My Darling, My Dearest novel Chapter 484

Rachel felt bad for her son, but she still patted Tracy's shoulder gently to comfort her. "Don't blame yourself. It's common for children to have a fever. He'll get better soon."

Hearing this, Tracy's face softened a little.

Taking Andy in her arms, Rachel rocked him gently. She hummed a lullaby under her breath while Tracy explained carefully what the doctor had just said during the examination.

Seeing this loving scene, the previously nervous Jack and Jonathan smiled at each other. It looked like Rachel and Tracy were getting along well now.

They all stayed at the hospital for the night and barely got a wink of sleep. Maybe it was because Andy was not feeling well that he didn't sleep well. Even when he dozed off, he would wake up just an hour later.

When morning came, he was crabby and irritable, and his throat sounded a little scratchy.

Tracy tried her best to comfort him herself, but she was fast slipping back into blaming herself again. She covered her face with one hand and sobbed, "If it weren't for me, Andy wouldn't be suffering." "Mom, it's really okay. The fever has gone down. He's over the worst." Rachel turned to motion to Jack.

He understood what she meant, so he stood up and walked to Tracy. He put his hand on her shoulder and, through a tired yawn, said, "Mom, you and Dad haven't rested all night. You can go back first. Rachel and I will stay here."

"Yes, let's go back and have a rest. We can come back to change shift later," Jonathan urged. Noticing that she frowned and wanted to refuse, he hurriedly added, "That's decided. We'll go back first. Call us if you need anything." Before leaving, Tracy gave a concerned sigh.

In fact, Andy's fever was gone. Later, the doctor made his rounds of the ward and said that it was a normal situation. Adults don't have much of an appetite after a fever and it's true of children, too. He was just crying because he was hungry.

Hearing this, both Rachel and Jack felt relieved. After staying at the hospital for a while, they went home with Andy.

The couple entered the house. Rachel frowned and turned to look at Jack. "What's going on?" she asked.

Jack was none the wiser. He shook his head, saying, "I don't know either."

It turned out that the trash can was full of red invitation cards. If they were what she thought they were, these should have sent out to invite people to Andy's birthday party.

It was just at this moment that Tracy came downstairs and explained, "Now that Andy isn't feeling well, we don't want to hold a big party. Let's just celebrate his birthday together without inviting the outsiders. When he grows up, I'll throw an even bigger celebration for him!"

"Okay." There was a smile twitching at the corners of Rachel's mouth but she just nodded. At the hospital, she had been thinking about how to tell Tracy about the party. Now that the matter had been taken out of her hands, she could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Still, Andy didn't have to know that his first birthday party had been changed.

Although it was no longer grand, it was full of warmth.

He sat in his baby chair and listened to his parents and grandparents singing the Happy Birthday song. He might not have known what they were singing, but he clapped his hands as if he were joining in.

For a moment, the house was filled with laughter.

"Come on, let me take a picture of you." Julie came out of the kitchen with a camera in her hand.

Rachel picked up Andy and placed him in Tracy's arms. Then she and Jack stood either side of them. They all said "cheese" and the beautiful moment of them together was captured for posterity and became an indelible memory.

Having a child at home, Rachel felt that time passed very fast. She watched him grow up day by day. And that was how another two years came to pass, almost as if in the blink of an eye.

Suddenly, Andy was three years old, and almost old enough to start kindergarten.

In preparation, one day Rachel made a special trip to pick up lots of kindergarten brochures and was carefully looking through them at the house. When Jack came in from outside, he naturally put his hand on her shoulder and asked, "What are you looking at?"

"I am checking which kindergarten I should chose for Andy." Rachel was fretting her lip and was starting to look confused.

Every kindergarten had well-prepared promotional literature. How was she supposed to tell if one kindergarten was better than another?

After reading for a long time, she got lost in pensive thought for a while. Finally, she pulled out one of the brochure and said, "Well, let's send Andy here. It's close to our home, so that we can pick him up easily. Besides, I've checked the kindergarten, and it's a good one."

Jack took the documents from her hand, smiled and said in a low voice, "I have arranged a kindergarten for Andy."

Rachel raised her eyebrows and said, "Why didn't you tell me? Which one?"