Rosie: “Oof.  Okay, who’s ready to watch Simder with me?” 

Marietta: “You know instead of watching romances, you two should try to be romantic yourselves more often, it can induce labor.” 

Rosetta: “Can we just watch the movie without anything embarrassing coming up?” 

Marietta: “Well that depends on how graphic this movie is, right Emerson?” 

[Emerson wishes he could be doing anything else right now.] 

So Marietta came by at the end of trimester 3, to rub Rosetta’s belly and make lucky-buddha jokes (not as well taken as her usual jokes). 

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When Rosie inevitably had to go pee, Marietta asked Emerson how he was handling fatherhood. 

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Emerson lit up.  “I love it so far!  Last night Rosie couldn’t sleep, so she sat up and read for a bit in bed.  Well I rolled over to hug her, and the little guy kicked me in the face!  She showed me where his feet were, and every time I poked them, he’d kick back, it was great!”  He couldn’t stop grinning. 

Jefani: “Nice day out today; not so hot.” 

Rosetta: “Yeah, I was worried I was gonna turn into a raisin with all the swimming I’ve been doing.”

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Jefani: “Yeah but it takes all the weight off of your feet.  If I had to choose between swollen ankles and wrinkly fingers, I’d rather be a raisin.  With buns of steel.” 

Rosetta smiled and rubbed her tummy.  “What did you do when you were pregnant?  You didn’t have the pool back then, I was already friends with Emerson when you had it made.” 

Jefani: “Cool baths helped, but mostly I just wandered around in my underwear in the summer, with a spray bottle full of ice.” 

Rosetta: “Oh!  Wow.  That’s an image.” 

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Jefani chuckled.  “Sorry.  As a change of subject, did you know that when Emerson was born, Danae asked me to return him to the hospital because he was ‘too smelly and loud’?” 

Rosetta: “Did she really?” 

Jefani: “You wouldn’t know it from looking at her, but she was such an angry child!” 

Back home, this goof is practicing his dance moves in the mirror while his girlfriend unwinds at the computer. 

I don’t believe there’s a radio in this room.  I’ve never seen them do this before!