The Cowboy's Christmas Baby by Carolyn Brown

Author:Carolyn Brown [Carolyn Brown]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Western, Holidays
ISBN: 9781402280498
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Published: 2014-02-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

“This little Angus went to market. This little Angus stayed home. This little Angus had smoked ham. This little Angus had none. And this little Angus, this little Angus, this one right here cried moo, moo, moo all the way home.” Henry chuckled when he got a grin from the baby.

“I thought it was piggies,” Natalie said.

“Not in a beef rancher’s house,” Jack said. “It’s my turn to hold him, Henry. All them people at the church this afternoon come damn nigh to stealin’ him away from us.”

“You’ll have to wait until later, Dad. I’m going to give Natalie and Josh a tour of the ranch before it gets dark,” Lucas said.

“You can’t take Josh to the cabin without me being there. I want to see his face when he sees it the first time. You and Natalie go on and look but Josh has to stay with us. Get my keys from my coat pocket so you can get into the church while you are driving around,” Henry said.

“Josh would rather stay here and play with us as get back in that car seat anyway,” Grady said.

“That’s right,” Henry said. “Baby’s been passed around enough for one day.”

“That don’t mean you get to hold him the whole time they’re gone,” Jack said.

“His little bones will get sore if too many people hold him,” Henry said. “Besides, we need to talk some more about Angus cattle, don’t we, Joshua?”

“Wise men?” Natalie mumbled.

“Or not so wise,” Lucas whispered.

“Go on. Get out of here. Take your time,” Henry said.

Lucas helped Natalie into her coat. “Can’t fight ’em.”

“He has a bottle in an hour. We’ll be back by then,” she said.

“We can read directions and we’ll figure out how to make him another one if he gets hungry,” Jack said.

“His diaper bag is stocked with everything,” she said.

“Go. Shoo! Get on out of here. We’ll take care of this baby and enjoy every minute we get with him,” Henry said.

The sleet had stopped and now big beautiful snowflakes floated from the sky in a lazy fashion. The wind had completely died, so they drifted straight down from heaven and landed on a solid layer of sleet and ice coating the ground.

Grass blades, covered with a thin layer of ice, reached up to grab the flakes and hold on to them like a mother protecting her child. Natalie shook the snow from her hair when she got into Lucas’s truck.

“It’s still a couple of weeks from now, but if it doesn’t warm up, Josh’s first Christmas could be a white one.” Lucas backed the truck up and then started down a path that was nothing but two ruts leading around the yard fence and toward the back side of the ranch.

“We’ll have to take pictures no matter what kind of Christmas it is. Momma is having a hard time with us being gone as it is. She’d never forgive me if I didn’t have pictures to show her,” she said.

“What’s on your mind? Josh will be fine with them.

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