We had as full of a room as when the twins were born, but I went back to worrying about my dad.
"Aidan, did you call him?" He nodded. "Call Millie." I ordered.
"Why are you going to call Millie?" My head snapped up to see my dad standing in the doorway with a smug look on his face.
"Oh, my! When…how?" I turned to Aidan. "Did you do this?" I yelled at him as he grinned.
"I called him this morning and he said he wanted to come out to see the new baby, so I sent the jet." He shrugged but I could see the slight smugness that revealed how proud he was of himself.
My dad came over and hugged me tenderly. Quickly, Maggie brought the baby to my dad. He nervously took her in his arms and smiled.
"She looks just like you when you were a baby."
"Told you." Aidan whispered and I elbowed him in the arm. "Ow!" He laughed.
My dad looked up and chuckled at us.
"She really does, Lilli. You had the same hair and chubby cheeks. Didn’t your mother think so?"
"She called to congratulate us, but she didn’t say. It was a picture mail, so it’s not the best quality." I shrugged, though I knew that my mother was a little different. It didn’t matter.
"What’s her name?" My dad asked.
"Alesandra Sarah Iverson." Aidan answered and I looked up at him. He winked. We had chosen Alesandra, but the Sarah was new. I smiled at him and hugged his arm as I put my head on his shoulder.
The next surprise for the evening was when Kimberly and Rachel arrived with Walsh, Livy and Cole. I was so excited and happy to see them. Aidan was holding Ales when they arrived, so I quickly hugged each of them as Kimberly put them on the bed with me. Walsh was on my right, Livy on my left, and Cole was on my lap. Aidan sat down and held Ales out for them to see.
Livy looked the closest and then smiled.
"Baby." She giggled.
"Remember mommy’s tummy?" Aidan asked her and I patted my less round stomach. Livy turned and looked at my stomach and then back to the baby. "Ales came out of mommy’s tummy."
Livy giggled and rubbed the baby’s head easily.
"She so little." She whispered out.
Cole leaned forward a little, but wouldn’t touch her.
"Can you give your baby sister kisses?" Aidan asked.
Livy kissed her cheek. Cole surprisingly kissed her head. Walsh furrowed his brow.
"Baby sister?" He looked up at Aidan curiously. Aidan nodded. "Give the baby to mommy." Aidan looked at Walsh with surprise and then handed her to me.
Liv and Cole were touching her head softly, but Walsh took ‘his’ place on Aidan’s lap. I laughed.
"Someone is a little jealous." I smiled.
Aidan nodded and sighed. "I guess so."
"Walsh, aren’t you excited to have a new sister?" He shook his head and I laughed. "Don’t you want to take her back to our house?" He shook his head. "Well, then, what are we supposed to do with her?" I bit my lips together to stop from laughing.
"Take her back." He crossed his little arms over his chest and grumbled.
Aidan wrapped his arms around his mini me and chuckled at his eldest son’s reaction to having a baby sister. I smiled at him.
"Walsh, we can’t give her back. She’s coming home with us. This is your little sister. I need your help with her, to take care of her and protect her."
He raised one eyebrow at me. Then he huffed.
"Fine, but I not kissing her." I laughed freely and so did Aidan as he held him tight in his arms.
The next day Aidan arrived with Walsh, Livy and Cole to take Alesandra and me home from the hospital. I was highly impressed to see Aidan take care of all three kids during the trip, they were a handful. When the car pulled up to the house, Aidan helped me out of the car with Alesandra. He helped Cole walk into the house while Livy was at my side ‘helping’ me carry Ales inside. Walsh wanted to carry my bag into the house, but he ended up dragging the bag to the door.
We headed up to the nursery so Aidan could get the bassinet out of the storage closet and put it in our room for Ales. Once we were inside, I lay Ales in Cole’s crib.
"Mommy?" I turned to see Walsh pulling on my shirt.
I knelt down to him. "What’s up little man?"
"Where is the baby going to sleep?" He furrowed his eyebrows at me.
"You want her to sleep in here?"
"No, not in my room!" He protested.
"That’s not very nice." I stated to Walsh.
"Fine! She can sleep in here, but she’s not playing with my toys!" He huffed and walked over to his toddler bed, sitting down roughly.
I took a deep breath and exhaled as Aidan came into the room with the bassinet. My face must have said everything.
"What’s wrong?"
I shook my head.
"Lilli?"
I picked up Ales and walked to our room. Aidan followed, closing the baby gate behind him, and then setting up the bassinet next to my side of the bed.