#grundstrom

"Good idea, there, Pete! You draw her a picture, I'll leave her flowers, and between us we'll make your mommy happy." Joe isn't afraid Theodora will go out looking for other guys if she and Peter don't keep up to the mark. But he is aware that it'd be easy for her to find them, if she did do that. He has no intention of giving her any reason to.

Peter and Samantha died awhile ago now, but they were among the graves I had to respawn and send to the graveyard, so Peter and Theodora both were in fairly low moods. Theodora spent most of the day getting Peter out of failure, which left her fairly strung out by the time Joe got home, and she also had practically no clothes she considered wearable, most of the adult outfits in the wardrobe having belonged to Samantha (not Theodora’s style one bit!) or been bought when she was single and skinnier. 

Theodora knows that raising a child is hard work (it's why she was on such good birth control, dammit!), but with any luck Peter'll be fine with her coasting and letting him pull most of his own weight, most of the time. Her efforts to teach him to talk are not very diligent and he mostly ignores them.

Swedish poet Helmer Grundström

Theodora was too hungry to sleep yet, though, and Joe woke enough to come eat. The guests left shortly afterward, and Joe got to bustle around a bit being Daddy before heading back to sleep himself in the wee hours of the morning.

Joe Grundstrom can’t take any more time off work because he’s a doctor and there’s been a disaster. In consequence, Theodora finally has to change a diaper. She doesn’t let it get her down, though. She has a little sister to rescue. Her engagement to Ed was probably inevitable but holey mother of chese, what are they thinking, all crowding into a one-bedroom apartment? So she invites them up the hill for lunch. Just the adults - the teens can no doubt use a little time without adults breathing down their necks.