THIS IS AMAAAAZING LADY! Such a good companion piece. This was sooo sweet! Please keep these great pieces coming! Guhhh!!

Wow, you are just churning them out these days! What a treat.
I love this story (series) showing how excited Jim and Pam are, but yet there is still that shadow of doubt. It's so very realistic, worrying about whether you're going to be able to be a good parent. And I love the faith they have in each other.
Really great choice having the same circumstances from two different first person points of view. You're inspiring me to want to try to write in first person. It's been a long, long time. Looking forward to reading more from you.

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I originally copied this line to tell you how much it melted me -
"God, I hope you plan on letting me get you pregnant one day." - but then I kept finding more and more lines that equally killed me. I was so prepared for tis to be a fic about Cecelia, so I was surprised (and it was a nice surprise) for them to have a little boy. I would LOVE to see Jim with a mini me *sigh*

One of your best stories you've ever written!

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Guh, I'm not sure where everyone is but there should be a gazillion reviews for this right now. I'll just have to make mine HUGE to show everyone up....

I have to admit when I was reading this and kept seeing all the references to 'he' I was like "Um...Kate...you do watch the show the right? Hate to break it to you, but they had a girl..." So then of course I read the summary, re-read 'And all the rules that come with it' and felt like a right idiot. But this is the perfect Pam piece to go with it.

Okay, favourite parts:
When we were tipsy from champagne and kissing and he looked at me in the dark and said, "God, I hope you plan on letting me get you pregnant one day."

Ugh, I don't care if this makes me such a girl but one day, just one day I'd love to hear "I hope you plan on letting me get you pregnant"...And that would be such a Jim thing to say. Not "let's have kids" but the more intimate act of getting someone pregnant. And then this:

We laughed so hard and collapsed into each other that night -- lazy and drunk. I'm pretty sure the plan was sex but sometimes drunk Jim just gets distracted and starts a conversation instead. I tell him they're taking away his man card. He says he doesn't take advantage of naked, drunk women because his mother taught him better than that.

The fact that a man, drunk or no, could get distracted when the trajectory is towards sex? So sweet and again you just add these whole new dimensions to what I've always assumed Jim to be but you put it there in front of me and articulate it beautifully.

And I'm excited as I can possibly be to cuddle and love my little baby for the first time.

Such a sweet mothering sentence but then having her say the baby would like something out of Chuckie made me laugh out loud.

Oh and then your description of labor - I'm way too young to have had that experience (thank the lord) but your whole desciption just seemed right, like how I've imagined it. The extraordinary pain followed by the emotional overload, feeling slightly empty and just wanting your baby with you. And then you round everything off by describing their adorable little son, the way he 'misses his mom' and how they want another one just like him...divine.

Can you stand hearing me praise you again and again? Because you never disappoint Kate and I'm so glad you're back to posting frequently (I hope it stays that way!) Now I just have to find a new way of saying 'you're amazing' without sounding like I'm repeating myself...