Ok, so remember when I said that this baby is Ashley’s child?  Well, I now know she is my child too.  You want to know why?  It happened about a week ago.

"Hey baby.  Guess what Taylor did today?"  Ashley said when I got home from the grocery store.

"What?" I asked.

"I was sitting at the desk, and I couldn’t find my pen.  I looked down to where she was playing in the floor, and I said, ‘Taylor, do you know where my pen is?’ just like playing with her.  Well, she moved her teddy bear, picked up my pen, and she handed it to me."  She says.

"Wow.  Really?"  I ask.

"Yeah.  I don’t know how she knew that was my pen."  Ashley says.

"She’s my child.  That’s how she knew."  I say.

"What do you mean by that?"  She asks.

"You were never the smart one in this relationship, Ash.  The famous one, yes.  Not the smart one."  I say.

She gets dangerously close to my ear while still holding Taylor in her arms.  "I may not be as smart as you, but I sure do know my anatomy."  She says.

"What?"  I ask.  "I hope that wasn’t your comeback."  I say.

"No, that wasn’t.  You just never had a complaint about my knowledge of the female anatomy."  She says before kissing me and walking into the kitchen.

A few weeks later, Taylor had been standing up and walking while we held her hands, but she always fell when I left go.  Ashley and I were sitting in the living room.  Ashley was like two feet away from me, and we were desperately trying to get her to walk from Ashley to me, but she just wouldn’t.  She couldn’t balance yet.

"How old were you when you walked, baby?"  Ashley asked me.

"I don’t know.  All my parents ever told me was that they never tried to teach me how to walk.  Mom said she just let go of my fingers one day, and I walked by myself."  I said.  "What about you?"

"Dad put his guitar down when I was sitting in the floor playing with dolls.  Mom said I began to crawl over, but when I got to the guitar, I pulled myself up by the neck of the guitar, and I just stood there all by myself.  I walked like a few days after that."