We spend the next five minutes gathering bean bag chairs, blankets and pizza. We sit next to the egg so we don't miss when it hatches. I hold a notepad in one hand and a pen in the other. Ready to write down name Ideas. I draw a line down the center of the paper and label one half boy, the other half girl.

"Ok first is boy names." Mikey says.

"Why? Are you hoping for a boy?"

"Honestly I don't care what it is. As long as their healthy. How about Mike?"

"I don't know… It's a little too close to Mikey?" I smile he smiles back and says

"Charles, Max, Luke, Riley, David." I write them all down.

"How about Chris?" I ask

"Yah I like it. Let's move on to Girl names. Marry, oh and Sally, March, Rachel, Lacey, Dawn." he lists off. "Tessa. Wait. I really like that one."

"Me too. What about. Sarah. Or Kaly."

" I like them. Should we narrow it down now?" he asks obviously eager to see what names we end up with.

"Ok well i like David more than the other boy names. Or we could go with riley for either gender."

"That's no fun. I like David better than Riley anyway."

"Ok so if it's a boy we name it David. What do you think of Lacey?"

"Nah" he shakes his head.

"Kaly?"

"No." I cross them both out and move on to the next one.

"Rachel? March sally?"

"No, no, no. none of these seem right."

"Well how about tessa? You really liked it and I do to."

"Yah I like it. If the egg is a girl we will name her Tessa. If it's a boy we'll name him David." I node in agreement and circle the two names we decided on.

"What about a color?" I ask

"Hum." he begins to think. "Silver? For either one."

"Ok" I say starting to get anxious. "Oh when is it going to hatch?" I say as I start to eat a piece of pizza. At that moment we hear a crack. My heart stops.

"Did you ?" he asks and I nod. We both stand and lean in close to the glass case. Donnie rushes in and touches some buttons on the screen next to the case. We here a puffing noise and Donnie lifts the glass off the table. We here the cracking noise again. We lean closer and watch as a tiny green/blue hand sticks up through the hard shell. The hand goes back inside and breaks off another piece and another, until there's enough room to poke its head out. Its head faces the wall. It slowly turns around and looks at us. It has freckles like Mikey and a turned up nose like me. I look at Donnie and ask the question with my eye's.

"A girl" he says. Me and Mikey both gasp. Mikey rushes over to her and picks her up out of what's left of her egg.

"Hey Tessa! Hows my baby girl?" he holds her in his arms. And my heart just melts. I walk over and tickle her tummy

"Hey there sweetheart. I'm your mommy. And this is daddy. That is uncle Donnie." I slowly lift her out of his arms and hug her. "Now all we need is her headband. Donnie will you see if April can make a silver do-rag?" he nods and hurries out of the room. I look up at Mikey who has grown taller than me within the five years. He smiles back and kisses me on the forehead.

"I love you." he whispers. Then I hear a squeal and someone running in.

"MOVE ASIDE! Auntie April coming through! Let me see your baby girl." April bursts through the doors and walks over to us almost yanking Tessa out of my arms.