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Katie xx
After the recent hardship Zoe had put her body through she had decided it was time to call it quits at work and had now been reclining at home whilst Max had been hard at work.
But today Max had the day off and was planning on spoiling Zoe something rotten. It has just gone 9 and Zoe had just began to stir as the smell of coffee and jam on that entered her nostrils. She heard foot steps on the stairs which brought her further from her slumber.
As the figure of Max appeared at the door she realised he was carrying a tray.
"Morning beautiful, breakfast." He said raising the tray a little to show Zoe.
"Morning, yes please. What's all this in aid of? What have you done now?"
"Nothing, what makes you say such a thing. Is it so wrong that I want to take care of you."
"Not at all, I'm just still not used to it."
Max placed the tray beside Zoe and snuggled back into bed with her. Max reached out for a piece of toast and she batted his hand away.
"Excuse me that's mine."
"Well if you hadn't already noticed I made enough for the both of us."
"Is that so." She smiled and in return he kissed her.
"Indeed it is."
He made a second attempt and retrieving some toast and this time was successful.
The pair sat in bed, eating and drinking, both just content to be in the others company.
After all the food was gone, the tray was moved and they lay back down.
"So what are your plans for today."
"I thought, firstly I will go and run you a nice bath, whilst I clean up down stairs and then maybe we can look through all the pictures we have taken and print a few and hang them around the house to make it more us."
"Aww your so cute." Zoe have him a kiss.
"I do try. And then later on we could have pizza and watch a film."
"That's all very lovely, but you still have some little bits to do in the baby's room."
"Okay I'm on it like an Easter bonnet."
"Good."
Max tightened his arms around Zoe and her bump and kissed her on the neck before going into the bathroom. A few minutes later Max called to Zoe.
"Baths ready when you are beautiful."
"Okay thank you."
Zoe got into the bath and settled down with a book while Max went down to clean the chaos he had created.
As he returned up stairs, he popped his head around the bathroom door to make sure Zoe didn't need anything.
"Crap."
"Sorry, just came to make sure your alright."
"Umm yeah could you wash my hair."
"Of course darling."
Max washed her hair and then Zoe got out of the bath and went back into their room to get dressed. Max decided he would go into the baby's room to do the finishing touches.
He put the baby scan photos into a frame and attached it to the wall above the cot. Then he had to move the chest of draws and the wardrobe. He placed the mattress into the cot and left it for Zoe to make up with covers and blankets. All of the clothes were still in their bags but he was very reluctant to mess with them as he knew Zoe would want to sort them herself.
Zoe was leaning against the dot frame when Max looked round.
"How long have you been standing there."
"Not long, nothing like watching a man use his muscles."
"Funny, do you want to sort these clothes out now all the furniture is in place. I'm just going to put the moses basket into our room."
"Yeah okay then."
Max helped Zoe onto floor so she could sort all the clothes into piles. Over the past few weeks she had slowly been buying more and more. When Max returned to the room he was shocked at the mass of clothing spread across the floor.
"Zoe, not even I have that many clothes."
"And, I want our daughter to have everything and more."
"I can see that. I'm going to leave you to it, I'll be down stairs if you need me."
"Okay."
Max headed down, he wanted to look through all the pictures they had taken together. He found quite a few he liked so printed them off the computer and went in search of the photo fames he had bought the other day.
After he'd cut them all out he began to arrange them in the frames and replaced the backs. As he carried his hammer and nails around the house looking for the perfect place to hang the photos. Once they were up he stood back and admired his work. He went back into the living room and looked for a DVD he could watch with Zoe. He decided they were going to watch sleeping beauty as he knew Zoe loved it.
Zoe made her way carefully down the stairs and entered the room to find Max sprawled on the sofa.
"Is this what you call busy."
"Huh, what I'm taking a break and anyway it pizza and film time now."
"Is it now."
Zoe looked up and saw all the new photos of them.
"Aw Max thats gorgeous."
"I'm so glad you like them."
She walked towards Max and pulled him up to standing, placing her arms around his neck and bringing his face close to hers.
"I love you." She said kissing him.
"I love you too, now let's get pizza."
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