Curious Little Boy

The first thing that was ahead for us was his family’s BBQ that afternoon. Josh told me that we would head over to his parents house around two. “We probably won’t be eating until 5 or so but everyone always goes early to help out or to hang out.”

It was almost noon before we knew it, we were still laying in bed talking about various things from family and friends, to work and what we wanted to do this summer; Josh was determined to carry out the plans he had for our weekend alone that was cancelled the month before.

“I’m just not sure what to do about Jess,” he told me. “I don’t want to ask Carol to take him for a couple days and I’m not sure about leaving him with anyone for the weekend.”

“We can always take him with us,” I offered but I didn’t really want too when it was supposed to be us alone, maybe that was selfish of me.

Josh sighed, “I guess we could…” He frowned suddenly and turned his head away from me.

“What’s wrong?” I asked when he grunted ‘huh’.

“Nothing’s wrong,” he pulled away from me to sit up in bed. “It’s just odd that Jesse hasn’t been in here yet to get me up.” I watched Josh as he swung his legs over the edge of the mattress to stand up. “I’m going to check on him,” he stated while tugging his pj pants on.

“Ok,” I replied but it didn’t matter, he was already out the door.

A couple minutes later, he came back into the room with a shocked/impressed expression on his face. “Jess is still sleeping,” he said as he plopped down on the bed and stared at me. “I went in there and he’s snoring away!”

I smiled, “Well honey he did have a lot of fresh air yesterday and didn’t get to bed until after his normal bed time; that’s probably why he’s still sleeping.”

“You really think so?”

“Yes,” I smiled. “We wore him out finally!”

Josh laughed as he joined me under the covers once again. “I didn’t think that was even possible!”

I told him that it must be because Jess was sleeping still and we were wide awake. “What did you want to do now?” I asked while I curled up next to him. “Where you still hungry?”

Josh chuckled, he told me he was hungry still but he didn’t want to get up or let me out of his arms. We spent a few minutes talking about how cool life would be if we were capable of magic but in the end, we reluctantly got up.

The couple hours between the time we got up and the time we left for his parents’ house passed by rather quickly. After we got up, Josh suggested that we both shower, “Together,” he said firmly. “Have to save water you know,” he joked when I gave him a questioning look.

“You just want me naked and wet,” I replied and he didn’t even bother to deny it, he told me that there was nothing wrong with him wanting to see his girlfriend wearing only what God gave her.

When we came out of the bathroom wrapped in towels, we were a little surprised to see a sleepy Jesse lying on the floor by the bathroom door. “Jess?” Josh knelt down as Jesse sat up. “How long have you been up?”

Jess scratched his head as he thought about Josh’s question. “This long daddy,” he held his arms as far apart as he could. “My tummy making noise daddy.”

Josh scooped Jess off the floor and stood up. Turning to me, he asked if I wouldn’t mind going to get dressed first and then watch Jess while he did. I didn’t mind at all. So as I walked down the hallway to his room, he made his way over to the couch to sit down with Jess.

Closing the door part way, I went over to my overnight bag and pulled out shorts and a t-shirt which I was planning on wearing until just before we left for his parents’ place. Once I was dressed, I returned to the living room, received a kiss from Josh as I joined him on the couch before he disappeared to get dressed.

Jess was still pretty sleepy, he had crawled up in my lap when Josh got off the couch and now he was snuggled up in my arms, so quiet that I wondered if he had fallen back to sleep.

At least I was wondering until he lifted his head suddenly to stare at me in confusion. “Ama love daddy?”

I smiled, “Yes Jess, I love your daddy.”

He frowned, his blue eyes looking even more confused. “Daddy love Ama?”

“Yes Jesse, your daddy loves me; he told you that yesterday, remember?”

The frown on his face eased a little as he said, “Oh Jesse member.”

He didn’t say anything again and I thought he was done but moments before he spoke again, he looked puzzled and his eyebrow rose as he stared up at me. “Ama why daddy kiss mommy?”