They had been home with the baby for two weeks and life couldn't have been better. Okay that wasn't totally true. Yes they loved their daughter more than anything in the world and they had never been happier, but they'd also never been more tired. She would have thought years of being in the the CIA would have trained her for sleepless nights, but steak outs and crying babies were two very different things. At least at the end of a mission she could catch up on the lack of sleep, but with the baby it was none stop going. But at the same time she wouldn't trade it for the world. She would much rather be at home with her daughter than on some dangerous mission.
Tonight the happy family was curled up on the couch watching a movie. Wife leaning against her husband's side and their baby sleeping peacefully on his chest. He wanted to start their daughter off young and have her experience all of his favorite. For the most part she indulged him, but still teased him since the two week old could not enjoy the movies since she slept through most of them.
"Your birthday is coming up." She said casually during what she considered a boring scene.
"It is." He agreed never taking his eyes off the screen.
"Have you had any ideas about what you would want to do for it?"
He shrugged, "there's not much we can do with a two, soon to be three, week old."
"Doesn't mean we shouldn't celebrate it."
"Any ideas on what we should do?"
"Well the one thing I know we would love to do we still can't because I was another two to four weeks left before that can happen."
He let out a snort, "yeah we have to make sure you're fully recovered before we do that and we also don't want this one in the room either." He motioned to the sleeping baby on his chest.
"We can always have people over for dinner, though we do that all the time so I don't know if that counts as special."
"If we add a birthday cake then I consider it a party. Plus I don't need special, just you and Elle is enough to make it a great day. And having Morgan around wouldn't hurt either."
She let out a small smile and rubbed the baby's back.
"Why is this birthday so important to you?"
"I just feel guilty that Elle wasn't born closer to your birthday. I know how excited you were when we found out and then she decided to come out early. I wanted to try and make up for that."
"Sarah you don't have to do that. It's not your fault this little one got impatient and couldn't wait any longer to join us. Plus she wouldn't want to share her birthday so close to her old man's anyway, we would be fighting for attention."
She cracked a real smile and laugh, "so you're really not disappointed?"
"Not at all! Honestly Sarah you gave me the best early birthday present ever. Though I guess the gift decided to unwrap herself early or really she..."
She quickly interrupted him. "Let's not recount those details if you want a second child. I'm still trying to recover and forget them."
"Noted. So more kids is a possibility then?"
She shrugged, "the first one came out pretty well might as well try for a second."
"That is a very valid point." He said, his smiling lighting up the room.
"So we'll do a birthday dinner with the usual group then? Plus a cake."
He nodded his head, "maybe we can even Skype Ellie and awesome in and pretend like they're with us."
"I'm sure you and Ellie can work that out."
The baby stirred on his chest and opened her still blue eyes. They were anxiously waiting to see if her eyes stayed the same as her mother's or darkened to look more like her father's.
"Look who decided to join the conversation." He cooed looking down at their daughter.
"Do you have any ideas on how to make daddy's birthday special?" She asked.
"I would love it if you could give us a full nights sleep."
She blinked her eyes as if to say, not going to happen.
"I'll settle for no gross diapers or screaming fits during dinner, how about that?"
"Are you really reasoning with a two week old?" She laughed.
"What? She's bright for her age, after all she takes after us."