“What makes you so sure?” Kate asked,
“I just have this feeling that it’s a boy. When Meredith was pregnant I told her it was a girl but she was so sure it was a boy. Then she got all moody when we found out it was a girl.” Rick said picking out some little tiny shoes.
“Ok maybe we should go pay for this and head to another shop.” Kate suggested,
“Oh yeah, that’s a good idea, I’ll go pay for this now.” Rick said heading towards the till.
Kate didn’t even want to know how much all that clothes cost. It was probably more than she earned in a week.
“Ready?” Rick asked walking towards her carrying two big shopping bags.
Kate nodded and they began walking to another baby shop.
“Oh my God Rick!” Kate said as they walked into the shop,
“What?! Are you having contractions? Has your water broke?” Rick said starting to freak out,
Kate shook her head and pointed to a rack of onesies,
“They have Nebula 9 onesies.” She whispered.
“Kate speak up, I can’t hear you?”
“They have Nebula 9 onesies.” Kate repeated louder,
“Oh.” Rick simply said staring at the onesies,
“We have to get them!” Kate squealed waddling to the onesies,
“I can’t believe this!” Rick moaned, “They don’t have Star Trek onesies but they have Nebula 9 onesies.”
“Nebula 9 was an awesome show!” Kate argued,
“Ha no it wasn’t.” Rick said smiling,
“It was amazing! You just have bad taste.”
“Ok you tell yourself that.” Rick joked,
“I think we might have enough clothes now.” Kate said after they had filled another basket full of little baby clothes,
“Yeah, maybe we should start getting other things, like diapers and cream and all that stuff. Alexis has ordered all the furniture and a few toys.” Rick said paying for the clothes.
“Maybe we should go in there.” Kate said as they left the second clothes shop,
“Yeah that shop would probably have all the cleaning stuff and creams and all that stuff.”
2 Hours Later
“Ugh my feet hurt.” Kate groaned as they sat into the normal booth at Remy’s,
“Well I think we have enough baby stuff for 10 babies.”
“Yeah well I think I can just about manage with one.” Kate said as she flicked through the menu,
“So do you want a second kid or stick with one?” Rick asked,
“Well I think after this one we should have another one, I was a single child and it wasn’t that fun, my mom and dad had to work a lot so I was alone quite a bit.”
“I can’t wait to have this little baby,” Rick sighed,
“Yeah me too.” Kate said rubbing her bump,
So we need a name, what do you think?” Rick asked as he pointed out to the waiter of what he wanted,
“I’m sticking with Charles, Charlie or Jonathon, what do you think?”
“Ok so I think we should stick with Charlie if it’s a boy. And if it’s a girl I think Chelsea.” Rick suggested,
“Yeah I think Chelsea would be good for girl.” Kate said thinking about it.
At The Loft.
“Alexis this looks great!” Kate said walking into the nursery,
Alexis had painted the walls a dark yellow colour and had green at the bottom to look like grass, she was in the middle of painting a cartoon lion on the wall.
“Thanks, I just need to finish the lion then do a giraffe and a zebra. Then dad needs to help with the furniture and we are done!” Alexis said proudly.
“I think this is truly amazing, it’s perfect for the baby.” Kate said started to tear up,
“Are you crying?” Alexis asked in shock,
“It’s all the hormones!” Kate sobbed,
“Um right ok.” Alexis said going over to give her step-mom a hug,
“That Lex, for everything.” Kate said after they broke apart,
“Anytime, I want this baby as much as you guys do.” Alexis said returning to her painting.
“Wow this is great!” Rick said coming upstairs,
“You need to start assembling the furniture, all the boxes are downstairs.” Alexis instructed.
“Ooh… ok, that’s going to be fun.” Rick said, hoping that the furniture would be easy to assemble.
“I’ll help, it’s just screwing some screws into some wooden things, and I’m quite good at that stuff.” Kate perked up.
“But what if anything happens?” Rick said cautiously
“Babe, all I need is a screw driver and some screws, it’s not like imp defusing a bomb.”
“Ok fine, but don’t do too much, you need all the sleep you can get before this baby is born.” Rick said heading downstairs followed by Kate.
The Next Day.
“Ok the nursery is done!” Rick said proudly.
Alexis had finished painting the walls yellow. There was a cartoon lion, giraffe and zebra on the wall. The wardrobe, the dresser and the crib was a light mahogany wood.
“It’s perfect.” Kate said leaning into Rick’s chest,
“Yeah, you did really good pumpkin.” Rick said to Alexis,
Alexis had to do most of the furniture as Rick was completely clueless, and Ryan and Espo had to come around to carry it upstairs.
“Now all we need is the baby and it’s complete.” Alexis perked up.
“Well yeah that would be nice, only another month now.” Rick said,
The suddenly Kate gasped,
“I think the baby is coming early.” She whispered clutching her baby bump.
Problem chapter 8
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