Chapter 8
Our new home
Olivia starts to look around brownstone with her mouth wide open in shock. She walks in to the kitchen which is totally redone. "Do you like it liv?" "So far yes el it's so modern." She looks out the sliding glass door in the kitchen to find a deck and a little yard that overlooks the Hudson River. When she turns around she sees the other door that does not lead to the kitchen leads to her and Alex's craft room. "Oh el you guys even remember the craft room" she says as her eyes start to tear up as if she was going to cry. We walked through the craft room to get to liv and I's office. I thought we might need an office to catch up on paper work when it starts to over flow at work. "El this office is perfect." "I'm glad you like it baby" I say as I give her a kiss on the cheek. From the office we step back in to the front hall where the stairs are located to get to the second level. When I saw the look on Liv"s face about going up the stairs, I scooped her up bride style. She wrapped her arms around my neck and I start to walk up the stairs.
Once we were at the top of the stairs liv was able to see six doors. One of doors was the kid's bathroom. I open the door to show her and her eyes just light up. "Oh el this is the perfect bathroom for the kids." "I know baby Alex and I thought so too." The door on the right of the kid's bathroom was a bedroom. The bedroom happen to be Sophia's but liv didn't know that yet. I open the door to Sophia's room and liv's mouth drops open in shock. "El this is perfect for her ""Your right it is liv' I say as I hold her around the waist because her legs start to wobble. 'thanks El this is so perfect for her.". I just smile and kiss her cheek and guide her out of the room. The next door I open is Liv Alex's and my room. She just looks around in awe. She walks over and sits on our bed and says "wow" I sit next to her and say "it's a piece of each of us baby." "Oh el it is." When I show her the master bathroom she almost fainted. I sit her on the side of our huge Jacuzzi tub so she wouldn't hurt herself anymore. When she felt good enough to walk we walk back out to the hall way and we go to the door across from our bedroom. That door lead to Calvin's room. I had all of our children's names put on their doors. When I opened the door she just looked around with teary eyes. "Liv is something wrong? Do you not like it?" "No el I love it that's why I'm crying." I kiss her cheek and hold her close as I said" we have one more room on this floor to see. Can you guess what that is liv?" "Yes I can it's Gracie's room. Am I right el?" "You are very right "I say as I lead her to the last door on the floor that has Gracie's name on it.
I had Gracie's door painted pink with a princess crown on it. Liv's face lit up knowing that Gracie loves anything having to do with princesses. I opened the door and liv sees that the room is designed like a castle that a princess would live in. the bed is a little canopy bed and there is a new princess doll house. All her dress up clothes and other toys too. The room also has a little walk in closet fit for a princess. After liv had a chance to look around I tap her shoulder and say "You ready to check out the third floor liv." When she nods in conformation I scoop her up bride style again and carried her up to the third floor of the house. The first door directly at the top of the stairs was Alex's office. I open the door so liv could look around. The next door says "the kids playroom." When the door opens Liv's eyes tear up as she sees all of our kids playing. Next I take liv to the third floor bathroom. It is the perfect little bathroom for the 3rd floor. The last door on the floor was a quest room. Once we made it back to the living room we sit on the couch to talk and cuddle.
About an hour later we hear the front door open. I look to see Alex standing there holding Gracie on her hip. Our other two kids were standing on either side on her. I smile at them then gently shake liv who has been napping on my shoulder. "Liv the kids and Alex are home" as soon she heard me say kids she opens her eyes. Calvin runs right over to his mommy and gives her a big gentle hug. Alex had told me that the days liv was in the hospital that Calvin wasn't himself. Now I can see what she talking about. His eyes lit up like a kids on Christmas morning and you could see he is happier. Sophia on the other hand walked over more slowly and was careful when she climbed on the couch. Gracie wiggled to get out of Alex's arms. Before Alex let her go she softly whisper in her "Be careful baby mommy has a boo boo on her tummy ok?" "Ok mama "she says wiggling to get down. Alex lets her down and she carefully makes her way over to her mommy. I could tell that the kids missed Liv while she was she in the hospital. They cuddled right up to her and start to tell her how much they missed her.
With all the excitement of Liv coming home from the hospital we decided to order pizza for dinner. The kids had a great idea to have a movie night. El went out to get movies. When he was on his way out the door the kids yelled "Don't forget the soda and candy too daddy." Liv and Alex just looked at each other and shook their heads. "Let them have the sweets it will be like your welcome home celabration." Alex says while using her eyes to tell El to go ahead and go. While we were waiting for Elliot to return from getting the movies and the foods, we just sat and cuddled on the couch. When liv got the text from El saying he was on his way we started to pop the popcorn. We pop our popcorn on the stove so the kids can help. This is one of the things we do as a family Gracie is too little to help so Alex lets her help put the butter on it. We also make snow cones for the kids. We have over 20 flavors to pick from. We also give them the option to make soda floats. We also have an ice cream sundae bar the kids love that. I think its because we let them have as much ice cream as they want. We also break out the chocolate bars because liv has a huge chocolate sweet tooth. We also have stuff the adults want like beer whine and coffee. Even though we are grown up we still enjoy the ice cream sundae bar. We eat ice cream until we get sick just like the kids do .sometimes we eat even more than the kids do. I know that's hard to believe but its true.