Since giving birth to her children, Stella needed enough nutrition to breastfeed, causing her to not have
the intent to lose weight.
However, she didn't eat as much as she did during pregnancy. Besides, she had to take care of the
three children and breastfeed several times every night.
Although Dolores and Alisa were looking after the children, Clarence would try to keep the children fed
in the middle of the night without waking Stella up.
Being a mother, how could she not worry? Even if she hadn't lost as much weight as before pregnancy,
she'd lost about ten pounds.
Clarence asked, "Are you on a diet?"
Stella had just put the two children to sleep and said in a low voice, "How is that possible?"
Perhaps because of the weight loss, which had led to a lack of milk these days.
There used to be more saved for Noah, but now it was just enough for twins.
Knowing that she hadn't rested well recently because she had to breastfeed, Clarence said, "I've asked
the doctor. You can mix milk powder if you don't have enough milk. Thus, you can sleep better at
night."
Stella shook her head and refused, "Powder can't be better than milk. Just leave it to me. Today, I
talked about it with both mum and Alisa and asked them to stew more milk-boosting soups and foods
afterwards."
After a while, Clarence asked, "How long do you have to feed them?"
"Usually six months, I can feed supplement, mixed with milk powder."
By that time, her breast milk should be gone.
Clarence took the baby from her arms and put it in the cot, "Go to sleep. You have to go out tomorrow,
don't you?"
Stella remembered that Sherry's wedding was coming up. She had to go shopping for wedding
supplies with her tomorrow.
The weather was getting better lately, and the sunlight was filled with the scent of summer.
Stella used the breast pump to prepare the afternoon meal for the twins in advance and left with Noah
with ease.
When they reached the entrance to the mall, Sherry came to pick them up and looked around, "Where
are the twins?"
"They're too young to go out."
Sherry thought so, so he teased Noah, who had grown a bit, "Baby, remember me?"
Noah's eyes curved and showed a few cute little teeth, "Auntie Sherry."
"So good, what do you like? Tell auntie later. Auntie will buy it for you."
"Alright, no need. Yours is important today."
It was her first time getting married, so Sherry didn't know what to buy, so she made a list and bought
them one by one.
Halfway through the shopping, she couldn't help but go to the baby shop, buying crazily.
"I'm buying for my two goddaughters. It's my duty. Don't stop me."
Stella thought about it and corrected, "Actually, you should call them nieces."
Sherry was embarrassed.
She tried her best to retort, "I don't care. It's my goddaughters."
Stella smiled, "Fine, okay, call it whatever you like."
At the end of the shopping, they sat outside to rest.
While playing with Noah, Sherry said, "Have the two little babies gotten their names yet?"
"Yes." Stella spoke slowly, "One is called Estelle, and the other is called Ella. The nicknames are,
respectively, Lele and Lala."
Sherry was surprised, "It sounds like Clarence's style, awesome."
Stella smiled and responded.
He wanted to be with her forever.
On the matter of nicknames, there was a story.
When Stella heard the nicknames he gave, she wanted to asked if Noah's nickname would be Hooray.
Clarence was silent for a few seconds and told her to sleep.
In the middle of the night, Stella suddenly thought of Horace Jason.
She finally understood why Clarence had put her to bed.
Sherry laughed as she listened.
She then asked, "So what's Noah's nickname?"
Stella felt speechless.
Every time she brought up it, Stella wanted to beat up Clarence.
When he told her that day that Noah's nickname was "No-no", she was flabbergasted.
He explained earnestly, "Don't you think this name represents a statement? No, no, life can't beat me."
Later, Stella felt that he was right. Noah had suffered so many illnesses and hardships from when he
was in her belly until now that he should probably be given a common name.
But she still felt it was too common.
Was this a name that the father could come up with?
Stella didn't talk to him for two days because of this. After two days, Clarence couldn't stand sleeping in
the study, so he came to apologize to her, saying that if she wasn't satisfied, it was okay to call Noah
"Noey".
Finally, Clarence slept in the study for another week.
Therefore, Noah's maiden name had not yet been decided, but Stella could often hear Clarence
secretly calling Noah "No-no".
Every time she found out, her blood pressure rose up a little.
Sherry felt funny hearing this, "Clarence is too willful to even not bully his son. Luckily you gave birth to
two daughters this time. If it was to be two sons again..."
Stella took her words in annoyance, "I could be pissed off."
However, Clarence gradually got along well with Noah, who sometimes called him daddy.
When they'd rested enough, they continued shopping.
Sherry had everything she bought to be delivered directly to her home, so they were not that tired.
When they were about to leave, they turned around and saw a familiar figure holding a two-year-old
boy in his arms.
Both Stella and Sherry stopped in their tracks as they looked at each other.
It was Horace who greeted first, "Hey, it's been a long time."
Sherry pointed to the child, "This is?"
Horace smiled and explained, "This is my sister's child."
Sherry nodded, "No wonder, I thought you had no kids."
Soon, Horace's eyes fell back on Stella, who raised a smile, "Long time no see."
"Indeed."
He looked at the Noah and was about to say something as he said that.
Seeing this, Stella said, "This is my son. Baby, call Uncle Horace."
Noah looked up at him. His voice was adenoidal. "Uncle Horace."
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