Chapter 21: Christmas
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Edward POV
I slowly started to wake up enjoying the silence and comfort of having my arms wrapped around my beautiful wife and the mother of my children.
Most mornings we were woken up to crying babies. Some of them were pretty good with sleeping in to normal hours, but others got up early and ended up waking the other babies.
Bella and I always tried our hardest to get the baby who was crying out of the nursery so they wouldn't wake the others. It was pretty much luck if we were able to successfully take the crying babies out of the room without waking the others. We hadn't really figured out what wakes the other babies up.
It took me a few moments after I woke up to realize what day it was. Today will be my children's first Christmas. Sure they probably wouldn't realize what was going on since they were only four months old, but Bella and I would remember it forever.
I gently kissed the top of Bella's head before getting out of bed. I didn't want to wake her up; she needed to get as much sleep as possible. Plus she looked so peaceful lying there on our bed, her hair fanned out all around her pillow.
I quietly walked out of room and headed into the nursery to see if any of babies were up yet.
Just as I expected Tristan and Mackenzie were awake. Those two were always the ones that woke up early in the morning. Millie was our worst sleeper and was always waking up during the night and would only fall asleep in my arms. Sammy didn't sleep much either, but he didn't cry like his sister did. Ava and Dylan were our best sleepers and could sleep through the entire night.
At least all of them were able to sleep through noise, something we were thankful for. Bella and I could continue on doing our normal tasks and not have to worry about being too loud.
"Merry Christmas Tristan and Mackenzie." I whispered over their cribs.
I changed both of their diapers before picking them both up and heading into one of the spare bedrooms.
At the moment we were using the spare bedroom closest to the nursery for the connivance of things. At the moment we were using it as a play room since none of the rooms were going to be used until the babies were around five.
I placed Mackenzie and Tristan in their bouncers and I laid down on my stomach and watched as they played with the mobile above them. Every so often I would gently push down on the bouncer or tap a piece of the mobile. In return I would get a smile from one of them.
I loved playing with my babies. They were starting to interact so much more than before. Bella and I were able to get smiles and movements out of them now depending on what we did. It was so much fun to see their reaction to the simplest things that we did.
"Good morning." I heard Bella say.
Tristan, Mackenzie and I all turned our heads towards her. The two started kicking their feet more excited to see their mommy.
"Good morning." I said back watching as she came over and laid down next to me. "Our early birds were awake so I figured I'd play with them before they woke the other four up."
"When are you two going to learn the art of sleeping in?" Bella asked jiggling their feet eliciting laughter from both of them.
"Why don't you head downstairs with these two and make their bottles and I'll get the other four ready?" I suggested.
Bella nodded her head and carefully picked up Mackenzie and Tristan and headed downstairs while I headed back into the nursery to get the other four.
Emilia was the first one I heard as I walked into the nursery.
"Merry Christmas to you too Millie." I laughed picking her up first and changing her diaper.
Next I changed Sammy since he was also awake, though he was quietly lying in his crib looking around.
I carried him and Mille down stairs before heading back up to change Ava and Dylan.
"It looks like Santa came last night guys." I told my babies pointing to all the presents under the tree.
I plugged the lights in, which got a squeal of delight from all of them. They all loved the bright colors of the Christmas tree lights, especially the blinking ones. Bella and I would place them in front of the tree and they would be entertained for hours.
"Merry Christmas guys." Bella said walking into the living room with six bottles.
I headed over to her and grabbed three of the bottles.
"Merry Christmas love." I said giving her a peck on the lips.
"Merry Christmas to you too." She said back.
We each picked up a baby and began feeding them.
Once we were finished it was time to open presents.
Bella and I opened up all the gifts for the babies and would show them what they got. They seemed more interested in the wrapping paper then their actual gifts.
"Bella they are going to look like the rainbow." I said talking about the clothes we had gotten the babies.
Bella had gotten the idea that it would be great to color coordinate the babies' stuff so we would know whose is whose. I agreed to it since our children needed to have some things that were theirs and there would be no fighting over colors.
We decided to just go with the colors of the rainbow since they were six basic colors and assigned colors in age order, except Sammy and Emilia whose colors were switched.
But now looking at all the clothes and other things we had bought them I realized how colorful our babies were going to be.
"I think they will look cute." Bella said taking more pictures of the babies amongst the paper.
Moments like these were the only time we were able to take pictures. There was a lot of chaos in the house and we had to wait for moments where we didn't have much to do so we could snap away.
"Now it's my turn." I smiled looking under the tree for Bella's present.
I heard Bella groan, she hated it when I bought her stuff. I couldn't help it though, I loved to spoil her and I didn't care that she didn't want me to.
"Merry Christmas." I said handing her my gift.
Bella carefully began to unwrap the box as I sat with anticipation.
"It's perfect Edward." Bella exclaimed as she opened up the box to see the new video camera I bought her.
"Now you can video tape our babies." I smiled glad that she liked the gift.
"Thank you." She said leaning over and giving me another kiss.
Bella leaned over the tree and picked up a present handing it to me.
"This is just something small; your bigger present will come later." She smiled with a twinkle in her eye.
I opened up the wrapped object with a questioning look, I wondered what she meant by later. But my thoughts were interrupted when I saw my small present. It was six magnets that held our babies faces.
"I figured you could put them in your locker." Bella smiled.
"Thank you." I said giving her another kiss.
We got to work cleaning up the wrapping paper and boxes before heading upstairs to change the babies into their clothes for the day.
Bella had picked out black dresses for the girls with red flannel trimming and bow. The boys had white colored onesies and black overalls that matched the girls' dresses.
Once they were all changed we bundled them up in their jackets and got them into their car seats.
We were heading over to my parent's house to celebrate Christmas with my family, even Charlie was coming over. He wanted to be here for his grandchildren's first Christmas.
Alice and Jasper were already at the house when we pulled in.
I took out Ava and Dylan's carries first and handed them to Bella to take into the house while I waited with the other babies. It didn't take her long to come back since my mom was already waiting at the door for us.
I gave her Sammy and Millie's carriers next while I got Tristan and Mackenzie. We all headed inside and I dropped off the babies before heading back out to grab the presents.
When I came back in the babies were all out of their carriers and jackets and were on a blanket with Landon and Logan. Some were sitting up while others were lying on their stomachs.
They were getting better at sitting up. Bella and I still had to help them, but they were able to hold up their bodies for a little while by themselves.
We were all sitting around on the floor playing with the babies when Rosalie, Emmett, and their kids came over.
Lily ran over and gave everyone a kiss on the cheek, including all the babies. She really was a sweet little girl, except when things didn't go her way. She was a little Rosalie in that way, and was probably going to be a lot of trouble when she got older.
We decided it was time to unwrap gifts. We allowed the children to go first.
Since Lily was the oldest she was pretty much the only one who understood what was going on. Landon had some idea and could somewhat open up his gifts and enjoy them. The parents had to open up the presents for our babies since none of them were even a year old yet.
The children played with their own presents while we started to exchange our gifts.
Once we were finished and cleaned up we sat around talking until we heard the door bell ring.
"I'll get it!" Lily shouted running to the door.
"I'll go with her." Esme said and followed Lily.
"Grandpa!" I heard Lily squeal.
Even though Charlie wasn't Lily or Ivy's biological grandfather, he treated them as if they were his own.
"Merry Christmas everyone." Charlie said walking into the living room with Lily in his arms.
"Merry Christmas." We all said back.
Charlie put down Lily and went around saying hello to the sextuplets. He didn't get to see them as often as he or Bella would have liked so when he did visit he spent most of his time with them.
He and Sammy seemed to have a special bond going on. Bella had been the one to point it out, and thinking about what she said, it was pretty obvious.
Out of the six Sammy looked the most like his grandfather. He had inherited his grandfather's brown curls and had a similar facial structure. But Sam had bright blue eyes while Charlie had brown ones. They're personalities were similar too since Sammy was the quietest of the six and seemed to enjoy being along then more than in a large group, just like Charlie.
The rest of the afternoon was spent talking and eating.
We never really had a major sit down meal at Christmas and it was more like different food items whenever we were hungry, well it was more like whenever Emmett was hungry.
By the time night rolled around everyone was stuffed and ready to head home.
We said our final goodbyes and packed the babies in the car before I drove us home.
Bella and I did our normal evening routine with the babies. It didn't take them long to fall asleep, they had a busy day.
"I think this was our best Christmas." I whispered to Bella as we watched our babies sleep.
"It's not over yet." She whispered back. I gave her a confused look. "I still have my big present to give to you. Stay here with the babies and I'll call you when its time."
Bella walked off to our room leaving me even more confused. I had no idea what she would be giving me. I stood there and thought trying to come up with something.
"Ready!" Bella called out. It looked like I didn't have to think any longer.
I walked over to our room but stopped at the door frame when I saw what a waited for me.
Bella was lying in the middle of our bed in a red negligee and matching boy shorts. Lying in between her breasts was a red bow that held the flimsy material together.
"Are you sure about this?" I asked Bella finally walking into the room.
We hadn't made love to each other in months. First because of the pregnancy, then because of giving birth, and finally Bella's body image, or what she thought of the extra skin and weight. She had trouble even letting me watch her change, even though I reassured her that she was still, if not more, beautiful as when I first meet her.
"More sure than anything. So are you ready to unwrap your Christmas present?" Bella asked in a seductive voice.
That was all I needed. I took the last two steps over to our bed and carefully hovered over Bella so I wouldn't squish her. I gently tugged at the ribbon letting the material fall to the side.
This really was our best Christmas.
A/N: End of chapter 21! I need to thank my amazing beta for reading over this chapter for me, she did a great job!
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