I posted this chapter at the same time as "for Readers" note. Somehow this didn't go up. I apologize if anything got spoiled for readers!
Almost Two Down, Two to Go!
Maybe it was just her but Calleigh never understood exactly why people told couples who had a daughter and a son they had a "set." Maybe it were because most people consider a family with 2 children, a son and daughter to be perfect, complete. Wrong for her and Eric. Call them 'rebels' but they wanted a big family, or bigger one, they wanted four children. Just one day after Jake was found guilty of all charges Calleigh had her second ultrasound. She and Eric gone back and forth and decided to find the gender of their unborn baby.
A boy.
They were both thrilled but they had little time to revel in the joy immediately. The couple had had to wait longer than expected, over an hour to be exact. They had time to give each other an "I love you" kiss and they had to rush back to the lab to work on separate cases. As before they both had prints of the ultrasound, this print had I'm a boy! With an arrow printed on it. They had a copy for Chloe as well but on her print it said printed on the top was "your little brother."
"What's all the smiling about?" Natalia asked Calleigh. "Eric's the same way. I just saw him in QD."
"I had another ultrasound," Calleigh said, not being to stop smiling, passing the printout to her co-worker.
"A little boy! Congratulations, Cal. That's great," Natalia said. "You guys must be thrilled."
Calleigh nodded, "yep."
"Dat's my budder?" Chloe said, looking at the print.
Her parents had given it to after dinner that day when they got home. Seeing how their son 'looked like a baby' the two planned to take Chloe to her mother's doctor's appointment next month. It didn't take long for the parents-to-be to name their unborn boy. They already decided or rather Calleigh convinced her husband that their son and him should share the same middle name, Demitri. The short list of first names they had picked out for a boy was quickly narrowed to one, Ethan. Although they didn't 'finalize' that yet or start to referring to the unborn baby by name being they just might came across another they wanted for him before he was born but his middle name was going to be Demitri, regardless of his first name. Knowing it may change, they kept the baby's name a secret, even from Chloe.
"Yep. That's him," Eric said.
"Next time daddy and I go to the doctor, you can come with us, if you want," Calleigh told her daughter.
Neither parent wanted to force Chloe to do this if she didn't want to.
"Yeah!" Chloe said.