Rory was standing near the bar at her and Logan's wedding reception when Lorelai walked over to her. "How's it going, Mrs Huntzberger?" She asked teasingly.
Rory chuckled.
"You're blushing" Lorelai said.
"Shut up" Rory said.
"So where's your husband?" Lorelai asked.
"He took Matthew to the bathroom, because apparently he's 'too big to go to the girls bathroom' and wanted Logan to take him to the men's" Rory said.
"Yeah, you were also around 4 years old when you became more aware that there's a difference between boys and girls, and that was also when you wouldn't let me help you get dressed anymore"
Rory chucked. Just then Logan wrapped his arms around her from behind. "Hi" he said and kissed her cheek.
"Hi" Rory said. "Did you lose my kid?"
"He saw Amy as we were walking out of the bathroom and insisted that he needed to go to her" Logan said.
"Ok"
——
After their wedding, Rory and Logan spent a week in Paris. When they got back, they went to Friday night dinner at the Gilmore's.
"So how was Paris?" Emily asked. "I wanna hear everything"
"It was their honeymoon, mom" Lorelai said. "I'm not sure you wanna hear everything"
"Lorelai" Emily rolled her eyes.
"Don't be gross" Rory said.
"Why is it gross?" Matthew asked
"Um...I'll tell you later" Rory said, hoping that Matthew would forget. "Why don't you tell your grandparents what you're doing tomorrow"
"Tee ball! Matthew said excitedly.
"Oh, that's fun" Lorelai said
"Because I'm gonna play baseball" Matthew said
"That's great"
One day in November, Colin and Stephanie came over with their 2 kids. Ava, who was 4, and Jackson, who was 6.
The kids were outside, jumping on the trampoline and Rory and Stephanie were sitting on the patio while Logan and Colin had gone to get pizza for everyone.
"So uh...can we expect little blond haired, blue eyed, baby Huntzbergers anytime soon?" Stephanie asked.
"Well, we do want to have a baby, but I'm a little nervous about it"
"Why? You've done it before. You know what it's like"
"About a year and a half ago I had a miscarriage" Rory said. "I'm just worried that I'll get pregnant and it'll happen again"
"I get that" Stephanie said. "But if you want a baby, you shouldn't let that stop you"
"I know"
"Plus, trying to have a baby means you get to have a lot of sex with your hot husband"
"Steph!"
"Ok, I'm happily married, but anyone with eyes can see that your husband is ridiculously hot"
"That's not the part I had a problem with" Rory said
"Oh, come on. Trying to get pregnant is fun"
"Trying to get pregnant is stressful"
"You know what's good for stress relief?"
"What?"
"Orgasms" Stephanie said. "And trying to get pregnant means a lot of that"
Rory laughed.
"So, how long do you think they can jump for?" Stephanie asked. The kids had been on the trampoline for almost 20 minutes and showed no signs of getting tired.
"I don't know about yours, but Matthew will jump until I make him stop"
Logan, Rory, and Matthew spent Thanksgiving with the Huntzbergers but they decided to have a quiet Christmas, just the three of them and Cody.
Rory and Logan were sitting on the couch, drinking coffee and watching Matthew play with his presents.
"Mommy, say cheese" Matthew said. He got a little kiddie camera that printed out the pictures he took.
"Cheese" Rory said. Matthew took a picture of her and once it printed, he gave it to her. "Thank you, baby"
"Can you help me open my play doh?" Matthew asked
"I'll help you" Logan said. One the package of little play doh containers was open, Matthew went downstairs to get his bucket of play doh tools (rolling pins, cookie cutters, etc...) from the playroom.
"Hey, so I wanted to talk to you about something" Rory said once Matthew was out of the room.
"What's going on?" Logan asked.
"Remember when we talked about wanting to have a baby once we were married?"
"What are you saying?" Logan asked. He thought that Rory was about to tell him that she was pregnant.
"I'm not pregnant"
"Ok...then what?"
"I'm not pregnant, but I think that I want to be"
"Ok" Logan said
"Really?"
"Yeah" Logan smiled. "Let's try to have a baby"
"Let's try to have a baby"
——
One night in January, Rory was asleep with Logan's arms around her when Matthew walked into the bedroom and gently nudged her. Matthew was 5 and didn't really wake up at night anymore, so Rory was a little worried that something was wrong.
"What's wrong, baby?" Rory whispered.
"It's too cold"
"What?"
"It's cold in my room"
"I'm coming" Rory said. She got out of bed and followed Matthew to his room. The heat was on in the whole house so there was no reason his room should be cold, but of course, Rory walked into his room and it was significantly colder than the rest of the house. "Buddy, I don't know why the heat's not working in here. You can come sleep with us and we'll fix it tomorrow, ok?"
Matthew nodded.
"Come" she said. Rory and Mathew went back into Rory and Logan's bedroom and got into bed. The next morning Rory woke up alone in bed. When she got up, she found Matthew and Logan in Matthew's room. "Hey, what's going on?"
"Logan's fixing my heater" Matthew said.
"That's nice. I hope you said thank you"
"I did"
——
One afternoon in March, Logan got home just in time for 3 kids to run past him. He walked into the kitchen where Rory was sitting with Paris. He walked over to Rory and kissed her. "Hi"
"Hi" Rory said.
"Hi Paris" Logan said
"Logan"
"Matthew was asking me if you can help him with his bike now that it's not raining" Rory said. Matthew still had hood balance bike that Logan got him for Christmas 2 years before, but now that he was getting bigger, Rory bought him a regular bike. She figured that since it so m was getting warmer out, it would be good for him to have. Logan had promised that he'd teach Matthew how to ride it, but it had been raining since Rory bought the bike.
"Of course"
Later that evening, once Paris had taken her kids home, Logan got Matthew's new bike out of the garage and brought it to the driveway to teach him how to ride it. Once Matthew could ride the bike without Logan holding him up, Logan went to sit on the front steps with Rory.
"Thanks for teaching him" Rory said.
"Happy to do it" Logan said.
They sat in silence for a few moments, just watching Matthew ride his bike, and then Rory said something that surprised Logan. "I think I might be pregnant"
"Are you serious?" Logan asked. They'd been trying to have a baby for a few months and Logan was really excited to hear that it might actually be happening.
"I'm not sure" Rory said
"What makes you think you're pregnant?" Logan asked.
"My period's a week late" Rory said. "I didn't realize until this morning"
"Ok. So what now?"
"I wanna take a pregnancy test" Rory said. "But not now. After he's asleep"
"Ok"
A little while later Rory realized that she didn't actually have a pregnant test so while she was getting Matthew ready for bed, Logan went to get one.
Once Matthew was asleep, Rory took the test and Logan was sitting on the edge of their bed, anxiously waiting for the results.
He waited for what felt like forever- even though in reality it was only about 5 minutes- until Rory walked out of the bathroom holding the pregnancy test and stood in the doorway.
"Ace?"
"It's still blinking" Rory said.
"Blinking?"
"Yeah, there's a little flashing dot that blinks until-" Rory stopped talking.
"What just happened?" Logan asked
"It's positive" Rory said
"Really?"
Rory nodded.
Logan got up and kissed Rory before hugging her tight. "I love you so much" he said before kissing her again.
"I love you too"
——
2 weeks later Rory and Logan found themselves in a doctor's office. After Rory had her blood drawn, and a few other checks done, the doctor came in to do an ultrasound.
"Ok, so just based on your last period I'd say that you're 7 weeks pregnant, putting your due date at November 15th 2017" Dr Lee said "but I'll be able to tell better with the ultrasound"
"Ok" Rory said and the doctor started Rory's ultrasound.
"Is there a big difference between breastfeeding and formula?" Logan asked
"What?" Rory asked and looked over at Logan who was looking at a poster on the wall. "Oh, um, it really depends who you ask"
"I'm asking you"
"I think everyone should do whatever they want as long as they're not starving their babies" Rory said. "Matthew was breastfed though and I'll probably do it with this one too unless you think otherwise"
"Huh" Dr Lee said
"What huh?" Logan asked. "Is huh bad?"
"No. Sorry" the doctor said and turned the screen around so they could see it. She pointed to a spot on the ultrasound. "Do you see that little dot?"
"Yeah" Rory nodded.
"That's your baby"
"Wow" Logan said and kissed Rory's forehead.
"And up here..." Dr Lee said as she moved the ultrasound wand a little bit. "is another baby"
"Oh, my God" Rory said. "Are you kidding?"
"I'm not kidding. Not only that, but this..." she moved the ultrasound again. "Is also a baby"
"3 babies?" Logan asked, surprised but what he was hearing.
"3 babies" Dr Lee said. "Triplets"
Rory laughed nervously. "This is a joke, right?" She asked. She was completely thrilled to be having a baby, but she and Logan were only planning on having one baby together, ever. They definitely weren't planning on having 3 at the same time.
"I know it's a shock" Dr Lee said.
"That's an understatement"
——
"Triplets" Rory said as she and Logan got in the car.
"I know" Logan sighed. "How do you feel?"
"A little nauseous" Rory said. "I don't even what to think. I mean, 3 babies is a lot. 3 times the crying, 3 times the feedings, 3 times the diapers. Oh, my god, It's gonna be so many diapers. Newborns go through like 12 diapers a day. We're having triplets. That's 36 diapers a day. Triplets mean 3 times the mess, and 3 times the laundry. It's just a lot to take in"
"I know" Logan said. "It's a lot, but it's also 3 times the love, and 3 times the cuddles, and 3 times the laughter"
Rory sighed. He was right. Triplets meant more of the hard stuff, but it also meant more of the good. "I can't believe we're having triplets" Rory said with a laugh.
"Me neither"