late, so take the pair of converse." Jude and Connor both knew you couldn't work out as well in converse, they didn't count as athletic shoes.
The same thing happened with Jude too, the shoes he wore in place of the missing ones were also gone.
It wasn't till Amanda's bedtime that Connor found the shoes.
"Mandy, after one story, you need to sleep."
Connor read the story and was more tired then Amanda at the end. He kissed her goodnight and tried to walk away quietly, when he tripped. He caught his balance again, but was surprised to see there was a lump in the pink rug.(everything was pink)
It was Jude's shoe.
"Mandy, you shoe thief." Connor said. He grabbed all the shoes from around the rug.
He sat at the edge of her bed.
"Mandy, why did you take the shoes?"
"It was a sca-n-ger hunt." Amanda replied.
Connor chuckled. His daughter was so silly.