CHAPTER 21

ARIZONA'S POV

"Son of a-" I say as I quickly pull up my pajama shorts before bed.

"I know, I know. It sucks. I'm sorry. But you're doing great babe." Callie says as she kisses my cheek and throws the needle into the container with all the others.

"I've been poked in the ass every night for a month. I don't know how much longer I can be a 'good sport' with this Calliope. Addison still says that my hormone levels aren't going up like they should be. Maybe I can't even have kids." I say angrily. The frustration of the past month getting to me.

"Arizona, don't think that way. It takes time. It will happen." Callie says, trying her best to cheer me up.

"I know. I just wish it was as easy as it was when we got you pregnant. It didn't seem like we had to do it that long with the kids." I say, pulling the covers back and climbing into our bed.

"You know what they say Ari. Good things come to those who wait. And if we are meant to have another baby it will happen. And if there is some chance that we aren't supposed to, then we can still be happy with the blessings we have." Callie says.

"You're right. I just hope that this works out the way we want it to." I tell her as I scoot over and curl up against my wife.

"It will. We just have to stay positive." Callie says.

I lean my head up and kiss my wife goodnight before we both relax and let ourselves drift off to sleep.

I shoot up in bed when I hear Callie's phone blaring from on top of the dresser. I look over at my wife, and of course, she is dead to the world. The woman can sleep through a tornado and wake up in house with no roof, and then ask 'what happened'? I climb out of bed and just as I reach her phone, it stops ringing. Only to have my phone begin ringing immediately afterwards. I run over to my purse and pull it out to see that it's Teddy. I look over at the clock by our bed and instantly panic when I see that it's 3 in the morning.

"Hello? Teddy? What's wrong?" I ask in a whisper.

"It's go time! Addison's water just broke. She wants Callie there." Teddy says, obviously panicked.

"Ok. I will wake her. Goodluck Teddy. Keep calm. I have a feeling Addison is going to be anything BUT calm, so you need to keep it together. Let me know when you get to the hospital." I say before hanging up and walking over to wake my wife.

"Cal. Wake up babe." I say into her ear.

"Uhh. Sleeping." She mumbles before pulling the pillow over her face.

"Callie, you have to wake up. Addison is in labor. Teddy just called." I say.

Callie jerks the pillow off of her face and sits up quickly.

"Oh my goodness, ok I'm awake." Callie says as she stands up quickly. "I'm just going to take a quick shower and then I'll head over."

I climbed back into bed while I heard Callie starting the shower. It didn't take long, and I was crashed back out. That is one of the perks of being a surgeon. We can fall asleep instantly, and anywhere. I vaguely remember Callie kissing me goodbye as she left for the hospital.

The next time I woke up, it was when Hannah was patting my cheek with her little hand. When I opened my eyes, my dirty blonde hair, blue eyed daughter was looking up at me. Even to this day it amazed me at how much she did resemble me. The only major difference between us, was that Hannah has an amazing tan, and it's one that I am jealous of and I tell her all the time.

"Mommy, time to get up. Haden is playing video already." Hannah says.

"Good morning princess. Your brother is playing video games already huh? Where is Hunter?" I ask.

"Hunter is seepin'." She says.

"Well why don't you climb up here and I will turn on Dora for you while I go check on your brothers. You can lay on mama's side." I tell her, as I help her up and into my bed.

"Where is mama?" Hannah asks me.

"Mama went to the hospital to see Aunt Teddy and Aunt Addy. Aunt Addy is having her baby soon." I say.

"Yay! I love baby's mommy!" Hannah says with her beautiful smile.

"I know you do big girl. Stay right here, and I'll be back in a few minutes." I say before slipping on my robe and going to check on my boys.

When I peek into Haden's room, he is sitting on his bottom bunk, deeply engrossed in his army video game. It's one that I wasn't exactly thrilled about when Tim bought it for him, but Tim and my dad have stressed to him about the safety of guns, and after a long battle with my brother, Haden is allowed to play it.

"Good morning baby boy." I say to him, as he pauses the game and turns to give me his sleepy smile.

"Good morning mommy." Haden says.

"What do you feel like having for breakfast?" I ask him.

"Can we just have some fruit and yogurt?" He asks.

"Sure thing. I'll come get you when it's ready. Can you put on some clothes and wash your face for me? Aunt Addy is having her baby today and we will be going up to the hospital later. You can go back to playing your game after your dressed."

"Yes ma'am. I will." Haden says, as he jumps up off the bed and over to his closet.

I walked across the hallway to say good morning to Hunter, but when I got to his room, he was still in bed. This was something that rarely happened. Hunter was always our early riser. He was usually the one who would wake up first, then proceed to wake up his brother and sister. So when I walked into his room, and noticed that he was still sound asleep, with his cover up around his neck, I sat down next to him and placed my hand on his head. As soon as my hand made contact with his skin, I could feel how hot he was.

I stood up and went to the restroom to get the thermometer and went back to check him. Sure enough he was burning up with fever and when he woke up, he was very cranky and holding his ear saying it hurt.

"Come on baby boy, let's get you dressed and we can go to the hospital and have Aunt Lexie check you out. We need to get you some medicine." I told him.

He wasn't in the mood to get dressed, so I helped him put on a hoodie over his pajamas and slip on his shoes. I let him lay in his bed while I went to get Hannah dressed. When I walked into our bedroom, Hannah was laying on Callie's side of the bed, watching her cartoons.

"Hey princess, let's get you dressed. We have to take Hunter to the doctor. He isn't feeling good. And we need to go check on Aunt Addy. But we have to get you ready and that hair brushed." I tell her.

Hannah and I went into her bedroom and I pulled out some clothes for her and helped her get dressed before taking her into my restroom and fixing up her hair. Her blonde hair has gotten so long, and I pulled it up into a neat ponytail before putting her signature bow in her hair. I can't think of a single day that we have taken Hannah anywhere without a bow in her hair. Even when she was small, Callie managed to find the tiniest little bow's for her hair, and we couldn't get over how adorable she looked with it. Now she has more bows than anyone I have ever known.

An hour or so later, after fruit on the go, and a few tubes of go-gurt, the kids were loaded in the car and we were pulling up at the hospital. I text Lexie and she met me downstairs to help me take the kids up to have Hunter checked out. I knew that it wasn't anything too serious, and once the doctor came in to check him, we found out that it was a simple ear infection. I called Callie and let her know what was going on, and assured her that she could stay with Addison while we had Hunter looked at. So when we were done, and Hunter was feeling obviously better, we went in search of my wife and our friends.

Once we were inside the Labor and Delivery ward, I walked over to the nurse's desk and said hello. They pointed me towards Addison's room.

"Hey guys, listen up ok? Aunt Addison isn't feeling too good right now, and she is getting ready to have the baby. So when we go inside, we have to be on our best behavior, ok?"

After 3 little nods, I knocked on the door and Callie opened it.

"Mama! Mama!" The kids said as they saw Callie.

"Hey babies. Let's be quiet ok? Aunt Addy is sleeping right now." Callie says as she picks up Hunter.

"How are you feeling baby boy? Did they fix your owies?" Callie asks him.

"Yes ma'am. And I got a bunny sticker!" He said with a smile while pointing to the sticker on his shirt.

"That's cool. That means you were a super good boy. They don't give stickers to just any kid. Only the special ones." Callie says while tickling under his chin.

Callie put him down, and he went to sit on the chair next to Haden and was watching him play on his ipad. Hannah was already talking 90mph to her Aunt Teddy.

"What did the doctor say about Hunter?" Callie asked me.

"He has an ear infection, and put him on the normal meds. But he will be alright. How is Addison doing?"

"She's dilated to a 5, and she is slowly progressing. But they said that if she isn't to at least a 9 in the next 5 hours or so, that they might want to consider a c-section." Callie says.

"Oh, I'm sure Addison is having a field day in here. I'm surprised she isn't trying to deliver herself, or sign her own charts." I say with a laugh.

"It's been interesting. She has been one hell of a patient. The nurses are beyond scared to even come in this room. She has went through a half dozen nurses since I got here. And Teddy said that even the doctor is afraid of her." Callie said.

"I'm going to take the kids home, and pick up Hunter's medicine on the way. Lexie mentioned that she gets off in an couple hours, so when Addison gets closer, just call me and I can have her keep an eye on the kids so I can come back up here." I tell Callie.

"No, I'll go home with you. We can come back up here together later. I don't want to wait up here when it could be hours, especially when Hunter isn't feeling well. I will have Teddy call me the second anything progresses." Callie says.

Once Callie made Teddy almost swear in blood that she would call her the minute Addison was moving along, we put our kids in the car and took them home. Callie took Hunter up to his room and tucked him into bed before putting on his favorite DVD in his room. When I went up to check on them, Callie and Hunter were both sound asleep in his bed. I knew she was tired from getting up so early to go be with Addison, so I let them sleep and shut off the television.

I went back downstairs and made lunch while Haden and Hannah were coloring at the breakfast table. We talked about how things were going at school and daycare. Hannah was so excited for her big brother when he told her about his upcoming field trip to the fire station. I found it absolutely adorable listening to our kids talk back and forth, having their own little conversation.

A little bit later, I heard footsteps upstairs, and I knew that Callie and Hunter were awake. Just as I was putting lunch on the table, they came into the kitchen.

Hunter ran over to the table to join his brother and sister. Callie helped them pick up the color books and colors while I made their plates and placed them on the table. We enjoyed a nice lunch as a family, and the kids were asking if we could take them outside to play just as the house phone started to ring.

"Hello?" Callie said. "Ok. Yeah. We will be there soon. Ok. Bye."

Once Callie hung up the phone, she turned to me and told me that they were getting ready to take Addison in for her cesarean. She said she would call Lexie and have her come stay with the kids.

After we had the kids settled with Lexie around 45 minutes later, Callie and I were headed towards the hospital to watch our new niece or nephew be born. All the while, all I could think about was us having our next little baby. And suddenly the pain of the annoying little shots didn't seem like anything at all. Because it was going to be totally worth it.