Sheldon was livid, he found out that the "Rock Guy" Bert, was awarded the MacArthur Genius Grant and he was extremely jealous. He struck back, throwing a rock, but it landed on his foot. He tried to be happy for Bert, but when he told Sheldon he got to nominate someone for next year's award, he wanted to know if Sheldon knew any good engineers. Sheldon went off again and slipped and fell trying to attack the water fountain. It ended when Bert invited Sheldon to go see Ellen.
The following week, Amy asked Sheldon if he was interested in redecorating the apartment seeing they were co-habituating there. It got Sheldon to thinking and he decided he wanted to divvy up the property Leonard and he accumulated. They got into a huge argument, Sheldon ended up subleasing his room to a homeless bum. They made up and they ended up being best friends again. The worst part was that Penny was given the painting Amy had painted of herself and Penny. Meanwhile at the Wolowitz household, Stuart managed to get Howard and Bernadette to take him in seeing he was evicted from his place.
Howard loved it and so did Bernadette. They basically had their own live-in maid and chef. Raj got extremely jealous and Howard became the recipient of another house maid.
Howard was lying on the couch while Raj and Stuart put together a baby seat. Bernadette came out of the kitchen, "I think I'm in labor."
Howard hopped up, "Whoa, whoa, okay, I can do this. We have a plan." He turned to Raj and Stuart in a panic, "Somebody please tell me the plan."
Stuart turned to Raj, "I'll get the hospital bag." Raj blurted out, "I'll pull the van up." Stuart added, "Meet you outside in two minutes." Raj nodded, "Team "Baby," go!"
Howard hugged Bernie, "I love you!" She cried out, "I love you too."
Stuart came back into the room with the "to go bag", "Are we hugging or having a baby? Let's go!"
Raj sped across town as they rushed to the hospital. While they did this, Sheldon was sitting up in his bed while Amy slept. He was checking his phone, he tapped her on the shoulder, "Amy, wake up."
She rolled over and looked to him, "What's wrong?"
He showed her his phone, "It's midnight, "Happy Birthday!"
She smiled at him knowing what this meant. She let out a long sigh, "Sheldon!" She turned to put her glasses on and he picked up a New Year's Eve horn and blew it. She grabbed it, "Okay, you can have this back in the morning."
He turned on the light, "All right, this is for you." He grabbed hold of a Happy Birthday bag and placed it on the bed, "I was going to wrap it, but touching Scotch tape gives me the heebie-jeebies."
She pulled a frame from the bag, "What is this?"
He scoffed, "It's a functional MRI of my brain. I did Sudoku before they took it so I'd be ripped."
She grinned at him, "I love it, thank you."
"And it's not just an MRI; the orbitofrontal cortex is lit up because I was thinking of you."
She wrapped her arms around him and called out, "Sheldon!" She kissed him and pulled back still holding onto him.
He held her, "We seem to be moving on to the coitus portion of your birthday festivities."
She licked her lips, "Is that okay?"
He looked down, "I didn't put on my come-hither plaid pj's for nothing."
She chuckled, "You hate Scotch tape, but you love Scotch plaid. You are a mystery."
Sheldon turned off the light, Amy removed her glasses and they met in the middle of the bed in a passionate kiss. He pushed her onto her back and just then there was a knocking on their apartment door.
Penny yelled out from the hallway, "Guys, wake up. Bernadette's having her baby." Leonard added, "Come on, we're going to the hospital."
They sat up and Amy whispered, "I guess we should stop."
Sheldon nodded, "I'm afraid so." He turned on the light, "Childbirth, looming coitus? It's a banner night for female genitals."
At the hospital the nurse found out Bernadette's contractions were twelve minutes apart. She shook her head, "Go home, and come back when the contractions are five minutes apart for an hour."
Back at the apartment, the four of them hurried down the stairs. Penny spoke up, "Sheldon, what took you so long?"
"Wolowitz might hand out cigars. I had to find my bubble gum cigar so I could join in without looking foolish."
All of a sudden Penny's phone began ringing; she answered it, "Hey!"
Raj talked over the car's speaker phone, "Don't come to the hospital, we're headed home."
Penny scoffed, "That was fast, did she sneeze the baby out?"
They all smiled and Bernadette replied from the back seat, "We showed up too early. We'll keep you posted."
"Okay, well, we'll talk to you guys later, bye." She hung up and turned to Amy and Sheldon, "She said not to come; it's going to be a while."
Amy let out a sigh, "Well, first deliveries can be slow." She turned back to Sheldon, "Well, should we, uh, head back up?"
Penny cut in, "Come in, guys. We're all awake, why don't we go to a diner or something?"
Amy had something else on her mind, "Oh, uh, I don't know. Sheldon, you don't want to do that, do you?" She shook her head, hoping he took the hint.
"It doesn't matter what I want. It's your birthday, you decide."
Penny blurted out, "Oh, my God, it's your birthday! Let's do something fun."
Amy looked to Sheldon, "Uh--"