"What're you doing up so early?" Mellie asked, rolling over when she realized that her husband was awake. It was a Sunday, and usually Fitz didn't get up as early on Sunday's, so she was slightly confused as to why he wasn't still sleeping.

Fitz wrapped his arm around his wife, pulling her closer to him. "I was just thinking." He told her, planting a small kiss on her forehead.

"About what?" Mellie asked, laying her head on his bare chest and looking up at him as best as she could.

He shrugged slightly and ran his fingers through his wife's soft brown hair. "Just us. And the kids. And how it wouldn't be the end of the world if we had another baby..." He suggested, knowing damn well what Mellie's response would be.

Mellie's head shot up and she looked at her husband like he was crazy, which, of course, he seemed like he was at the moment. She placed her hand on his forehead, searching for a fever or some reason as to why he would suggest something so unreasonable. "Fitzgerald." She said seriously, her eyes locking with his. "I have already carried and delivered five children. Isn't that enough?"

Fitz disagreed. "Karen's gone. She doesn't want anything to do with us, and at this point, I doubt she ever will. We technically only have three children, Mel..."

"Three children under the age of three." Mellie rebutted, shaking her head slightly. "Fitz, we're old. We're getting old and you're going to be nearly 70 by the time Teddy turns 18...I'll be 60." She shuddered at the thought of it. "I don't think it's a good idea. I think we have enough babies."

Fitz frowned, refusing to give up just yet. "One more baby isn't going to make that much of a difference, sweetheart..." He played with her hair as he spoke to her. "You love the twins, and you love Teddy."

"Of course I love them, honey, they're my children." Mellie responded and Fitz just nodded.

"I'm just saying...I think it'd be nice to have another baby. Before we get too old."

Mellie nodded and looked at Fitz for a moment. "You really want another one?" She asked him, and he just nodded. She wasn't too sure about the idea, but if it was want he wanted, truly wanted, she figured that she could warm up to it eventually. "Let's give it some time, okay? We'll make it a conversation in a few months or so. Bellamy and Ben aren't even a year old yet. Let's wait until we start missing the baby-stage of our children until we agree to get pregnant again." She kissed his lips slowly, and softly. "And besides...I want a few more months where I can drink at events. And whenever I damn well please." She grinned, and Fitz just laughed.

"America is going to think we're a couple of sex-crazed teenage-wanna-bes." He joked and Mellie giggled, nodding her head.

"I think they already know that about you, sweetheart." Mellie teased. They could joke about that now, at least to an extent. She still had some worry in the back of her mind, but she couldn't help that. Now that Olivia was back, and Fitz had the option to go back to her, but he didn't, that made Mellie really believe in their relationship and believe that Fitz was home to stay. But of course, sometimes, she found herself still worrying about it at some moments.

Fitz nodded and kissed the top of her head as their bedroom door opened. He looked over to see Teddy, who was holding Bellamy's baby blanket in his hand. "Mama." He said, looking at both of his parents as he tried to climb onto the bed. "Sissy wants yous." The toddler told her and Mellie nodded, kissing Fitz's cheek once more before getting out of the bed and picking up her son. She gave him a good-morning kiss and carried the little boy into the twins' nursery, smiling as she saw Bellamy standing up in her crib, her bottom lip puckering out as she held onto the top of the crib and bounced up and down.

"Good morning, beautiful girl." She set Teddy down on the ground and picked up the infant who was clearly a little more than excited to see her mother. "How did you know she wanted me?" Mellie asked Teddy, glancing down at him for a second.

"Cause shes said sos." He told her, not looking up from where he was on the floor. He had found a teddy bear from under the crib and was playing with it now, not paying much mind to his mother.

Mellie raised an eyebrow, about to ask another question. But she was interrupted by the baby in her arms squealing before yelling, "Mama!". The brunette quickly looked at her child, who repeated the word, and tears came to Mellie's eyes. "Teddy, go get daddy. Really quick." She told him, and the little boy got up and rushed to his parents' room. Mellie held her daughter close to her, kissing her head as it finally hit her why she was crying; her daughter had said her first word. And it was mama.

When Jerry and Karen were babies, they're first words weren't big deals to her. Jerry's had been 'dada', and Karen's had been 'banana', although it sounded a lot more like 'nana', when it came from a 7 month old's mouth. She hadn't even been there when they said their first words. Fitz was there when Jerry said his, of course, but the nanny was the only one that had heard Karen's first word. The situation was the same with Teddy. Mellie didn't even know what his first word was, now that she was thinking about it. She wondered if Fitz even knew. She knew that his second or third word was balloon. She had called to tell Fitz that but he was off with Olivia Pope when she did.

Fitz came in the room, followed by baby Teddy. He looked at Mellie and raised an eyebrow, unsure of why he was being summonded into his babies' room so quickly. Teddy didn't even give him the option to change. "Bellamy said mama." Mellie told him, smiling as she kissed the baby's cheek again. She giggled and Fitz quietly shushed her.

"Keep it down, little one." He told her, taking her from her mother's arms. "Bubba's sleeping. If you wake him up then you'll have to share all of your attention." Fitz teased, smiling as Bellamy reached up and grabbed Fitz's nose. The two of them laughed, and Mellie smiled as she watched her husband and daughter.

"Mamaaaa." Bells repeated, reaching her arms out toward her mother. Fitz kissed all over her face before handing her back to Mellie, his heart warming as he watched how good Mellie was with the baby. He had never seen this side of her with their other children, this was something new that he had only begun to see since they had the twins. Mellie was cooing over the infant and Fitz couldn't help but smile to himself. It was absolutely adorable, the way she acted with their children these days. Of course, he wished that she had always acted like this, with Karen, and with Jerry, and even with Teddy when he was first born. But he knew and understood exactly why she hadn't. She had good reasoning for it and he couldn't blame her for that. At least she was making up for it now.

"You sure you don't want to experience this two more times?" Fitz grinned as he whispered the words in Mellie's ear. She rolled her eyes slightly, smiling at his comment.

"Oh shut up."