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the obnoxiously hot weather had forced everyone to stop working or filming and spend the rest of the afternoon outside in the pool.
mia was laughing at something max had said and i couldn't help but just stare at her.
her dark brown hair and been pulled back loosely in a clip, bits of hair had fallen out and framed her face, some she tucked behind her ears.
she was ethereal.
her white bikini string was tied around her neck, her signature "j" necklace hung off her neck and dainty collarbones.
and don't even get me started on now seeing her with stella made me melt. stella was giggling as mia playfully dipped her in the water.
mia was an amazing mom. she was always up for the 3am feed, she always knew the perfect ratio for making the homemade baby food, she could calm stella in record time and somehow managed to get all the chores done in the 30 minute spans that stella naps during the day.
mia was always calm, even when stella would hit her head on a corner of the coffee table, even when stella was balling her eyes out because she was teething and even when i was being frustrating, mia always kept it together.
"dada!" stella giggled, holding her little arms out at me and i smiled, and mia walked a few feet over in the pool towards me and let stella swim a few inches over to me.
ian was lying on a pool chair, sunbathing, and max was sitting on the pool steps, wearing sunglasses and with a beer in hand.
mia hooked her fingers around her white string bikini bottoms and hiked them up over her hips, and her arms wrapped around her stomach.
she was self conscious, always had been. but especially since stella was born, she insisted her body was "different now", but she was still fucking stunning, always has been, and always will be.
she grew an entire human being and pushed it out, only being in labour for 3 hours with her first baby. she was fucking amazing.
"what should we do for dinner?" mia asked, splashing some water towards max who hissed in response.
"we have a bunch of fruit, maybe a big fruit salad? it'll be cold and refreshing." she smiled and i nodded, "sounds perfect."
"sure," max mumbled. "it's so fucking hot i can't move." ian groaned, "hey! no swearing around the baby!" mia insisted, and ian sighed muttering an apology.
"kids are like sponges ian, and now that she's talking she picks up everything we say!" mia sighed, she repeated these two sentences every time someone swore in the house, usually being max or ian.
"i'm gonna go get stella changed," mia smiled, and i handed stella over to her. stella was wearing a white one piece with little strawberries on them.
"come here baby," mia smiled, and stella immediately settled down on mias side, mia walked out of the pool and wrapped herself in a white towel, wrapping stella up in a separate towel and walking into the house.
mia
i quickly changed stella into her diaper and a little pink dress, and set her back down on the bed.
i grabbed a long white sun dress and pulled it on, smiling as the fabric flowed around my ankles.
"mama! be-berries!" she stuttered, and i grinned, letting my hair down from my clip and letting it fall down my shoulders.
