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Chapter 50
Elizabeth was sitting on the bed with her legs folded under her. Jason was getting dressed. They were both off, and neither of their older children were home. Emily and Matt had shown up and declared they needed to practice. Since it was Saturday and gorgeous they had a full day of outdoor activities planned, they told the Morgans to expect their children home in time for bed. "So what shall we do with the day?" Elizabeth grinned at her hubby.
"I want to talk to you about something." Jason joined her on the bed stretching out next to her. She was in overalls and looked adorable. At twenty-four weeks she was thriving. The babies were right on track with their growth, and the last round of tests showed all three of them were healthy.
"What?" Elizabeth looked over at him.
"Your shower." Jason laughed at her pout. "I want to go shopping today for the registry."
She narrowed her eyes. "So your sister didn't just show up this morning?"
"Nope." Jason laughed harder. "Jake isn't ready to move to toddler bed yet, so we can't count on his crib. His stroller isn't big enough for the twins. A lot of the things he used when he was newborn were handed down from Cameron, which means they are over four years old. According to what I was reading they will not pass the new safety codes. So we need to go shopping, and while we can afford to get everything ourselves we are fortunate to have people who love us enough to want to give us gifts." He stopped and looked at her.
"I already decided to go shopping, but not for those reasons." Elizabeth admitted.
"Why did you change your mind?" Jason picked up her hand and kissed her knuckles.
"Something Matt said last month. He said how much fun Patrick had getting to pick things out, and I realized you missed that with Jake. I want you to experience everything." Elizabeth leaned over and kissed him. "So the sneak attack wasn't necessary."
"Babe, it was. Your shower is in four weeks. Folks need time to shop." Jason told her. "Put on your shoes we are going to the baby store, and I get to play with the pricing gun." He said gleefully.
"Men and their toys." Elizabeth said scooting to the edge of the mattress and standing up. She was in full waddle mode these days. She pushed her feet into her sneakers and let Jason tie them for her. When he was home this was one of Cameron's jobs. She had sneaker with Velcro too, and wore them as often as possible because doing this for her made her son happy.
"Behave and I'll let you zap a few barcodes." Jason really was looking forward to using the gun.
"Yeah right." Elizabeth laughed as they headed to the car.
At the store they took a seat and let a very perky 'stork's helper' set up the registry in the computer database. The young woman handed them a list of the must have items for any nursery, and then handed Jason the pricing gun. All set they hit the aisles. "Where to first?" He was ready to get zapping.
"The bathroom." Elizabeth said walking to the restroom. With her bladder empty she was ready to shop. "When I shopped for Cameron, and the few things I picked up for Jake, it was easier to go room by room. That way you don't miss anything."
"What about the list?" Jason held up the colorful paper.
"Most of that stuff you really don't need." As an experienced parent she knew a lot of those things were filler. "What room would you like to start with?"
"The nursery, since that is the most important." Jason suggested.
"We need a theme." Elizabeth said as they headed to that section. "Jake's was safari, and Cameron's was starry night." It had reminded her of her favorite bedtime story growing up. Instead of walking to the cribs, she went to bedding. "Looking at the blankets will show you what themes they have in stock." Since this was an upscale boutique Elizabeth bet they also had a catalog of available items. If Jason didn't see anything he liked then she would request it. "The theme dictates room colors as well, so keep that in mind."
Jason nodded as he looked at the offerings. Since he could see pictures clearer he wasn't going to have a problem with this. "Are they going to share a room?" He hadn't given that any thought.
"What does the research say?" Elizabeth asked trying not to smile.
"It depends on the site or book you read. Some say they should share a crib for the first few months, and then a room. Some say the same room but separate cribs next to each other. One site said same room, but different cribs on the opposite sides of the room. What do you think?"
"I would like them to each have their own space." Elizabeth told Jason. "We have the two rooms with the connecting door and I think they will work well as a nursery. If it doesn't work out we can always move a crib so that they are together."
"Two separate themes or one theme across the two rooms?" Jason wanted to know. They had to buy twice as many things anyway.
"I'm open to either idea." Elizabeth said looking at the comforters.
"What about these?" Jason found two sets he really liked. A masculine and feminine version of one theme.
Elizabeth looked in horror at what her husband was pointing too. The theme would be teddy bears, which was fine. What had her ready to say no, was that while one blanket was brown with white, camel, and dark brown panels adorned with bears in various poses, the second blanket was pink with white, camel, and brown panels and the aforementioned bears. Looking over at him she remembered telling Matt her daughter wouldn't be swimming in a sea of pink, hopefully she wasn't about to eat those words. "Do you really like those?"
"I do." Jason said nodding. "We should look at everything first just to be sure, but I like these. Cameron mentioned that babies should have teddy bears so I think he will like this too."
"Then let's get it." She wasn't going to argue with that. "You should always trust your instincts. I can paint teddy bears on the walls."
"Are you sure you like it?" Jason said pointing the price gun at the bar code. "I know how you feel about pink."
"She's a girl, pink is unavoidable, as long as her room doesn't look like a bottle of pepto exploded we will be fine." She assured him.
"Do we need curtains?" He saw the bears on several other items.
"It comes with window valances, but I plan to put white curtains in both rooms, that way as they grow we don't need to change out window treatments." Elizabeth did the same thing in both Cam and Jake's rooms. "Get extra sheets."
Jason happily zapped away. "What next?"
"Cribs, mattresses, changing tables, and dressers." She said moving over to inspect the offerings. The last three items were gotten pretty quickly, but the cribs were another matter altogether. After watching her husband rattle the first two Elizabeth decided to leave him to it, and look at gliders. She wanted two so that while she was feeding one baby, Jason could feed the other. She planned to breastfeed, but would need to pump as well to make sure her milk production kept up.
Elizabeth had moved onto strollers by the time he joined her. "Find a crib that passed muster?"
"I did, and ordered two. I also ordered two of the gliders you selected." Jason had made sure to keep checking on her while she shopped.
It didn't surprise her that he caught that. "I wanted it in dark brown."
"I know, I saw you with the fabric swatches." He grinned.
"Best husband ever." She said giving him a kiss. "This stroller is rated the highest."
"I like it because we can put the babies in facing each other." Jason said zapping the bar code. "It comes with car seats too."
"Yup." Elizabeth agreed.
They got a twin bassinet, a diaper bag in their theme, high chair, booster seats, and play items since it was all on that side of the store. On the other side they got all the necessary bath items, first aid items, and feeding items.
"We don't need to get any childproofing gear, because the house is already set up." Elizabeth checked that off the list.
"I'm going to have the company come out and do another walk through." Jason told her, it would make him feel better.
Elizabeth wouldn't argue. "We still need monitors." At not quite two Jake was still using his. Cameron stopped before they moved into the new house. She already knew which one Jason wanted. It would be the same system that Jake had, which was top of the line and extremely expensive. While their family had expendable cash, it felt wrong to ask them to foot this bill.
"We will get those today." Jason didn't feel anyone else needed to pay for his paranoia. He wanted systems with every safe guard known to man.
"That just leaves clothes." Elizabeth said grinning. Jason hated clothing shopping almost as much as she did. "Would you like me to call Diane, and see if she is free?"
"We are going to register for sleepers." Jason had a plan. "No matter what we ask for everyone will buy whatever they think is cute. So just let them have at it."
"Sounds good. Return the gun." Elizabeth thought he looked a bit sad at that. "I'm going to the bathroom. I will meet you over by the monitors."
"Sounds good." Jason said giving her a kiss and heading back the customer service area. That had been fun.
Back in the car Elizabeth pulled out her phone. "I'm going to send out a text message letting everyone know that they can start shopping. We can go online and see how fast it takes them to clear the registry." She was betting by tonight everything would be gone. "Are you looking forward to the shower?"
"I am." Jason said driving them into town. Elizabeth needed something to eat. "It's too early for lunch, but you need a snack what do the babies want?"
"Fruit salad." Elizabeth didn't even have to think about it. These babies for the most part had a love of fruit. Kiwi they didn't like, at all. "Let's go to Kelly's. Mike uses orange slices in his salad and that sounds really good."
"Call Milo." Jason said to the phone.
"Giambetti." Milo answered on the first ring. He knew what his boss had planned for the morning, and was on standby for when the shopping was done.
"We are headed to Kelly's." Jason told the guard.
"I'll meet you there." Milo said ending the call.
They walked into the diner to find Johnny and Maya already sitting at one table and Milo sitting at the one next to it. All three were typing on their phones, but the guard did look up and nod at Jason.
"Come join us." Maya said waving to her cousins.
"We don't want to intrude." Elizabeth figured Maya was on a break since she was in scrubs. Interns pretty much lived at the hospital that first year.
"I'm going to be leaving soon and you can keep Johnny out of trouble." Maya grinned.
"No one can keep Johnny out of trouble." Jason smirked as he held out a chair for Elizabeth.
"You need to register for more things." Johnny said ignoring Jason.
"Why?" Elizabeth said enjoying the smell of French fries, maybe she'd have some of them instead.
"Because everything is gone." Maya answered.
"That's not possible." Elizabeth said looking between the couple. "We just picked everything not quite an hour ago."
"The internet is a beautiful thing." Johnny said holding up his phone. The entire registry has been purchased. They had all pretty much just been waiting for Liz to register somewhere. "Are you planning for these kids to be naked? There are no clothes listed."
"There is no point in listing clothes." Jason nodded for the waitress to come over. "People will buy what they want." He shrugged as he ordered coffee.
Maya picked up her phone and started typing. "I'll send an email out letting everyone know that." She finished and her phone beeped. Laughing she looked at Elizabeth. "Diane has announced that she and Francis will be getting the clothes since they got to the registry too late."
"How big are the closets in those rooms?" Elizabeth asked her husband. The waitress was patiently waiting for her to make up her mind. "I'll have an order of fries, with Monterey jack cheese, gravy, onions, chili, and barbeque sauce. Plus two sides of orange slices and a side of peanut butter." The four people with Elizabeth just looked at her.
"Gravy?" Johnny said picking out the first of the things that didn't really belong.
"Could you get me a cola too?" Elizabeth asked her husband. "Yeah, gravy. I don't eat like this all the time." She explained.
"What is the peanut butter for?" Milo wanted to know.
"Dipping the fries in." Elizabeth said like it made perfect sense.
"I need to get back to the hospital." Maya wasn't even going to comment. "I'll see you later."
"Call when you get a break." Johnny requested before leaning in and kissing her.
"Come join us Milo." Elizabeth pointed to the now empty seat and the young guard did.
"Are you staying?" Jason asked his friend. They hadn't talked in a week or so, a visit would be nice.
"After she ordered that dish, of course." Johnny wanted to see her eat it.
"What did you get on the registry?" Elizabeth wanted to know.
"I'm not telling you." Johnny scoffed. "You have to wait until the shower."
"Were you shopping too?" Jason asked Milo. He'd been on his phone when they walked in.
Milo nodded. "Sabrina and I are going in on a gift together." Milo made good money and by going in on a gift Sabrina wouldn't have to put out a lot of cash. He could cover the bulk of the price.
"Thank you Milo, I didn't expect you to get anything." Elizabeth said blushing some.
"That was clear by the amount of things you registered for." Johnny said giving her a look. "I thought babies needed a lot of stuff. You didn't even ask for any books." Which surprised him.
"First babies need a lot of things." Elizabeth cleared up. "And the kids have an entire library of books already." Both Cameron and Jake had low bookshelves in their rooms as well as books on the shelves in the study downstairs. "Newborns don't do anything but eat, sleep, poop, and cry. We covered the items necessary for that."
"She shops like you do. You two are no fun." Johnny said frowning some as Liz's order arrived. She picked up a fry, a dipped it into the peanut butter before popping it into her mouth.
"Oh, that's good." She grinned. "Anyone want to try?" All three men shook their heads no. "Okay." Elizabeth said settling in to enjoy her meal.
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