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Happy Birthday Nicky
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear daddy, happy birthday to you." Jackie and the kids sang the second Nick walked in the door.
"Thank you." He responded with a smile as he patted each of the smiling kids on the head, who were all vying for his attention.
"Hi baby girl." He told Karlie who was all smiles in Jackie's arms.
"Happy birthday." Jackie told him before giving him a kiss on the cheek.
"Thanks." He said as he returned the kiss.
"You're just in time, I was just making breakfast. Take the goober and I'll go finish it." She told him.
"Come here goober." He said to the baby as he took her from Jackie's arms.
Within minutes the family was all sitting down for breakfast. "Oh and your children insisted that I buy you a cake for your birthday, so there is one in the fridge, although I have to be honest with you, I think that was more for there benefit, not yours. I don't think they cared at all if you got any cake as long as they did." Jackie said with a laugh.
Nick grinned and looked around at the kids, who were all eating their breakfast quietly.
After they ate their breakfast everyone had some cake.
After they were finished Jackie popped in a movie so Jasmine, Houston, and Johnna would be occupied and then she set Karlie up in her swing so she would also be content.
After all the kids were taken care of Jackie grabbed Nick's hand and led him out into the kitchen.
"I have a surprise for you." She told him.
"Jackie you didn't have to do that, we already had my party and you surprised me with the super bowl tickets." He reminded her.
"I know, but I'm not the one responsible for this surprise, at least not by myself." She said.
"What? Then who is? I don't get it." He told her.
"You helped." She informed him. "Huh, I got myself a surprise?" He asked, he was even more confused now then before.
Jackie took a deep breath "I'm pregnant." She told him.
His eyes got wide "What?" He asked.
"It's true." She said.
Nick's mouth dropped open.
"Look I know the timing isn't ideal. I know we planned on waiting until Karlie turned one to start trying again but despite that, I am extremely excited." She told him.
"But we've been using protection." He blurted, and after seeing the hurt look on her face he immediately regretted it.
"So you're not excited?" she asked quietly.
"Oh no, honey, I'm sorry, I didn't mean that the way it sounded, honestly I didn't, and yes I'm excited, I'm just shocked, that's all." He said as he got up and wrapped his arms around her in a bear hug.
"I was shocked yesterday too. Do you remember how I went for my physical yesterday?" She asked.
He nodded yes so she continued.
"Well everything looked good, but they wanted to take my blood, to check my vitamin levels and just to make sure everything was ok, but also to see if I was pregnant, but you know how I am with needles, and because I have such small veins it makes it even more painful. I assured them that I had been taking my vitamins, and overall taking good care of myself and so I finally managed to talk them out of taking my blood, but they still insisted I take a pregnancy test, I told them that I just had a baby less then a year ago and that there was no way I was pregnant but they insisted I take a pregnancy test anyway so just to humor them I agreed. Well it came back positive, I was so stunned I took another one and it too came back positive. I set up an appointment with my doctor this afternoon to confirm it. Will you come with me?"
"You know there is nowhere else I'd be." He told her with a smile.
"Thank you." She said as she gently kissed his lips before going upstairs to go get ready.
He watched her walk up the stairs.
One thing was for sure, Jackie was certainly good at surprising him.
TBC…..