And a pram, Mindy remembers suddenly, because she can't just keep carting the kid around in a cardboard box. She's pretty sure there are laws against that.

"Okay," she says, a little more motivated by the fact that Kate is around and way more proactive than Mindy can think to be right now. Right now she just wants to curl up and cry but there's a baby, now, and he's higher up on the right-to-cry ladder than her.

She starts to stand up and shifts Leo a little awkwardly, she hasn't held a baby this size in a long time, catching his gaze. He seems to like her, at least. "You hear that, Leo? We're going on a shopping spree."