I know it's taken me forever to update again! I'm really sorry, forgive me? Please? I'm going to try to get these chapters up as fast as possible. I'm trying to write a Lily/James (Harry Potter) story so I'm probably not going to make this story too much longer. Sorry guys. ( I haven't been getting all of the reviews that I've wanted to get though, so I'm don't think that there's a huge point in continuing the story for nothing.

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Anyway, enough talking. On with the story! Hope you guys all enjoy it. I also hope that it was worth the wait, even though it may not have been my best work ever.

xoxo,

Lily

Chapter Ten

Pink or Blue?

This was it. Today was the day. The day we found out the end to the question that had plagued us even since I found out I was pregnant, and especially since we found out it was quads. Time out answer the age-old question…

Pink or blue?

Also, the bet needed to be settled. Who would win… me or Gordo? Perhaps there would be a tie, with us having two boys and two girls. Maybe there would be three boys and a girl to even up the family. It could also put the girls on the bottom side of it all, if there turned out to be four boys. On the other hand… we could end up with another four daughters, leaving Gordo on his own in the house of estrogen. There could also be three girls and a boy, giving Gordo his son but still leaving the boys painfully outnumbered in the house.

But, by the end of the day, we would have answers to the question. Hopefully at least.

What would happen if we had one or more stubborn children, leaving us unable to shop for more specific items until we found out… or perhaps even until the birth, if he or she remained a stubborn child. Well, it would be nice to have some unisex things anyway. And, especially if the baby turned out to be female, they would have clothes to wear.

There are worse things that could happen. Especially with the risk of a multiple birth pregnancy.

Well, the appointment had approached, and faster than I expected it to. You have quite the amount of things to do when you're expecting to double your family size so quickly. Even though I, having been instructed to take it as easy as I possibly could, couldn't be as much help as I would have wanted to, I still think that we had gotten a lot of stuff done for me only being 17 weeks today. We would have had 23 weeks left if I was having another singleton pregnancy, but now we didn't have as much time left. After all, term for a quadruplet pregnancy is about 29 or 30 weeks, meaning that I would be ready to pop 25 earlier than expected. Which meant that there was going to be a big rush.

"Ready to go hun?" asked Gordo gently as he watched me stumble over to the fridge. He had been more careful than usual to not step on my toes for the past couple of days, ever since I'd blown up at him for not getting me what I had been craving two nights ago. He knew that he was in the dog house, and was really trying to get out of it.

"Basically," I replied, sighing. "Just let me get my water out before we leave."

He nodded and didn't say anything. He had seen and experienced first hand how hormonal I had gotten with him this pregnancy and seemed to be afraid to deal with me again after he dealt with it the first few times. Opening the door for me a couple of minutes later, he helped me to the car so we could finally see what we had to be prepared for.

"What do you think the ideal division of boys and girls would be Gordo?" I asked on the drive to the doctor's office.

"Lizzie, baby, we've been through this several times already," he said, not taking his eyes off the road. "Is it really necessary to have the conversation again?"

"Yes," I said, temper flaring up for the umpteenth time that morning.

He sighed. Then came the answer that I had heard oh so many times before. "Two boys and two girls," he began, but looking at my face he saw that I had wanted to hear the entire explanation behind his choice. "This way each of the quads would have a built-in best friend… hopefully at least. What would you want to have?"

"You already know," I stated simply.

"Yeah, but you asked me so I can ask you too. It's only fair," he said with a smirk.

"Two boys, two girls. Same reason as you."

Gordo gave a small smile at my bluntness and simplicity as he pulled into the parking lot of Dr. Mackenzie's office. He helped me out of the car and then proceeded to hold my hand as we walked into the office.

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Half an hour later Gordo and I were sitting in Dr. Mackenzie's office, clutching hands for dear life. The second that she came in, he and I started grinning like two idiots. We were two idiots though, so it wouldn't have really changed her opinion on the two of us. She gave us a warm smile. "Ready?"

We both nodded. Within a matter of minutes we had an ultrasound tech in covering my belly with goop and trying to make small talk. "Do you have any children already?" She asked as she finished setting up.

"Yeah," I replied quickly. "Two girls, Brigette and Haylie."

"Well, let's see what you're going to be adding to your bunch shall we," she said kindly.

The minutes when she was looking for the babies' sexes seemed to drag on. It was starting to get quite crowded and the babies were getting harder and harder to distinguish between. Gordo kept wringing his hands and I was biting my lip nervously, waiting for the tech to give us some news.

She smiled. "Found something."

Gordo's head shot up more quickly than I'd seen it do in a long time. "Something," he repeated. "Something. Which would mean boy. Unless you mean lack of something of course, which would mean a girl." I had to smile at his very obvious statement. He continued, "Which was it?"

She gave him a smile. "Something. Definitely something, see?"

Gordo gave a whoop of excitement. "I have a son!" He yelled, with a grin even more ridiculous than before on his face.

The tech and I laughed. "If that turns out to be a girl, I would be very shocked," she assured him with a smile. "Now, if you're ready, we can move on to Babies B and C. They're Mo/Di, correct?"

After Gordo and I confirmed that she proceeded to look for something on the identicals. After another few minutes, she seemed to have found what she was looking for. However, before she told us what they were, she thought that it would be better to make sure that they had the same "bits" so-to-speak. It didn't take long before she looked up again. "Congratulations on your identical daughters!"

My grin got even bigger than it had been before. A son and two girls, we were on track so far. The girls were even the identical two, just like I had wanted them to be. Now, all we needed was for Baby D to be a boy and we were all set.

The ultrasound tech seemed to be having a bit more difficulty with this baby than the other ones though. We had a stubborn child it appeared. After quite a bit of effort with no success, she decided that today just wasn't the day. "I'm sorry Lizzie, Gordo, but I can't seem to get a good look between Baby D's legs. If you really want we can schedule another ultrasound for a later date or we can just wait until you give birth and have a surprise baby."

Gordo and I had a short discussion and ended up deciding that we were going to plan to have another ultrasound in a couple of weeks. With that the tech printed off the prints of the kids and scheduled us an ultrasound in a couple of weeks as I went through with the rest of my appointment with Dr. Mackenzie.

3 … 4 … 3

On the ride home, Gordo groaned. "Two more girls, what am I going to do with you all?"

I laughed. "Love them. And pray that you have more boy swimmers than we originally though so we end up with another boy."

He pretended to be insulted and swatted at me. "Careful!" I cried out laughing. "You don't want to hurt me! I'm to good to you."

He rolled his eyes. "You mean you used to be good to me. We haven't done anything in a while."

I gave him what I hoped was my sweetest smile, even though I didn't think it was. I didn't think that I was looking my best recently. "Doctor's orders."

Sighing, he said, "This kids know how to mess with their dad already. They bug me already."

I raised an eyebrow. "What did you say hun?"

"I love them already," he said in a rush, giving me a heart melting smile.

"Sure," I laughed, wacking him on the side of the head.

3 … 4 … 3

Well, this wasn't as good as I had hoped that it was going to be. Review if you want to ever find out the gender of Baby B and see what happens to our favourite characters.

xoxo,

Lily