After the Storm

Chapter 19: We Can Do This

Arizona POV

Three... three babies.

Not one baby, not two, but three. Our family was growing by three. In just four months, we'd have three new kids, bringing in a grand total of four.

"It's triplets," Connie declared. "Congratulations, I'm very happy for the both of you,"

I couldn't take my eyes off of the monitor. I saw an arm, and a leg, and another leg, and the one baby's head because the scope was right in the middle of my belly.

Callie's eyes were also glued to the screen, a smile was placed on her beautiful face.

"I'm also able to predict the sexes, if you'd like," Connie said, looking to Callie and I.

"Arizona," Callie said softly.

I was still looking at the monitor in shock.

"Arizona.. honey," she said, shaking me gently.

I snapped out of my thoughts.

"Wh-what?" I asked, disoriented.

Connie and Callie laughed.

"She can tell us the sexes if you want," she said, brushing hair off of my face.

"Do you want to?" I asked.

She shook her head. "I don't care, it's up to you,"

I shook my head no. I decided a little surprise would be fun. Plus, we'd get to guess. A thing we did with Sofia, was whoever guessed the gender got to name her, and Callie won that, thus giving our first daughter the name Sofia.

"We'll wait," I said, smiling.

She nodded, smiled, and wiped the gel off of my stomach.

She cleaned off the transducer, and left me to get dressed.

"We're having three kids, Callie," I said, pulling the gown off.

"Three kids," she echoed, shaking her head in awe.

While I sounded nervous, she sounded excited.

"Cal- can we- can we do this?" I asked, tugging my shirt back on with Callie's help.

"Of course we can," she said, handing me my jacket.

"But Callie- it's three, three mouths to feed, to clothe, to bathe..." I started to get nauseous, so I stopped talking.

"Arizona, do you remember all those months ago, when you collapsed in surgery, and all of those people came to see if you and the baby were alright?" she asked.

I gulped, and nodded.

"Meredith and Derek- Cristina, Daddy, April, Owen, Jackson, Richard, Alex and Jo, Bailey.... all of those people? They came because they care. Those people are our family," she finished.

My lips turned up into a smile.

"They are all going to help, Sofia is going to be a great big sister, and Bailey and Zola will be fantastic cousins for them to play with... they will all have such good lives, and good family and friends, and the best mommies in the world," she said.

I couldn't help the inevitable smile that took over my face.

"Thank you," I said, kissing the back of her hand.

I brought it down to my stomach, and I felt the flutter again.

Callie's grin stretched from ear to ear.

"Our girls are happy," she said.

"You're so convinced we're having girls, aren't you?"

"I think two boys and a girl," I said, squeezing her hand.

"You think so?" she questioned.

"I can feel it,"

"Maybe we'll have a Sloan man in the family," Callie said.

And we both laughed, and then we both took another moment to miss Mark. I took a moment to thank him as well.

After Connie cleared us to leave, we drove first to go pick up Sofia from preschool. I was glad to hear that she liked it very much.

When we got home, we did a little bit of packing with the few boxes we had left. It was enough to finish most everything.

We decided that we would just eat out for the next few days so we could pack faster.

Callie called Owen when we got home to ask for a few personal days off. She told him we were moving, and that we needed to pack.

He understood, so he said we could have three days. Normally, he probably wouldn't have obliged, since we'd missed way too much work already, but we explained that we learned we were having triplets, and he understood we were moving.

We really didn't have a lot of things to pack. It was mainly furniture, but we hired movers to come on the nineteenth, which was tomorrow.

We spent the night with Sofia, letting her feel the babies kick. She loved it when they did. I loved watching her face light up every time she felt it.

As of right now, life couldn't get any better.