To the Maun and Back

Chapter:24

Did he just say what I think he said? He wouldn't tell me the gender of the other baby at all! No matter how many times I asked. "James why do you have to look for Bella's old. Baby. Clothes." I said finally understanding why he said that.

"Have you figured it out baby?" He asked. A baby girl. "Are you serious?" I asked almost climbing into the attic. "What?" "The gender of our other baby." "What about it?" He asked. "It's a girl isn't it?" I asked. " If it wasn't then I wouldn't be up here looking for Bella's old baby clothes." He said.

"You know these two will be here before you know it." I said. "So." "So what are we going to name them?" I asked propping myself up on the attic floor from the latter. "Well let's look shall we? We've already got a son named after a bull rider in the hall of fame." He said sliding a tote over toward me.

"With your first name as a middle name." "And we'll put your first name as her middle name." He said. "Ok now we need to come up with her first name and his first and middle name." I said. "You act like their going to be born tomorrow." He said. "With twins you never know when they'll come into the world. I could be in labor without knowing it." I said.

"If you are then they'll be in the NICU for weeks." He said. "Hey I'm twenty six weeks along. If I make it to thirty weeks then it would be a great thing." I told him. "All the better of planning." He said opening another tote.

"Why did I let my first wife even buy this many baby girl clothes?" He asked no one in particular. "Well did you give her your credit card?" I asked. "Not funny." He said. "Babe I'm joking." I said cracking a smile.

He gave me a small glare before continuing. "Dad. Mom's here to pick me up." Bella yelled. "Alright baby girl. I'll see you next weekend." "J.B our son is turning three next month. He'll be close to three years older than them if their born close to his birthday. It's a good size age gap considering Bella is close to six years older than R.J." I said.

"Your excited about finally getting to have another child." He said. "Children. The second will make up for the one we lost. I honestly wish we did have that one but." He quickly made his way over to me. "Don't think about the one we lost. We have two on the way. We have a son that loves us both. We didn't even know the gender of the one we lost." He said holding my face up.

I was standing between his legs as he sat on the edge. "Come here baby." He said helping me up and setting me on his lap. "I love you just the way you are even when something goes wrong. We may have lost one but we're gaining two. This will be my final season no matter what so I can help my beautiful wife raise our three children and my daughter who gets to still see her dad." He said quietly.

He kissed me while holding me in place. "Come on let's get these down and washed before Alaina Chesney Mauney and Dallas Cole Mauney arrive." He said. "AC DC?" I questioned. "Hey it's easy to write."

I rolled my eyes. He helped me down the latter before pulling a tote down with him. It slipped and broke open. "These look like toddler clothes babe." I said looking at the mess. "There's five more totes full of baby clothes." He said going back up. "Just pitch them down." I said.

One by one the tote fell and busted open. I felt my leg being hugged. Then looked down seeing R.J. A tote fell almost hitting R.J. I luckily kicked it out of the way. "What did she do buy new clothes every time one got dirty?" I asked.

"I have no clue. But once Allie Chesney is old enough we're getting rid of most of these." He said I counted four as he poked his head out. "Then went back. "Ah here's the infant clothes." He finally said. "Good thing we know where R.J's are." I said.

"Same here." He said climbing down. He and R.J started picking the clothes up. "We're going to need help sorting through these." He said. Then made a call. A few minutes later his mom and and dad came in through the door. I was already going through the infant clothes tote.

"What size in particular are we looking for?" His mom asked. "The smallest you can find." I said setting some aside. We sorted through all of the clothes finding mostly newborn sized clothes as the smallest.

"I hope their born seven to eight months." I said. "You'd have to have a c-section if their nine months." His mom said. "Then hopefully I survive it. Because I want to help him raise these two and our son." I said.