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Chapter Four

Surprise!

"How about Marie?" Kate said as a suggestion for a name for one of her daughters, as she put a plate in the cabinet.

"No way!" Simon exclaimed.

"What it was just a suggestion," Kate said.

"That's is a suggestion that we will never make again," Simon said.

"Okay," Kate said. "I think we should sit down and make a list."

"Okay, but first I need to talk to you about something," Simon said, which got his wife's attention.

"What is it honey?" Kate said and Simon grabbed his wife's hands.

"This whole week I have been trying to find the money that we need in order to sell this house and move into a bigger one. It's just not in our budget to do that right now. We can't move. Not now at least," Simon explained to his wife.

"But we don't have enough room in this house for all of us and four more babies. We don't have enough room in any of our rooms for four cribs. What are we going to do?" Kate said as tears started to flood down her face.

Simon wiped the tears from Kate's face and then said, "I don't know Kate, but I'm sure that we'll figure out something. For now we can put two cribs in the nursery and then two kids can sleep in each crib. But I promise Kate we can do this because we love each other, you just have to have faith." Simon pulled his wife into a hug and then kissed the crown of her head. "I love you."

"I loghe yuoiug toafu," Kate said but it was inaudible to Simon because her words were muffled by her sobs and the fact that she had her face in Simon's chest.

"What?" Simon said and he laughed a little.

"I said, I love you," Kate said and she kissed her husband.

"Come on. Let's go pick out some names for our babies," Simon said and he grabbed his wife's hand they sat on the couch. Simon got a pad of paper, pen, and a baby name book and then they picked out names for their four new babies.

As Eric looked around his living room he was surprised at the number of gifts it contained. There were two white cribs, two light brown cribs, four cradles, four high chairs, four carseats, two toy boxes (that matched each set of cribs), two dressers and two changing tables, some toys, and some boxes that were wrapped that Eric guessed contained cloths, and other things that someone would need for four new babies. He went into the kitchen where he found his wife. Annie was making some lunch that would be eaten by everybody who came for Kate's baby shower.

"When are Simon and Kate getting here?" Eric asked.

"I told them to come at about twelve o'clock. All the other guests should be here by then," Annie explained. Just then the doorbell rang and Annie and Eric ran to the door. They answered it and found Lucy standing on the outside of the door, with a couple of presents in her hand. She greeted her parents and then put her presents in the living room. Then Lucy joined her mother in the kitchen.

"Kevin is at the house with the kids if you and Sam and David want to go there," Lucy said to Eric. "I think Peter and Simon and Eric are also going to be there."

"Okay," Eric said. He and Sam and David got their jackets on, said good-bye and then left the house. Ten minutes later Ruthie, Julie (Eric's sister). And some friends had arrived. Everyone was talking amongst themselves when the doorbell rang.

"I think that's Kate. Get ready to yell surprise," Annie said. She went to the door and once she opened it everyone yelled surprise. The only problem was that it wasn't Kate at the door. "You're not Kate…but it's really great to see you," Annie stepped away from the door so that Sarah and Mary could come into the house. "Where's the rest of your families?"

"They're at Lucy's house," Sarah explained. Both Mary and Sarah added their gifts to the pile and then they sat down with the rest of the guests. At about ten after twelve Kate and Simon knocked on the door.

Annie opened the door and everybody yelled, "Surprise!"

Kate with tears in her eyes said, "What are you trying to do? Make me go into labor early?" Everybody laughed at what Kate had said and then she said, "Thank you guys so much. I really appreciate everything you guys have done." A couple of minutes later Simon left with Alex to go to Lucy's house. All the women played a whole bunch of baby shower games while eating some delicious appetizers that were made by Annie. Then everyone gathered in the living room for lunch.

"Do you want to bring the kids to the park? They can burn some energy, without breaking anything in the house," Kevin suggested. Everyone agreed and so Kevin went into the playroom. There he found Sam, David, Zack, Maggie, Lizzy Rebecca, Tommy, Caleb, and Alex.

"Guys, go and get your jackets on. We're going to go to the park," Kevin said. all the kids put the toys they were playing with on the floor and then ran from the room. "What, Maggie do you know where the rest of your cousins are?"

"I think they went upstairs," Maggie responded and then she ran to the her father who was holding her jacket. Kevin went upstairs and into Noah, and Luke's room. He found Charlie, Connor, Grace, Luke, and Noah. He told them the same thing he told the littler kids and they all went downstairs.

"Wait, Noah why weren't you playing downstairs with the little kids?" Kevin asked.

"Because, they are little and boring," Noah explained.

"Oh," Kevin said and he picked up his son and brought him downstairs. Each of fathers and Peter were putting the smaller children in strollers and then they walked to the park.

"It's great how well the kids get along," Carlos commented.

"Yeah, it is," Matt said. "They're more like friends than family."

"It's too bad that they don't see each other that often," Kevin said.

"Well, I bet that in a couple of years we will all be living in Glen Oak or in a town that's really near it," Simon said.

"Yeah," Matt said. "And Peter, will be married to Ruthie and they'll have some kids." As he said this he patted Peter's back and then said, "once Sam and David get married and start to have kids, our family is going to be so big."

"Yeah that's true, but it's kinda hard to think of Sam and David getting married and having kids," Carlos said. "They are still so young." Just then Grace ran up to where her father, uncles, and grandfather were sitting. Her face tear-stained and her cheeks pink from running around in the cold.

"What's the matter Gracie?" Matt asked his daughter.

"I hurt my elbow," Grace said as tears flooded down her face and she lifted her arm so that everyone could see her bleeding cut.

"Come here," Matt said and Grace came towards him. Matt picked her up and placed her on his lap. He took out a napkin and wiped the blood way. "We'll clean it up when we get home. Okay?"

"But daddy, it still hurts," Grace said.

"Do you want me to kiss it to make it feel better?" Matt asked. Grace nodded and Matt kissed his only daughter's elbow. Then he wiped away her tears and said, "That better?"

"Yes daddy," Grace said. Then she hopped off Matt's lap and ran back to where the kids were playing.

"Present time!" Annie announced once everyone gathered back in the living room. "Now, all the bigger gifts like the cribs, car seats, etc. were paid for by everyone. Everything else is from each individual person," Annie explained to Kate.

"Okay," Kate said. She opened the large pile of presents that were next to the couch first. She got a lot of clothes, toys, bottles, pacifiers and everything else that you would need for a baby. Then she got up and looked at the other things that weren't wrapped. She found the gifts that were from everyone who was at the party. "Thank you guys so much!" Kate exclaimed. "I love it all and the babies appreciate it too. Thank you!" She went around to everyone and said thank you to them as tears spilled from her eyes. "I hate these stupid pregnancy hormones! I feel like I'm crying all the time!" Everyone laughed at what Kate had said and the people who had children remembered back to their pregnancy days.

"So did you and Simon pick a theme for the nursery yet?" Lucy asked Kate.

"Well, Simon and I were planning on moving to a bigger house but that doesn't seem possible right now. We had already picked themes for the boys' room and the girls' room but I don't think we'll be using both. We picked a barnyard theme for the boys' room. It has a lot of light blues, light greens, and light yellows in it. And for the girls' room we picked flower theme that hadwhitedaisies and is light blue. It's really cute," Kate beamed. She loved talking about the new babies and couldn't wait for them to be born. "We're going to be using the barnyard theme its not too girly or too boyish. You know."

"That's cute," Julie said.

"What color are you painting the room?" Annie asked.

"Simon and I already painted the nursery a light blue," Kate explained.

"It must be so exciting to be pregnant with quadruplets. I couldn't even imagine it," Mary thought out loud.

"Yeah it is and it's also really scary," Kate said. "I just hope I stay pregnant till at least my eighth month. This way the babies are healthy enough to go home pretty soon after they're born."

"Yeah I know that feeling," Lucy said. "Luckily the Noah and Luke were born only a week early."

A couple of seconds later Annie asked, "did you pick out names for the kids yet?"

"Well, yes. I don't know if I'm supposed to tell anyone yet but Simon didn't say I shouldn't so I guess its fine. Besides I'm dieing to tell someone," Faith said quickly. She waited a couple of seconds and then said, "We picked Hannah Meghan and Emma Noelle for the girls." Everyone told Kate that they loved the names and then Kate continued, "and we picked Andrew Eric and Kenneth Adam for the boys."

"Oh you're naming Andrew after Eric. Eric's going to love that!" Annie exclaimed.

"Yes but don't tell him. If you tell Dad the baby's names tell them say Andrew's middle name is…Joseph," Kate said pausing to think of a name.

"Okay," Annie responded. Everyone talked to each other for a little while until the guests started to leave.

"Do you think we're allowed to go back to the house yet?" Eric asked.

"Yeah, I think so," Simon said.

"Your mother told me to ask you guys over for dinner," Eric said to the men who were crowding in the living room. Everyone told Eric they could go. Then they rounded up the kids and helped them to get their jackets on. A couple of minutes later everyone piled into Simon, Matt, Eric, Peter and Carlos's cars. Kevin didn't want to bring another car to Annie and Eric's house because Lucy already had one there.

When all the men got to the house they found their wives and girlfriend in the living room. Noah, Luke, Lizzy, Grace, Zack, Charlie, Conner, Maggie, Rebecca, Alex, Sam and David all ran into the back yard to play while all the adults took their seats in the living room. Matt put the car seat carrier that held a sleeping Nolan in the corner of the room and joined his wife on the couch.

"The worst was being on bed rest when I had the twins. I hated not being able to move around. I gave Kevin such a hard time for those last two months. I'm surprised Kevin still wanted kids after that experience," Lucy said and everyone laughed a little.

"Come on you couldn't have been that bad," Kate, who wasn't dating Simon when Lucy was pregnant with Luke, and Noah, said.

"Yes she was," all the Camdens in the room exclaimed.

"I remember going over to the house when Lucy was on bed rest. Lucy would yell at Kevin all night because she had been sleeping all day.

"Yeah and Lucy would be yelling almost all day when I was at home. It was horrible," Kevin explained.

"I'm sorry about that honey," Lucy said and she kissed her husband's cheek.

"When I was pregnant with Maggie I was so sick," Mary said. "I had morning sickness through the whole pregnancy. I was almost always feeling sick.It was horrible."

"Yeah, that was," Carlos agreed with his wife. "I couldn't do anything for you. I felt helpless."

"Yeah. I was like that when I was pregnant with Simon. It was one of the worst feelings I've ever had," Annie explained. Everyone talked for a little while longer until Annie ordered pizza.

"Mommy look what happened," Grace said to Sarah and she showed her mother her hurt elbow. Now it had a band-aid on it, that Matt had put on when they got back to Lucy and Kevin's house.

"Oh no! How did you get that?" Sarah asked enthusiastically.

"I fell but its all better now. Daddy kissed it," Grace said sweetly.

"Oh, I'm glad," Sarah said and Grace ran out of the living room. Just then Nolan started to cry in his carrier. "I think its time for Nolan's dinner. Can I feed him in one of the bedrooms upstairs?" Sarah asked Eric. Eric nodded his head yes and Sarah went upstairs with her youngest son and a blanket. She decided to feed Nolan in Sam and David's old room (they now slept in the attic). She sat on the rocking chair that was in the corner of the room and unbuttoned her shirt. She fed Nolan and then re-buttoned her shirt. When she looked up she saw her husband standing in the doorway.

"Oh hi honey," Sarah said. "How long have you been standing there?"

"A couple of minutes," Matt explained. "I didn't want to disturb you or our son." Matt took Nolan from his wife and then kissed her. "I love you," Matt told his wife."

"I love you too," Sarah said and she gave her husband a quick kiss on the lips.

"I think that the pizza is here," Matt said and he and his wife walked hand-in-hand downstairs. When they got there they joined the rest of the family in the dining room. They took their seats and Eric said grace.

"Dear God bless our growing family. Keep us sage and healthy. And God, please let all of us know of the love that surrounds us all. Amen."

"Amen," everyone repeated and then they all started eating.

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