Tim got to the hospital early the next morning and went straight to see Jill. He had brought her two dozen red roses, a dozen for each baby. When she saw the flowers she thought back to the other times he had come to the hospital with flowers like that, each time she had one of their boys she got a dozen roses. She looked good for just having major surgery the day before, so good that they were going to move her back down to the postpartum floor where she would be closer to the babies. She told Tim that they needed to come up with names for their newest additions. Tim said, "I have been thinking about that as well." Jill said, "Well what have you come up with?" Tim said, "I thought maybe I could name the boy and you could name the girl." Jill looked at him smiling and said, "I think I need to hear the names before I give you permission to name our son." Tim laughed and said, "Come on Jill, trust me." Jill said, "I trusted you. That is what got us here remember." Tim said, "Oh yeah. This is different it's not like I am going to name my kid Gomer or something." Jill said, "I would hope not." They were both laughing and it felt good, it had been so long since they felt they could joke around. Jill continued, "Anyway for the girl I was thinking Olivia." Tim said the name to himself a couple times and then said to Jill, "I like it. How about Jacob for the boy?" After saying it to herself Jill said, "I like it. So it is settled Olivia and Jacob." After that discussion the nurses moved Jill down to her new room.
Once she was settled she begged her new nurse to let her go and see her babies. Tim promised she would stay in the wheelchair and come back at the slightest sign of a problem. The nurse agreed and off the Taylor's went to see their babies, Jill was so excited she was going to see them for the first time.
When they got into the ICN the babies had been moved from warmers to isolettes, which was a good thing. The nurses were glad they finally had names for their newest little patients. Jill was shocked by how small they looked in real life, they looked small in the pictures but now seeing them in person they looked even smaller. The nurse encouraged her to hold Jacob but Jill didn't think she was ready to do that but with some prodding from Tim she tried. When the nurse placed his little body in her arms she fell in love instantly and never wanted to be away from him, the same went for Olivia when she held her for the first time after Jacob. Tim could see the look of contentment on his wife's face and he bent down and kissed the top of her head. When it was time for her to go back to her room Tim had to pry her hands off the babies' isolettes but she knew she had to rest herself.
Over the next six weeks the babies were kept in the ICN to learn how to eat and grow. Jill was at the hospital all day every day because she couldn't stand the thought of being away from her babies. The nurses were impressed with the amount of time she was spending with the babies and the week before they were scheduled for discharge they pulled Tim aside and told him to take her out for a romantic dinner and dancing. All the nurses had become fond of Jill because she was such an easy going person to be around and she always did whatever was best for her babies. And that is all the nurses wanted, whatever is best for the babies. So they all thought she deserved one last special night before the babies came home. Tim agreed and decided he would do something special for her the next night.
The next morning Tim told Jill to meet him at home that night at 5pm because they were going to be having a celebratory dinner. Jill said, "And what are we celebrating." He pulled her into his arms and said, "The birth of our newest son and our first daughter. The recovery of their beautiful, wonderful, intelligent, and sexy mother. The completion of our family. And the return of things to normalcy." Jill said, "Oh all that. Well then how can I refuse." She kissed him passionately. When they separated and he walked to the door to leave for work he let out a large grunt. She laughed at him because she hadn't heard him do that in a long time. Yes, she thought to herself things are getting back to normal.
She arrived at the hospital to visit with her babies and was greeted by the sll the nurses smiling at her. She thought now what do they have going on, but her focus was on getting to her babies. Jacob was awake and fussing when she got over to his crib, she picked him up and immediately he quieted down. Then Olivia started fussing, the nurse came over and handed Olivia to Jill to hold in her other arm, she too immediately quieted down as soon as she was in her mother's arms. Jill sat there and looked at her two beautiful babies and thanked God for letting them all come through this without harm. The nurse stood and watched for a while then asked if Jill if she would like to try and breastfeed them together this time. Jill looked at her like she was crazy but the nurse said, "It is perfectly normal to tandem feed twins. You will want to be doing that at the 2am feeding. Trust me." Jill laughed and thought she is probably right. So she striped down and tried to feed them together, it was going quite well too. She knew she was extremely lucky to have two healthy preterm babies and to have them learn to breastfeed so easy. There were a lot of other moms in the unit who she had gotten to know whose babies were having a harder time with things. She closed her eyes and was surprised when she heard Tim say, "Wow wouldn't I like to be one of them right now." She shyly looked at him and said, "Maybe later." Tim let out a small grunt, then bent down and kissed the babies heads and Jill's lips. He asked, "And how are my little spark plugs?" With a big smile Jill says, "They are doing well. Looks like they are going to get to come home next week." Tim is very excited about them coming home because he has finished their nursery, which he hasn't even let Jill see. He did everything himself for a surprise for her. She had let him go with it because she knew how much this meant to him. She was a little excited to see how it was going to turn out because she has been listening to the banging for the last two months.
The babies had finished eating and Tim held them until they fell asleep. When they put them down they placed them together in one crib, they seemed to like being with each other. Both Tim and Jill knew that wouldn't last forever before they knew it they would be fighting with each other just like the older boys. They sat there holding hands and watching them sleep until it was time for them to go home and get ready for dinner. The nurses all knew what Tim had planned and smiled to Jill as they were leaving. They told her to have a wonderful time tonight and not to worry about the babies they would take good care of them. As she drove home she wondered what the nurses knew and what Tim had in store for her.