After naming our boys and trying them with breastfeeding – which went well, we had some visitors.
“Can we come in?” Nikki asked, poking her head through the door, Matt and I nodded, I was holding Jaxon, Matt was holding Brandon “Oh my gosh,” She gasped “They’re so beautiful,” As if they recognized her voice they opened their eyes wide, for the first time ever, and I started to cry.
“Hey, why are you crying gorgeous?” Jimmy asked, sitting beside me on the bed and wrapping an arm around me, I waved my hand dismissively and shook my head.
“There are happy tears Jim, they both have Matt’s eyes, look,” Everyone stood at the head of the bed and looked at the little boys in our arms, they all smiled widely and agreed that they did in fact have huge hazel eyes just like their dad.
“Do you wanna hold Jaxon, Nikki?” I asked her and she nodded and held out her arms, Jimmy gave her his place on the bed and I placed the baby in her arms and she started rocking him back and forth and talked to him, he was smiling widely, he even had Matt’s dimples, as did Brandon.
“Oh you remember me little guy? Did I talk that much before you made an appearance?” She asked him in a baby voice and he gurgled and reached his hand up, grabbing a tiny first full of her blonde hair.
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It’s been three weeks since the boys were brought home, making them five weeks old; we had to stay in the hospital for a while to make sure we were all okay, which luckily, we were.
Matt and I were laying on our bed, Jaxon asleep on my chest while I read a baby book, Matt cradled Brandon in his left arm with ease while writing song lyrics in his notebook which sat on his lap.
“Marry me,” Matt said simply.
“No,” I replied.
“W-what?” He asked, sounding shocked, I looked at him and smiled.
“I’m just kidding, I thought you’d never ask,”
“Well, I’m asking now, I’ve been planning it since the day the boys were born,” He said, reaching over into his bedside table and pulling out a tiffany box and handed it over “I know you’re not one for romance, which is why I didn’t plan a whole big speech, I didn’t go crazy and have the guys help or anything, I just wanted to do it alone, in the comfort of our own home, with our first two children,” I opened the box and inside was a beautiful, yet, simple, white gold band with a good sized diamond in the middle which sparkled in the sunlight coming through the window.
“Matt, I love you,” I whispered as I slid it onto my finger with ease.
“I love you too, now go see Nikki, she has a surprise for you,” I looked between him and the sleeping babies we were holding “I got them, the guys are coming over to work on some songs today, plenty sets of hands to keep them under control,”
“Matt, they’re five weeks old, not five years… but, worry when they are,”