A month after Alex spent the afternoon with Ella, Mark was having lunch with the two pregnant women in his life. By now, Addison was sixteen weeks and Lexie was twenty one and a half weeks. Even though Addison had been one of the first people to give Mark a hard time about dating Lexie, she was glad to have someone to go through her pregnancy with. Mark, on the other hand, was sick of constantly hearing about their pregnancies and was convinced they purposely only talked about them whenever he was within earshot.

"Since Ella doesn't have school on Friday, would it be cool if I take her shopping with me? I have my ultrasound tomorrow to find out if it's a boy or girl and I want to start getting stuff right away. Besides, I've been working the past few times she's been with Mark for the night," Lexie asked between bites of her sandwich.

Finishing the bite of salad she had just put in her mouth, Addison answered, "That would be great, actually. Her nanny is in college and has class in the morning. If Ella's with you, we wouldn't have to figure out who's watching her or try to get her into daycare for just one day. I'm sure she'll be thrilled to go shopping."

"Yeah, she's definitely your daughter when it comes to shopping," Mark said sarcastically.

Three days later, Mark had left for work, leaving Lexie and Ella to their day of shopping. The six-year-old was definitely excited about going shopping, she was slightly upset when she realized she wouldn't be the one getting new things, rather it would be her new little brother they were shopping for. Ella had been hoping for another little sister; Mark was thrilled that he was finally getting a son.

Ella pulled her jacket on as there was a knock at the door. "I'll get it," she screamed, opening the door before Lexie could reach it. "Hi, Arizona. Lexie, it's Arizona and Sofia," she told Lexie who was now standing behind her.

"I see that. What's up?" asked Lexie as she welcomed the two into the apartment.

Arizona set Sofia on the floor and watched as she and Ella ran towards their room to play. "I know you were planning on going shopping for the baby with Ella today. Would you be able to take Sofia? I have a patient whose been waiting for a transplant and they just found a match. I can drop Sofia off at daycare if you can't, but I thought Ella would like to spend the day with her."

"It's fine. I was just thinking about going to Target and maybe getting lunch. Sof is pretty good for me. I just need to borrow a car seat for her. Mark drove to work this morning and it's in his car."

An hour and a half later, Sofia was sitting in the seat of the red cart and Ella kept picking up every item of clothing she saw, asking if they could get it for the baby. Ella wasn't really paying attention to whether or not the clothes were for a boy or girl, just whether or not she liked them. Eventually, Lexie decided they were done shopping when the cart was full of clothes, toys, and other items Ella convinced Lexie they 'needed' for the baby.

As they were loading their purchases into the back of Lexie's car, Ella asked, "Can we go out to eat for lunch? I heard you tell Arizona we might. Can we, please?"

"Since you were pretty good while we were shopping, I guess that would be okay. When we get home, though, you have to help me carry everything in from the car and we can't be really loud cuz Sofia's gonna need to take a nap. We can read or play a board game or something. Sound good?" Lexie offered after pondering Ella's question for a moment. "Where do you want to go?"

"Um, IHOP? I really like their pancakes. Mommy makes good ones, but theirs are better."

After their breakfast for lunch and a quiet afternoon in the apartment, Mark walked through the door to find Lexie, Ella, and Sofia all on the floor, playing with some dolls the girls kept at their father's apartment. "Did you buy lots of stuff for Mark, Jr.?" He asked after setting down his bag and kissing each of the women in his life.

"We're not naming the baby Mark, Jr.," insisted Lexie before Ella began to tell her father about the day.

"We got lots of stuff for him and then we went out to eat. We had pancakes for lunch, Daddy. Then we came home and Sofia took a nap and me and Lexie did a puzzle and read my book I just got. After Sofia woke up, we decided to play dolls," the six-year-old explained energetically.

Sitting on the couch, he pulled his one-year-old daughter into his lap. "I'm surprised to see you here today. Did you drive your momma so crazy she couldn't take it anymore?" he asked, more for Lexie to answer than the child.

"Didn't you run into Arizona at the hospital at all? She had a patient who they finally found a transplant for, so I said I could take Sofia for the day. It's been awhile since I had both girls, so it was kinda nice to have both of them by myself. Not sure I'll be doing any outings with them once our baby is born, but I love having both of them around."