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"babe, you belly is looking beautiful" Julian sighed. I jumped a little, not expecting him to be here yet. I giggled lightly as I still gazed at the side profile of my bump as I dressed for work. I looked over my shoulder in the floor length mirror at the end of our bed and saw him leaning against the door frame smiling at me. "I thought you had left for practice already" I smiled back at him. He pushed off the frame and moved over to me. His rough hands smoothed over the bare skin of my stomach and he cradled my baby bump as he rested his chin on my shoulder. "I said I was going to go in a little later from now on. Just incase you need any help before work" he said softly, turning his head to gently kiss my neck. "I've told you I'm fine" I giggled lightly at him, but I knew he'd never listen. "besides, I'm only 5 and a half months" I added, looking back at his reflection. "you've got a few more weeks to go y'know" I grinned at him. "I don't care, if you need me I'm here" he told me again. "I'll even drive you to work every day. Carry you around for your bathroom breaks if you want me to" he said, kissing me again and I laughed. "you're ridiculous" I smirked and he winked at me. "nah babe, I just wanna take care of you, and our baby" he sighed, looking back at me. I felt the butterflies in my stomach and my heart beginning to race. He never stopped making me feel like this. "you want taking to work today?" he offered, again giving another kiss to my neck. "No it's okay thank you. I'm not starting til 11. I have a meeting with Nick first off." I told him, "about Amelia?" He asked me and I shrugged a little. "I've yet to talk to him about any of that yet. So I'm assuming it is, I mean, we need to talk about my plans too. We need to set dates on when I'm leaving and when I plan on coming back" I said, and Julian nodded. "do ya think he'll be down for our idea?" he asked and I sighed, "well I hope so. I mean, going part time so we can have as much family time as possible and still allow me to work a little bit is the best outcome for us, whether he can afford to lose me that much is down to him." I sighed, "no matter how I'm related to him, he's running a business after all. So we shall see..." I sighed, "but before all that, I'm going to head to the bakery down the street from the office first. I'm absolutely craving their bagels right now" I sighed. "but we have like 20 boxes of them in the cupboard" Julian replied sounding rather strained, but I shook my head, "they do the best salt and vinegar bagels" I sighed dramatically. But hey, they were my number one love right now. "and I can't get the flavour like they do" I whined and Julian nodded in surrender. "okay babe, whatever you want" he sighed and kissed my temple. "but you know what they put in the bagels right?" he asked me as he turned to drop down onto the bed. I sighed and nodded, turning to watch him. "yes J, I wouldn't put anything in my body that was going to harm our baby would I" I told him. He nodded too and sighed again, "I'm sorry babe. I just get scared. This baby, it means so much. He completes our perfect little family and I just wanna do all I can to protect you" he said, running his hand through his perfect hair. "I know you do J, but you gotta relax a little bit." I said, moving over to kneel at his feet. His blue eyes looked up at me and he was teary eyed. "worrying so much isn't good for you." I said, resting my palm on his knee. He sighed and rubbed his face before nodding. "go to practice. Get your head in the game. Let me worry about Baby Edelman for a little while." I appeased him. Don't get me wrong, of course I was eating everything I should, and avoiding what I had to; but there wasn't anything wrong in indulging every now and then. I know Julian was trying to protect us, but with my restless legs, swollen feet and back ache, I felt I was entitled to anything I bloody well wanted. And aside from my husband, god help anyone who tried to get in my way. 

"I love you baby" Julian smiled at me, "both of you. So frickin much" he said softly and I smiled. "We love you too Daddy" I giggled, running my hand over my little bump. "here, she's telling you so..." I said quickly grabbing his hand. He let out a surprised gasp as he felt wriggling and poking though my skin. "whenever you're in the room, they become way more active" I told him, placing my hand on top of his. "you're their world already...she's telling you how much she wants mama to have a bagel...."