"Here are your pictures of your baby girl," he stated, handing them over.
Sighing, Julie said dreamily, "She's perfect."
"Yes, she is," Aaron agreed.
After the appointment, Julie and Aaron were too excited to go straight home, and since Aaron rarely got time off between the two restaurants, they decided to take advantage and do some celebratory baby shopping after the doctor's appointment.
After perusing the cribs and comparing colors, Julie and Aaron decided on a very pretty white crib that looked unlike any of the others they looked at, with flat wooden planks. To complement the crib, Julie also selected a white shelf to hang in the baby's room.
"We're going to eventually have to get a bookcase, too, for all the baby books, but we should probably buy that last and make sure we have room."
"We'll have room," he said.
"Yeah, but I don't want the baby's area to be cluttered. I'm thinking I really like the white furniture for the baby, and I had been thinking I wanted the other color to be mainly yellow, just in case it went either way, but now that we know it's a girl I kind of want to go with pink. It is a shame I'll never get to have a son, because I always wanted to do Noah's ark for a little boy, but… there's still plenty of time, anything can happen."
"Did you want many children?"
"No," she said, shaking her head. "One of each would have suited me fine, and I did want to have a girl first, so… but it's fine. At least it isn't twin boys."
"True," he said. "Brothers can be a handful."
"Yes, I know," she said wryly as she reached out and touched a bedding set. "Hmm, this one has pink and yellow."
"You know, we could do pink and yellow in the baby's room, then you wouldn't have to choose. They're both baby colors, they could go together."
"The baby doesn't have a room," she reminded him.
"But she will. If you like the one we're going through, that one has really nice sized bedrooms. I believe the baby's bedroom is currently a light green with white trim, but I can always go in and paint if before we move in."
"You are really pushing this place. Is it that great?"
"I love it," he said.
Smiling, she said, "Well, that's all that matters. Honestly, you don't even have to run it by me if you don't want to. It's your apartment."
"It's going to be ours."
"Are we going to be allowed to paint? I know some landlords are really funny about that."
Chuckling, he said, "Julie, I'm not renting. I'm going to buy it, assuming that you like it."
Her eyes widened and she said, "Buy it? Well, I guess I hadn't thought of that. Is it in the city or…?"
"Yeah," he said, nodding. "It's a great building, it has a parking garage and a courtyard with a swing set. It's on a safe block, but still close to everything we need to be close to. I've done my homework on this place, I really think you're going to like it."
"But buying is so permanent," she countered. "Are you sure you want to buy a whole apartment?"
"Well, I was going to just buy a bedroom and the kitchen, but then I thought, what if we have to use the bathroom?"
Shooting him a dry look, she said, "You know what I mean."
"Does it really bother you that much?" he asked seriously.
Sighing, she said, "It's not that it bothers me…"
He quirked an eyebrow wordlessly, causing her to sigh again.
"Okay, maybe it bothers me a little. But it's just because… this really isn't your burden, Aaron. I know that I'm not supposed to look at it that way, and in all other respects… I don't, but you already do so much and I don't feel like you should have to."