“He’s sleeping. We can watch your favorite,” I tell her.
“I like it too, and that way if hims wakes up, he can watch it too.”
This little person, she’s awesome. I hope our kids are half as cool as she is. I catch my future wife’s eyes, and she smiles. Olivia makes quick work of putting in the DVD and settles on the other side of Lex on the couch.
“You wanna snuggle with me?” Olivia asks Lexi
Lexi simply reaches out and pulls Olivia next to her, so the four of us are close together. It’s not a bad way to spend the afternoon, that’s for sure.
I’m just about to sleep when I hear Olivia’s phone alert with a text message. I watch as she pulls it out of her pocket, carefully as to not disturb Lexi, who has fallen asleep against my arm, just like her little brother.
I watch as she reads the message, then turns to me and smiles. “Healthy baby boy,” she whispers. She holds up her phone so I can see, and on the screen is a tiny little baby, with a red scrunched-up face, swaddled in a blanket. “They named him Beau,” she whispers.
“Everyone doing well?” I whisper back.
She nods, tears in her eyes. “Yeah, all is well. They said we can take the kids whenever we’re ready,” she says, not taking her eyes off the screen. “I told them we would once they wake up from their nap, and we’ll get them something to eat.” She turns to look at me. “I hope that’s okay.
“Of course it is. These little people need to meet their new baby brother.” As soon as I say that, Lexi sits up and looks around, I’m sure wondering why she’s waking up beside me and not her dad.
“Do I have another brother?” she asks groggily.
Olivia pulls her into her lap and snuggles her. “Yes, you do. His name is Beau, and as soon as Walker wakes up, we’re going to get some food in your tummy and then go meet him.”
Walker stirs and Lexi cheers, causing him to jump and lift his head from my shoulder. He looks at me, then his sister and Olivia, then back at me. His bottom lip juts out, and I know I have mere seconds before this little guy starts to cry. Quickly, I stand from the couch and run my hand up and down his back just like Lexi did.
“It’s okay, little man,” I tell him. “Are you hungry?”
“Hims likes McDonald’s,” Lexi informs us.
I throw my head back in laughter, which causes Walker to grin. “McDonald’s, huh? What does he get?”
“A happy meal,” she says, like I should have already known this information. “But hims get plain burgers ’cause they are so messy. You hafta help him with it, ’cause hims so little. I get nuggets.”
“That solves that.” Olivia grins. “Let’s take you to potty and change Walker’s diaper, and we’ll go to McDonald’s.”
“Yay!” Lex jumps off the couch and races down the hall.
Olivia takes Walker from me.
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“You need help?”
“No, I got it. We’ll be ready to go in ten. Maybe grab the diaper bag. We don’t want to walk out and forget that.”
“Got it.” I kiss her, which has Walker pushing me away again, making me laugh. “I get it, buddy. I want her all to myself too.”
My girl smiles and rolls her eyes, then disappears down the hall.
My phone rings. Pulling it out, I see it’s Aaron. “Hey, man.”
“Hey, did you hear? Baby boy.”
“We did. We’re taking the kids to get something to eat, then running them by the hospital to meet him.”
“That’s why I’m calling. We’re done here. Whit and I are going to keep the kids at our place tonight.”
“You sure? We can help.”