This takes place at the beginning of season 2. After Meredith found out about Derek wife and is trying to move on from him. But something comes up might change her life forever.
We got back from Italy a couple of weeks ago. we haven't told anyone that we got married yet. we planned to hold it off for as long as possible since Derek's family is really big on weddings.
Derek said it himself that his mother would be upset and his sisters would be mad which I don't really understand why they would be mad about us getting married.
half of Derek's sisters don't even like me so I don't know why they would want to see me get married. well, they would be going for Derek but I'm still a big part of the marriage.
I don't even like weddings. if it's a close friend or someone I really care about or if I'm part of the wedding then I go but if I don't know them very well then I don't go.
the kids are happy their parents are finally married. I think it's a little weird for them to have parents who have three kids together, love each other, live together, and are happy together but aren't married.
They never really understood why but they were just kind of used to the fact that we weren't married. they didn't think anything of it until they went to daycare and met other kids whose parents were married.
Hope has her five-month appointment today. it still amazes me how big she's getting. it felt like yesterday she was born.
she's already crawling all over the floors but she can't quite sit up yet on her own. she's tried multiple times but she only falls over.
Mallory tries helping her sit up but Miles only watches and then laughs when she falls over and cries, and then Mallory yells at him for it.
I love how sweet Mallory is kids. She's great with Hope and with other kids. The older she gets the more I see myself in her. her hair has also started to get slightly lighter with blonde highlights.
Derek thinks she'll have blonde hair when she's older but I think it'll only stay blonde for a bit before it goes back to being black.
Other moms have asked me if it bothers me that most of the kids look more like Derek than they do me but I enjoy having two kids that look like him.
I'm happy Hope looks like me though, it's nice to have a blonde baby but I would love her just as much if she had black hair.
Derek's been having baby fever lately. he feels like Hope is growing up too fast. he looks at all the twins' baby pictures and talks about having another baby.
Hope is only five months and I think we should wait until Hope is at least two before we start trying for another. four kids is a lot to handle.
I've raised two babies at once and that was very hard on its own. I love the twins but unless I have twins again I don't want to be raising two babies at once again.
"Meredith, do you think Hope is getting too big? I mean look at her, her head is getting so big and her legs are getting longer," he says holding her in the air so I can see her over the back of the couch.
"No, Derek. she's not too big, her head is very small and her legs aren't too long," I tell him as I walk out of the kitchen.
"Are you sure? she's getting so big. we should have another soon before she gets too big," he says. "Derek, we don't need another one. Hope is only five months, she's not even a year old yet," I say standing behind the couch he's sitting on.
I take Hope from his hands and place her on my hip. "Derek, do you want to go with me to Hope's five-month appointment?" I ask.
"I don't know, I don't want to hear Robbins talk about all the crawling, the sitting, how she's going to start walking soon," he says.
"Just come with. maybe if we go we can talk to her about my fertility to see if I can get pregnant in a few years," I say and kiss his head.
"Fine, I'll go with you. I just don't want her to get too big. I didn't see Mallory and Miles until they were almost three, I don't want it all to flash in front of me and then realize she's twenty-one and drinking tequila like her mom," he says.
"Shut up," I roll my eyes before sitting on the living room couch and feeding Hope. "I wonder if with how similar Mallory is to you she'll have your drinking problem," he chuckles.
"Derek, I do not have a drinking problem. and Mallory won't have as much trauma as I do and she won't be neglected as a child like I was. I just drink sometimes when I'm sad and I don't drink as much now with the kids like I used to. I just drinking wine every so often now, although wine is pretty boring. I feel like a forty-year-old mother with a horny teenager and a junkie daughter," I say.
"Well you are getting there," he mumbles. "Shut up, you're already forty going on fifty. you need to get working on the house anyways, keep you out of my hair," I say.
"I already have the outline finished, the walls are up, well they're not walls. right now they're just pieces of wood holding up the outline of the roof," he says.
"then make those pieces of wood a wall so when we sleep in it we don't freeze to death in the middle of nowhere," I say.
"It's not in the middle of nowhere, it's on a cliff. so we also need to make sure there's a fence so our kids don't fling themselves off the edge," he says.
"I'm going to fling you off the edge," I say. he glares at me. I smile at him and lean back against the couch and gently pat Hope's back.
"That doesn't make her choke?" he asks. "No, I'm not smacking her on the back, it just helps the milk go down better so she doesn't choke," I say.
"Then why do we have to burp her?" he says. "Because if we don't then she throws up," I say. "You're a good mother," he says. "Thank you. I already knew that," I say.
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