Life After Role Play

The next morning, I woke up at around 8.
I went to check Sophie’s room to see if she was awake, which she wasn’t yet, so I decided to go downstairs and get some stuff done.
I first sent a quick email to our interior decorator, letting her know that we need to start brain storming ideas for our two new babies.
I then sent an email to my friend Jennifer Garner, who I’ve done a couple movies with and asked her for a good babysitter because I was going to have to do some stuff this week that i’m sure wouldn’t get done if Sophie was there.
Finally, I started to make breakfast when I heard the soft cries of my sweet little girl.
I walked up into her room, to see her standing up.
“Hi my sweet baby” I said, lifting her up from her bed.
I had noticed this morning, that my baby bump was starting to get quite noticeable, and pretty big.
Sophie was kind of laying on top of it when I carried her downstairs.
I set her in her high chair before sticking a couple ego waffles in the toaster.
Once I heard them pop, I ripped them into bite sized pieces and set them down in front of her.
She didn’t like syrup (fortunately because that would be a mess to clean up) so she just ate it plain.
While she was eating I was responding to some emails and looking at some of the upcoming events that Harry and I were going to have to attend in the next couple of weeks.
Teen choice awards were coming up and One Direction was nominated for four of them, so we would definitely being attending those.
The MTV’s were in 2 months and the boys were nominated for one.
The Brit’s were coming up as well, so I needed to contact Modest to see if the boys would actually be attending them, or if they would be promoting their new album.
“Done” Sophie said, slamming her hands down on her high chair.
I lifted her out of her high chair and sat her on the floor.
“Soph, you wanna go over to see Aunt Perrie, Tyler and Ava?” I asked, knowing what her answer would be.

“See Ty and Ava!!” she said happily,
“Well, let’s go get dressed!” I said,
I walked upstairs behind her, making sure she wouldn’t fall, and followed her into her room.
She sat down on her floor, while I went into her huge closet to pick her out an outfit.
“How about this?” I said, holding up a white sweater, skinny jeans, a circle scarf, and her little moccasin booties.
“Ok” she said
I quickly slid it on her, before putting her hair into a high bun.
Once I was done getting her dressed, she followed me into Harry and I’s bedroom, where I switched on the TV for her while I got dressed.
I took a quick shower before straightening my hair and water fall braided it. Then I went to get dressed.
I walked into my massive closet deciding on something loose, so that I wouldn’t have to break out my maternity clothes yet.
Once I picked out my outfit, I walked back into my bathroom to apply makeup, perfume, deodorant, and to brush my teeth.
Once I was ready I decided to call Perrie, to make sure it was alright for us to come over, though I’m sure it was.
Her phone rang 2 times before she picked up.
“Aud!!” She said, happily through the phone.
“Hey Perrie! What are y’all up to today?” I asked, hoping she wouldn’t be busy so me and Soph could stop by.
“I’m taking the kiddos over to my parents house and then i’m flying out to see Z” she said, sounding excited.
Dang it.
“Oh fun!” I said, disappointed because I wanted to see my best friend.
“Well i’ve gotta run, i’ll call you tomorrow, send my love to sweet Soph” she said, and hung up.
Well hopefully Sophie wasn't too excited about going to see Tyler and Ava, because that wasn’t happening anymore.
I felt my phone buzz and saw that Jennifer Garner was calling me.
I gladly answered,
“Jen! How are you?” I said happily through the phone,
“I’m great! It’s been too long Aud! We need to get together for coffee or something soon!” she said,
“Definitely” I responded,
“Well the reason I’m calling is because I saw your email this morning, and I sent you the list of the babysitters! I put them in order of who my kids like the best.” she giggled,
“You’re the best, thanks so much!” I said,
“I actually hear one of my kids waking up, but text me and let’s try to meet up for coffee one day! I miss hanging out with you!” she said,
“Sounds good! Talk to you soon.” I said before hanging up.
Today I needed to meet with my interior decorator, and start to get these nurseries planned out. The babies would be here in a few months, so we needed to get this going.
I checked my business email to see that Jen had sent me the list of babysitters with their phone numbers and contact information.
I decided to call the first one on the list. It was a girl named Caroline Adams who looked quite cute.
I dialed her number and she picked up after three rings,
“Hi Caroline?” I asked,
“Yes this is Caroline, who is this?” she asked politely,
“Hi, my names Audrey Styles, i’m a close friend of Jennifer Garner and she gave me your contact information.” I said into the phone.
“Oh no way, I know who you are!” she said excitedly,
I laughed a little, “I was actually calling to see if you could watch my daughter today? It would only be about three or four hours!”
“Of course! That sounds great!” she said happily into the phone,
“Perfect, can you be here in the next 30 minutes?” I asked,
“Sure!” she answered,
“Great. I’ll text you my address. Thanks so much Caroline, i’m glad you were available!” I said before hanging up.
I quickly sent our address to her, before shutting my phone off and going to get Sophie from our bedroom.
When I walked in I saw her sprawled out on our bed watching Princess Sophia.
I flipped the TV off.
“No. I want on” she said pointing to the TV.
“No baby, you are gonna go downstairs with mommy” I said scooping up my little girl.
“Why?” she said, looking at me while I carried her downstairs.
“Because i’m gonna turn a movie on down here for you to watch. My friend Caroline, is going to come over and play with you!” I said enthusiastically so she wouldn’t be sad that I was leaving.
Harry and I have never really needed a babysitter. We’ve either brought Soph with us, or left her with one of the boys. But since they are on tour right now, it was pretty necessary for me to call a babysitter.
“No leave Mama” she said with a pout on her face.
I set her down on the couch, and turned on Frozen. She immediately forgot about me leaving and instead was focused on the movie.
I heard the doorbell ring, and I walked over to answer it.

“Hi, so nice to meet you, Caroline!” I said holding my hand out so she could shake my hand.
“You too! You’re home is amazing!” she said looking around outside.
“You’re too sweet. Come inside and meet Sophie!” I said shutting the door behind her.
We walked into the kitchen where I told Caroline she could set her purse down.

I walked over to where Sophie was laying down on the couch, with a pacifier in her mouth, and her lamby by her side.
“Sophie can you say hi to Caroline? She is going to be playing with you for the next couple hours!”
She sat up and smiled before burying her head into my side.
“Hi” she said quietly.
“Hi Sophie, it’s nice to meet you! I love you're outfit!” she said happily.
“Tank yoo” Sophie said,
For a two year old, Sophie had amazing manners. Harry and I both came from families where we were raised to shake peoples hands, make eye contact, and be polite in general, so we made sure to pass on those lessons with Soph.
“Caroline, you wanna follow me in here so I can give you the low down?” I said,
“Sure!” Caroline answered,
We walked over to the kitchen table.
“So Sophie is probably going to need a nap around 12:30-1, and she can sleep for however long she needs to. After that you can feed her lunch. For lunch she will probably just eat some of these cheese cubes, some grapes, and some puffs. Feel free to help yourself to anything in the pantry or fridge!” I said,
“After lunch you guys can hangout, watch a movie, play, do whatever, and I should be back around 3:30ish if that’s alright with you?” I asked,
“Of course, that sounds great!” she said happily,

“She’s a really easy toddler so hopefully she shouldn’t be too much trouble. And also, if you don’t mind please don’t post any pictures of her, or any of our house, my husband is pretty big on privacy so we don’t want people to stalk you down or our house or anything!”
“Oh I definitely won’t do that. I babysit for Jennifer Garner’s kids and she has the same rule” she said with a smile.
“Well awesome, I’m gonna get going, but you two have fun!” I said,

I grabbed my purse and walked over to Sophie.

“Okay baby Mommy’s gonna leave now, but you are gonna play with Caroline ok?” I said, hoping she wouldn’t throw a fit.
“Bye Bye” she said,
I reached down and kissed her cheek, before saying goodbye and heading out to my Range Rover.
I quickly dialed my interior designers phone number and we planned to meet for lunch in 20 minutes at one of my favorite restaurants downtown.
When I arrived, I slipped on my Gucci sunglasses and grabbed my purse.
I noticed that there were a few paparazzi behind me and they were all jumping out of their cars to try to snap a photo before I went into the resteraunt.
Fortunately I jumped out fast and there were only about 5 paps.
I saw my interior designer, Linda, and made my way over to her.
“Hey Linda, how are you?” I asked,
“Great, and yourself?” she said, giving me a hug.
“I’m doing good!”
The rest of lunch was filled with picking out cribs, rugs, colors, etc.
By the time we were done we had both rooms pretty much planned out.

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