Christmas Eve: December 24, 2012 11:00 A.M.
I convinced Maryse to drive me to my appointment with my OBGYN today. Randy had no choice but to go to Raw, so I couldn't have him go with me like I would've preferred.
Ryse looks at me. "Do you still think the baby is a boy?"
I smile at her as she parks the car. "Yeah. Ever since I had that dream, I've been convinced that the baby is a boy. I'd be happy with a girl too, but I'm just convinced it's a boy."
"How'd your dad take the news?"
I laugh. "He gave me a little crap for not telling him, but he's really happy about it."
"That's good."
"Yeah, but I wish Randy could've been here for this appointment."
"I know it sucks, but it'll be okay."
I feel tears in my eyes. "This is the first time I'm doing something for the baby without him being with me."
"It'll be okay."
I sigh. "Thanks for coming with me today, but will you stay in the waiting room?"
"Of course, Rissa."
The doctor looked at me with a smile as she did a sonogram. "Everything looks good. You've got a healthy baby in there. Do you want to know the gender or are we waiting until Randy can be here with you?"
I look over on the screen where my sonogram was. "I want to know. Randy and I agreed that I could find out. I just won't tell anyone else about it before him."
"I see. Well, if you can see that right there, I can tell you that your baby is a boy. Congratulations."
"A boy?" I ask as I look at my baby bump.
"It's a boy. I'm certain."
"That's great. That's really great."
"Congratulations to you and Randy. This must be really exciting."
"It is. Can get some pictures printed out of this ultrasound?"
"Absolutely. Let me do that for you."
"Thank you."
I smiled to myself as I put the second batch of sugar cookies into the oven. I had too many things to do tonight so I didn't get to watch Randy, John, Eve, Ted, and Cody on Raw. Chelle, Ryse, and Chelle's and John's daughter were with me at mine and Randy's house.
"How's the cookies?" Ryse asks as she enters the kitchen.
"I don't know. Eat one." I reply. "Where's Chelle at?"
"Taking care of the baby."
"The mom life."
"Hey." Ryse says. "That'll be you in six months."
I looked down at my small baby bump. "Yep…" I frowned. "What if Randy can't be here for Christmas ever? What if somehow I can't? What if we can't have the family together as a whole?" My eyes start to water.
Ryse pulls me into a hug. "I don't think that will happen. Your dad would probably let Randy off. You should've just said something so he could have been here tonight."
I sigh. "Yeah. I should've."
Chelle walks in. "Everything alright?"
"Yeah…just pregnancy hormones."
"Okay. Want me to start making the icing?"
"Yes please."
Ryse and I start working on using the cookie cutters the cut out the next batch.
She smiles at me. "So…are you gonna tell us the baby's gender yet or do we have to wait until you tell Randy?"
"I'm telling Randy first." I say. "It's his Christmas gift."
"Okay."
The oven timer goes off and Ryse takes out the second batch.
I put in the next one. "I'll make sure to tell you as soon as I tell him."
"Okay."
"If you need anything," Chelle says. "I'm here to help."
I smile. "Okay."
"Can I have a cookie?"
"Sure. Ryse had one earlier."
"Thanks." She grabs a cookie as the doorbell rings. "It's eleven thirty at night on Christmas Eve. Who's at the door?"
The doorbell rings again.
"I'll get it." Ryse says.
I hear her open the door.
"It's eleven thirty." Ryse says to whoever is at the door. "What the hell are you doing? You're gonna wake up the baby."
"Well, that's not how I expected my fiancée to greet me on Christmas Eve." Ted replies to her.
"Ted! I missed you."
I enter the living room. Chelle follows.
"Who's at the door?" Chelle asks.
"It's Ted." I reply.
"Oh. Hi, Ted!"
Ted enters the house. "Hi, Chelle." He looks at me. "And there's my bro for life…with a little baby bump too. Aw…do I get a hug?"
I hug him. "Hi. Merry Christmas."
"Merry Christmas."
Ted gets shoved over some.
"Are you gonna give me room to walk in?" Eve asks.
"Shut up, Eve. You had plenty of room."
Eve walks in. She puts down her bags and hugs me. "Merry Christmas."
"Merry Christmas." I say.
Chelle leaves to go check on the cookies.
"Bro," Ted says. "We got a surprise for you outside. Come on."
"Don't make her go outside." Eve says.
"Shut up. Come on, Rissa."
"Can I put my coat and shoes on?" I ask.
"Of course."
I slip them on real quick. Ted helps me walk outside due to the ice on the ground. I quickly realized my surprise.
"Randy." I said quietly before I smiled.
Randy turned around and saw me and Ted. "Damn it, Ted. I told you to wait on me to come in. And you made her freaking walk outside on the ice. She's twelve weeks pregnant with my kid. Damn it."
Randy grabs his bags, but he drops them next to me and Ted.
"You can carry my bags, DiBiase." Randy says with irritation. "I don't trust you to walk my wife back in."
Randy guides me back into the house. "Eve, why'd you let him take Rissa outside?"
"I didn't." She replied. "He doesn't listen."
"Whatever." He takes a sniff and looks at me. "Sweetheart, do I smell sugar cookies?"
"Yes, you do." I smile. "Merry Christmas."
"Merry Christmas."
Randy takes me to the kitchen. "Chelle, do you need help with the icing?"
"No." She replies. "It's fine. Merry Christmas."
"Merry Christmas. John will be here with Cody in a few minutes."
Chelle smiles. "Do you mind taking over for me?"
Randy looks at me. "I think me and the wife can handle it. Go see John."
"Thanks." She leaves the kitchen.
I start icing cookies. Randy does too.
"I missed you." He says. "Sorry I couldn't make it to the sonogram."
"It's okay. I understand."
He gives me his newest t-shirt in his size after we're done. "Merry Christmas. I wore this one."
I smile. "Merry Christmas. Grab a couple cookies. I gotta give you something upstairs."
He grabs a couple cookies, and we head upstairs, greeting John and Cody before heading up. I take Randy to our room and shut the door.
We sit down on the bed. He pulls out mistletoe.
"Can I have a kiss?" Randy asks with a smirk.
I kiss him. "There you go." I pull out the sonogram pictures. "Merry Christmas, babe."
"That's our kid?" Randy asks me as he looks through the pictures.
"Yep. That's our son."
Randy gives me a genuine smile. "We're having a boy?"
"We're having a boy."
Randy leads me downstairs. "Guess what, guys?"
They look at us.
Randy smiles at me "We're having a boy. Now get your asses to bed. It's twelve thirty."
I laugh at Randy and kiss him. He picks me up and carries me to our room.
Randy looked at me as we both sat in our bed. "So it's a boy."
I move over, so I can lean on him. "Yeah. We're having a boy. You're gonna get that son that you wanted."
Randy wrapped an arm around me. "I would've been happy either way, but I've wanted a son for so long."
"I know. I'm pretty happy it's a boy too. I would've been happy either way, but whenever the one after this one is conceived, we won't have to worry about the gender of that baby."
"That'll be nice. This is like a Christmas miracle."
"I guess it is."
Randy held me close. "I love you. You're giving me quite the Christmas present. I could never live up."
"Whatever you did get me, I'll appreciate it. Plus, you'll still have something to open in the morning."
"You really didn't have to."
"I did. I'd feel bad."
Randy kissed my forehead. "I love you so much. Merry Christmas, sweetheart."
"Merry Christmas, handsome."
"Should we go to sleep now?"
"Hold off on that for a moment. If you're okay with it, I'd like to post the picture now to announce it publicly. See how much that blows up overnight."
"Yeah, go ahead. Hell, let's both post it."
I smile. "Sounds like a plan."
