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ATWT WEEK OF DECEMBER 31, 2007 RECAPS

Week of Monday, December 31, 2007

— PGP

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

A panicked Craig showed up at the farm, having looked for Meg all night. She announced that she and Paul had been together — with their baby! Craig woke up from his nightmare with a start.

At the hospital, Chris, having spent all night at Bob's bedside, left a tired message for Emily, then spotted a lonely Sofie gingerly sitting down in the lounge. He struck up a conversation, guessing that she's a new mother. Even she thought he looked a little young to be chief of staff ("I get that a lot,"he admitted) but she made polite small talk about the magic of babies before disappearing when he stepped aside to chat with a nurse.

Rosanna and Paul arrived at the Munsons' house, pre-christening. Will apologized for taking his anger at Barbara out on Paul, then announced that he's cutting Babs out of his life for his daughter's sake. Meanwhile, Barbara met with her doctor, who had a bad report about her health that we didn't get to hear. She called Paul with the grave news and — after being heartbreakingly surprised that her son actually answered — resisted his efforts to blow her off. She was about to tell him the truth when she heard the baby cry in the background (Paul had the grace to look guilty about keeping mum about his whereabouts to spare her feelings) and tearfully urged him to stay with his brother, where he belongs. Rosanna then announced that Carly's feeling under the weather so she's skipping the christening, but did send along Parker and Sage's christening gown. The young Munsons got giddy about the fact that they now have a family. "Babies change everything,"noted a wistful Rosanna, no doubt thinking of Meg, who was busy rebandaging Craig's wound. Noticing that it looked infected, Meg insisted on bringing her hubby to the hospital, where his doctor, Chris, tactfully waited until Meg left the room to suspiciously tell him that there was Xyphorex in his system. Though clearly skeptical, Chris accepted Craig's silly excuse for how he might have been around a drug that causes miscarriage and agreed to keep mum.

Alison ran into Aaron while shopping for baby gifts; they went to the church together, where Will and Gwen asked them to be godparents. After a brief moment of awkwardness when they noted that they aren't "together" anymore, they accepted, honored. The christening commenced with a Godfather-style voiceover as we saw Craig slamming down a drink and angrily tossing the glass while looking at a sonogram shot, Barbara sadly looking at a baby in Old Town and Meg having an impromptu baby shower with her nurse friends. Sofie arrived in a climactic moment at the end of the ceremony and made nervous small talk before learning that Aaron and Alison were the baby's godparents. Aaron was conflicted about leaving Sofie at the church alone later and stuck around to comfort her. She confessed that it's hard to be around Hallie right now, because she still seems like her daughter. Meanwhile, Gwen confided to Rosanna that surprisingly, she feels like Hallie is hers already. "I love her. I love who Will and I are now that we have her," she gushed. After the reverend assured Sofie that she made the right decision regarding Hallie, she spied Barbara in one of the pews and overheard her pray for more time so that she could see her children be happy. Back at the cottage, Alison told Gwen that she and Aaron were over and now they're "just friends,"but Mrs. Munson was too happy to let that little glitch get her down — she was reminded that that was all she once thought she and Will would be and "now he's my life."

Meg's gossipy nurse friends convinced her to get Craig to join them for a drink in the Lakeview lobby (mostly so they could see for themselves that he's not the freak that the hospital grapevine makes him out to be), but Craig ruined her attempts to prove his humanity by overreacting when she jokingly showed him the baby doll they'd given her and announced that "this baby needs a father." "Is that supposed to be funny?" he snapped, snatching the doll out of her hands. She scolded him for causing a scene; Craig got scary sarcastic, in that way he does, and loudly insisted that he's the happiest guy in the world. He really just came off as drunk as he reminisced about baby Johnny being kidnapped by Lucy to the horrified nurses. "You made a fool out of the both of us,"Meg said, after her friends politely made excuses and left. She then grabbed the doll from him. "What is that, Meg, practice, for when you take my baby away from me?" he cried. Meg soon deduced that he'd mixed his antibiotics with alcohol just as he spotted Paul and Rosanna returning. "Do you think this baby looks like me? Because I think it looks like a chip off the old block,"he slurred to Paul.

ATWT WEEK OF DECEMBER 31, 2007: PAST RECAPS

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