Bump to Birthday™ - Chim

IV

JUNE 2016

Kimberley's point of view

"There's no point," Cheryl moaned as she continued to eat as we sat at the dinner table. It was two weeks until her Birthday and, at four months pregnant, she was really starting to show.
"Of course there is," I smiled as I reached across the dinner table to hold her hand. "It's your Birthday, your thirty-first to be exact –"
"That's why there's no point. It's not a big one."
"Mammy's Birthday!" Bobby shouted as he sat in his highchair eating his own dinner.
"Yes Baby, Mammy's Birthday."
"Mammy's having a baby for her Birthday."
I smiled as I watched Bobby get excited. He may only have been two and a half, but he was a smart Toddler.
"Now look what you've done," Cheryl moaned somewhat bitterly at me.

***

After dinner, bathing Bobby and getting him to bed, I still hadn't properly spoken to Cheryl. Since falling pregnant, her hormones were constantly giving her mood swings. She used to have a fiery temper – the cliché Geordie with a fiery nature who didn't take anything from anyone – now instead, sometimes I felt like I was walking on eggshells, but I knew she couldn't help it.

I was sat in the living room with Cheryl, on opposite sofas, I was on the iPad, looking for presents for her Birthday, whilst she wrote in her diary.

Cheryl's point of view

14/6/16
I need to control my hormones, poor Kimba keeps getting her head bitten off and I feel bad for it. I don't mean to be a bitch. I need to start enjoying this pregnancy a little more.
Mam is coming to visit soon and I can't wait to see her – although she will tell us off for the way I have been treating Kimberley. I need to make it up to her.

Morning sickness is still quite bad – maybe that's what's making me so moody?
Now my bump is getting bigger I'm scared to go outside in case I'm recognised by the public – or if someone tells the paps I've booked a table at a restaurant because I don't want people, the public, to know. Kimberley and I decided it would be better to keep this news between the families – at least for now.
I don't know how to make this up to Kimba, maybe a meal or something, just to show her I appreciate her and love her. I need to thank her too for being so incredible with my moods.

How big is bump now?? We took our 4 month photo today – which of course I will glue a copy in here – and how big am I? Already!
I love it though, I can't stop stroking me bump, neither can Kimba or Bobs. He likes to kiss the baby, he's so excited to be a big Brother.