Chapter 4: Bailey's birthday and the surprise Baby
It has been 2 ½ months since Meredith and I found out about our child's gender. Meredith who is now 35 weeks along is excited for the arrival of our son as it is our second son out of our 6 children. Tonight Meredith, the kids, and I are going out for a family night before the baby comes. It also happens to be Bailey's 9th birthday. I can't believe that my son is now 9 where did the years go because I remember when he was still in Meredith's stomach now he is 9 years old. I can remember the day he was born to the last detail. Meredith was in labor when the super storm of Seattle happened. Owen was transferring a father, and son who were in a car accident just weeks before Bailey was born. One thing I can really remember about that day is Meredith and I trying to figure out what to name him because he wasn't suppose to be born for another 3 weeks. But the most scary thing about his birth is that I almost lost Meredith because she had fallen hours earlier before she went into labor with him.
For Bailey's first birthday we went to New York to see his grandmother and have fun as a family but things weren't so great with Meredith and I because we were fighting about moving to D.C. When Bailey turned 3 Meredith was pregnant with our twins so we didn't do anything really fun. Bailey had the birthday present that he wanted for his 4th birthday and that was finding out that his new sibling was going to be another sister in which he named because he was excited for his little sister. For Bailey's 9th birthday he is hoping that he can get a new bike or something like that. On place that Meredith and I had wanted to take all of the children to but never got around to it was Build a Bear workshop. We are going there tonight with the children we also decided that we would make a bear for our son that we can place on his changing table or in the rocking chair with some of the throw pillows that we have with the initials of L for his name.
While we were at build a bear Meredith started to get back pain but though it was because our son moved into a new position. But we decided to head home early and celebrate Bailey's 9th birthday when Meredith was up to it but we were still able to make our stuffed animals before we headed home. Bailey made a doctor dog that he named Odie like the dog in his favorite cartoon show that I grew up with which is Garfield except it is a revamp of what Meredith and I grew up with. Lexie made a princess Elsa cat with the clothing of Elsa in the movie. Ellis made a princess Leia bear because both her and her brother have this new thing for Star Wars maybe that's because their baby brother was going to be named Luke but he name really wasn't going be named after a star wars character in fact it's after Luke in the bible. Both Meredith and I have been taking the children to the hospital church once in a while and this started after Hannah's difficult birth. Hannah made a Cheerleader bear and named it Zola because he idolizes her older sister. Zola made a golden retriever dog and named it Daisy with a pink dress for her dog. Zola has wanted a dog for a while but Meredith and I have been talking about possibly getting one for Christmas but we aren't sure yet. It was hard on us to put down Marley who had such a short life because he had cancer he didn't even make it until 1 years old. When we got home the kids sang happy birthday to Bailey while Meredith went upstairs to try to ease the pain that she was still having. I placed the babies bear in the rocking chair. His bear is a Star Wars bear that Bailey picked out which happens to be a Luke bear. He thought it would fit his baby brother.
I went in to our room to find Meredith in a squatting position trying to ease the pain because she was laying on the bed but that wasn't even helping. As I went to the bathroom I noticed that Meredith was acting like she needed to push like she did when she was pregnant with Lexie and Ellis. I quickly called the kids to call 911 because Meredith was in no doubt having our son tonight especially at 7:30 at night. Bailey stayed by her side while I waited for the ambulance when Meredith tried to move she felt something coming out and it wasn't our baby's head it was his butt. Our son was coming Butt first and wasn't going to wait for anything. My instincts took in and I helped deliver our son Bailey also helped by getting towels and other things to help his baby brother. When Luke was born the ambulance came and I held the baby while I called Maggie to take the children to the hospital. On the way to the hospital Meredith started to have pain again but we knew that it was only our son that she was carrying. When we got to the hospital we got the shock of our lives Meredith was pregnant with twins and didn't know it. Arizona delivered a baby girl by C-section because she was feet first and her heart rate was down. Meredith and I were surprised that we had twins but we were only expecting a baby and ended up with another as well. Meredith and I decided that we were going to be done with children after this surprise birth. Meredith and I were trying to wrap our brains around names to name our daughter than it hit us we would name her Amelia Christine after her aunt.
Welcome to the world:
Luke David Grey Shepherd
Amelia Christine Grey Shepherd
A/N: so here is chapter 4 originally it was suppose to be just Luke but then I though well another set of twins would be cool but I wasn't really sure if Luke was going to have a brother or a sister. I had this idea for a while but wasn't sure if I was going to go through with it or not because they already have 5 kids and now adding 2 more to the mix. I hope you all like this chapter as it was fun writing this chapter also sorry for the time jump but I wanted to write about bailey's birthday.