“My friend Josie has two bedrooms, and one has a dinosaur lamp.”

“Would you like a dinosaur lamp when you visit Chicago someday?”

“No.

A moon lamp.

Dinosaurs are too loud.”

I promised to put that on the list for when an overnight visit made sense.

It would be many months before Elena and I were ready for that step, and even then Willa would have a voice.

The anticipation was enough.