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“That’s it?” Oh, who was I kidding? What did I know about babysitting two-year-olds? The last time I’d hung out with one was never…if you didn’t count whenIhad been thatage.
“It shouldn’t be too hard. I figured with the two of us, it’ll be prettyeasy.”
Now if only I was as convinced about that as Josh. “Have you had a lot of experience looking after two-year-olds?”
His expression pretty much said itall.
Well, if it meant that much to him…“Okay.”
“All right,” the tech said. “I’m finished. Do you want to see yourbaby?”
And the winner of the dumbestquestion…
“Yes,” Josh and I said at the sametime.
She turned the screen around to face us. “There it is. Do you want to know thesex?”
Did we? I looked up at Josh, who was staring at the screen in awe. “Do you want toknow?”
“I’m fine either way,” he said. “Do you want toknow?”
“I wouldn’t mind knowing,” I said, my gaze on the screenagain
Could you believe it? That was a picture of my baby—Josh’s and mybaby.
I blinked back the new round oftears.
“Okay, let’s find out,” Joshsaid.
“You’re having a boy,” the tech toldus.
So much for a mother’s intuition. But given my own mum’s lack of mothering intuition, clearly she and I had never inherited the gene forit.
Wow. I was having a boy—and nothing made mehappier.
Judging from Josh’s grin, I wasn’t the only one who was happy. An image of him teaching our son to skate popped into my head. Along with the image of me skating alongside them, cheering themon.
And I mentally added “learn how to skate” to my to-dolist.
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Kari handed Hollythe large leather diaper bag, which looked ready to explode from everything stuffed inside. “Thank you for looking after the boys for a few hours,” Kari said,grinning.
Instead of us babysitting Jyri and Kari’s twins at their house, they had met us at the zoo—at Jyri’ssuggestion.
“Tomas. Mikko. Do you remember Josh and Holly?” he asked theboys.
Don’t ask me which was which. They looked the same to me. Both had the same blond hair, blue eyes, and I’m-going-to-cause-all-kinds-of-trouble grins. “They’re taking you to see theanimals.”
Holly and I had met the boys last night. And let me tell you now, there was a good reason both Jyri and Kari looked exhausted. The twins never stoppedmoving.
“Hi,” Twin #1 said tome.
“No,” the other one said. Ah, that must have been Mikko. “No” was his favorite word. Correction. It was the only word I’d heard him utter lastnight.
So that meant Mikko was in the red dinosaur T-shirt, and Tomas was in the matching blueone.
