Luke was checking something off on his inventory list while a few people in the diner sat around talking. He was happy to finally be at work as apposed to sitting with Lorelai at home waiting for her to give birth, but at the same time, he missed Lorelai and Justin every single second he wasn't at home. Justin was only one month old, and Luke was making up stupid excuses to leave the diner and surprise Lorelai and Justin at home, which, nine times out of ten were sleeping, but he didn't care. It's still hard to believe, that Luke is a father, to himself, and many of the people around him. He recalls his favorite memory of the last month, besides when he was born:

Luke and Lorelai were peacefully sleeping in their room, a rare thing since Justin was born. The night before they were at Friday night dinner, one of the most peaceful dinners he had ever attended at the Gilmore's house. Everyone at the table shared stories about children, Emily and Richard joking about Lorelai's young years, Lorelai joking about Rory at a young age and Luke adding commentary on that one, like the time Rory decided to have her first cup of coffee, and didn't sleep that whole night because she was bouncing off the wall with a caffeine buzz. The Friday night dinner had gone on until 10:00, when they decided Justin better get to bed; everyone was exhausted, and Luke and Lorelai thought maybe because Justin went to bed later, he might sleep without waking up, they were both wrong.

Luke's eyes shot open when he head loud screaming from Justin's room, Lorelai moaned and began to get up, "Go back to sleep, I'll take care of it" Lorelai just moaned in response and fell back asleep before Luke was even out of the door. Luke walked down the hall and entered Justin's room, he was screaming with tears rolling down his face. "Hey little guy," Luke said as he picked Justin up, Luke's face scrunched up, "and judging by the smell you need a diaper change" Luke said, as if Justin really understood what he was talking about. Luke put him on the changing table and changed his diaper. He picked him back up,

"Hey think about it, last week you didn't even know how to do that." Luke turned around to see Lorelai standing in the doorway, head leaning against the door, obviously exhausted.

"Go to bed, you're tired, I can handle him" Luke said and sat no the rocking chair trying to get Justin to fall back asleep.

"No, I feel guilty," Lorelai, said as she entered the room approaching Luke and Justin. "I mean, you have to work tomorrow, well," She said and looked at the clock, "Today, so you should go to bed."

"I'm good, I'm going into the diner later anyways, Caesar has been opening for me," Luke said defending himself.

Lorelai laughed, "Are we seriously arguing over who takes care of Justin in the middle of the night?"

"Yah, we're crazy" Luke smiled.

"Look, he fell asleep" Lorelai said and smiled, she knelt next to Luke and he put the arm he wasn't holding Justin with around Lorelai, Lorelai looked at Justin.

"Lorelai?" Luke said and Lorelai looked up at Luke.

"Yah?"

"Thank-you for making me the happiest man on earth" Luke smiled.

"Wow, you softie." Lorelai said and kissed him, through the kiss she muttered, "I love you"

"I love you too," Luke said.

"Okay, let's get him back in his crib and go back to sleep, I'm exhausted."

"Okay."

Luke snapped back to reality. There were so many memories to love from the last week, but he loved that one the most, he couldn't recall exactly why, but he just loved it. The bell rang from the door and Luke looked up to see Lorelai enter struggling to hold the door open and push the stroller in.

"Here," Luke said and ran over to hold the door open.

"Thanks, and hey" Lorelai said and gave him a quick peck on the lips.

"Hey, how's Justin doing?" He asked as the walked over to the counter.

"Sleeping," Lorelai said smiling.

"That's good, coffee?" Luke asked, knowing the answer he turned around and handed the cup over to her.

"Please" Lorelai said and gulped the coffee. "So Luke," Lorelai said with a grin.

"Uh oh" Luke said, Lorelai always worried him when she started a question off like that.

"It's not a 'uh-oh', I was just thinking, don't you think it would be cool to get a dog?" Lorelai questioned

"A…"

"A dog, you know, so Justin can run around out back with him and take him on walks and stuff."

"Lorelai… he can't even walk yet.

"I know, but when he can… don't you think it would be cute?"

"I don't know Lorelai,"

"Please, please, please! Here, never mind, you just think about it, I'm going to go to the Inn and check up on it and take Justin so Sookie can squeal and Michel can make a remark about the little 'poop machine' and then…"

"Poop machine? "Luke asked confused

"And then I am going to casually walk past the pet store and maybe look in at the cute little dogs." Lorelai said in an oh so unsettle way.

Luke just rolled his eyes and went on the other side of the counter to give Lorelai a kiss and kissed Justin on the forehead.

Next chapter… it's going to be about 8 months ahead, so I can skip to the baby firsts.

Meggie