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As Faith watched in shock, his Mommy wrapped one arm around his waist and gave him several hard smacks on his ass.
“Ow! Mommy! No!” Charlie danced away, rubbing his bottom.
“Keep misbehaving and I’ll go borrow Edward’s paddle.”
That seemed to get through to Charlie who nodded and moved close to hug the smaller woman.
“I’m sorry, Mommy. I will be better.”
Yikes.
Edward had a paddle? And why did watching what had just happened fascinate her so much? Shouldn’t she be horrified or something?
Charlie hadn’t even seemed to care that she’d watched him get his butt smacked.
They moved away, and Reuben leaned down to kiss her cheek. “If you ever stomped your foot at me like that, you’d be straight over my knee.”
Good to know.
They continued to shop.
“Daddy, you’re buying way too much stuff,” she told him as he added some clay to the cart.
“We have a whole room to fill. And I think I’ll be the judge of when we’ve bought too much.”
She tried to keep her grumbling to herself. But they already had Petal, an entire wardrobe of clothes for her, a cot, stroller, and highchair. Then there was a tea set and some toy food as well.
They really didn’t need anything more.
And she intended to stop him from putting anything else in the cart . . . that was until they turned down the next aisle.
“Squishies! There are squishies, Daddy! Corn and camellias!”
“So there are.”
“Can I get one, please, Daddy?” She turned to him, her hands pressed together in the prayer position.
“Hmm, I’m not sure. I thought you said we already had too much in the cart?”
“I’ll put some back, Daddy. Promise.” She nodded. “I’ll put it all back for that giant squishy.” She pointed at the huge squishy on the bottom shelf. It was an enormous butterfly.
And. She. Loved. It.
“That one?” Reuben stared at the butterfly. “It’s huge.”
She skipped over, touching the big butterfly. It had the cutest face and it was begging her to take her home.
“I’m going to name her Flutter. You want to come with me, don’t you, Flutter?” she said, hugging the butterfly.
“You really love it, huh?” Reuben said.
She winced. Shoot. What was she doing? Of course he didn’t want to buy this squishy. It was ridiculously big. And probably really expensive.
“Um, actually, Daddy. I think it’s too big. I don’t really want a squishy this big. Oh, look, this one is really nice.” She pointed over at a hedgehog squishy. She did love hedgehogs.
“I think I’ll call him Piggy.”
“Piggy?” Reuben asked.
