Alara

Ch. 26 Merry Christmas

I decided at twenty two weeks to go on maternity leave after I had two rounds of bad Braxton hicks contractions at work.

It was getting in the way of me working and it was very unprofessional of me to have to sit down and breath through contractions when my own patient was in labor.

This was around the time that Lizzy came back so she was a huge help getting Charlie busy so I could get things done for the boys.

Especially since Ezra went on a few deployments so that he would be able to focus on us when the boys were born with out having to worry about work.

The girls also had come back in town around my twenty five week mark. They were there to plan my baby shower.

One of the three that I was having.

Believe me I wanted one big one but everyone was doing their own thing. I was just told to show up and look cute.

So I would because I loved my friends and family.

"Mommy, cheese?"

I sighed lowly it was two thirty in the morning and a certain three year old was standing by my bedside asking for cheese.

"Charlie, you need to be in bed." I mumbled. I had zero energy to turn over. He would most likely go back to her room or climb into bed with me. As long as he went back to sleep I didn't care.

"I get cheese in little bit." I heard him say. Then my door closed.

What was with this kid and cheese...

Not even three hours later I woke up to rustling in my bed. I knew it was Charlie because he had a cold and his stuffed nose had a whistle to it.

I turned on my phone and saw it was just five am. The light from my phone illuminated him sitting up with... an entire block of cheddar cheese in his hands.

What the hell.

"You want to talk to Daddy?" I asked him. He was gonna see what his son was doing at five am.

Charlie grinned widely, "Yes."

I facetimed him and he picked up pretty quickly. "Hi baby. Why are you up so early?" He asked me.

He was sitting outside somewhere in the desert. I had no idea where he went sometimes. Him and Rodney on their adventures.

"Ask your son." I said as I turned on the flash light and showed him biting into the cheese.

Who eats sharp cheddar cheese like that?

"Hi bud. Why did you wake mama up so early?"

He giggled and held up the cheese. It had teeth marks all over it. It was his, he could have it.

"Is that cheese?" He asked.

"Yes, a very big block of cheese that he's been asking about since three am." I mumbled.

"Hey mine ate half a bar of soap at one am once. It gets worse." I heard Rodney say.

I rolled my eyes and laughed. Why were kids so weird?

"Rod do you even like your kids?" Ezra laughed.

.

"You have any more contractions?" Ezra asked me ten minutes later. Charlie had passed out cuddling his cheese block close to his face. He was snoring with his head on my belly.

I would have to wash the sheets in the morning because there was cheese everywhere.

"No, just random Braxton hicks. Gabriel actually has been higher lately so they're fine."