Ch. 15 Daddy's Girl
The next morning, Lu and Isabel went home from the hospital. The first night, Isabel didn't sleep very much. When Lu tried to feed her or change her, Isabel would just cry harder. Jonas finally woke up from the crying.
"Why won't she stop crying?" Jonas asked sleepily.
"I don't know! I've tried everything!" Lu said exasperated.
"Here. Let me try," Jonas said.
"Okay. But I don't know what you could do that I haven't tried already," Lu said.
As soon as Isabel was in Jonas's arms, she stopped crying.
"How did you do that?" Lu asked stunned.
"I didn't do anything," Jonas said, quite amazed himself.
"I see how it is," Lu said, "She is definitely a daddy's girl."
Jonas sat in the rocking chair with Isabel for another 20 minutes. When he was sure she was asleep, he put her in her crib, took Lu by the hand, and lead her back to bed. They just sat on their bed, looking at the wall, totally exhausted.
"I can't believe we just stayed up with our daughter for over an hour," Lu said as she gently rolled over and laid against Jonas's chest.
"I can't believe I put her to sleep!" Jonas said.
A few weeks later, Lu came back to work. She brought Isabel along with her.
"Hey kid! Long time no see! Oh get over here!" Lana said as she got up to give her friend a hug. "I see you brought your little darling angel," she said when she saw the car seat.
"Yeah. I just couldn't bring myself to get a baby- sitter. I couldn't stand to be away from her for that long. I don't know how Jonas can do it," Lu said, smiling down as her sleeping daughter.
"Well, consider Lana your free baby-sitter. You just leave Isabel with me and I'll page you when she gets hungry," Lana said as she took the car seat from Lu's hands.
"Okay, great! But first I want her to meet the girls," Lu said.