Being a single parent was hard, but I wouldn’t trade Wendy for anything else in the world. She loved with everything she had, she was kind, and she always kept me amused.

“Daddy,” Wendy said grabbing my hand while I was in the kitchen making hot chocolate for us both.

“What Wendy,” I asked her.

“Boo is in my room and he wants the egg to hatch,” she explained leaving me puzzled.

“Who is Boo? Also what egg?”

“Boo lives here too, he lived here before us. The egg in my room, I’m trying to hatch a baby,” she said like it made perfect sense.

“There is no Boo that lives here, just me and you,” I told her simply. “Why are you trying to hatch an egg in your room?”

“No Boo lives here too, he’s clear but looks like us,” she finished. “Because I got it out of the fridge and I want to watch a baby come out of it.”

“Is boo your imaginary friend,” I asked her figuring that made the most sense. “Why would a baby come out of the egg? Those eggs are for breakfast or other meals. Can you put it back in the egg carton in the fridge please?”

“Boo is real!” She stomped her foot. “His bedroom is downstairs. I’m not eating a baby daddy, we have to take care of it like we do Rosie.”

Rosie was her babydoll that I had gotten her for her birthday. It was one of those baby alive toys and she loved it. She changed her diaper, fed, took her for walks in the stroller and slept with her.

“There isn’t a bedroom downstairs, this is the bottom floor sweetie. There is not a baby in the egg, only food so it’s fine to put back in there, you have to be careful not to drop it or it’ll break and make a mess.”

“There was a bedroom downstairs, but after boos mom and dad left, they put tape over it and I won’t break the baby I’m gonna hatch it,” she promised.

“There’s no tape on the floor, and why do you think theirs a baby in the egg?”

“That’s how babies are born daddy! They come out of the egg, boo told me that!”

“Only baby chicks come out of eggs not actual baby’s, they come from their mommy’s tummy’s,” I said realizing I made a fatal mistake.

“I don’t have a mommy so boo said baby’s without mommy’s come from eggs that daddy’s hatch!”

“Your right, I’m sorry sweetheart.” I would explain the truth of it all later, but still had no idea who this Boo was.