Chapter 10: Better Together
At least for most of the questions in my heart
Like why are we here? And where do we go?
And how come it's so hard?
It's not always easy
The twins ended up staying in the hospital for four weeks after they were born. It was really so they could gain enough weight that they were allowed to come home. Lexie still had a few weeks maternity leave left before she had to go back to work so she was going to make the most of the time she had with the twins at home.
Today was the only day that Lexie and Mark have been glad to walk into the NICU. Usually it kind of sucked having to walking and see their babies attached the machines and everything like that. Although, today it was a good feeling to walk in the NICU and knowing that the twins were coming home with them. On one hand, Lexie was nervous. She knew that her and Mark were ready for them. They had plenty of time to make sure of that in the past month or so but now the twins were going to be home full time and that naturally called for some apprehension. On the other hand, though, she was ready for the twins to be home and she was ready to not have to step into that NICU for the twins ever again.
“Are you two ready to go home?” Lexie asked the twins as both her and Mark put the babies in their respective carseats. Lexie and Mark filled out some paperwork and then they were on their way with their two healthy babies.
“I can’t believe that they are finally all ours.” Lexie said as she got into the car and buckled her seatbelt before Mark pulled out.
“I can’t either.” Mark smiled.
Soon enough, Mark pulled into the driveway and they took the babies inside. “Welcome home.” Lexie said she she opened the door and walked inside with Mark following.
Lexie sat down the car seat and gently got Kayla out and laid her in her arms. The small child didn’t even squirm through the movement, she continued to sleep peacefully without making a sound. The twins were still really small. They just barely weighed five pounds so they were just heavy enough to come home. They would catch up to the size and all their milestones by the time hey were two. That seemed like a long time from now but thinking about it it really wasn’t too far away.
Lexie and Mark went over and laid on the couch. “I guess they shouldn’t really be sleeping in our arms but I really don’t want to put her down.” Lexie said looking to the baby in her arms.
“Yeah, we should probably go lay them down.” Mark stated. Him and Lexie got up and went upstairs to the nursery. They had decorated the nursery while the twins were in the hospital because they hadn’t got around to doing it before. The walls were painted a pale yellow and one crib was decorated in blue and the other in pink. Above their cribs their names were put on the wall with wooden letters that matched the other furniture in the room. Lexie and Mark both placed the babies in their respective beds and retreated to their room, grabbing the baby monitor on the way out.
“I’m glad they’re home.” Lexie said laying her head against Mark’s chest.
“I am too.” Mark smiled as he brought his hand up to run his fingers through his wife’s hair.
“I only have two weeks of maternity leave left and then I have to go back to work.” Lexie sighed knowing that she would have to start leaving them in daycare soon. “And I have to take my boards in a month.” That thought was scary. Not because of the test, well some of it was because if the test but she hadn’t ever really had much difficulty taking any form of test with her photographic memory and everything, most of the anxiety came because she had to get on a plane. The test was in Boston this year and that was a flight across the country. Lexie knew the stats of a plane crashing were next to nothing but anything could happen and that worried her.
