With Brandon moving into the big upstairs bedroom and the small bedroom being the designated nursery. Tony found himself spending his weekends moving all their junk up to the attic or down to the basement. With Donna's parents passed on and Tony's relationship with Senior almost non existent. The DiNozzo's did not have many visitors. Tony had no siblings and Donna's siblings preferred to stay in hotels. Aside from Lena who traveled around in an RV.
Brandon sat on his new bed. The DiNozzo's had traded the twin beds for the double bed in Maria's guest room. They had also let him decorate the room however he wanted. He painted the walls gray and with white clouds every few inches. He had considered a rainbow but thought that was too stereotypical. His sheets were red and black and his furniture was the standard brown furniture color. He had pictures of his old dog Charlie and a huge David Bowie poster on the wall.
"Man it's a shame David died before you could sing him your love song. David I love you! David! David Bowiiee! You make my pants danceeeeee!" Ethan sang off key.
"I was ten." Brandon growled.
"And already singing creepy love songs to random musicians." Ethan laughed.
"Better than your drawings of Mrs. Cochran." Brandon laughed.
"God we were such dorks!" Ethan cried.
"We were." Brandon agreed.
"Of course Joey Flickman was the worst. Remember when his little sister was born and he would push her stroller up and down the street until Maria came out?" Ethan recalled.
"Remember when Sophie was sick, so Joey stole that pumpkin and pushed it around?" Brandon asked.
"The nerd tripped over a rock and knocked the stroller into the street! Man that was the only time I heard Maria scream like that where I did not get my ass beat immediately afterwords." Ethan laughed.
"Your mom came flying out of the house with her first aide kit and had already called 911 before she realized that it was a pumpkin. She was able to cancel the ambulance but Joey did yard work and odd jobs for two years to pay off the fine." Brandon recalled.
"Joey was lucky. His sister was born at just the right time. His parents were not far too old to have sex. He was old enough to attract girls as the doting older brother. Me my parents are ancient and I am so old that everybody will think I knocked a girl up. Nobody wants to date a dad!" Ethan groaned.
Among the junk Tony had found an old baby name book. As he recalled Trevor had needed it for a school project and never remembered to put it back with the other baby things. Ever since finding the book Donna and him had been scouring the different sections. They still had a long way to go but it was fun to recall names they had loved with each pregnancy. They loved remembering why they loved each name they had selected.
"Remember Maria? I wanted to name her for West Side Story but had to convince you that it was because I loved the old Italian name?" Tony recalled.
"I was so mad at you when I found out." Donna laughed.
"Harriet Jones was the meanest old lady I've ever known but I owe her a lot." Tony laughed.
"Yep she is the only reason you got your way after that lie." Donna replied.
"Then Trevor it was the only name we could agree on. You wanted Dalton or Garrett but I was insisting on Steve and Clark. Finally we were days away from giving birth and we took that one last look at the baby name book. We opened right to the page and there it was Trevor." Tony recalled.
"Then there was Ethan well Daniel." Donna sighed.
"I really thought that Danny and I would be close forever. At least we both adored the name Ethan. Otherwise we'd have to go through the hassle of renaming our child." Tony explained.
The name conversation carried on until Tony and Donna were on the verge of discussing possible name ideas. Once it escalated to that point, Donna had to leave. She was ecstatic about this pregnancy but she was still in the danger zone. Not that she would ever get out of it in this pregnancy. With her previous pregnancies they had selected or discussed names as early as the first trimester. This time there was just too much risk. The way she saw it. She would much prefer to just want until the delivery room to name her baby. Still she missed the joy of scouring baby name books and going round and round about what name was the very best. She picked up the book and opened it to the girl name section. There were so many names she wanted to use. Harriet was forever burned into the darkest part of her memories. Maybe that was being a touch dramatic but the name just did not carry the charm it once had.
Tony let his mind drift to some the names they had highlighted over the years. Yellow was for Maria, pink was Trevor, and blue was Ethan. If he recalled correctly there were a few from a short time after Ethan was born. Where they had considered having a fourth child. He figured that it would be orange this time. Bright orange to highlight what would be the very, very last of their children. He swore that half the book would be highlighted by the time they had delivered and named this baby. He knew that Donna was suspecting and wanting a girl. He could not help but wonder what girl names that Donna and him would debate over and which one they would finally select. Still there were a couple of boy names that he would not mind using. He had secretly wanted to name a boy for Jackson Gibbs. The closest thing that he would ever have to a grandfather. Of course he had a few girl names that he loved as well. Then again he did not have the best track record for names. Only getting the girl name he liked because a nurse got a little rough with Donna's exam. Then having the boy name he picked be sullied by his ex partner's crimes.
A/N: What name will the DiNozzo's choose? New chapter will be up soon. Thanks for reading and please review.