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Over the month of May Amy and Ephram found a house on the edge of town and by the beginning of June were all moved in.
During the last week of June Amy started to get sick, or so she thought. Ephram finally convinced Amy to go to one of their dads to get checked out, but she would only go if he went too. When he made the appointment her dad was the only one with a spot open, so they ended up going to her dad and getting a big surprise.
After a long and question filled examination finally knew why Amy was sick. "I've got some good news for you. Hold on." Harold said as he left the room. A couple minutes later he came back accompanied by Ephram.
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"Amy you're pregnant." Harold said smiling at the idea of becoming a grandparent.
"Are you happy about this?" Amy said turning towards her husband.
"Yeah, I'm excited."
"Even though you're going to have two kids by the age of twenty one?"
"Yeah, I told you I liked the idea of having a big family. I never thought we'd actually have one, but it's exciting."
"Dad, are you happy about this?"
"Yeah, It'll be my first grandkid that's actually related to me by blood." Harold said not thinking about what he had just said. "Not that I'm not getting attached to Adam." he quickly added when he noticed the young couple's expressions.
"My dad and Delia are going to be so thrilled."
"I bet, well dad we'll see you tomorrow night for dinner. We have to get to class."
"See you tomorrow." Harold said as the couple left the room.
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When Ephram came to pick Adam up at his dad's after his class he was surprised to see that Delia wasn't teaching Adam anything. Not that Ephram minded he normally had to use the jaws of life to get them to stop the class work. When Delia founded out that Adam was going to be coming to stay with Ephram she signed up to take babysitting classes, so she could watch her nephew. At first Ephram was a little nervous about Delia watching Adam, but when he heard about the classes he agreed to give it a shot. Delia watched Adam everyday while Ephram was at work and was in the process of teaching him how to pull all the words he knew into sentences.
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"Hey, I've got great news." Ephram said as he came into his parent's kitchen and found them and Adam eating dinner. "Hey baby, looks like you're going to need a bath." he added seeing Adam covered in spaghetti sauce.
"Yeah, spaghetti was probably not a good idea. Sorry about that." Nina said handing Ephram a couple of napkins.
"That's okay, I had to give him a bath anyway." Ephram said as he started to clean Adam off.
"What's your great news?" his dad asked wetting a washcloth.
"oh, sorry. Amy's pregnant, we're going to have a baby!" as soon as Ephram said this Adam ran outside. "I'll be right back."
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Ephram went outside to talk to Adam, but as soon as he sat down next to him Adam ran back inside. When Andy saw Adam come in without Ephram he grabbed Ephram's jacket and went out to talk to him. "Here put this on or you'll freeze to death." Andy said handing Ephram his jacket and sitting down next to him. "I never got to tell you congratulations." Andy said hoping to lightening the mood.
"I can barely get along with Adam as it is, how am I going to handle another kid?" Ephram asked putting on the jacket.
"First of all, you're wonderful with Adam. Second of all, fathers and sons not getting along runs in the family, sorry about that. I know it's hard, but everything's going to be okay." his dad had defiantly gotten better at saying the right thing to make him feel better.
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Over the next month Hannah and Bright got married and were now on their honeymoon. When Adam came down with something the week after the wedding, Ephram got scared. "Just give him some cough medicine and he'll be fine." Amy said when she finally had enough of Ephram's panicking.
"It's not just a cough, he's dry heaving, clammy, and has a fever. I've never seen this before."
"He'll be fine, trust me."
"I do, I would just prefer it if one of our dad's were to look at him."
"Fine, looks like you got your dad's overprotective gene." Amy said her voice raising.
"What the hell does that mean?" Ephram asked keeping his voice down so he didn't wake Adam.
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"It means you never let that boy out of your sight because your afraid to leave him with your dad."
"I'm not afraid to leave him with my dad. My dad's one of the few people I'll trust with Adam." with that Ephram left the room. He knew he got the overprotective gene, but this wasn't being overprotective.
The next day Ephram took Adam to see his dad. "Dad, I don't know what's wrong with Adam."
"Alright, well let's just see if we can't figure it out okay?" his dad checked Adam's throat, temperature, and blood pressure and then turned to Ephram. "He just has a cold Ephram, he'll be fine. I would give him plenty of rest and fluids."
"I didn't need to come in did I?" Ephram felt bad because he and Amy were fighting because of the doctor appointment and Adam didn't even need it.
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"No, but I understand why you did. You're a new father, you've never had to take care of a sick kid before." his father answered as he looked through the medicine cabinet for one bottle in particular.
"I just overreacted. I can't believe I fought with Amy over this." Ephram said picking Adam up.
"Give him a dosage of this every four hours and go talk to your wife." his father said as he finally found the bottle he was looking for.
"Right, I'll talk to you later. Thanks dad." Ephram said grabbing the medicine and leaving.
Over the next few days Adam's fever went down and Hannah and Bright returned from their honeymoon and announced that they were trying for a baby.
In September Amy and Ephram went to make sure the baby was healthy and got a huge surprise.
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"They are both very healthy." Andy said sounding thrilled.
"Both? As in twins?" Amy and Ephram asked at the same time.
"That's right, you're having twins." Andy answered moving the ultrasound machine so Amy and Ephram could see. "You see, here's one and there's the other." Andy said pointing to both babies on the screen.
"Ephram we're having twins!" Any said grabbing Ephram's hand. "Your not happy about this are you?" Amy asked looking at the expression on Ephram's face.
"It's not that, I just… I don't know if we can handle three kids."
"We can handle anything as long as we're together." Amy said rubbing Ephram's hand.
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"Do you want to know the sexes?" Andy asked as Ephram and Amy started to kiss.
"No, we want to be surprised when they're born, right Ephram?"
"Yeah, since they're our first and everything."
"Most couples decide to be surprised with their first born. Your mother and I waited to find out with you."
"You did?"
"Yeah, we even had a female name picked out just incase."
"What was it?"
"Kayla Elizabeth."
"That's not as bad as I thought it'd be." Ephram said causing Andy to laugh.
"I'm personally glad you were a boy, especially since I already have a girl."
"I love you dad." Ephram said hugging Andy.
"I love you too. I can't believe that you're going to have twins."
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"Ephram, we better go or we'll be late for class." Amy said causing the two men to break their hug.
"You're right we will be." Ephram said looking at his watch. "We'll see you and Nina later." Ephram said as he and Amy left.
The weekend after the appointment was completely devoted to getting the nursery done. Since Amy and Ephram didn't know what they were having they choose yellow and green, so it would fit both boys and girls. They also picked out names that they actually agreed on, Joshua Nicklaus, Tyler James, Lillian Elizabeth, and Jennafer Ann Brown. With everything in place all Ephram and Amy needed was the twins.