I know, it's been awhile

The day before the twins' birth

Amy woke up to a swift kick in her bladder. Before she fully opened her eyes, she felt another kick. "I get it. I'm up" she mumbled. She pushed herself into a sitting position to get off the bed. She made her way as quickly as possible to the bathroom to relieve herself.

Just before she left, she looked at herself in the mirror. Everything about her was just bigger. Her cheeks puffed out slightly with the weight gain. Her breast had almost tripled in size. Something that she didn't like but Sheldon seemed to enjoy, that he pointed out the last time they made love.

Her stomach had grown to epic proportions. Her borrowed pajama shirt from Sheldon, barely fit anymore leaving a small part of her lower stomach exposed. The buttons at the front were almost popping off from the strain from her growing stomach.

One thing she would not miss about pregnancy, besides the waking up in the middle of the night and lower back pain, was the itchy skin on her stomach. Her skin had seemed to stretch to its max, as evident by the angry, red stretch marks that came from her side and lower stomach. She was so glad they agreed to the membrane sweep on Friday, she wasn't too sure how much more of this she could take.

"Can I go back to sleep?" she whispered looking down and placing a hand on her stomach. She felt a kick and movement almost as if they were fighting. "I guess tv then" she muttered before turning off the light and leaving the bathroom.

Making her way down the stairs in the dark should have been a tedious task, but she mastered the art of it in the past months. Sheldon told her multiple times to turn on the light, but she didn't want to wake him up. "Should we get a snack?" she asked as she reached the bottom of the stairs. Two sets of kicks on either side of her stomach gave her the answer. "Okay" she chuckled before waddling off to the kitchen.

That was another thing she was uncomfortable with. Ever since her stomach dropped, as Penny had put it, a few days ago her waddle became more evident. Something Sheldon was all too happy to point out.

"Let's go to bed Sheldon" she said tugging on his arm to pull him out from the nursey. Every week he and the guys bought some new device to put in there and he was adamant about testing it out

"You go on. I'll be there in a minute" he said kissing her cheek.

She turned to leave, but stopped when she heard him chuckle. "What's so funny?"

"N-nothing. You go to bed"

She eyed him suspiciously before turning to leave again. She made it about three steps before his chuckle turned into a full belly laugh.

"What are you laughing?" she asked

"I'm sorry. Your walking… I mean I know you can't help it" he had to stop to take deep breaths to try to stop his laughter. His laughing came to a sudden stop when he looked up and saw tears pooling in her eyes.

"Amy, no. I didn't mean it in a bad way"

But she already left the room. He lowered his head when he heard the bedroom door slam. He sighed; he was really screwed now. He knocked on the door, "Amy, darlin' I'm sorry. Can you open the door?" he begged as he heard her sob inside

Sheldon rolled over in bed and sighed when he didn't feel his wife. He noticed that the bathroom light was off, so at least she wasn't in there. 'I hope she's not cleaning that nursery again' he thought as he made his way into the hall. The hallway as well as the nursery was dark. "Tv" he muttered as he made his way downstairs.

If she didn't nap during the day, he would really be concerned about the amount of rest she was getting. She was always up for long stretches at night, especially these past few weeks. Either she needed to use the bathroom, or the twins' movement were keeping her up or as of late she had to clean somewhere.

He found her in the living room with the tv as the only source of light, eating something from a bowl at her side. "What is that?" he asked coming to sit next to her.

"Popcorn"

He peered in the bowl, "And?"

"Pretzels"

"And?"

She looked at him sheepishly, "Marshmallow fluff and hot sauce"

"How did you even find it?" he asked rubbing his forehead

"I found it. You didn't hide it very well" she held out a handful of her creation, "You want some?"

He shook his head. Personally, he thought that fluff had too much sugar, and he was the guy who once drank Coke through a red vine. But Amy couldn't seem to get enough of it. He tried to hide it so he could control the amount she ate, but his plan clearly wasn't working.

She shifted towards the end of the couch to try to raise herself up. Sheldon got up and grabbed the bowl, "I got it. You could sit and relax"

She held up her sticky hand, "I have to wash my hand anyway, but thank you"

He offered his hand to help her off the couch and the they made their way to the kitchen.

"What woke you up?" he asked as he finished washing the bowl

"Bathroom and they were moving a lot" she said rubbing circles on her stomach

"Are they still moving?" he asked stepping closer to her

"Yeah" she sighed, "I thought they would have calmed down by now, but I guess a bowl of sugar and hot sauce didn't help"

"Let me try" he said undoing the last set of buttons. He placed a hand on her stomach and his mouth as close as possible to her skin, "It's time for bed now. Mommy's really tired" he reeled back when one of the kick from the twins hit him.

"Ow. They hit me" he said rubbing his lip

Amy laughed, " I guess they don't want to sleep"

He leaned back down but kept a considerable distance, "Whichever one of you did that will be punished. But for now you have to stop moving, so that way mommy could sleep and that way I could sleep." He frowned when he still felt movement, "If you behave, I might read a story" he smiled as the movement slowly ceased

He stood up to look at her, "See?" he said before leaning over to kiss her. The kiss deepened after a few seconds before Amy pulled away

"Mmm. As much as I love what we're doing, we should stop"

"Why?"

"Let's face it Sheldon, I'm really big now" she said rubbing her still exposed stomach, "And it's going to be really difficult"

"That didn't stop us two weeks ago. Also we have that book Penny gave us" he said moving behind her to get better access to kiss her neck.

Amy didn't have anymore logical arguments, "Fine" she sighed

Sheldon smiled and took her hand and walked back to their bedroom

He leaned down to her stomach once last time, "Mommy and daddy are about to have some fun, so try to stay asleep"

Amy laughed as Sheldon took off his shirt.