Title: Sweet dreams
author: Cindy Ryan
notes and summary: See part one
Tuesday the week after Ian had been born everyone had settled into a routine at home. Tim and Lucy weren't getting much sleep. Ian wasn't sleeping through the night so they rotated getting up with the newborn. It was nearly three in the morning when Tim took his turn. He padded barefoot into the nursery that had been painted a light blue and had a baseball theme with a border along the ceiling and other decorations.
"Hey, little man."Tim cooed as he reached the crib.
Ian sniffled and blinked brown eyes up at his father. Tim smiled and scooped Ian up in his arms and began to walk the nursery. Lucy had fed him around midnight so Tim knew his son was probably in need of a diaper change rather than a feeding. Tim set the dark haired baby on the changing table and made quick work of the dirty diaper and putting on a clean one. He wrinkled his nose as he put the dirty one in the garbage and shut the lid.
"There, all better."Tim said softly as he picked his son up once more and walked to the window.
The nursery was on the second floor between Ellie's room and the master bedroom. Tim was grateful they'd found this house when they had. It'd been a bit more expensive than they had originally talked about, but in the end it had worked out. The realtor had negotiated and got it down to what they could afford. It was an older home about twenty years old but it had felt right; homey. Everything had checked out with the home inspection. The previous owners had taken good care of it.
Looking down Tim smiled as he saw Ian was asleep. Gently Tim walked back to the crib and set Ian down.
"Sweet dreams, little man."Tim whispered.
He watched his son for a few more minutes before slowly exiting the nursery and turning off the light.
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