Hey everyone, this is a quick chapter, but I'm trying to finish developing characters and ideas so things can start happening. :) Thanks for the reviews! Also, I don't own Twilight.

Edward's Point of View

I had lots of threats and rules for Alice and Bella if they were seriously going shopping. I didn't want Alice completely undoing all of Bella's progress in one day. They left for shopping about the same time the rest of us loaded up the cars to go to the beach. I helped Bella into Alice's rental car, and kissed her quickly on the lips before she left.

"I love you. Take care you two." I said, running a hand over Bella's stomach.

"We love you, too". Bella replied smiling. Esme already had Ethan in the car, they were all waiting on me.

The ride to the beach wasn't long. I pulled into a parking space alongside my dad. I had Ethan unstrapped, and practically had to hold him down in my arms, he was wriggling to get free and run to the beach. I popped the truck, and took out the diaper bag that Bella had packed for me.

"Daddy! Ocean!" Ethan pointed. I smiled, and kissed his forehead.

"That's right buddy. We can go play as soon as we put sunscreen on." He started to cry.

"Nooo, daddy!!" his cries got louder and more intense. Bella warned me this might happen. I'd never witnessed a breakdown like this, but she said she had before.

"Ethan, if you want to play in the water with me, Brooke and Uncle Emmett, you have to put sunscreen on." I warned, taking the bottle out of the bag, and sitting on a towel, pulling my son between my legs.

"Will you put it on too Daddy?" he asked, his sobs subsiding.

"Yes, I will."

"If I put it on can I go in the ocean?"

"If you start acting like a big boy, yes". He just nodded, and let me put the sunscreen on. Emmett saw him struggling, and carried Brooke over to us, and sat next to me.

"Hey Brooke, why don't we put your sunscreen on?" Emmett winked at me. Brooke was much more compliant than Ethan was, but that was probably because she was older.

"Hey Ethan, could you put some sunscreen on my back?" Emmet asked. Ethan's face lit up.

"Yeah!" He took the bottle from my hands, and squirted some on Emmett's back, and tried his best to rub it in. If Emmett left that on, he was going to have a very random sunburn. Just then, Emmett looked up at me and smiled. "Thank you" I mouthed.

"No problem" he whispered back. As soon as Ethan was done, I pulled him back over towards me.

"Alright, can I put suntan lotion on you now?" I asked. He just nodded. I poured some in my hands, and rubbed it on his shoulders, torso and back. Then I ran my hands over his face, and was sure that he got some on his nose and forehead. He was done in no time, and Emmett and I took Brooke and Ethan's hands, and led into the shallow part of the ocean. We didn't go very deep; just until it hit their waist. After jumping the waves, we went back up into the sand to make sandcastles. While Emmett helped them, I dropped back onto my towel, and talked to Jasper. Esme and Carlisle had been drafted to help build the castle.

"Hey Jazz-what's going on?" I asked. I missed my brother-in-law. Things had gotten so hectic. We used to be best friends, but things with Bella had been busy.

"Not a whole lot, how about you? How's work going?" he asked.

"It's alright. I still hate working and leaving Bella alone, although she insists she's perfectly fine. Work's been hectic, and it's been a lot of long hours. Carlisle tries to give me as much time off as he can, but he can't show favoritism."

"Bella looks much better now than she did back at Esme's birthday party in May." He observed. He was really good at perceiving people's emotions.

"Yeah, she does. She gave me quite the scare for awhile there. I thought I was going to have to put her into the hospital." I admitted.

"Me too, to be honest. She looked terrible. "What was wrong with her? Did you ever figure out what was causing her to feel like that?"

"No, not really. We went to her OB/GYN, and she just told us that it's common in pregnancy to be tired. I don't think Bella's doctor understands just how bad it got. I went to medical school, I know exhaustion comes with pregnancy, but Bella was bad. There were days that she couldn't move. I even caught her crawling to the bathroom once. I had Dr. Johnson do a blood test on Bella, just to be safe, but it was mostly normal." I said.

"Mostly normal?" Jasper raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, some of her blood levels were low, and her iron needed to be brought up, too, but we got her vitamins and it all straightened out". I explained.

"Well that's good." Jasper agreed.

"Are you two going to have kids soon?" I asked, not sure if I wanted this information about my little sister.

"Soon, yes, but not immediately. We're still enjoying being married." Jasper said, and left it at that, and I was grateful.

Bella POV

Shopping was just as awful as I remembered it being. But, I was enjoying every minute of alone time with Alice, since now, we could really talk.

"You look so good Bella, I'm so happy you're feeling better." Alice observed.

"Well, I'm not really feeling better," I admitted "but I'm getting stronger, and I'm able to keep down more of my food now."

"Have the doctor's figured out what's wrong with you?" Alice was concerned.

"No, not really. Dr. Johnson did some blood tests, and there were some low iron and blood levels, but nothing too serious, and nothing to explain how sick I was. Dr. Johnson believes it was the lack of nourishment, but I don't think so. We're going to do more tests after I give birth, because I don't think that its pregnancy related. Call it intuition, I just know". I said.

"Well it's good you have Edward. He takes care of you." She smiled.

"Yeah, he's really great." I smiled.

"How many more kids do you think you and Edward will have?" Alice joked.

"Oh Alice, let me just survive this pregnancy, and then we'll talk about more kids."