unexpected

donuts

"Mommy." Addie whispered, shaking her mother out of her sleep.

"Mmh, what's wrong?" Amelia groggily asked as she moved onto her side to face the girl who was at the side of her bed.

"It's almost lunch time. And your still sleeping!" Addison giggled climbing into the bed.

"Can we go to the park?"

"I think we can arrange that." To which her daughter cheered, jumping out of the bed.

"Can we go now?"

"Well we're both still in our pjs, so once we get dressed we can." The girl raced out of the room to quickly get ready. Amelia laughed at her overexcited daughter, and got out of bed herself. Once she got ready, she went down the stairs to find her son practically bouncing off the walls.

"Mom! I'm so excited." Scout informed his mother once he spotted her.

"I can see that." Amelia laughed at as her son ran up to her, she kneeled down so they were eye level. "Now you need to promise me something. When your at practice today you don't take your helmet off, for any reason at all. That helmet stays on at all times."

"I know mom. My helmet stays on." Scout smiled to try and reassure his mom. She had finally agreed to allow her son to play T-ball, but her nerves were still shot.

"And your dad will be there the whole time. So if you don't  feel good let him know." That was another condition she had, her husband had to be at every practice just in case something happened to him.

"I know mom."

"Ready champ?" Link asked as he walked into the living room.

"Yep!" Scout said excitedly, running to his father. "I'm so ready!"

"Be safe and have a good time." Amelia smiled hugging her son, holding onto him tightly.

"Mom your hugging me too tight."

"Sorry." The mother apologized as she held out her hand for her husband to help her up. "Make sure he's okay, and that he doesn't take that helmet off."

"I'll make sure of it." Link reassured the nervous mother.

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"Do you think the baby will be a boy or a girl?" Addie asked her mother as she was being pushed on the swings.

"I'm not sure, it doesn't matter to me. What do you think?"

"I don't know either. Did you know I was a girl when I was in your belly?"

"I didn't know actually. I decided not to find out at my doctors appointments." Amelia said gently pushing the girl on the swing.

"How did you pick mine and Scout's names?" The girl asked curiously.

"Well your brother is named after a character in a book, it goes along with your dad's name. And as you know your name is after your Aunt Addison, who was very excited to have you named after her."

"Do you know what the baby in your belly's name is going to be?"

"Not yet. Do you have any suggestions."

"Hmm, I like the name Anders, or Alice."

"Anders?" Amelia asked curiously, she'd never heard the name before. "Where'd you hear that name?"

"From a TV show. Anders is an ant who runs the kitchen for his colony."

"I'll have to put it on the list." She then dug into her pocket looking for her phone. Noticing a text from her husband. "Want to go get donuts with your brother and dad?"

"Of course!" Addison exclaimed jumping off of the swing, she giggled at her daughters excitement and texted her husband back.

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"Mommy!" Scout exclaimed as he spotted his mother and ran over to her.

"How was practice?" The boys mother asked as she embraced him in a hug.

"It was so good! T-ball is soooooooo much fun!"

"That's good." Amelia smiled at her son ruffling his hair. "You guys get the donuts?"

"Yep." Link smiled holding up the box. "Let's go sit at that picnic table over there."

"I'll race you." Scout told his sister and the two ran off to the table.

"How are you feeling?" Link asked as he wrapped his arm around his wife and the pair walked over to their kids.

"Just achiness and pain, I feel much fatter than my other pregnancies."

"Your not fat, your growing our baby. It's also your fourth pregnancy, so your muscles aren't as tight as they were before." Link reassured as he helped her sit down at the table.

"Who won the race?" Amelia asked as she took the hand sanitizer out of her purse

"Scout did." Addie sighed as she rubbed the gel into her hands.

"You just gotta practice." Scout told his sister as he grabbed a donut from the box. "I can't wait till the new baby comes and we get to teach them how to play games and stuff."

"And then maybe we can get that dog!" Addison pointed out.

"That's a ways away." Amelia reminded, her kids always pestered her about getting a dog. She turned to her husband who was smirking and he wiped his wife's face of the donut powder. "Thank you."

"Dad how many donuts do you think you've eaten in your whole life?" Addison asked as she ate a donut.

"My whole life?" Link seemed to contemplate this question. "Hmm, maybe around 100, maybe 500?"

"That's a lot of donuts." Addison noted.

"It is." Link nodded in agreement. "You know, I think you guys like donuts so much because when you guys were in your moms belly all she'd eat was donuts."

"Hey, I blame that on you." Amelia nudged her husband. "I barely ever ate donuts until I met you."

"Our first date you seemed to enjoy the donuts we had."

"What? No we had sushi burritos." Amelia corrected. "Wait, you don't think New York was our first date do you? It could be considered  our first fight though."

"Well I guess that wasn't our first date. I think our first real life date must've been when we went to that restaurant, and later that night you found out you were pregnant with Scout."

"I guess that could be considered our first date."

"Wait you guys weren't married? When I was in your belly? Isn't it supposed to be your married than have a baby?" Scout asked curiously.

"Well- umm." Link stuttered. "You see, umm yeah. Wow look at that." Link pointed to a random tree, his two children turning around to look at it.

"Nice save." Amelia whispered to her husband trying to conceal her giggle.

"Right?" Link chuckled, as he took another donut splitting it in half and giving it to his wife.

"So me and mommy were talking about names for the baby, what names do you guys like?" The youngest asked her father and brother.

"I like Everett." Link said simply.

"Everett?" Amelia stifled a laugh.

"What? What's wrong with it?"

"People may confuse their name for a mountain."

"I like the name Wyatt." Scout told his mother. "Or Charlie."

"Well we'll just have to see what name suits the baby." Amelia smiled looking at her husband, excited for the impending arrival of their new baby.