are you my daddy?

lets fly away....

June 3rd 2016

TAYLOR POV

We'd stayed in New York just getting used to being 4 instead of 3 and not going out very often in the past month or so.
They say the second child is not much different from the first, apart from the fact there's a toddler running around. Luckily Livy is quite well behaved for her young age, and always wants to help out with Lucas especially when it came to giving him a bath. Lucas was basically the perfect baby, sleeping at least 4 hours at a time and never screaming that much, even when no one was paying attention to him. A few nights the house had been manic with two tired kids crying and equally tired parents trying their best to comfort them, but luckily music was really in the kids’ blood since whenever Harry or I got out a guitar and started singing they quietened down.

I was 5 months away from the release of my 6th album, and Harry was busy finishing recording with the boys for their 5th album being released around the same time as mine. They had come around to the idea of taking 2 years to write and record since they all had serious partners now and were also completely writing the music themselves instead of taking songs written by others.

We had had many (MANY) visitors over the last month including all the 1D boys, Harry's family, his friends and all of my friends.

Today we were heading to LA for the Teen Choice Awards. It was the first time we were going on the plane with 2 kids under the age of 3..... I was worried about how Luca would react to being in the air, hut hopefully he will love it as much as Livy did at his age... We had packed lots of activities for Livy to do on the trip so she would be occupied and packed everything possible for Lucas to deal with any situation that might arise.

HARRYPOV

Taylor was obviously worried about travelling with the kids, but she soon realised her worries were unnecessary when both kids were fast asleep within 20 minutes of taking off.

"Are you looking forward to the show?" I asked her as we sat together watching Livy and Lucas sleep across from us.

"Sort of....I guess. It's a little daunting since it's the first time we'll be out since Lucas was born." Taylor replies, yawning and leaning on me.

We had decided to not release Lucas's name or picture, avoiding the paps as much as possible.  We try to not put up too many pictures of Livy bit since she's mobile and loves the park it's harder to stop photos being taken of her.

"You've got the best babysitters organized. The kids will be fine!" I assure her, reminding her that she had Abigail and Matt staying at the house with the kids for the evening. Livy loved her aunt and uncle, and Lucas took a shining to them when they had visited a couple of weeks earlier. "Also it's a daytime event so we will be home by 6 or 7 at the latest."

"You're right....you always know what to say babe!" Taylor replied, brushing my hair off my forehead and pressing a long kiss to my brow as she got up to feed Luke who was just looking around, taking in the whole plane experience.

June 5th 2016- Teen Choice Day

TAYLORPOV

Abi and Matt arrived last night meaning that I was more than comfortable leaving the kids with them as they had had time to get to know each other and for me to explain the general schedule I try to keep Livy and Lucas on. It makes our lives easier if they have pretty constant feeding and sleeping times, although they vary a lot depending on where we are and who's doing what.

Since it was only the teen choice awards, we didn’t have hair and makeup here. I was wearing a dark red and pink dress with roses on it, while Harry was wearing a dark grey t-shirt and a black jacket with black skinny jeans. I was still quite self conscious about my body, so wasn't going to flaunt my stomach like last time I was at the show in 2014 when I wore a crop top. I felt like this new era was going to be more reserved again, no more short shorts and crop tops...or at least fewer, I am a mother of two and soon to be wife but I’m only 26 after all.

When we got to the show, Harry held my hand tightly and we posed for photos. We also met up with Selena on the carpet, and the boys from 1D, but we were able to walk and get photos together. There weren’t any interviews either which was great, since I would find it hard to not mention Lucas or just gush about my life to absolute strangers.... which was starting to become a problem- I’m just a proud momma!

Neither I nor the boys won any awards, but we enjoyed the show to the fullest dancing like maniacs and clapping like crazy for all our friends. It was actually really nice to get out of the house and not have to carry a million and one kiddie items or worry about our crazy soon-to-be 3 year old running off to goodness knows where.

After the show we mingled around with some of our friends and said hi to a bunch of fans that were lined up to get autographs and pictures, but I quickly got very anxious to get back home to see my babies. Harry knew this; he had a sort of sixth sense about it all, and led me towards the car gently. We had invited the 1D boys over but they all had plans that evening, or didn’t want to disturb us, but we agreed they’d come over for a pool party the next day with their girlfriends. Louis and Zayn were both actually engaged, with Liam and Niall having serious long term girlfriends.

HARRY POV

I knew Taylor wanted to get home, she sort of looks around and her eyes look sad when she starts to miss the kids and I can always tell.

We got home to find a blanket fort had been constructed in our living room, with Livy, Lucas, Matt and Abi inside watching the little mermaid on an iPad inside. It was very cosy and looked like a perfect afternoon. There was also a wonderful smell which I identified as homemade cookies in the kitchen. As soon as Livy saw us peering under the blankets, she jumped up and scurried out luckily without bumping anyone or anything.

“Mommmmy and Dadddddyy home!” She squealed, running around in circles until Taylor caught her and picked her up.

“Hey Miss Olivia! Did you have fun today?” Taylor asked.

“Yup!” She said, burying her head in Taylors shoulder. 

“How were they?” I asked Matt as they got out of the fort passing me a sleeping Lucas.

“Lucas was very well behaved, basically sleeping unless he needed food or changing. Livy was....um...very energetic, so we played for ages then Abi got her to help bake cookies, then we built this fort and watched a movie.” He explained

“Ah, well thanks man! It’s great to have you guys here!” I told him.

The girls had all made their way into the kitchen, probably to check the cookies or whatever. Me and matt decided to go downstairs to the TV room and watch a football/soccer match that was on, with Lucas sleeping through it all, as usual.