Chapter 15: Climb Every Mountain
~ At the Detweiller Estate ~
( 4 months later )
" Your up bright and early, Elsa. " said Max.
" Your finally just getting up, Max. You were suppose to meet Georg at 10:00 so you could finish discussing the festival. " said Elsa.
" Don't remind me. " said Max.
" Well, then we might as well get a move on it. " said Elsa.
" Whose we? Your staying here, remember. " said Max.
" No, Max, darling. I'm going with. Anytime there's a reason to visit Georg and Maria, I intend to go and there's nothing to stop me. " said Elsa.
" Your in no condition to be walking that far, Elsa. " said Max.
" I appreciate the concern, darling. But it's not that far and I could use the exercise and the breathe of fresh air and not to mention the fact that your daughter is using my kidneys and every other body part as a soccer ball. " said Elsa.
" Since when have we establish the gender of the baby, Elsa. " laughed Max.
" Since I last went to the doctor and Maria and I finished the baby blankets, which you gentleman won't get till later. " said Elsa.
" a girl? We're going to have a little girl? " said Max, as his face lit up.
" Yes, Max. " said Elsa, as she was embraced by her husband.
~ At the Von Trapp Villa ~
" Georg, you will need to start getting up. You told Max you meet with him at 10. " said Maria.
" I'm up, darling. And you promised me, you would take it easy as your pregnancy progressed. " said Georg.
" And I have, Captain. " snickered Maria.
" Really, Fraulein? Last time I checked you were either out on the lake with Marta and Kurt, which is not something I would expect from someone in her 7 month of her pregnancy. " said Georg.
" Well, I don't see any reason for me to just sit on the terrace and knit all day, darling. Besides, I already accomplished that goal the other night when the girls and I finished sewing the baby blankets for the husbands. " said Maria.
Knock: Knock (downstairs)
" I suppose that is the Detweillers. " said Georg.
" I guess we better be getting downstairs then. " said Maria.
" Max, you look like you've been told a shocker but I see a smile on your face at the same time. " said Georg.
" Elsa must have told him the gender of the baby. " laughed Maria.
" You knew? " said Max.
" Of curse she knew. When we were working on the blankets we all told the genders of our babies. " said Elsa.
" Isn't that interesting to know. " said Georg, as he glanced over at his wife.
" You want to know don't you. " laughed Maria.
"Of course I do. " said Georg.
" Well. Open this box and find out. " said Maria as she handed her husband the box with the baby blanket in it.
Georg opened the box, and found a baby blanket, on it a baby name in the center in pink.
" What's this? " said a confused Georg.
" Well, Captain, Pink is for the gender in case you haven't figured that out and in the middle is the name of the baby. " smile Maria.
" A girl? " smiled Georg.
" Elizabeth Rose. smiled Maria.
" Max, you have one to. But you got too excited at the house, you didn't have time to open it. " laughed Elsa.
" Max, did you get a boy like you wanted? " said Georg.
" No. But it doesn't matter anymore because I'm just as lucky to be having a girl with Elsa. " said Max.
" Open it, Max. " said Elsa, as she watched her husband open the box.
" August Marie. I don't think we could have picked a better name, Elsa. " said Max.
" Baroness, Lisel and Rolf are here. " said Frau Schmidt.
" Thank you Frau Schmidt. " said Maria.
" Lisel, do you have something to tell as well? " said Georg.
" Mother and Elsa must have spilled the beans already. " laughed Lisel.
" It's a boy. " said Rolf with a smile on his face.
" Your finally going to get the boy you wanted, Georg. Just not the way you wanted. " laughed Max.
" It doesn't matter to me. As long as my family is happy, that's all that counts/ " said Georg.
" Name? " said Elsa,
" Jonathan George Grueber. " said Lisel.
" That's a wonderful name, Lisel. " said Maria.
" I wanted him to have part of father's name. " said Lisel.
" I say he definitely does. " said Maria
