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Chapter Thirty

Wade was so close to pulling his hair out, he lucked out with Lavon who had a business meeting over dinner so he could not watch Jack for Wednesday night. Rose couldn't she had to study for some big test, Lemon was on call that night at Fancie's, Annabeth had a class that night and George was driving her to Mobile for it. Wade laid his head down on the coffee table wanting to bang his head against it.

Because after he had called Annabeth, Wade had also called Tansy she too had plans for Wednesday night. Wanda was working Wednesday so she couldn't, if he ask Dash it would be all over his blog about their date so that was a no. Shula Whitaker hadn't watched Jack for over a hour before so Wade did not think it was a good idea to ask her on a night to when everyone else was busy and could not come to her rescue if needed.

There were only two people left to asks and one had never babysit for him, sure Brick had offered before but he never had. So Wade took a deep breath knowing he was going to get some rubbing but a night out with Zoe was worth it.

Wade hit the number on his phone and waited for what seemed like forever. Before he heard on the other end "What do ya need?"

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Zoe's day had not started out good her new laptop did not want to connect to the data base and it took her over a hour to finally get it to connect. Once it did though the rest of the morning had went well. Her patients all were easy to diagnose and thankfully only one was a case of strep throat.

When lunch time was coming Zoe had decided to go to the Butter Stick instead of the Rammer Jammer. She wanted to give Wade a little space plus she was kind of sick of cheese burgers. So after ordering a ham salad sandwich she took a set alone at a table drinking a ice tea waiting for her food. Zoe wanted to see what this ham salad sandwich tasted like that her son seemed to enjoy so much.

Zoe was all ready to hate the sandwich because it was all kinds of gross looking but the second she bitten into it and the taste hit her tongue she moaned in happiness. It tasted so good she could now understand her son's joy at his once a week treat.

Zoe owned George a I'm sorry which she was going to tell him the next time she seen him. But he still needed to keep chocolate away from Jack, and maybe if George was only giving him small candy bars but he gave him full size ones. Well the whole chocolate covered Jack size hand print on the back of his shirt that Dash had posted a picture of on his blog should help with George realizing not to give Jack candy bars any longer.

Zoe knew she would have a hard time enforcing a no ham salad sandwich rule because she liked them to much herself. She was thinking of ordering another one when she noted the time on her cell phone her lunch break was almost over. So she left to get back to the Practice in time for her next patient. It was nice to be so busy at work not to have to worry about bringing in her thirty present.

Plus Zoe really was enjoying her new laptop once she got it to work right with the data base. She almost felt like before her accident only she couldn't wait until Wade picked her up. He was going to bring Jack to her in his Suv and then she would drop him off at the Rammer Jammer. Zoe was thinking about taking Jack into Mobile and make a quick stop at that big box store to see if he liked the swing set Wade and her talked about buying for him. Then she would take them home Wade none the wiser that Jack has seen the swing set before they had brought it.

That was Zoe's plan and it might have worked if not for the fact that she had never taken Jack into a store before. Zoe had wiped down the cart extra good then put Jack inside the part of the cart made for him to set in. Once she finally found the swing sets in the garden area they had walked past the toy section and her little boy had screamed his head off wanting a new Mickey Mouse playset. The only way to get Jack to stop screaming and making her feel like a awful parent was to grab the playset and put it into the cart.

Zoe was defeated there was no way Wade would not know she had been to the store now, so instead she decided to pretend she had gone there to shop and not let Jack see the swing sets, which by the way he loved. Zoe had gotten herself some snacks she liked along with a few educational toys for Jack. Brought a few dvds of movies she had been wanting to see that came out while she had been in her coma. Even picked Wade up a few dvds she thought he would like.

Then Zoe got to thinking she might as well pick up something to make for dinner which wasn't something she was usually good at making. So she kept it simply and just got some boxed noodles and a jar of sauce to make spaghetti, plus she remember to get some bread to go with it.

As she was walking back towards the checkout Zoe seen the toddler clothes and saw a few cute pj's she just thought would look so good on Jack who seemed to like them as well. Zoe also picked up a package of diapers knowing that Jack was starting to run a little low on them. In a few months it might be time for Jack to start using the potty. Zoe knew that some toddlers as young as eighteen months started potty training, but Zoe wasn't going to push Jack to go on the potty if he wasn't ready yet.

That would be one of the first big mild stones she would get to experience as a Mother. Hopefully it was go smoothly and Jack would just take to going on the potty, though that was not likely some kids didn't get potty broke until they were three years old.

At the checkout was the real battle between Mother and Son, Jack wanted a chocolate candy bar but Zoe would not budge he would not be having that much sugar so he cried all the way through Zoe paying for all her items and all the way to the Suv. Zoe felt like crying herself but did get Jack into his carseat and told her baby "I love you baby" Jack turned his head he would not look at her he was just so mad at her.

As Zoe put her items away in the back of the Suv tears ran down her face, she should not have brought Jack to the store all it did was upset her baby. He was mad at her now she hoped he would forgive her soon.

On the way home Jack had fallen asleep in his carseat so there was no more crying from Jack. The drive seemed to take forever to reach home Zoe dreaded getting there and having to either wake Jack or carry him inside to his room so he would wake up later crying over not getting a candy bar.

Not realizes toddlers memories are short when they don't get candy Zoe was very surprised when Jack wake up just as she stopped the Suv and he smiled up at her. Everything seemed right in the world again, Zoe knew right then and there she could not let Jack's moods or tantrums control her emotions as she had let happen today. Because as a parent sometimes your child was going to be angry at you when you said 'no' for their good.

"Hi baby did you have a good sleep?" Zoe ask Jack as she carried him inside the Carriage house.

"Yes Mama" Jack said looking around the living room for his new Mickey playset not seeing it he looked up and asked "oy?"

Zoe set Jack down in the living room ready to get back to the Suv and grab the bags of things she had brought. Hearing Jack asks for a "oy" she wasn't sure what he meant. Then she remember his new toy set she brought him and figured our 'oy' must be him trying to say toy.

"It's in the Suv, Mommy is going to go get it right now, stay inside okay I will be right back with it" Zoe informed her son. But Jack didn't listen he followed her out onto the porch when Zoe gave Jack a look he did wait on the porch for her to bring the bag with his toy set to him there.

"Yay" Jack said happily as he walked back towards the front door, Zoe seeing this opened the door for him she made sure he got to the living room before returning to the Suv to retrieve the rest of her bags. Once they were all inside and the Suv had all the doors shut Zoe noticed Jack was staring at his Mickey Mouse playset sternly.

"What's wrong?" Zoe questioned her small son.

"No" Jack said as he tried to pull open the box showing his Mother without very many words just what was wrong. Zoe chuckled to herself seeing the problem was the baby couldn't get his toy out of the box.

"Mommy will help you" Zoe offered as she set next to Jack he handed the box over happy to have help getting his toy out. It took Zoe far longer then she would like to admit but she finally got his Mickey playset out.

"ove Mama" Jack had told her when he got his toy then it was like he forgot she was there as he played with his new toy.

Zoe just shook her head and went about putting away all the things she had brought at the store away. She put the new dvds on the side tables wanting to asks Wade which movie he would like to watch later.

Looking at the time Zoe seen it was getting close to five o'clock already she must have spent longer then she knew at the store. Jack was still playing with his new toy so Zoe put his new pj's up fast then decided she would start making Jack some dinner because Wade would not be home until eight or later Lavon was going to pick him up and drop Wade back home.

Zoe decided to text Wade and tell him she was going to cook him dinner so he would know not to eat at work. After this she found some chicken nuggets in the freezer she followed the instructions on how long and

temperature to cook them on. It had microwave instructions as well but Zoe did not trust the microwave to kill all the bacteria in the frozen food so into the oven it went.

What was funny about that was if it had been for herself she would have happily eaten it from the microwave, but she would take no chance with her baby's health. Jack was just getting over strep throat as well so Zoe would not let her baby take any chances with food that could not be cooked good enough. Beside she wasn't sure if the microwaves settings was right for the nuggets instructions.

While Jack's dinner was cooking Zoe tried to play with Jack and his new toy but he would not let her touch it. Jack being a only child was not used to sharing it seemed this was something Zoe knew she was going to have to talk with Wade about. Jack would have to learn to share plus since she had already been the bad guy once today with not allowing Jack to have a candy bar Zoe felt it was Wade's turn to get to be the bad guy about the sharing thing.

Zoe turned on the tv and put on the cooking channel wanting to see if she could come up with more ideas on meals she could cook. She had set a timer to go off when Jack's nuggets would be done so she set back and watched a man prepare a mexican dish that looked delicious. He made it look so easy but Zoe knew she could never make it one reason being you had to have a lot of different spices and the other being she did not know how to cook homemade tortilla shells.

Jack had just set on the floor playing with his Mickey toy looking up at the tv once and awhile. But he did not complain about it not being a cartoon showing so Zoe thought that was a plus that he was learning to share the tv with her. Maybe he was already learning to share.

The timer going off had Zoe running into the kitchen to get Jack's nuggets out of the oven. She made sure to get a oven mitten before pulling them out then letting them set for a few minutes to cool off enough for Jack to be able to eat them. Zoe also remember that Wade had brought apple sauce in small packages so she grabbed one and opened it up and put it on his plate next to four nuggets she had torn apart for Jack to be able to feed himself. Zoe had gotten a small toddler plastic spoon for Jack so he could also feed himself the apple sauce. She finished getting Jack's meal prepared with filling up a sippy cup of juice for him.

Zoe had cooked eight nuggets so that Jack could have more if he needed them.

"Dinner's ready Jack" Zoe said as she pulled his highchair out but the little boy had not looked up from his new toy.

Zoe got the highchair set up in the spot she wanted then took the lid off and walked over to Jack who was ignoring her. So she just picked up the little boy who started to kick and scream "No oy" over and over until she had him belted into the highchair. He fought her all the way when she put the lid on but finally stopped when he saw his dinner.

"Jack you have to listen when Mommy tells you something" Zoe stated but knew the toddler didn't understand. Jack had not been acting like the little boy she had known since she met him. Maybe this was the real Jack and he been putting on a show of being so good for his Mother, but now was tired of it. Or maybe he was just having a bad day of listen. It didn't matter though because she loved her little boy and would just have to learn how to be a Mother and sometimes little boys did not listen.

Jack smiled up at Zoe in between bites of his food and looked happy now, she smiled back at her baby knowing that not every day as a Mother was going to be easy. In fact she was sure what she just went through was going to be somethings she would look back on and laugh at thinking it had been so bad.

Jack did end up eating five nuggets so Zoe eat the others she had cooked that he did not want, no since them going to waste. Beside she was waiting to cook dinner for Wade and herself. He had text back he would be home by eight if she was cooking something. That made Zoe smile knowing he wanted to eat dinner with her, to spend time with her.

Hopefully Jack would go to bed early tonight so that she could spend time alone with Wade, she knew they had a dinner date tomorrow night planned but it would be easier to break the ice tonight alone without having to worry about a restaurant full of people around. Maybe they could after dinner watch a movie together.

"Mama" Jack said wining as he had somehow without Zoe noticing gotten apple sauce on top of his head it was running down his forehead onto his nose. Laughing Zoe said "Awe okay let's get you cleaned up little man"