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Chapter 20

Friday, September 19 – Saturday, September 20th

"Adalyn, do you know what tomorrow is?" Maks asks as he gets her into her car seat.

"My birthday!"

"Right! What else?"

"My party!"

"Right. Are you excited?"

"Da. Papa?"

"Da Adalyn?"

"Where are we going?"

"We have to go pick up things for your party."

"Where is Mama?"

"Mama has a meeting and then she has a doctor's appointment and some other errands to do. She'll meet us at home later."

"Oh ok."

Maks closes her car door and then climbs into his seat before driving away. They head off to the store. Once at the store, Maks gets Adalyn out and they walk into the store hand in hand. They are at a store where he knows they won't get spotted by paparazzi. Maks puts Adalyn in the large part of the shopping cart.

"Alright milaya devushka, let's look at the list of things we need that Mama gave me. Number 1, plates, cups, napkins, and silverware. Let's go look. Mama said you can pick whatever kind you want."

Maks pushes the cart, half paying attention to where he is going, half watching his beautiful daughter who in one day will be 4. September 20th Adalyn turns 4. The Chmerkovskiy family has something big with the 20th's. They got married on January 20th, they won DWTS on May 20th, and Adalyn's birthday is September 20th.

They are now at the aisle. It is overwhelming. There are so many options. He sure is glad Adalyn gets to do the picking.

"Alright, milaya devushka, look around. What do you like?" Maks places Adalyn on the ground so she can walk up and down the aisle. She stops in front of the Doc McStuffins themed plates.

"I want these Papa." Maks isn't surprised by her pick at all. He grabs a few packs of plates and puts them in the cart.

"You've got it milaya devushka. How about cups?"

She finds purple cups and picks those. She picks pink napkins. Maks then picks up plain white silverware.

"What's next Papa?"

"Table cloths. We need 4." The table cloths are in the next aisle over. He takes her hand and they walk to the next aisle together.

"I want pink, purple, and Doc."

"Let's look then."

They found the Doc table cloths right away. They pick up two. They then look at the color table cloths. There are so many different shades.

"Papa! Look at these one!"

"Wow, those are so cool! Do you want these?"

"Da, pozhaluysta."

"That was perfect Adalyn! Good job. Now let's pick up those table clothes and move onto the next item." He picks up one pink and one purple table cloth, but what makes them so special is that they are glittery.

"Ok. What now?"

"Hmm, nomer tri (number three), birthday girl crown."

"Oh yay!" She starts bouncing up and down. "Come on Papa! I want to pick a crown." She pulls his hand and they go off towards the crowns. She picks a crown with pink gems and a pink fluffy boa on the bottom.