LINK: Telling my folks that they're gonna be grandparents should never, EVER lead to my Mom showing my new wife my own baby photos.

Cameras should be illegal when you have kids.

[With doesntwaltz, a68whiskey, nevergonnamiss]

Rob was awed. And shocked, and ecstatic, and just plain dumbfounded. It was really difficult to navigate all of those emotions at once, and because of this, he was just walking around with this goofy smile on his face, eyes planted on the ultrasound photo as much as it could be. In fact, even now, as they walked up the hall of the ( Read more... )

LINK: Rob knew it technically wasn't a miracle to make a baby, but when the doctor confirmed that Leila was not only pregnant, but eighteen weeks pregnant, all he could do was give a disbelieving laugh and gape at the screen with a strange sensation that someone was about to tell him it was all just a huge joke.

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[Follows THIS | Backdated to Mother's Day]Rob tossed his car keys onto the bed and then up-ended the paper bag from the pharmacy he had just arrived back at the Austin home with, tipping out no less than six different pregnancy tests. No two boxes looked alike and he turned to Leila sheepishly. "I didn't know which one to get!" he said, already on ( Read more... )

It was one of those days Rob just really didn't want to get out of bed. Not so much a bad day, but just a day he didn't really want to face anyone but his wife. He had them occasionally, where he was content to stick out the daylight hours in an oblivious coocoon just with Leila. They were still stopped at Mike's family home, and probably would be ( Read more... )

LINK: Rob could only smile at Leila sheepishly when she caught him staring at her belly as if she was about to sprout a pregnancy bump before his eyes if he willed it hard enough.

[Follows THIS]For as long as he could remember, Rob had been a light sleeper. A lot of it was probably born of being a soldier, but it never took much to wake him up. It had been a pain in the ass when he had been recuperating from the whole getting blown up thing. He had been a cranky bastard more often than not both from pain and lack of sleep, ( Read more... )

After leaving Mike's room, Leila had ducked to the bathroom and Rob had stepped out onto the back porch of the Austin home. The air was cool and crisp, but not exactly cold. Fine enough for Rob to be standing out there in a short-sleeved button up shirt. He was standing on the back steps, looking up at the stars in the clear Texas sky, a pensive ( Read more... )

[Follows THIS]It was true that Rob had been a little distracted since Mike had fleetingly revealed that he had been shot in the leg. He wasn't brooding on it or anything, especially not since they had reached Texas and saw with their own eyes that Mike was as okay as someone who nearly had their foot blown off could be. It just seemed to tug them ( Read more... )

LINK: Tent sex by candlight really should have been awesome, but when Rob realised this was the first time he was about to have sex with his wife without birth control, it suddenly had his anatomy at, er, ease with performance anxiety.