My Shadow

A New Cross

Mia
I am smiling at my Christmas baby and my family has arrived along with the Cross family. They brought Little Christopher with them. Belinda and Emily have joined them and Timothy looks happy. I see an engagement ring on Emily's finger. Thomas Elliott Cross decided he wanted to make the first baby born on Christmas Day in Seattle Grace Hospital. Gideon is so happy and tired at the same time. We met the Alexander's and we knew what Louis had done and that he was dead, but they found out he was far worse than they ever imagined.

Gideon
My son looks like both of us and he is healthy. He has a great appetite. The grandparents are happy. Thomas is their second grandson and everyone is happy. Timothy and Ellen are getting married in June in New York. They finally got things done on the trusts from all the estates Louis left. He really did far worse things than drugging his daughter and my brother and creating little Christopher. The things that were discovered about him couldn't be imagined by anyone. I heard how they found him and the number of pieces he was in and I couldn't figure out how whoever did it, didn't bring attention to themselves. They still don't know who did it to him. We are so happy about our Thomas, Christmas was celebrated in a lot of ways. A lot of photos were taken along with videos of the whole family. My other siblings were spending Christmas together in a warm climate. Of course in hopes they will find their own mates.

Carrick
We arrived to see our newest family member. Grace is in seventh heaven about the baby being born on Christmas Day. Two down one to go, Anastasia and Christian are going to be pressured yet again to give us grand babies. I told Grace it's not a good idea to pressure our children to have children to give us grand babies. I think Anastasia ghosting her would make her realize that they really don't like the pressure of having a baby to make her happy.

Grace
Carrick has reminded me not to put any pressure on Anastasia and Christian to give us grandchildren. He says that they probably are trying and if they are and they aren't getting pregnant it is hurting them for asking them about it over and over again. I finally saw the error of my ways and decided not to pressure them about grand babies any longer. We are happy to have a new member of the family. Mia has allowed Gideon to put people in place to do the major work at her companies. They answer to her and she still has final say. She had to slow down after she found out she was pregnant. Her investment in the Rodriquez Studios has really been a great success and she is now helping it get expanded to other states. We are proud of her and how she has been growing her businesses and helping others to get a foothold and she's smart about her choices. Only one company failed and that was because the developer passed away from cancer. She stepped in and tried to make it work. She finally took the loss and sold certain parts off and gave the widow the money. She paid all his medical bills. She made sure the widow had enough to survive.

Anastasia
The baby is beautiful and so is little Christopher and I got to hold both of them. I hope we have our own soon, we have decided to find out if we are having issues getting pregnant. Sometimes it takes a while to get pregnant after you go off your birth control. We definitely are trying. I have opened my private practice and I still have privileges at the hospital and they call me in for trauma surgeries. I have a lot of patients since I opened up my practice. Grace hasn't mentioned us giving her a grandchild and I am glad. Someone has asked her not to ask me about giving her a grandchild.

Christian
I am very glad that mom didn't ask us about giving her a grandchild yet again. It upsets Anastasia and in turn upsets me. We are trying to get pregnant and it doesn't help us to be asked about when we will have our own child. Mom isn't trying to hurt or upset us, but it does upset us both. It's like we failed at having a baby over and over again. Anastasia avoids mom if she can because of the question about us giving her a grand baby. I understand how she feels. We have held the babies long enough and we head home. I know that we are going to console each other later tonight. We are heading to her parents and no questions about when we are giving them grand babies. They figure we will either become pregnant or adopt either way it is our decision. We had a nice Christmas and finished it up our favorite way.

We find out on before New Years that Anastasia is pregnant and doesn't have food poisoning. Talk about happy. No drinking for us now. We are enjoying some time alone. We need to enjoy our time together, because soon we will have our own bundle of love.

Anastasia
I already have the nursery painted and all the things for a baby. It's neutral at this point and soon I can figure out various things to brighten the room up. I have been looking at things that could be used for a nursery and found what I want done to the room. It's a fantasy land for both girls and boys. Then I add to the room to complete the fantasyland. It will be perfect for our child even when they are older. I am just going to need to find matching accessories for the room and I finally found them a week after the final touches on the room was completed.