I didn’t much care. Lenore obviously loved Kallie, and Kallie loved her right back. But seeing as she loved everyone, it wasn’t that surprising. While she gravitated most toward Jenny, she loved everyone else too. Anytime someone would pay attention to her, she’d grin and make really cute faces to try and keep their attention. Alice said she was flirting, and watching the way she was with everyone, I sort of agreed with that.

Not that it was bad; she was just an attention hog from a very early age. Alice took so many pictures of her I wondered how the hell we’d ever be able to buy enough albums for them. She had folders on her office computer that contained so many pictures that I didn’t dare to open them lest I rearrange something accidentally. Kallie seemed to love cameras. She would make these little poses when Alice got hers out, and it was so adorable that it was funny.

Everyone else took pictures of her, too. It was a little funny, because Shane always wanted to use her as a subject. I started referring to Shane as Anne Geddes after she asked my permission to sell a couple photos of Kallie to some sort of mothers’ magazine. She’d grumble at me when I said it, but I could tell she liked it just a little bit anyway.

Kallie was about four months old when Shane took a picture of her that became a little bit famous. Alice had just finished giving her a bottle, and she was hugging Kallie to her. Kallie was eating it up like she always did, and when she saw Shane’s camera she decided to do a pose. She shut her eyes and grinned, and Shane took the picture at just that second. We ended up getting it printed out, and Alice and I hung it on the wall in our bedroom. Shane wound up selling it and getting a lot of publicity for it.

Not that Alice and I really cared. We were happy for Shane, but we were so focused on Kallie that we didn’t pay much attention to her photography. That probably makes us sound like horrible friends, and I don’t mean for it to. We were still interested in all our friends and the various happenings in their lives, but all of that took a back seat to Kallie. We were nesting. It made us cringe to admit it, but we were. Our friends made a few jokes, but on the whole I think they understood how important the transition was for us. We hadn’t had a pregnancy to prepare us, and Kallie’s presence in our lives was sudden, so I think that afforded us a little bit of leeway when it came to our friends teasing us. We barely left the house at all the first few months she lived with us. It was plenty for us to take care of her there, and aside from a couple appearances at the Planet so people wouldn’t think we were ignoring them, we didn’t really go anywhere.