Cesca stretched out in bed before putting her hand around her ever growing bump. It was now 24 weeks, well over half way. She was having tests on her baby boy every week but it seemed that everything was going ok. She had been offered a councellor…but she had turned it down. Her and Jonah knew that in three months times they would have to face up to the loss of their baby girl again, but for now they were going to concentrate on Maya. That had been the hardest part of this. Explaining to Maya that one of the babies had gone to heaven. Cesca smiled as she felt a kick directly under her hand. He was trying to remind her that he was still fighting strong.
"Mummmaaaaaaaa" Maya came bounding into the bedroom and jumped onto the bed. Cesca laughed out loud as she saw Jonah floundering at being woken up so quickly. He flickered his eyes before seeing Maya bouncing on top of them.
"Maya Kirby…do you ever stay still?"
Maya giggled before putting her hand over her mouth. "Don't be silly Daddy. Today is Saturday, we always playyyy on Saturday's!" Maya bounced up and down on the bed.
Cesca groaned as the baby moved on to her bladder. She jumped out of the bed and into the toilet. She didn't have time to shut the door so she pushed it to. Before she had finished Maya had pushed open the door and was chattering away. "Maya…can I have five minutes peace to go to the toilet?"
Maya shook her head. "You promised that we would play today and it is morning already and we have to play…"
Cesca sighed…it was amazing. They had been talking so long about how nice it would be for Maya to be properly talking, now she wasn't so sure.
"Come on Mumma…." Maya crossed her arms and pulled a face. Cesca laughed at her.
"Ok Maya…you win. Where shall we go?"
Maya started thinking. Then her eyes lit up. "The zoo?"
Cesca laughed and looked at Jonah who was franticly shaking his head. Seeing the desperation of Jonah made it seem even funnier. "Ok then sweetie, lets go to the zoo." Cesca looked at Jonah, it surely couldn't be that bad.
Maya ran out of the bathroom and started dancing round the house singing at the top of her voice. "THE ZOOOOOOOO. We're going to the ZOOOOO."
Cesca walked out of the bathroom and gave Jonah a kiss. "Love you." She kissed him again before giving his bum a playful slap.
"Mmm…when this all goes wrong Mrs Kirby I will blame it all on you."