Chapter 7 Perfect
"Ok Mary. I'll be back in an hour or so. Tami's coming with me. And I have your list."
"Ok. Make sure you get everything on that list. We need it. And babies need a lot of things, so don't be surprised at the amount of things you pick up, especially when you're having eight."
Joey nodded his head and leaned in, to kiss Mary goodbye. He smiled as he glanced at her bulging stomach. It was so round and looked so cute on Mary. "Love you."
"Love you too." Mary grinned, biting her lower lip.
Joey took off and was on his way to Babies R Us. Tami grabbed a shopping cart and they slowly walked down to the baby area. They pushed the cart down the "Baby care essentials" aisle. Tami picked up sixteen packs of Huggies diapers, sixteen packs of Johnson&Johnson's baby wipes, four boxes of bottle liners, four bottles of Johnson&Johnson's baby shampoo/body wash, eight tubes of diaper cream, four bottles of Johnson&Johnson's baby lotion, a baby's first aid kit, a teething medicine, eight infant medicine dispenser pacifiers, and two baby thermometers.
"Ok let's go to the feeding aisle." Tami kept pushing the cart and stopped to pick up the items on Mary's list. She picked up a bottle drying rack, two six pack bottle sets, bottle nipples, a bottle warmer/cooler, a breast pump, five nursing bras, breast cream, a nursing wrap, a nursing pillow, an infant support pillow, three ten pack bib sets, and two packs of burp clothes. "You need high chairs, but it's not going to fit in the cart."
"There's an empty cart right here. I'll take this one and put all the big stuff in here." Joey suggested, taking the cart and moving closer to where the highchairs were.
"Which one?"
"Well you need five girly highchairs and three boy highchairs. Is there any theme you wanted?"
"Well we wanted a jungle theme for the boys and for girls she wanted an animal theme as well, just girly."
"Okay well why don't you wait on the highchairs, because they don't sit in them right away anyway and Mary said not to worry about them."
Joey nodded, then followed Tami into the clean and healthy aisle. She picked up baby detergent, hand sanitizers, an all purpose organic cleaner, and a purifier. She then walked down the safety aisle where she picked up many things. Four safety gates, two sound sleepers, eight teethers, two baby monitors, a fish night-light, a monkey night-light, a baby sunshade, a baby view auto mirror, and sixteen pacifiers.
They then walked to the bath and potty aisle. There she got, a duck bathtub, three blue frog baby robes and slippers that match, five pink flowered robes, five blue and white flower towels, five jungle towels, twenty receiving blankets, a set of colorful washcloths, a temperature tester, and a bath organizer. She soon walked into the nursery aisle. "Joey when are you doing the nursery?"
"Probably tonight with Dustin and her uncle. You and her aunt are going to keep her company."
"Ok, we have to get bedding. She ordered the furniture the other day. I had brought her, her laptop so she wasn't bored to death." Tami smiled, while passing the cribs.
"I know she showed me them. They're very nice. We have to get bedding right?"
"Yup," she nodded. Joey closely looked at all the bedding before picking one up. "I like this one." He said, before reading the product description. He glanced down at pink animal theme sheets, quilt, and dust ruffle. He picked up five of these, and moved on to the boy's comforters. He picked up three jungle theme comforters.
"That's cute." Tami put them in her almost full cart. She pushed the cart down a little and stopped to look at car seats. She left the cart to the side and walked over to this particular car seat. She carefully observed it. The car seat matched the other stuff. It was jungle theme. She then observed the one next to it, which was the girl version. "I like these one. It matched the other things."
"Those are cute. Is there any other furniture on the list?"
"Nope." She shook her head, observing the long list, as Joey pulled the car seat boxes into his cart. "But you do need a carriage, but I don't know where you're going to get an Octuplet carriage."
"Oh Mary ordered one from a special site. What's next?"
"Umm... bouncers, which is the activity aisle, the next one." They walked to the next aisle and Joey and Tami looked at the bouncers. "How about this one?"
"That's nice." This product description read: This adorable bouncer is all about the play! A baby activated toy bar keeps the baby focused on the fun with lights and melodies that play from the large plush bear. Two additional toys also entertain your little one along with soothing vibrations. Cradling seat design and 3-point harness keeps baby secure and comfortable. Toy bar is removable for easy access and seat pad is machine washable. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this item goes to support breast cancer awareness and research.
Joey put yet eight more boxes into his cart. He followed Tami down the aisle over to the playmats. Tami automatically went over to one. She picked up a square shaped mat with a ring of neutral jungle toys over it that played a calming melody. She put it in Joey's cart. She walked towards a specific infant swing. She pointed to the same neutral jungle theme swing, signaling for Joey to get it. He did as noticed and followed Tami down to the baby clothes, where she picked up multiple sets of onesies, gowns, stretchies, and socks. "Okay, I think we're finally done, now that we probably spent a million dollars."
"That's okay. We've got all the money in the world." Joey laughed, making his way over to the register. His eyes landed on the bold words that were printed in the magazine that lay before his eyes. Dominique Blatt confesses murder.
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