My favorite Mary

Chapter 29: Getting ready for our bundle of Joy

"Feel better now?"

"Yes, much better."

Tristan slid down and turned her over. He lifted her shirt and was talking to her stomach. "Good morning son. Can you be easy on mommy? Soon we will be holding you in our arms. Until then I do need you to take it easy on your mommy. Mommy and daddy love you so much and we can't wait to meet you." He kissed her stomach and then came back up to her. 

"Maybe that will work." He kissed me and I blushed. 

"I could feel him kicking lightly while you were talking to him. You are so sweet and amazing my wonderful husband."      

"As are you, my wife. I love being able to call you that. Every day it feels like winning the lottery. Which I did in the wife department. I am so lucky that you are mine."

"I am the lucky one Tris."

"Let's run to the coffee shop and get you a few bagel breakfast sandwiches. I know we have been gone for two weeks and I am sure you have been craving them."

"Yes, I have. Let me get dressed. I am starving since I went to bed pretty early yesterday."

Tristan's POV:

We went to the coffee shop and got some sandwiches and she got a regular coffee which means I will drink decaf for the rest of the day. 

I love seeing her smile and she smiled the biggest smile when I ordered her favorite drink. She devoured her sandwiches. She looked so cute. She had a small piece of bread on her lips and I leaned over and brushed it off her. 

"That was so good baby. Thank you for ordering my favorite drink it was so delicious. I really enjoy our morning routine of eating at our coffee shop."

"Me too baby. I really enjoy seeing your entire face light up because you got your favorite drink. That face and those doe eyes will get you whatever you want."

We walked back to our apartment. I had asked Finn, Colin, and Robert to help paint the nursery. They will be over with the paint and supplies later this morning. I am going to send Mare to get a massage so the fumes won't bother her. 

Lorelai is supposed to come and pick her up so they can both enjoy a mother-daughter day. One day I hope we have a daughter and Mare can do fun things like that with her and me and my son will go to a football or basketball game for a guy's day. I love the fact that I can imagine our future with our kids. 

"Hey, Mare I need you to shower and get ready. I have a special treat for you and I need to call the Dean's office at Columbia. I received an email and while you shower I am going to call and see what they needed." He kissed her as she walked to their room. 

He grabbed his phone and called the number on the email. 

"Columbia University Dean's office, how may I assist you?"

"Um, yes ma'am I received an email stating I needed to call the office. My name is Tristan Dugray."

"Yes, Mr. Dugray give me just a moment and let me get the Dean on the line."

A couple of minutes later the phone starts ringing I am being transferred.

"Mr. Dugray thank you for getting back to us so quickly. I wanted to speak to you and ask if you realized you have completed all required courses except the classes you are taking right now. You took some extra credit courses the first time you graduated and it was brought to my attention that you will have all your required courses and will graduate in May."

"Are you serious? I will have my Ph.D. in May of this year. This is great news. Thank you Dean for reaching out to let me know. Have a wonderful day?"

"You too Mr. Dugray, goodbye."

Tristan sat on the couch completely in shock he would graduate in two months eight weeks is all that was left of school. He needed to talk to Rory and see if she wanted to go house shopping and make the move to Hartford before the baby is born, if so they wouldn't need to fix the nursery up here and could just do it in the new house. 

He went to their room and Rory was just getting out of the shower. She walked into the room with the towel wrapped around her chest. She smiled when she saw Tristan standing there admiring his wife and how sexy she is. 

"Hey, baby everything okay?"

"Everything is great. I just received some good news. I wanted to talk to you and see what you think."

"Okay. Let me throw some clothes on and then we can sit down and talk."

"That would be good because knowing you are naked under that towel, definitely makes it hard for me to concentrate. I will meet you in the living room." He kissed her and headed to the living room he made her a cup of tea and had it sitting on her table when she came out. 

"Thank you, my thoughtful husband. So, now tell me the good news."

"Turns out I am completing the last of all required courses now and I will graduate in May. When I attended NYU I had taken extra credit courses and they filled all the required courses needed."

"That is wonderful news Tristan I am so happy for you and proud of you baby."

"Mare, what would you think of househunting and starting the move to Hartford? I was going to surprise you and get the nursery set up today but if we decide to move to Hartford then I think it would be best to wait until we get a new house and we can get it done by staying the weekends there. What do you think?"

"Really? We can move to Hartford before the baby is born? Yes, let's go house shopping now."

Tristan just smiled at how happy this news made his wife.