Starting Our Family

Epilouge

I have no idea what time it is, but I'm being woken up by a giggling little munchkin that thinks it funny to wake me up by jumping on the bed. "Mama woke up, Mama, mommy says get you butts up now". I open my eyes and look at my daughter. She looks at me and smiles, and stops jumping. "Now Sophia did mommy really say to get my butt out of bed or are you doing this on your own?" She walks closer to me on the bed and plops down and starts to giggle again. "Ya that's what I thought". I look at the clock and it's almost 10 in the morning. I worked the late shift last night so I didn't get home till almost 5:30 am., and after Regina and I fooled around a bit, I didn't get to sleep till I don't even know what time . "So Soph, why you waking me so early ? You know mama worked late last night". She looks shyly at me and says in her cute toddler voice "I misseded you mama, and it's special day mommy says". "Is it a special day? Hmm I wonder why?" I pretend I don't know. She stands right up on the bed, puts her hands on hips (in such a Regina move). "Mama why you no member? Not nice mama". She turns to leave and I grab her and kiss her all over her face. "I'm sorry my Sophie. I know what today is. Happy birthday my baby girl". "Thank you mama". I can believe her and Henry are 5 now. Seems like yesterday we brought them home. "So where is mommy now babes?" "In the kishin mama." I love how she talks. "How about we go see what's she's up to?" She nods and we get up. We make our way down the stairs and I find my wife in the kitchen cooking. The kids already had breakfast but shes cooking some stuff for the twins party later today. "Why are you up dear?" I kiss her and turn a bit, look at Sophia and say "Someone missed me". "She's not the only one". Regina says while tipping her head to the left and I hear and see our 18 month old son Jackson slamming his hands down on his high chair top and smooshing his left over eggs and repeating ma ma ma ma, over and over again. I walk over to him. "Hey little man, are you making a mess?" He gives me a toothy smile. I pull off the top of the high chair and take him out as he jumps I'm my arms, and says mama again. He's my little man. It's funny the twins don't prefer just one of us, but Jackson, he's all mine. Ever since he was born he just always wanted to be with me. Gina's ok with it, but sometimes I can tell she feels a little left out. "Hey Gina I'll take Jacks upstairs and give him a bath ok ?" She nods and I give her a kiss. "Hey Jacks give mommy a kiss". He leans over and gives Regina a cute open mouth kiss. "You love mommy don't you little man?" He happily nods his head and says "Mommy". Regina has a big smile on her face. I kiss her again and Jacks and I make our way upstairs for a bath. When we return I see Belle and Ruby are here to help set up for the twins birthday party. Ruby brought the food that we ordered from Granny's. Just some finger foods and salads. Of course Regina has her lasagna in the oven, meatballs in the crockpot and the garlic bread all prepped, and let's not not forget two birthday cakes. A cool Minion cake for Sophia and a Star Wars cake for Henry. The house was decorated in both themes. Around 1pm our guests started arriving. Our friends and their kids came, as well as the twins friends from their kindergarten class. After singing the birthday song and cutting the cakes the kids are now playing games and the adults are mingling. I notice Regina on the other side of the room holding Jackson so I make my way over. I kiss his head and Reginas cheek. I hold my arms out to him but he wants to get down and play with the kids so we let him do just that and I wrap my arms around my wife instead. We look out at everyone having a good time. We look at our kids being kids. "Thank you Gina. This is everything I always wanted". "And what is that my love?" "Having a family". I say with a big smile on my face. "Emma, how about we add to our family?" "You wanna have another baby?" Regina shakes her head. "I'm saying we are already having another baby". She says while patting her belly. "Really?" She nods. I hold her tighter. "Oh Gina ". My life my have not started off well, but now I couldn't ask for anything more than the life I have now.