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Chapter 26

EPOV

I sighed with relief as I pulled my car into the empty spot in the driveway. All of the others' cars were already parked in the driveway and on the street. "Thank God we are home, do you want to take his whole car seat in or just take him out of it?" Bella asked from the backseat groggily because she was still trying to wake up.

I shrugged my shoulders. "Doesn't matter to me, baby, whatever's easiest." I said as I climbed from the car, opening her back door. We had to stop a few hours ago to let her get in the backseat with Gavyn when he awoke from his nap.

She pushed the button to release his car seat from the base before climbing from the car. "Probably easiest to take the whole thing in." She said as she pulled it from the car with a gently snoozing Gavyn inside.

I laughed. "Alice called while you were asleep and said they unloaded all the vehicles and put everything away for us since we had such a long road trip with the baby." I explained to her as I took Gavyn's carrier from her so she could grab his diaper bag.

"That was nice of them. I'm surprised they aren't bum rushing us right now." Bella said laughing as she shouldered Gavyn's diaper bag and our bags that were in the backseat.

I nodded in agreement just as Carlisle and Esme pulled in behind us. "I bet they are all waiting anxiously just inside the door. I bet we won't see Gavyn until he smells up his diaper again." I told her as I sat Gavyn's car seat on the hood of my car to wait on Esme and Carlisle to get out of Bella's car so we could all go inside together.

"I see everybody did as I told them to." Esme said as she walked up to us, looking tired but excited. "How did the little one do on the rest of the road trip?" she asked reaching down to tickle his feet to wake him up. He scrunched up his nose as he blinked open his eyes at her in irritation. He had been changed into a onesie with his legs exposed with little green socks on his feet and his frog hat still on his head.

I laughed. "He threw a fit until Bella changed his outfit, I guess he was too hot in that sleeper." I told them as I picked up the car seat so we could all head inside. "Is this all your doing?" I asked as I opened the door to head into the house.

Esme laughed and walked ahead of me into the house. "Absolutely. I know we are all exhausted and don't feel like being bombarded as soon as we pull into the driveway." She explained as we all headed down the hall to where we could hear the TV playing in the background.

"We're home!" Carlisle said as we stepped into view.

Alice immediately jumped up wrapping herself around Bella. "I'm so glad you made it!" She said excitedly.

Rose waddled herself to me and snatched away the carrier. "Let me see the handsome boy." She said as she carried the car seat over to the ottoman.

We spent the next hour watching our son being passed from person to person until we could no longer hold our yawns in and Gavyn was officially cranky. "Okay, guys, we're gonna go up and catch us a nap." I told everybody as I reached for Gavyn who was resting in Emmett's arms. "Come on, buddy, let's go check out your room." I told him as I held him against my chest.

"You're taking the little dude too? I was just getting used to holding him and he wasn't complaining this time." Emmett said crossing his arms over his chest like a petulant child.

Bella laughed. "Your own child will be here in a few months, you are not using mine to practice on in the meantime. Go get you a damn baby doll." She said as she headed upstairs while a gaping mouthed Emmett just stared at her disappearing back.

I followed after her as Esme and Carlisle headed into the lower level where the chairs in the 'movie area' folded out into twin sized beds. They had both said on spring break that they could both sleep comfortably on one and that it reminded them of Carlisle's intern days.

I laid Gavyn down on his change table, unsnapping his little onesie and gently tugging it over his head to get him changed into a footy sleeper since we were now inside in the air conditioning. "Is my boy tired?" I asked him as I tugged his socks off before unfastening his tiny diaper.

He just stared at me with a wide eyed expression. I knew he couldn't make me out and he had never heard my voice before yesterday but he just stared contently as I went about changing his diaper before turning him over to Bella to get dressed.

Once he was dressed in a fresh pair of jammies, Bella and I sat side by side in the double rocker to feed him. "He eats a lot to be so tiny." I whispered as he drained the tiny six ounce bottle of premixed formula from the hospital.

Bella chuckled. "He's a growing boy, daddy. You want to burp him?"

I nodded and laid the burp cloth over my shoulder like the nurses had shown me before we left the hospital and gently rested him against my shoulder patting his back firmly but not hard enough to hurt him. It wasn't long and he let out a grown man size burp before sighing gently. "I think it's bed time for the little one." I said as I stood up to go lay him down in his bed.

Bella turned on the little music player that was attached to the side of his crib, we had downloaded some recordings of me playing the piano when we had been here for spring break. It was a good way to introduce him to the piano so he wouldn't be scared when I played it while he was downstairs. I wanted to figure out how to put it inside his monkey that Alice had bought him so he could take it to bed with him and cuddle it close.

"Come on, Casanova, he will be fine and we need some sleep too. I have the camera on and the monitors set, all we have to do is turn ours on in our room." Bella said from the doorway as I looked down at my tiny son lying in the huge crib.

"Goodnight son, see you in a few hours." I whispered to him as I laid the blanket across his tiny body. I followed Bella out of the nursery clicking the door in place as we walked across the hall to our bedroom that I didn't realize I had missed so much. "God, it's good to be home." I said as I tugged Bella onto the bed with me playfully.

The next few months flew by with being firmly submerged into parenthood head first without a paddle. I also found out what my parents meant about birthdays changing when you had a child, we just had a family dinner for mine and I was perfectly happy with that. Gavyn has changed dramatically since he was born, he now weighs a big whopping eighteen pounds and is 31 inches long with dark reddish brown hair and big brown eyes. He was a gorgeous little boy and happy as a button, he made happy baby noises whenever he was awake but he still slept quite a bit which the pediatrician said was normal. As a matter of fact, at his two month checkup last month he had said that he was growing right on schedule if not a little bit ahead. He was a bit chunky for his age but he was still considered healthy. We were told to count ourselves lucky because he had started sleeping through the night at a little over three weeks old.

"Come on, monkey, let's get in the pool for a little bit." I told him as I eased his legs in the baby floatie Alice had picked up a few months ago when we decided to see if he could handle the pool, he handled it like a champ.

As soon as his feet his the water he started squealing and slapping at the water in front of him, that much had changed since the day he was born. The boy loved being in the water now. "That's daddy's boy." I told him as I pulled him out into deeper water where I grabbed onto a noodle and let go of him so he could float on his own. On pretty days we normally spent a few hours a day in the pool.

"Mommy should be home soon with Auntie Ali and Auntie Rose." I told him as I floated around him in the pool causing him to squeal and giggle.

Bella, Rose, and Alice were out having a shopping expedition before classes started in a few days. I think what they were really trying to do was send Rose into labor but she was ready to pop out that little angel she carried. Her due date was actually yesterday but the doctor wanted to wait a few more days to see if she could go into labor naturally. She was trying everything in her power to go into labor naturally, hell her and Emmett woke up the entire house this morning having hardcore wild sex which sent their bed crashing to the floor and busting the drywall behind their bed. Then she took the girls shopping for 'school clothes' which has turned into a five hour shopping spree for them while Emmett and Jasper fixed their bed and the wall.

"Where's my baby?" I heard Bella say from somewhere but I couldn't see her.

Gavyn heard her too because he started jabbering and squealing loudly at his mother's voice.

I groaned when I saw her step through the French doors in nothing but a dark blue very tiny bikini, hair up in a high bun and a whole lot of bare skin flashing. "Damn, baby, you look amazing." I told her as she eased into the warm water. I am so glad that we had found a house with a pool and a hard cover because it kept the sun off of us while still letting the heat through to warm the pool.

She just giggled as she swam over to Gavyn who was splashing excitedly in the water at the sight and sound of his momma. "There's my monkey!" she said excitedly as she cooped him out of the carrier and floated around with him in her arms for a few minutes before putting him back in so we could float on our own.

"So….did the walking around work?" I asked Bella as we splashed lightly with Gavyn.

She just laughed. "I don't know but she said her back was starting to hurt so we came home. I bought you some clothes too, Casanova. We needed to update you from high school to college."

I groaned. "Clothes are clothes but thank you anyway. Did you buy the monkey anything? It won't be long until he outgrows the 3-6 months clothes, especially the sleepers."

She laughed and tugged on Gavyn's feet. "I did buy my chunky monkey some new duds. He's going to be the most handsome baby in Savannah." He squealed and splashed at her as she tugged on his feet gently.

I laughed as I scooped up some water and trickled it over his head as he just giggled. "Esme is excited to watch him while we are in class. They closed on their house just in time."

She laughed and nodded. "Yeah, she's offered to watch Blakely too when Rose starts back to school in January."

Before I could respond we heard Emmett yell from inside the house. "IT'S TIME! IT'S TIME! WHERE ARE MY KEYS?"

I looked at Bella and smiled. "Apparently it worked. Are you going to the hospital with them?" I asked Bella as she tickled Gavyn.

Bella shook her head. "Nope, I have my own baby right here to worry about."

I nodded in agreement. "We can always go up there to check on her in a little bit after monkey's afternoon nap. You know how long Tanya was in labor." She said with an eye roll at the mention of her name.

The next hour, our house was a scene of chaos. Emmett and Rosalie scrambled around until her water broke on her way down the stairs which sent her back upstairs to take a quick shower and to change her clothes. Alice and Bella were having a standoff in front of our bedroom door because Alice wanted access to our closet to organize the clothes they had just bought but Bella refused. Gavyn and I were in his nursery floor playing but really we were both watching Bella and Alice go at it.

"Absolutely not, Mary Alice, I know how to dress myself, my boyfriend, and my child!" Bella said getting angry. She wound her hair up loosely on top of her head so it was out of her way. When we were in Chicago she hardly ever wore her hair up unless she had had a particularly bad day but with the humidity here in Georgia she often started the day with it down but usually wound it up before the day was done.

Alice stomped her foot in irritation. "Your style sucks, Bella, I'm just trying to help you." Alice whined.

Bella shook her head. "I am a grown ass woman with a baby now, Alice. I think I am perfectly capable of dressing myself and my son. If I need or want your help you live right downstairs!"

Alice rolled her eyes. "Bella, before Edward and Gavyn came along you loved my help."

Bella looked shocked at Alice's statement. I had to clench my teeth to keep from saying anything to her also, she had some nerve bringing me and Gavyn into her argument. "Mary Alice, you are treading on very thin ice at the moment." Bella growled.

Alice nodded and hung her head in shame. "I'm sorry, I love those guys too, I do. I just feel like you aren't my sister anymore. You are just Edward's girlfriend and Gavyn's mommy, not my sister, not my other half." She said so quietly I almost didn't hear her. "And now Rose is having her baby too." I heard Alice barely whisper.

"Oh, Ali…" Bella wrapped an arm around Alice's shoulders and led her into our bedroom, shutting the door behind her.

"Come on, monkey, roll over for daddy." I told Gavyn as I laid down beside him. He had rolling from his stomach to his back mastered so we were working on getting him to roll the other way. He giggled as he quickly rolled over onto his back like we had been practicing for a few weeks now.

"Good job, buddy." I told him tickling his belly as he kicked his legs playfully. "One more roll, monkey." I told him as I scooted over a little bit and shook his favorite stuffed monkey in front of his face encouraging him to roll over onto his stomach.

He stretched his arms out for the monkey's legs but I tugged it just out of his reach making him either stretch for it or roll over to come get it. Once on his belly he could turn around in a complete circle almost so he was semi-mobile but I knew once he got the hang of rolling over he would be able to roll wherever he wanted to go. "Come on monkey, get your monkey!" I encouraged him as I laid my face flat on the rug in his room dancing his monkey just out of his reach. He had quickly become attached to the monkey that Esme had modified to hold my piano tracks.

He laughed and grabbed at his feet as he watched me dance the stuffed monkey around in front of him. "Come on buddy, one roll and we can have lunch and a nap." I told him grabbing for his bottle that I had sat on the floor in front of the rocker dangling it in front of his face.

He immediately reached for it so I pulled it a little closer to me grinning because he almost had it. "Come on, just a little more." I told him quietly.

He gave a grunt and flipped to his stomach so fast I almost missed it. "You did it, monkey!" I cheered as I scooped him up in my arms dancing around the room to his giggles. After a few minutes of 'flying' and 'swinging' I scooped up his bottle and settled us in the double rocker to feed him his late afternoon bottle before his nap time.

That is how Bella found us a little bit later, me holding a sleeping Gavyn with his empty bottle sitting on the floor beside the rocker. "You are going to spoil him, Edward." She said as she settled in beside me stroking a finger down his chubby cheek. "Can you believe he turned three months old yesterday?"

We used my mom's rocker late at night when it was just one of us and he was being fussy or just needed a little extra loving before going back to sleep.

I shook my head. "No, it seems like just the other day we were travelling halfway across the country with him only being a few hours old." I told her as we gazed down at our beautiful son.

Bella giggled. "I don't want to have to do that ever again. I think from now on we will fly."

"I agree. Are you ready to start classes, baby?" I whispered as Gavyn tried to readjust in my arms.

She nodded as she stood scooping Gavyn up in her arms to place in his crib. "I am in a way but I will be sad to leave Gavyn even for just a few hours every day." She said as she covered him with a light blanket and his monkey in his arms as it played my recorded piano music that Esme had sewed inside a flap just inside his back.

I sighed as I walked up behind her wrapping my arms around her waist. "I know I feel the same way, baby, but Esme is going to be great with them. She has a whole playroom and nursery set up for both him and Blakely." I told her as I walked us out of the room shutting the door behind us.

She nodded but sighed. "She sent us pictures the other day of the finished room but it's not going to be the same. I'm scared I am going to miss something big, some milestone he won't do but once."

I immediately knew that she would be upset over him rolling over from his back to his stomach earlier but she needed to know. "Speaking of milestones, I finally got him to roll from his back to his stomach earlier." I told her as we lay down on the bed. We had learned to at least rest while he was resting when we could but he usually took a pretty decent nap a couple times a day.

She rolled over and punched me. "Did you at least think to record it?"

I groaned and shook my head. "I'm sorry, baby, we were playing right before feeding time."

She sighed before snuggling in close to me, inhaling my scent quietly. "He only did it once?" she asked so quietly I almost didn't hear her.

"Yes, baby, right before I scooped him up to feed him. You and Alice were in there." I reminded her.

She groaned and nodded. "Okay, we can try to get him to do it again later. Alice is feeling abandoned because everybody else is having babies and have different priorities now." She explained the situation earlier.

"Maybe you girls need to set a girls day each week to just go be girls and reconnect. Invite Esme too, she misses all of you too." I suggested.

She smiled and nodded. "That sounds like a great idea. I will ask her later when Gavyn wakes up and we all go to the hospital to check on Rose." She said as she yawned quietly.

I chuckled but pulled her closer as we listened to our little guy snore in his sleep.