Page 55 of Indescribable

ChapterEleven

Brock

Walking back inside the house, I hear the best sound in the world. Naomi and Cody chatting up a storm. He’s telling her all about the batting cages we went to yesterday and how he got to hold Lola’s baby and how little she is. His little mouth is running a mile a minute and Naomi doesn’t miss a word, replying and asking questions.

I stop in the kitchen to clean up our dinner dishes and put away the leftovers. Then I grab a bottle of SunnyD, something I only keep on hand for Cody, and some chocolate animal crackers. It doesn’t matter that he just ate, he’ll be hungry.

When I walk into the living room, I toss him the bottle of liquid sugar and he catches it without pausing in his story of how he basically got a homerun hit while we were at the cages. Naomi nods and smiles, glancing at me out of the corner of her eye. I’m sure she knows that he’s exaggerating but she lets him tell his story.

He finally takes a break from talking so he can guzzle down some SunnyD so Naomi has a chance to put a word in.

“Honestly, I’m super jealous right now. First of all, I haven’t seen Lola’s baby yet.”

“Youhaveto go see her. She’s like the littlest human I’ve ever seen. And she has these,” he scrunches his nose and makes a baby voice, pinching his fingers together, “teeny tiny fingers. And if you put your finger out she wraps hers around it.”

I’m holding my breath, praying he doesn’t say something about when Naomi and I have a baby boy for him to play with.

“She sounds adorable.”

“She is. But then she cried and I didn’t like that as much. Dad and Uncle Brock told me that babies cry sometimes, though, since they can’t talk much yet.”

“That’s true,” Naomi agrees, laughing a little.

“So can I go with you when you go see her? I’m sure she misses me already. When I was holding her she was happy, then Uncle Brock had to butt in and hold her. She started to cry for him.”

That little liar. The look he gives me is full of sass, too. “Hey! That’s not true. We were there for an hour and Lola said Evelyn was probably hungry which is why she started to get fussy. She wasn’t crying. I’m pretty sure she smiled at me and didn’t smile at you.”

He gasps. “Howdareyou! She smiled at me, too!”

“It was just gas,” I tease him. “Babies smile when they fart. Like you still do.”

He’s not even ashamed when he admits, “I can’t help it if I think farts are funny.”

“They aren’t always funny,” I remind him, pinching my nose and waving in front of my face.

Naomi busts up laughing at the two of us.

“Lola was probably right about Evelyn being hungry. I’m sure she loved both of you equally,” she adds, trying to appease both the children in the room.

“She liked me better,” Cody grumbles with a grin. “But you’re right. She was hungry. I asked if I could feed her but this one,” he gestures to me with his thumb and eye roll, “told me I don’t have the right equipment for it.”

“Lola’s nursing,” I explain.

“Ahh.” She nods then turns back to Cody. “Yeah, that would mean that Lola breast feeds Evelyn.”

Cody blinks a few times then a look of confusion goes over his face when hepointedlylooks down at Naomi’s chest then to me then at the wall.

“Does that mean what I think it means? You know I’m going to look it up on Google if you don’t tell me.”

“Yeah, little man, it’s what you think it means. That’s how some mamas feed their babies. Some mamas feed their babies out of a bottle. Some do both. It’s completely normal and natural and isn’t weird.”

I’m honestly pretty sure he knows what breast feeding is but I wouldn’t be surprised if it confused him a little. He hasn’t been around a lot of babies in his life so it’s all new and interesting to him.

With a shrug he just says, “Okay,” and munches on some animal crackers.

The three of us chat a little longer then play a few rounds of Uno. I text Boone to let him know that Naomi and I are going to walk him home shortly after we’ve finished playing.

“I’m not a baby, I can walk myself home,” Cody protests.

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