On Friday, I had a doctor's appointment for an ultrasound to get a look at our baby. That morning, I was laughing at Jimmy as he was running around the room in only his boxers singing, "Gonna see my baaaaaaaaaby! Gonna see my baby in Brookie's tummyyyyyyyy!"
I walked over to him and kissed him. "Not until this afternoon, sweetie. Right now, I have to go teach."
Jimmy wrapped his arms around me and smiled. "Just think, Duckie, in a few years you could be teaching Jimmy Jr."
"We're not naming our baby that," I said glaring playfully.
He nodded his head. "Yes we are. And she is going to be the bestest drummer ever!"
I rose an eyebrow. "She? You already know its a girl?"
"Its what I'm crossing my fingers for." Jimmy said before he leaned down to kiss me.
I spent that whole Friday at work really nervous. I couldn't wait to see mine and jimmy's little bundle of joy. I smiled everytime I thought about it.
At lunch, while the kids were in the cafeteria, Karen and I were eating in her classroom. I had wheeled my desk chair over to her room so I could sit in what we called a "big people chair".
I had brought a sandwich from home that I had smothered in mustard. I was enjoying it thoroughly and Karen was giving me strange looks.
"Why is your sandwich drowned in mustard?" she asked me after I had licked some of it off my fingers.
I shrugged. "I don't really know. I've been having a huge craving for mustard this last week or so."
Karen laughed. "My God, you really are pregnant."
"And I have an appointment today. Jimmy and I are both excited. He couldn't even sleep in like he usually does in the mornings," I said smiling.
She clapped her hands. "Oh! You have to show me the sonogram picture on monday! I want to see your little peanut."
I laughed and told her I would. The rest of the day passed excrutiatingly slow and I couldn't wait for the last bell to go off.
When it finally did, I lead my class outside to where they would be picked up by parents and I waited anxiously. Once they had all gone home, I nearly ran back to my classroom to gather up my stuff.
Back in the room, I saw Jimmy sitting behind my desk spinning in my chair. He saw me right before he started to spin again and he smiled.
"This chair is so cool! I want one!" Jimmy said as he spun around.
I shook my head at him and started to get my stuff together. "You're gonna make yourself dizzy," I said.
"Nope!" was all he said.
When I was finally ready to go, we headed back to the house so I could quickly change and then head to the doctor's office.
In the waiting room, I laughed at Jimmy who was sitting in a very tiny chair and was playing at the table with the balls on metal wires. The little kids were all asking him why he was playing with it since he was so old.
He looked at them with mock surprise. "I'm not old! I four!" Jimmy then turned to me with his pouty look that I found so cute. "Mommy! These kids are being mean to me!"
The other moms were giving Jimmy strange looks and one of them asked her son to get away from "the strange man". Jimmy wasn't phased though, he just continued to play until my name was called.
"Brooke Sullivan?" the nurse called.
Jimmy and I both stood up and followed her through the door and into another hallway. The nurse, Angela her nametag said, lead us to a door with the number four on it and opened it for us.
"The doctor will be with you in a minute," Angela said as she closed the door behind her.
I sat on the high bed/table thing with that annoying crinkly paper while Jimmy decided he was going to go through the drawers. He'd found some tongue compressers and started drumming on the counter with them.
I laid back and smiled at him. This man who was so full of life was the man I had married and was starting a family with. Jimmy told me almost everyday how lucky he was that he had me but I felt like the lucky one. If I hadn't found him when I had, I didn't even want to think about how my life would be.
"Oh my God, get ready to laugh," Jimmy said, pulling me out of my thoughts. I looked over at him and grinned.
He had pulled a latex glove over his head and his nose, squishing it. He then proceeded to blow through his nose causing the glove to fill up with air around his head and inflating the fingers.
I was now laughing so hard my stomach hurt and I almost fell off the bed/table thing (I have never known what to call those stupid things). Jimmy kept blowing and the glove kept getting bigger.
I thought I was going to die of laughter when the door opened and the doctor came in, giving Jimmy a weird look. He couldn't see the doctor, but he could hear the door open so he stopped blowing and pulled the glove off. Jimmy stood up straight, put his glasses back on and faced the doctor who was smiling.
"Well," he said. "That was the highlight of my day." The doctor then held his hand out for each of us to shake it. "Hey there. I'm Doctor Dude and-"
"Hold up!" Jimmy said, interrupting. "Your last name is Dude?!"
The doctor nodded. "Well, yes."
Jimmy laughed. "That's so awesome!"
Doctor Dude smiled and nodded. "That's what my kids say too." He then sat down on his little stool and pulled out his chart. "Ok so, Mrs. Sullivan, you're here for an ultrasound? And you figure you're about six weeks along?"
I nodded. "That's right."
"I want to see my baby, Doctor Dude." Jimmy said, bouncing on the balls of his feet.
The doctor smiled and turned to look at him. "Alright son, you will. Just let me go get Angela and we'll get started."
When he returned with the nurse, they had me lay down as they pulled the machine that was in the corner over to me. The nurse asked me to lift my shirt up and I was glad I had taken my bellybutton ring out before coming here. Angela squirted some of that gel stuff on my stomach and I sucked in a breath.
Doctor Dude (he really did have an awesome name) chuckled lightly. "I know it's cold Brooke. But it's worth it, trust me."
Jimmy pulled up a chair and sat on the other side of me as the doctor started rubbing the stick on my lower stomach. Angela had turned off the lights leaving only a lamp on and I looked over at the monitor.
It was mostly just weird looking lines as Doctor Dude started clicking buttons. Then he said, "Hmm well this is interesting."
Jimmy and I shared a look before we faced the doctor. "What's interesting?" I asked.
He moved the monitor where I could see it better and pointed at a little blob. "That's your baby, Brooke."
I smiled but Jimmy leaned forward and pointed at another blob right next to the first one. "What's that one?" he asked.
The doctor smiled. "That would be your second baby. You two are having twins."

Notes

Yay! Twins! Have you guys noticed yet that I like twins? I think it's because I'm like the only kid in my family that doesn't have a twin. I have an older brother and a younger sister but no twin :/
Anyway...I told you this chapter would be better and I delivered :)
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