It is hours later, the sun has gone down, my little angel is asleep upstairs in her room as I made sure to prioritize her room over anything else, my best friend in the whole world is in a room of her own having told me sometime after getting Sunsets room set up that she had actually planned to live there with me to help look after my adopted daughter and now I'm here sitting in our new kitchen long passed midnight sifting through a box of pictures. Going throug each of them I find myself smiling reflecting those of my daughter and friend in the pictures until finally I get to one taken just days after my Daughter and my friend had met. In it I'm laying there asleep on my couch and my tiny still in diapers angel is laying there sound asleep on my chest. For a moment it feels like my chest is ready to burst from the cuteness until i realize it is not subsiding to quickly in fact for a few moments it intensifies and seems to almost localize in the center of my chest before slowly dissapating. It is as the feeling begins to fade that I realize I have not only been clutching at my chest but have been holding my breath. letting out my held breath I hear a single word. One said with such concern that it borders on fear.
"Daddy..." I turn to see Sunset at the entrance to the kitchen her favorite 'My Littlest Petshop' cup floating just in front of her held in her magic. "Daddy, are you ok?" With several quick softly clopping steps she crosses the kitchen and hops up onto my lap to look me right into the eye.
I of course smile and nod "Of course sweetheart. i was just going through some old pictures and the cuteness of the one just got the better of me" I truthfully lie to my own daughter making a mental not to make an appointment with my doctor come morning. Still smiling though I show her the picture.
"Daaadddyyy" she almost cries out at the site of her baby picture. "I didn't know you had pictures of me from then" and with that we spend the next ten minutes giggling as we have a short game of keep away with each other with that particular picture. though eventually my little Sunset begins to droop and I Quickly scoop her up giving her belly rubs as i hold her in my arms.
"I love you so much my Sunset" I smile and nuzzle her as she returns the sentiment before carrying her back to her room and back to bed.