Boxer (Larry)

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We're at our place, the little restaurant where we had our first date, celebrating the latest ultrasound I've gotten. In this ultrasound, we've found out the gender of the baby that I'm now six and a half months along with. We're having a baby boy, which we've decided to name Emmett James Styles. Harry's thrilled, as he's always hoped to have a little boy as his first kid. I've always wanted a son first as well, but we both hope that our next baby turns out to be a girl.

We're eating dinner and making plans for the baby. By the time we've finished eating our food, we know that the nursery will be dinosaur themed and which room he will be taking, all that stuff. On the way home, we stop at the store to get several buckets of blue paint, white paint for clouds, and varying sizes of paint brushes. We plan to make the walls look like a sky and the carpet to be dark brown. Almost like mud, but we want it to be soft. We buy a couple of green carpets the color of grass, and they're almost like patches of grass.

When we get home, we immediately start preparing what will soon be the baby's nursery. Well, Harry does most of the work to be honest. I do what I can, but he doesn't really allow me to do a lot to help. He doesn't want to risk causing any harm to the baby. Understandable, but I don't think lifting paint cans would really be any danger to him. I know that I can't lift super heavy items, but paint really doesn't weigh that much. Harry only lets me pick up one at a time, though, and he ends up carrying most of them anyway.

Still, he does let me help paint the walls, design the clouds and trees, and rinse off the paintbrushes. He decides to let me do some flowers and bushes as well. Overall, we have a lot of fun. It's a good thing we're both decent at art. After several hours, the walls are colorful and the whole room actually looks really good.

The next thing we need to do is get the furniture and set it up in the room, and then we can finish decorating the walls. He even lets me buy some wall decorations online. Then I buy some stuffed dinosaurs to stick on shelves around the nursery. When he gets a little older, he could play with them or something.

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After a month and a half, we're only days away from Emmett coming. Zayn and Liam plan on coming down in a week and staying for about a month so that they can see the baby.

His room is done. The only thing we have to do now is wait.

"We have a little less than a month." Harry reminds me, pressing a soft kiss to my lips.

Neither of us can wait to meet our little Emmett James.