December was already here, and in the middle of everything we had Mercy getting into boxes while we were trying to decorate for Christmas. We got some stuff put up and then went straight into the nursery to put the final touches on the stuff our son and daughter would need. "Are we going to do the same thing we did last time?" I heard Norman say looking at me. "What?" I asked. "Last time we had the crib in our room until about 2 months old. Do you still want to do that?" I looked at him and said "Yes. I just want to be close to them." He got up and kissed me and I just smiled "What was that for?" He shrugged "Because it has been a while since I kissed you." I blushed. After he pulled away Mercy got upset. "Daddy!" I heard her say as she went and climbed into his arms. Every time he kissed me he had to give our daughter a kiss.
It was about the 3rd me and Norman were playing with Mercy and I heard a knock on the door, and Norman got out of the floor and opened the door and was surprised. "Mom! I didn't know you were coming." He looked over his shoulder at me and Mercy. "I managed to keep a secret from you." I said to him with a smile. I tried to get off the couch, and after a few seconds successfully did. "No honey it's fine, you can stay where you are." I heard her say to me with a worried look. "No, it's okay." I smiled back at her. "Woah you've gotten so big." I saw her reach for Mercy who was in my arms. "Woah look at you." I saw her motion to my enormous belly. "You look like you're about to pop." - "Thanks, I feel that way. I think after these two we're done for babies for a long time." I saw her reach her hand out but stop, "Do you mind if I-" - "Of course not. I mean you're their grandmother. Go ahead." I watched the smile never leave her face. "I can understand why you two are going to hold off it has to be painful having two sets of feet kick you especially if they kick like they are right now." - "I think that's our son." - "Have you both figured out names?" - "We've decided on Faith for our daughter and Levi for our son." I heard Norman say while he had his arm wrapped around my waist. "Both beautiful names." I saw Mercy start playing with Marianne's hair. "Yeah... she loves hair." I said "That's no problem." I saw her look at her granddaughter. "So, how have you been?" I heard her ask as she readjusted Mercy. "I'm been pretty good. Just pregnant beyond belief. Being a mother and basically a wife." - "So how was your first year?" - "Stressful, but rewarding. I didn't think I could love somebody as much as I love her. I mean my life changed when I found out I was pregnant, but you know it was for the good. Plus she's a mini me and just gives me so much joy and hope." - "From what Norman's said about you on the phone and plus the pictures he's sent it looks like you've done a great job. For a woman your age to just jump into a job like motherhood, you've done great." I smiled "Mothering instincts I guess." - "I guess so." I looked at my husband coming out of the bedroom. "Your bags are in your room." I saw him hug his mother and just smiled. I saw Mercy reach out to me and I held her until she started messing with my belly. "Mommy?" - "What sweetie?" - "Out?" I looked at her "You want your brother and sister to come out?" I saw her shake her head. "They'll be out soon enough. You have to give them time honey." I remembered how Mercy was a few days late, and then Faith and Levi would be born early. That night when we went to bed I felt the hard kicks coming from what I believed was my son, and I was uncomfortable. I placed Mercy down on the bed asleep. "What's wrong?" I heard Norman ask me as he crawled in next to me. "Levi keeps kicking way to hard." I saw his face drop and he went to rub my belly. We laid down together and I said "Urgh this sucks." - "Hey you were the one who wanted a boy." I heard him laugh. "Shut up." I sarcastically said as I kissed him.
I woke up the next morning, and checked my Instagram to just see what was going on and I saw a photo from Norman which had his coffee cup and it had little things in it. "So.. my daughter is trying to create dinosaurs in my coffee. #Fatherhood #DaddysGirl" I smiled to my self. I got out of bed and walked into the living room, with a hand placed on stomach. I saw Norman look over from talking to his mom and look at me. I smiled at them, and went and sat down. "Are you okay?" I heard Norman ask me. "Yeah, I'm just hurting. These two are more work than she was."
The weekend that Norman's mom came to visit was also weekend for a local convention. I didn't really feel like making every single trip, so I slept in and could choose when I wanted to go. I was asleep until I heard Norman looking for clothes and then I found out he wasn't in the bed. I looked at him and practically begged him to come back to bed. "Babe you know I can't." I laid there and just pouted at him. "Come on don't be angry." I looked at him and pouted even more. "I can keep this up all day." I said to him. I saw him go and pull out clothes. "Which shirt?" I saw him lay two shirts in front of me. "This one." I said as I pointed towards one. I watched him put it on and I saw him put his pants on and I bit my lip. He must have noticed because I saw a look on his face. I blushed. He kissed me and rubbed my belly. "Stay put you two." I watched as he kissed both sides of my belly. I saw him leave the room and walk in and kiss Mercy goodbye. I laid back down and tried to sleep more before Mercy woke up. "You sure you can handle both of them?" I heard Norman ask. "I took care of you didn't I? They won't be a problem." I heard Norman then go into detail about what normally happens. "Both of them are going to cry. No way around it. I'm leaving you guys these VIP 3 DAY PASSES. If at any time you want to come out. Mercy will probably want to, she likes seeing all the costumes and such." I heard the door close, and then was woke back up and looked at my phone and saw the time was about 12:00. I sat up in bed, and heard Marianne sound shocked. "Umm he's not here." I then heard my name mentioned and I heard her say "She's asleep. I can't wait her up, she's pregnant and needs her sleep." I heard her sound upset after telling said person everything, which was the truth. I walked out of the bedroom, and walked over to the front door and staring at me was my worst enemies. "Woah look who is awake." I heard my ex friend say as she stared me down. "My... look how pregnant you are." - "Excuse my language, but what the fuck are you two doing here?" I practically yelled. - "We came to make it right." I saw them with wine in their hands. "Came to make it right? You can keep that cheap stuff." I said with a smirk. I went to go close the door and they stopped me. "Um.. we are honestly sorry. You know what alcohol does to people, I mean your daughter was a result of one of yours and Norman's drunken nights." I was so disgusted at this point, I looked at them and said "How dare you. I love my kids. I love my husband. No matter what you say, my reply is going to be NO. Kindly get the hell of my door step before I have to have you removed." I slammed the door in their faces and locked it and grabbed my phone and called Norman and told him about it. "You need to go get a protection order. I think the police said when they came out if we needed one, we could get one." I hung up the phone after a while and sat there. I tried not to cry while I sat on the couch. "I don't want to intrude on your lives, but can I ask what they did?" - "They almost had sex in our bed. Completely sober. They tried to act drunk but they were sober." I saw her eyes drop to the floor. "I.. I don't know what to say about that." - "Nothing you can say, I don't care what they say about me and Norman, but my kids are off limits. I will fight til my dying breath for them." I heard a cry come from another room and ran, the best I could, and picked Mercy up. "Where's Daddy?" I heard her ask crying. "Working. You want to go visit him?" I got her dressed and changed my clothes and off to the convention we were. I was surprised to see how busy it was. I went up to Norman's line and got into line and Mercy wanted to get out of my arms, but I held onto her tight. "Sweetie no. You'll get lost and mommy doesn't want you lost." I locked eyes with Sean and he must have went over and told Norman something because they were escorting us to the table. "She wanted to come say Hi." I said as I sat down next to him. We must have got there at the right time because it was almost break time, and we excused ourselves and went to see what was going to be for lunch. Mercy was running all around, and I looked at Norman as he put his hands on my belly. "What do these two want?" I shrugged. It seemed like every time I ate something it didn't agree with me and I ended up getting sick. I had different cravings and sometimes I would have one craving and get the food and not want to even touch it. I saw Sean sit down next to Marianne and look at Norman and said "This must be your wonderful mother right Reedus?" I saw Norman start introducing everybody. I looked over and saw Mercy playing on the floor. I loved just watching her be a normal kid, and not have to focus on the struggles of fame all day long. I saw Sean blow bubbles for Mercy and just watched her laugh and smile. We ate lunch and hurried back out and sat down and watched everybody come up to Norman and just be in awe. I noticed Marianne passed Mercy off to Sean who was holding her while autographing stuff and I saw her just looking at him smiling. I looked over after a while and she had her head on the table asleep. I quickly took a picture of her "So... I think it's safe to say that 'Uncle Sean' is the baby whisper."
On Sunday I got up and got dressed and got Mercy dressed and we went to go see her daddy, we were enjoying everybody who came up to us to talk. I sat there quietly and just smiled at everybody, and made light conversation. We had been there a few hours and everything was going off without a problem, and Norman had to go do photo otps and I wanted to stay at the table. I kissed him and my eyes watched him walk away. Mercy was asleep in my arms and fans were pouring into the line and some of the people in the front started talking to me, and asking me every day questions, like when was I due, what I was having, how my day was, etc. I replied the best I could, and several people started getting out their phones to take pictures and I didn't mind it until I noticed some trying to get pictures of Mercy. I grabbed a blanket and hid her face and they put their phones away. I noticed Sean in the next booth looking at me and noticing I was uncomfortable with the attention. He excused himself and offered to let me sit at his booth until Norman came back, which I turned down. I heard a big commotion happening and looked around to see what was going on. I noticed some security guards escorting a woman out and I heard her just apologizing. After the rest of the photo otps a security guard escorted me to where Norman was and I looked at him with a worried look. "What happened?" I asked quietly. I heard him explain how in the middle of all the photo otps he got bit. I opened my mouth because I didn't believe what I was hearing, and then he explained what had happened. "What the hell?" I had a disgusted look on my face. "I'm okay. They said whenever I'm ready I can go back out there." I put one hand on his cheek and looked into his eyes, for about a minute and then I kissed him. We sat there for a few minutes and then he picked Mercy up out of my arms and held her while we were escorted to our booth. Norman carried on with the convention, afterwards he went and got medical attention.
I woke up in the morning a few days afterwards to the sound of Mercy coming into the bedroom. "Mommy? Mommy?" I opened my eyes, and saw her standing there in front of me. "What sweetie?" I looked at her and she handed me something, and pointed to her belly. "Eat. Hungry." I looked at her and asked "You're hungry?" - "Yes." I saw her pointing to the can of stuff in my hand and read the label, I didn't even have to read the label I saw the cat picture on it. "You sure you want this?" I saw her grab for it. "No. You can't have this." I got out of bed and picked her up, which was harder then it used to be. I carried her into the kitchen and saw Norman sitting on the couch. "Mercy brought me this and said she was hungry." I handed him the can. He looked at Mercy with a look. "You don't want this. You want to feed your kitties?" I saw him go and open the can and Mercy grabbed for it and put half in one dish and half in the other one. I saw both cats run straight for the dishes. "What do you want to eat sweetie?" Norman picked her out of my arms, after noticing how I was struggling.
On the 10th I woke up and had a weird feeling, just one of surprise. I didn't know what was about to happen, but it would change my entire world. It was a few hours before dusk, and Norman looked at me and I looked at him with a weird look. I could tell there was something different in his eyes. "Where's Mercy?" I asked him. "Oh my mom is baby sitting, making up for lost time." He said. I looked at him and he pulled me into him and asked if I would like to go out to dinner. I looked at the floor and back up at him and whispered "Sure." I smiled at him. "Go put your dress on." I heard him say after he kissed me. - "What about your mom and Mercy?" - "Oh they'll meet us there." I walked into the bedroom and saw that he already had an outfit laid out for me. I looked at the lingerie and my dress. I quietly slipped out of my current clothing and slipped the fresh clothing on. I walked out and saw Norman all dressed up in his tux and I smiled. We walked out and I felt strange, just like something was going to happen. I saw Norman pull up in front of this building and tell me "I'm going to make sure our reservations are right. Can you wait here?" I shuffled in my seat, and looked at him. "Sure." I saw him put his hand on my belly, and he looked at me "They seem happy." I kept smiling. I saw him get out of the car and waited and waited. I got impatient, and decided to get out of the car and opened the doors and I burst into tears. I saw Norman standing at the alter looking at me. I saw a face I hadn't seen in a while, when my best friend in the whole entire world was the person who would officiate our wedding. I saw Mercy run up to me in this pretty frilly pink dress. I bent down as far as I could to pick her up, and she looked at me and started wiping my tears away. I saw Norman's mom offer to take her from me and I handed her over. All of a sudden, I felt a hand on my shoulder... and saw Mingus standing there. "Umm my dad chose me to walk you down the aisle." I wiped my eyes, and started to walk down the aisle until I met my, what would be in a few minutes husband. I couldn't stop from crying. As we said our vows I felt the two little sets of feet kick me. I smiled and when I heard the words "I do" slip out of both of our lips, and saw my hands sort of shake when I placed the ring on my husband's finger. I zoned out until I heard "I now pronounce you man and wife." exit my friend's mouth. I cried throughout the whole event. I didn't know about any of this, but I loved it. When I saw the cake it was beautiful. "You did all of this yourself?" I asked my husband. "Well, you've dropped little hints." I smiled. I noticed everybody had their phones out to take photos of our wedding, and Norman took a picture of the two of us with our rings on my overly pregnant belly. "This happened a few minutes ago. #Married #MarriedToMyBestFriend" Sean posted a photo of 'The Kiss' - "My brother got married to his beautiful bride. I'm so happy for them. Glad I got to attend this special moment with them." I caught up with my best friend and her boyfriend, who informed me that they were in the process of adopting a child together. They showed me the 2 year old little boy with Down Syndrome they were adopting. I was so happy, that she was finally going to get to be a mother. I found out they were going to continue to live in Florida. "Are you guys going to make a trip up here to see these two?" - "Of course. When are you due again?" - "Sometime around the middle of March." - "You look like you're fixing to pop any day now, you know twins are normally early right?" I shook my head. "We're hoping that they are on time, because Norman has to leave for a cruise next month. I really don't need to be in labor by myself." - "So how's Mercy?" I heard her boyfriend ask. "She's fantastic. Loving life. Actually hold on." I nudged Norman to go get Mercy and she had a hold of his hand and was walking with her daddy. "Woah she's gotten so big!" - "She turned 1 last month and it was the hardest thing I've ever went through." I saw both of them smile. "Wait until you survive a year with that little boy and you'll understand." I saw Mercy reach her arms up to my belly, and her daddy picked her up and let her rub my belly. "I guess I don't have to ask how she's adjusting." - "The first kick she felt scared her, but I think she likes it. If they aren't kicking she'll do something to wake them up." I saw both of them looking at her, "Do you guys want to feel?" I saw their eyes light up. "I think this is our son." I let them feel the harder kicks. I let them feel the lighter kicks "This is our daughter." We talked about our lives so far for a while, and it felt like old times. Our wedding wasn't what you would call traditional, I mean we did some of the stuff people normally did at weddings, but not by the book. Her boyfriend contacted Norman a month or so before, and when I heard the request I agreed. He asked if when we got married when the bouquet was to be tossed if I would just hand it to her. I couldn't say no. It came that time, but I decided to make it a bit cuter. I handed it to Mercy and pointed and let her walk up and give them to her, then her boyfriend came in and got down on one knee. I saw Norman grab his phone and take a quick photo. "So my wife's friend's boyfriend came to me with a request and our daughter helped with her 2nd wedding proposal. #SpreadingOurJoy #ProposalAtAWedding #FriendsHelpFriends."
We managed to get to the apartment without injuring each other. I felt weird, like this was a totally different man, who I was going to bed with. Norman carried me into the apartment and into the bedroom. I started to unbutton his shirt and he looked at me "Are you sure about this?" I heard him whisper. "100%" I let him lift the dress off of me. I felt so out of place with my overly pregnant belly. "God, you're so beautiful." I heard him say. "Thank you." I said timidly. He helped me down onto the bed, and went to kissing me passionately. "I love you." I heard him whisper, "I love you too." I whispered into his ear. "Ready?" I heard him ask. "YES!" I said to him. I looked into his eyes as he eased into me. It was slow to start out, and then we both got into it, and he started picking up speed. I bit his lip. I heard the phone vibrate on the nightstand, but Norman didn't even grab for it. We kept a little pace going until I almost climaxed, but didn't. "Norm- I wanna try." I saw him ease off me, and I climbed on top of him shortly after moving my hips a few times I got off of him and pulled him on top of me and he eased into me again and I was in pure heaven. We both swore under our breath. I didn't realize until halfway through that he had me right up against the headboard. I felt my climax hit, and began crying. Norman was fixing to pull out until I put my hand on his lower back " 't" I uttered through my tears. He kept thrusting into me, but went and started to dig through the bedside table. "Norman, I'm already pregnant plus it's already to late." - "Not looking for that." I heard him grunt. He must have found what he was looking for because he pulled something out. My eyes went towards what he had in his hand. I felt him pull out of me, and I heard the buzzing sound and I felt the cool metal go into me. "Norm- I don't want this I want you." I tried to pull his hand away, and I saw his devilish smile. "You sure you don't want this?" I felt the intensity of the small device increase, and I was in heaven. "Please... I need you-" I felt the sensation leave, but then I felt myself expanding again, but this time it was a different size. Norman had went carefully and had the device inside me along with his massive manhood. I kept swearing under my breath. He kept thrusting into me with some grunts, and I kept moaning in his ear "Yes. Yes. Fuck right there!" I felt my head sort of hit the headboard of our bed, and I must have let a "Ouch" out cause Norman sort of pulled me closer to him. He kept up the speed he was already working at. We both had our bodies wrapped up together, as best we could with my belly in the way. I think this was the first time in a long time we actually had sex for this long as far as pregnancy goes. I climaxed and then after a few more quick thrusts my husband climaxed also. I saw him remove the device and wipe it off on the sheets and just smile at me. "That.. That was nice." I heard him pant out. "It was." I looked at him. "Are you okay?" I heard him ask me as he looked at me as I was wiping my tears away. "Yeah, I've never had an orgasm that powerful." I looked at all the marks I left on his body and then he looked at my body and started pointing out all the marks he left. "So, why do you have that?" I heard him ask me in a low tone. - "Um.. because my husband was gone all the time and I need to get myself off every once in a while?" I said in a low tone. - "So, do you want to try that again?" I heard him ask as I curled up in his arms. I looked up into his eyes and said "YES! OF COURSE. That was the best orgasm I've ever had." I heard him sort of laugh at me. "If that's what my wife wants, that's what my wife will get." He had me wrapped up in his arms and I guess we both fell asleep. I saw the bedroom door open slightly and then close and a small "Ooops" leave someone's mouth. Norman had me wrapped up in his arms, and I just stayed there in my husband's arms until the next morning. I woke up about 3 in the morning and had to use the bathroom, and when I started moving Norman's grip tightened on me. "Where are you going?" I heard him ask as I tried to escape. "Bathroom." He let go of me and I did what I had to do, and then I came back and crawled back into his arms. An hour or so later he went to go do something, and I pleaded with him to stay with me. "Baby I'm coming back." I kept my hands wrapped around his arm. I let go after a while. During each of my pregnancies I was clingy. I guess because I didn't want to lose Norman? Hormones? I don't really know. He came back and crawled back into bed with me, and I went and laid my head on his chest. "Can I-" I saw him look at me with a questionably look on his face. "What?" For whatever reason during my first pregnancy I got to sleep by putting my thumb in my mouth, don't ask me why I just did. It calmed me down I guess, and made me feel safe. I saw Norman's hand reach my lips and I opened my mouth slightly and he put the tip in my mouth and I held onto his hand. He really didn't understand why I did it, but I explained it just helped me sleep. A few minutes later I felt a kiss on the top of my head and fell asleep.
I woke up the next morning to some cute pajamas laid out for me and some nice bubble bath and other stuff with a note. "I figured you could use this after lastnight (which was amazing). I love you with all of my heart. I let you sleep in because I figured that you would need it. I love you." I grabbed my phone and quickly took a picture of all the stuff and captioned it "My darling HUSBAND left this for me. He's a keeper for sure." I scrolled down through my feed and saw a photo of me asleep on Norman's chest with his thumb in my mouth. "So does anybody else's pregnant wife do this? My wife has done it with both pregnancies. It's so cute." I scrolled through the comments and some of them were cute, others were really X rated. "She sleeps like a baby, that means you've fucked and married a child. You're sick." - "So she likes stuff in her mouth? I'll put something in that mouth and not my thumb. ;)" - "Dude, why are you letting her suck on your finger when she could be sucking on your dick. If she was my girl I'd have her sucking on mine all night long." It kept going from there, like I said most were cute, but like always some people had to ruin stuff. I quietly got into the bath tub and filled it up with water and added the bubbles and relaxed. After a while I got out and dressed and looked in the mirror. I noticed a mark on my collar bone and just smiled. During each sexual encounter we've ever had Norman has always left it there, if it went away we would have sex and I'd have it back on my body again.
On 15th I had another ultrasound appointment and was excited because Marianne was going to actually be here. We got to the doctors office and waited and they called us back. Everything checked out and then it was time to see our babies. I watched the screen and saw my son and daughter on the screen and smiled. I looked over and saw Norman's mom smiling. We finished and got our pictures, and I handed a few to Maureen. We set up our next appointment, Jan 10th because we wanted to make sure it was going to be okay for Norman to travel.
We had Mingus staying with us for a few days, and I was almost asleep, and I heard him say "Quit" and I heard Mercy start having a fit. I laid there for a few seconds and it kept going on, and I ended up getting up and checking on her and saw she wouldn't let her brother have the controller. "What's going on?" - "I've been trying to give her this controller but she wants that one." I saw her yank the one that Mingus had in his hand and I walked over and took it out of her hand and said "No ma'am you don't jerk stuff out of other people's hands." I picked her up and she started hitting me and I took her outside of the room and into her room and said "You're fixing to get put in time out." She sort of stopped, and I carried her out into the living room and Norman was sitting down and I handed her to him and said "She's being a brat today." - "What did she do?" - "Well, she kept jerking the controller out of Mingus' hand and then when I told her she was about to get put in time out, she started hitting me." He looked at her and noticed her eyes were all puffy. "Someone is sleepy." I heard him say to her. He went and brought her a sippy cup of milk and let her drink that, and then she fell asleep in his arms an hour later. I looked at her, and just smiled and I guess I sort of started crying because I heard Marianne ask me "Are you okay?" I shook my head and just said "I'm not sure I'm going to be able to handle 2 babies and sort of put her on the back burner. She's been my life for a year, and I love her." - "You're not going to put her on the back burner, she's going to be a major part of your life no matter what." I was scared because I didn't feel it was right what me and Norman did, even if Mercy was happy and all lovey with my belly now. I still felt horrible about it.
On the 24th I felt a sharp pain in my stomach. I sat up in the bed really suddenly, and started to wake Norman up. "What's wrong?!" I saw him sit up and reach out to touch me. "Umm... I have a sharp pain.." I stood up and started to see if maybe if I walk a bit if the pain would go away but it didn't and all of a sudden I felt it... my water broke and I just cried. "No. This isn't happening! No!" I held onto Norman and just cried. "Shh.. It's going to be okay." I looked at him "No it isn't! What if something goes wrong?! I can't be in labor right now, I'm only 6 months pregnant." I heard the door open and saw Marianne standing in the doorway, and I noticed Norman sort of let go of the death grip he had on me, and turn towards his mom who was just staring at me. "Is she okay?" I heard her ask in a low tone. " .Broke." I managed to choke out as I sat down on the bed. Everybody's face looked right at me. I started crying out in pain as a contraction hit. "Come on." I saw Norman grab the bags and help me to the car. The whole way to the hospital was chaos, I was screaming in pain and Mercy was crying because she knew something was happening. I got to the hospital and into a room and I felt the need to push, and started until the doctor checked and told me I was no where near time to push. I laid in the bed and cried to myself, until Mercy wrapped her arms around me. "Don't cry mommy." I sniffled as she said that to me. "You ready to meet your brother and sister?" - "YES!" I heard her say enthusiastically. I noticed Norman was taking a picture of me holding our daughter with the caption "So.. our bundles of joy are going to be possible Christmas presents. My lovely wife is in labor and our daughter is trying to keep mommy happy." I was in pain, but some how my daughter made the pain seem less.. well painful. I had a hold of Norman's hand the whole time and he knew each time a contraction hit because I squeezed really hard. After a while they checked again and I was still at the same place I was when I got to the hospital. I let Norman have Mercy, and he went and took her to go get something from the cafe which was located a long ways from our room. I saw Norman's mom sitting in the chair next to the bed and I tried to keep everything PG, but sometimes a word slipped out. I must have ended up falling asleep, because I laid there with my eyes shut and heard Norman whisper "How long has she been asleep?" I opened my eyes when another contraction hit. "Ma'am we need you to stop pushing." I heard the doctor say over and over. I pushed and pushed, I couldn't stop. I asked Norman how long I had been there. "Considering your water broke at about 7:30 and it's about 10:30 now." - "That long?!" I screamed out. "Calm down honey. We're on their time not ours." - "You don't fucking know how bad this hurts." I screamed at him. I laid there and watched Mercy play with her grandma and smiled. Norman reached his hand onto my belly, and kissed me. "I'm sorry for all of this." I heard him say. "No, it's not all your fault, I had just as much to do with this." He just looked at me and I sort of smiled "What?" - "We've got 3 kids. You're fixing to have twins. You're amazing." I saw him smile. I just held and squeezed his hand until about 2:00 in the morning. I had the doctor come in and check me again and I still wasn't where I needed to be but I kept pushing and the doctor saw the sheets had blood on them. The checked the babies and noticed something was wrong, and opted for a c-section. I looked at Norman with a look of worry. They took me into the operating room and prepped everything, and then I heard them say something and I didn't hear a cry. Norman was all worried. "What's wrong with my baby?!" I screamed. I looked at the doctor who was holding my daughter and he was trying to get her to breathe. My instinct was to reach out, but he was far away, and then I heard it. The first cry. I saw the doctor put her in the little crib and then I heard a loud second cry. "You did it!" I heard Norman say as he kissed my head. I later learned that my daughter had her cord wrapped around her neck when they cut me open and that's why she couldn't breathe on her own.
I had my son in my arms and Norman had our daughter in his. They wanted to give the 4 of us some alone time before visitors. I heard the nurse come in and ask if we were ready to have visitors and Norman looked at me, and I shook my head. I saw Mercy run through the door and up to her daddy and looked at her sister in his arms and just smile so big. "This is your brand new sister." I heard my husband whisper. Meanwhile Marianne walked over to me, and looked at her brand new grandson and I saw her look at Norman and laugh "He looks just like you when you were a baby." I saw Norman sort of blush and mouth the word "Mom." I laughed. "You want to hold him?" I offered and saw her smile as she reached for him. Norman took a picture of his mom holding our brand new son "My mom with my son." I looked at Mercy trying to hold her sister. I reached my arms out to hold her and my brand new daughter. I had Mercy beside me and Faith in my arms and I saw Mercy sort of poke at her. She woke her up and she started crying. "I'm sorry." I heard her whisper over and over and she brushed the little bit of hair that her sister had on her head. I saw Mercy just lean over and kiss her sister on the nose. Norman tried to capture the moment without showing our daughter's face. "My daughter woke her sister up and this was her reaction." I loved it, because it showed my daughters and even included me smiling at the cute moment. I heard the nurse come in and make sure everything was okay. "Whenever you're ready I can bring the nurse in to teach you how to nurse both of them." I heard her say before she left. I looked down at my 3 babies. "Do you like your new siblings?" I whispered to my daughter. I saw her shake her head. I was smiling so big. My family was complete. I noticed Norman took a picture of both of our newborns and posted a photo of their hands next to each other. "Today, Dec 25th, after about 9 hours of labor my son and daughter came into the world. They may have been born premature, but they are healthy. Mom is doing great, still in a little bit of pain. Please respect our privacy at this joyful time in our lives." I saw Norman pick up his phone and right away I knew who it was. "Yes, we'd love to meet with you guys. Feel free we're in room 15. Bye." - "Sean?" I asked. - "Yeah he's got his whole family and he wants to see our newest editions." I smiled. I heard a knock on the door and saw Sean sort of walk in sort of sneaking stance. "Hi." I heard him whisper. I watched as Mercy saw Charlie and she got off the bed and walked over and hugged him. I saw her try to get him to play with the toys we brought. "So, who do we have here?" I saw him pick up our daughter. "Faith Nicole Reedus." I said as I smiled. He was holding her, and Lauren put a small bag on the table. "How you feeling?" I heard her whisper. "I'm sore, more so than I was the first time around." Sean quietly passed Faith into his wife's arms. "Who is this handsome young man?" I heard him ask. "Look at the name tag." I heard Norman whisper. "Oh my- you guys didn't." I saw his wife sort of look at him weird. "Levi CONNOR Reedus?" I heard him say in a loud tone. "We decided it sounded alright to us." I heard Norman say. - "So does your son know yet?" I heard Sean ask. "I called him. I think his mom is on her way here." - "How long are you going to be here?" I heard Lauren ask me. - "I think they said 2 or 3 days. Faith was born with her cord wrapped around her neck and they had to try to get her to breathe. She's okay, but they want to monitor all 3 of us since they were born 3 months early." I saw her eyes drop to the baby in her arms. I noticed Mercy and Charlie playing together on the floor. I heard a knock on the door and saw the nurse walk in and offer to show me how to nurse both babies. Everybody left the room except for Mercy and Charlie who were busy playing in a corner. My daughter latched on and started nursing right away, on the other hand my son sort of had trouble. - "It's natural for one to just latch on and one to not want to or have trouble. If you have trouble you could bottle feed one, and try to switch it up halfway through." After a while, I let everybody back into the room. I handed Norman one baby and his mom the other baby. "Well we're going to let you guys relax. We're visiting for a week or two so..." I thanked them both for coming and saw Mercy say goodbye. I ended up falling asleep, and waking up to a screaming baby. "Wha-What's wrong?!" I looked over and my daughter crying. I noticed Norman was holding her. "Shh." He was trying to calm her down. "I just changed her." I offered to hold her and grabbed the sheet and covered myself as I nursed her. "She was hungry." I whispered. I looked over at my son just sleeping away. "He hasn't cried?" I asked shocked. "He did a little, but he fell back asleep." I looked over at his hand which had part of the blanket clinched in his little hand. I looked down at my side, which had Mercy laying next to me on the bed. I brushed her hair out of her face, and just smiled. "I have 3 wonderful kids now. Thank you." I looked at Norman, and quietly turned to Marianne and said "I have to thank you also for giving me such a wonderful husband and father to my kids. Thank you." I saw her smile. "You've given me 3 wonderful grandbabies between the two of you, so thank you." I saw Norman grab my hand and squeeze it. Faith fell asleep and I just held her and watched her sleep. I heard a knock on the door, and saw Helena stick her head in and Mingus quietly file in behind her. "Awe." We introduced them to our newest editions. The moment I handed Mingus his little brother was a moment I'll remember forever, he was just in amazement. I noticed Norman took a picture, knowing that we captured every moment we possibly could.
I stayed in the hospital for about 2 days, and everything was fine and they were going to release me. I looked down at my little bundled of joy tucked safely into their blankets. I saw my husband put them into their car seats, and then they both woke up. I saw him try and calm them both down. "What's wrong?" I asked worried. "I think they are just in a different environment, plus this cold air probably isn't helping." I turned and when I did I felt a sharp pain in my stomach. "You can't do that for a while, remember? I've got this. Don't worry." I heard him say. I just looked at Mercy in her carseat "Mommy?" I heard come out of her mouth. "Yes sweetie?" I saw her reach for my hand. I saw her look at her brother crying and she went and tried to calm him down. We finally got them to calm down, and headed home to start our memories. We arrived home and I couldn't keep my hands off of them both. I saw Mercy just stand in front of me and stomp her feet. "I wanna hold them!" I heard her say in an angry tone. "Okay sweetie come here." I put her into my lap and wrapped my arms around her and showed her how to hold her brother. I saw her look up at me with a smile on her face. "She sort of looks like daddy." I heard her say in a low tone. I smiled "Yeah he kinda does." I looked at Faith who was asleep right next to me. First thing that went through my mind when I saw her face was that she could pass as Mercy's twin. I saw Norman's mom walk over and just smile at me and Mercy. "Do you mind if I-" I saw her motion towards my side. "Of course not." I saw her pick her up and just smile. "Did you hear what Mercy told me?" I asked her. "No?" - I sort of laughed "She said that her brother looks just like her daddy." I saw her smile again. "Well, I'm telling you he looks just like Norman when he was a baby." I just smiled at her "I believe it." I saw Norman walk into the room and I just smiled at him. "Your daughter says her brother looks just like you." I saw Norman sit down next to me and look at the baby boy asleep in my arms. I let him hold our son and he just looked down at him and over at me. That was one thing I loved about my husband, we communicated by using our eyes when we couldn't find the words. I had my phone in my purse which was sitting near me on the floor and I took a picture of my husband with our son and Mercy looking at him. "We're home with our bundles of joys. My husband is already in love. Mercy is curious about her new siblings." I quickly took a picture of Norman's mom with our daughter. "My mother-in-law is loving her new grandchildren." We both made sure to not reveal their precious faces until we were ready. All of a sudden both of them started crying, and we changed them but they still kept crying. I motioned towards the bedroom, and Norman carried both babies into the bedroom and I followed. "Do you need my help?" I heard him ask. "Maybe can you just-" He sat behind me on the bed and I opened my top and bra and held one baby while he held the other one and put his head on my shoulder. "You know last pregnancy I wouldn't have let you do this." I laughed while he kissed my cheek. "I know. But you know me, I'm not going to look at this in any sexual way." I looked at him and just smiled. We sat there together until they both fell asleep. I fixed my clothes and carried my daughter out into the living room, and put her into her swing and buckled her in and Norman put our son into his swing and buckled him in and we just sat there. I looked at the presents under the tree and motioned to Norman and he started to pull the presents out and saw him give one to Mercy and she sat there and opened it and saw her eyes light up when she saw the play-doh play set. I noticed a few little tiny ones, and Norman told me he got some presents for Faith and Levi. I smiled, he was such a thoughtful dad and husband. I quickly went into the bedroom, and made sure that everything was in place and came out with a cute scrap book type thing, that me and Norman created so that his mom would always have photos of our kids. "Umm.. we made this. I know it's not much, but.." I started opening it and showed her the empty photo covers, we knew we wouldn't um get you photos of Levi and Faith before now, but we left room so you can put these empty ones so when we give you some, you can put them inside. "This.. This is so thoughtful. Thank you." I looked over at Mercy pushing her siblings, in their swings.
Later that night me and Norman changed our newest babies, and fed them, and we put them down on our bed to get pictures of them, for our friends who couldn't be with us. I noticed their lil hands were close together and I took a photo of their lil hands and posted it "Home with our newest bundles of joy. I'd like to introduce you to Levi Connor Reedus and Faith Nicole Reedus. Both of them have completed my heart, along with our daughter Mercy Monroe Reedus." I saw Norman take a picture of the two of them laying on the bed asleep. I saw Marianne walk in and just smile at the both of us basking over what we created. We asked if anything was wrong and she shook her head no. "Is it okay if Mercy sleeps in my room? I think she's pretty much stuck there." I picked up one of the babies and my husband picked up the other and we walked in and saw Mercy sprawled out in the floor with the suitcases open. I almost burst out laughing. "I'm.. I'm sorry. She-" - "No don't be. I know how curious kids are and its cute." I saw Norman pass Faith to his mom and pick Mercy up and put her on the bed. "She tends to spread out all over the bed. If she starts to be a problem wake one of us up and we'll put her in our bed." I saw her hug and kiss her newest grandbabies goodnight and me and Norman walked back into our room. We kissed both of them goodnight and placed them in their cribs. Me and Norman climbed into bed and I felt him wrap his arms around me. The next morning I woke up to Faith and Levi's lil hands and feet, on Instagram with the caption "Due to unforeseen circumstances I will NOT be able to attend the cruise set for Jan. I feel bad canceling this close, but I will be sending my love and I will have tons of goodies able for every single one of you who bought tickets. Plus, I will honor ANY photo or autograph tickets for a future convention. I'll post something more into detail about how that is going to work. I feel I have a duty to my wife and my kids, who were born 3 months premature and need around the clock care. As many of you may know my wonderful mother is willing to spend her personal time helping out, but I feel it is my duty as a father/husband to step up to the plate." I got out of bed and went up to Norman and asked if we could talk and he put our son in his swing and buckled him in and followed me to the bedroom. "What's up?" - "I've been thinking, if you want to go on this cruise you should be able to go." He just looked at me, and at the floor and then back up at me. "I need to be here. You've just had 2 newborns and 1 toddler I need to be here. If people feel like I'm a horrible person for being a parent and doing what a parent is supposed to do so be it. They'd talk even if I went. So I'm having them talk about me for a good reason."