Page 89 of The Champion
His eyes focused on mine and then fell closed.
“I love you.” He whispered intertwining our handstogether.
The next morning, I quite possibly heard the cutest thingI’d ever. Jameson and Axel talking.
“Good morning little man.” I heard Jameson open the doorto his bedroom. Axel was never fun to sleep with so we ended up putting himback in his bedroom this morning to get some sleep. He had this way about himwhen he slept that for being so small, he took up the entire bed.
“Daddy!” Axel chirped like he hadn’t seen him in days.Snuggling into the bed, I laid there and listened to them on the monitor.
Jameson must have sat down with him on the floor becauseI heard him say, “Here,”
He usually did this when you sat down in his room and hebegan handing you toys he thought you needed.
“Did you miss daddy when he was at the Chili Bowl? I wonby the way.”
“No,” Axel answered. I know he missed him, but being one,he hardly understood what you were asking. Unless you asked if he wanted icecream...the answer to that was always,“Yeah!” with a nodding of his head.
“Well that doesn’t make me feel any better little man. Imissed you guys.”
They seemed to play for a while before Jameson spokeagain.
“Did you know mommy is having a baby?”
“No.”
“She is. You’re going to be a big brother.”
“No.”
“I think you’ll make a good big brother. We need to workon your sharing, oh and potty training.”
I could hear the rustling of Axel’s diaper as Jameson gothim changed and then the ordeal of dressing. Axel loved to take his clothes offbut refused to put any back on.
“Come on little man. Let’s go get mama some decafcoffee.”
“Yeah!” Axel chirped with enthusiasm.
“So I mention mama and you finally say yeah?”
“Yeah,”
“We need to work on that too.”
“No.”
I think Axel understood more than we gave him credit.
When I heard the Expedition start up in the garage, Iturned the monitor off. My hands moved from behind my head to my stomach wherenew life was forming. It’s crazy to think something was growing inside meagain, part of me and part of him, together.
Moments like this, I understood why people wanted to bealone in life and the fear of getting hurt. Losing someone to death was easierthan losing them to heartache.
If what I had with Jameson simply vanished, the heartachewould never die.
Regardless of the happiness I felt having my familytogether; the familywecreated was worth any risk of ever being hurt.Just like the racing family we were, we stacked our pit stand with equipment toget us through this crazy life, oh and adding kids along the way.
13.In-Lap - Sway
In-Lap – This isconsidered a lap where a driver makes a pre-arranged pit stop during the raceor practice. Drivers push hard to drive fast in order to gain time during thepit stop.
