Chapter 25: Ari Turns 6
The months passed by quickly and in no time Ariana's 6th birthday had arrived. This year Mitchie had offered to take care of the birthday party they were going to hold since Alex was now nearly 7 months pregnant (yes I skipped a crap load, sorry). Like with Ariana, Alex pondered on whether to not to find out the gender of the baby, and eventually both Alex and Mitchie decided to find out what they were going to have.
Flashback
"Alex, we have to go" Mitchie said from the other side of the door. It was near the end February and Mitchie and Alex were going to their appointment that morning to find out the gender of the baby after much deliberation about whether or not they wanted to find out.
"I'll be out in a minute" Alex replied. She was debating on whether to wear her grey t-shirt and skinny jeans or her sweats and one of her old pull over's. Finally she decided to wear her skinny jeans and grey shirt but when she tried to step into her jeans, she couldn't get into them. She tried a few more times but nothing would work. So she threw them aside and pulled on her sweats and Grey t-shirt. She got downstairs and Mitchie noticed Alex's sweats.
"I thought you were going to wear your skinny jeans" Mitchie said a little confused.
"I Cant get in to them anymore" Alex pouted.
"Hey, don't worry about it. You knew it was going to happen" Mitchie said giving Alex a quick kiss before they headed out the door and dropped off Ariana at Alison and Chase's house before they made their way over to the hospital.
"Alex Russo." A familiar voice called out." The two girls laced fingers as they headed into the exam room.
"Hello Alex, Mitchie good to see you again" Dr. Robbins smiled as they entered the examination room.
"Good to see you too" Alex said as she got up onto the bed.
"So you're now…16 weeks am I right?" Dr. Robbins asked, Alex nodded.
"Well lets see how this baby's doing" Dr. Robbins said as she hooked up the ultrasound Machine and turned it on. Alex quickly changed into a hospital gown and lay down on the bed. As Dr. Robbins put the gel onto Alex stomach and placed the wand on her stomach, a blurry image filled the ultrasound machine's screen.
"Well there's your baby." Dr. Robbins said as she froze the screen a couple times so Alex and Mitchie could see.
"Now were you thinking about finding out the gender again?" Dr. Robbin's asked. Without hesitation the girls nodded. As Dr. Robbins looked at the screen and froze it once again.
"Congratulations, looks like you'll be having a baby boy."
*End flashback*
The girls were excited that they would have their daughter and a little boy, mostly because both girls wanted one of each. When they got home and told Ariana that the baby was going to be a boy she looked at her mothers and asked if the stork could bring her a sister instead of a brother, which in turn made the two girls chuckle and told her that she would have a baby brother in a few months. Now that May had approached Ariana's birthday had arrived, and to her dismay, it was occurring on a Tuesday which meant she would be spending her birthday at school. That morning after finishing breakfast Ariana reluctantly got ready for school and as she got ready to head out to the bus she let out a huff.
"Mama, do I have to go to school on my birthday?" Ariana asked as she put her bag over her shoulder as the bus came around the corner.
"Yes honey, you do." Alex said as she leaned over the best she could and gave her daughter a kiss goodbye (Mitchie offered several times to bring Ariana to the bus stop but Alex insisted she would still do it even as she "waddled like a penguin" as she put it).
"Now have a good day, I'll see you when you get home." Alex said as the bus doors opened and Ariana climbed on.
"Happy birthday Ari!" Chelsie said as she gave Ariana a hug.
"Thanks." The little girl smiled. The bus pulled up outside Tribeca Elementary Ariana, Chelsie and Everlie headed out onto the play ground and waited for the morning bell to ring.
"Oh, here's your invitations guys." Ariana said as she dug into her bag and pulled out three of the envelopes from her bag and handed them to the girls.
"This year we're going swimming then a pizza party!" Ariana exclaimed. As the girls raved over the party plans the bell rang and everyone headed into class and the announcements began.
"Good morning everyone, today is Tuesday May 3rd 2016 and today is Ariana Russo's birthday. Happy Birthday Ariana." The principal said. As the kindergarten class all wished their classmate a happy birthday the little girl only grinned at the attention she was getting. After the announcements were done the principal came in and brought Ariana her birthday book(the schools present to the birthday boy girl), which was Boomers Big Surprise, and the entire class sang her happy birthday as the principal left and headed back to his office. As the day went on Ariana found being at school on her birthday wasn't actually that bad. A lot of people wished her a happy birthday and the teacher even named her helper for the day since it was her birthday. By the time 12 had hit and Ariana had arrived home she went on All afternoon as Alex worked on her sketches for work about how her day had been at school even though she didn't want to be there for her birthday at first. Later that week when Saturday had arrived Ariana was up early that morning for her birthday party and got all of her stuff packed up 3 hours earlier than the party.
"Ari, we don't leave for a couple hours sweetie." Alex said as she saw her daughter put her swimming bag by the front door.
"You still have a while to wait."
With a dramatic sigh the 6 year old sat on the couch and Alex saw that Mitchie was running around frantically trying to get everything together. As Mitchie went into their bedroom to grab their swimming stuff Alex started packing some of the stuff into the bag Mitchie had set on the table.
"Lex, I told you I got it." Mitchie assured her wife as Alex kept trying to help Mitchie with getting stuff ready for the party.
"You just relax and I got the rest."
"But I wanna do something, its boring not doing stuff. I'm pregnant not handicapped." Alex said as she mumbled the last part.
" I know but I just wanna make sure you and the baby are okay." Mitchie said as she gave Alex a kiss. Alex softened a bit with the kiss and the 3 girls headed off to the pool a little while later. As soon as all the guests had arrived the pool all the guests were having a ball swimming around at the pool.
"Mama watch!" Ariana cried as she got ready to jump off the lowest diving board.
"I'm watching honey." Alex said as she watched her daughter launch herself off the diving board. With a shriek and a giggle Ariana landed in the water and rose to the surface a few seconds later.
"Good job honey." Alex smiled as Ariana climbed to the side of the pool to go and jump off the diving board again.
"Having fun?" Mitchie asked as she sat With Alex on the chair and wrapped her arms around her.
"Oh tons." Alex giggled sarcastically as she leaned back into her wife.
"Glad to hear it." Mitchie smiled. As the two girls watched the group of kid's splash around they sat in each other's arms contently on the pool side.
"So you think of any names yet?" Mitchie asked as she rubbed circles on Alex's pregnant belly. For the last week they had both been writing down names for their future son but they hadn't shared their lists with each other.
"A few. I like Nicholas, Tyler, Trenton and Nolan." Alex commented.
"How about Kaden or Kendal?" Mitchie asked.
"I like those. Oh and Liam and Connor." Alex replied. The girls sat there for the next few minutes watching the kids and thinking of different names. At around 2:30 the pizza had arrived and all the kids raced to the tables by the poolside and grabbed a slice of pizza.
"Mama, you want a piece?" Ariana asked as she handed Alex a plate with a piece of pizza.
"Thank you honey." Alex smiled as she gave her daughter a kiss.
"You're welcome." Ariana smiled as she went to grab her own piece of pizza. For the next twenty minutes the kids were quiet as they ate and talked amongst themselves untill all the pizza was gone.
"Okay everyone, were going to play freeze dance. Everyone find a spot on the deck and we'll get started Mitchie said as she took out the I pod deck from her bag and started her ipod.
why would you rather be
anywhere else with me
I tell ya man its all right here
Check out the scenery
We won the lottery
The kids danced around the deck until Mitchie stopped the music and all the kids froze in spot.
" Everlie, you won that round." Mitchie announced as the little girl shrieked happily and picked out her prize.
"Okay lets keep going."
I tell ya man its all right here.
And I cant believe you'd even think
Of being anyplace, anyplace but right here
The grass maybe greener in the end I swear
But you'll be wishing you were here if you were there
Wherever we are, wherever we are
The music stopped again and every one stopped.
"Meghan you win!" Mitchie said as she passed Meghan her prize. The game went on until everyone had won a prize then it was time for Ariana to open her presents. Again, Ariana used the bottle method to pick out what presents she would open and of course by the time present opening was done she had a whole bunch of toys and clothes.
"Okay everyone time for cake." Mitchie said as the kids gathered around the table as Mitchie lit the candles and everyone began to sing.
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday Ariana
Happy Birthday to you
With a huge breath Ariana blew out the candles on her cake as everyone clapped while Mitchie took the cake away and gave everyone a piece which of course resulted in very hyper children.
"Race you down the water slides!" Ariana shrieked happily as she and Meghan ran up to the two waterslides to race.
"Something tells me that the thick icing on the cake was a bad idea." Mitchie said as she sat back down with her wife.
"It'll be like Halloween last year all over again." Alex giggled. As Mitchie thought back to Halloween night she cringed.
"Yeah definitely a bad idea." Mitchie replied. Finally an hour later all the kids had burned off their energy and after giving them their loot bags they all headed home and Alex, Mitchie and Ariana headed back home.
"You have fun baby?" Alex asked as she looked in the rear view mirror at her daughter in the back seat.
"Yeah, I beat Meghan and Everlie twice on the water slides!" Ariana said with a huge smile on her face. As they pulled up to the house Ariana grabbed some of the left over party stuff while Mitchie grabbed the rest. For the rest of the afternoon the girls rested untill Mitchie and Alex's parents joined them for dinner to celebrate. As Ari blew out the candle on her smaller cake Alex asked her daughter what she had wished for.
"A sister." Ariana replied. Alex just giggled and rolled her eyes. Her daughter was never gunna give up that one.
Sorry this is so late in the night. My bad for trying to watch GLEE and write at the same time haha
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