Disclaimer: I am getting paid for none of this, but I did create Bella. If you want to use her be my guest (:
A/N: I wanted to do a series revolving around Eric, Calleigh, and their daughter Isabella. My cousin Aubrey was helping me write this story (she's only four! She wasn't really helping me per se, just giving me ideas), and I asked her to pick a name for me and she choose Bella (That's her 6 month old maltipoo's name. haha) so I made it Isabella, Bella for short. Each story will be connected I guess, they're going to all be about random times I their lives. Bella's going to be about 2 ½ years old.
Sunlight entered the room through slats in the blinds, causing light to beam right in the face of Calleigh Delko. She groaned and placed her hand over her eyes, trying in vain to drift back to sleep. Then it dawned on her, today was her day off. She quickly sat up and stretched her arms to the ceiling, relishing in the feeling of being so carefree. She hadn't had a time off since Isabella was born, and that could hardly be counted as time off. She decided that today she was going to be lazy and not do anything. Out of habit she carefully slipped out of bed, and then realized that Eric was already at work. She smiled to herself at the thought of spending the day with her daughter, just the two of them. She made her way into the bathroom and splashed some cool water onto her face. After, she applied moisturizer to her skin because Florida sunshine was unforgiving to her fair skin. Once she was finished in the bathroom she padded her way down the hall to her daughter's room. When she had first found out that Calleigh was having a little girl, Chlorinda Delko had insisted on decorating the nursery for her. Calleigh had to admit the room looked spectacular. The furniture, which consisted of a crib, a changing table with a mirror, a rocking chair, and a small bookcase, were all painted the same shade of creamy white. The walls were painted a faint pink, while the sheets of the crib and the pad of the changing table were covered in pink cloth with white roses. Over the crib hung a sheer canopy, like the ones in the story books. Covering the walls were various pictures of Bella, and a few of the whole family. On the wall opposite the crib, wooden letters hung spelling out Isabella's name. Stuffed animals were placed around the room, and various picture books lined the shelves of the bookcase. When Calleigh had first saw the room she had sworn that it looked like a picture in a magazine. As she rounded the corner she heard that faint noise of a rainforest coming from the sound generator that Bella slept with, another gift from abuela. She pushed open the door and smiled when she spotted Bella standing in her crib grinning from ear to ear, her curly brown hair mused from sleeping on it. Calleigh had quickly learned that her daughter would not cry for her unless it was an absolute emergency, instead she opted on waiting until either mommy or daddy came to get her.
"Mommy!" She squealed, holding out her arms to Calleigh when she approached the crib. Calleigh smiled and picked her daughter up, and began to spin her around the room which caused Bella to erupt in a fit of giggles. It was a sound that could warm Calleigh's heart even after the worst of days. She never got tired of hearing the sound of her daughter's laughter.
"Good morning little girl," she said after they had stopped spinning, smoothing her daughter's hair in the process. "Did you sleep well?"
"Mhhmmm...," Bella replied, playing with her mom's hair. Then it dawned on her. "Whys yous not at work wit daddy?" She questioned a confused look on her face. Calleigh just laughed.
"Mommy has the day off. So that means I get to spend the whole day with you," she replied, poking Bella's stomach for emphasis causing her to giggle again. Bella was ecstatic. She usually didn't get to see her parents until very late in the after noon. One of them usually dropped her off at daycare, and then her abuela picked her up in the afternoon. She would stay at her house until one, or both, of her parents came to pick her up.
"Me's not going to daycare?" She asked. It wasn't that she didn't like daycare; no in fact she loved it, but she would much rather spend the day with her mommy.
"Nope," Calleigh replied smiling brightly. She then moved to change Bella's diaper and put a barrette in her hair to keep her bangs out of her eyes. When they were all done Calleigh carried Bella downstairs and deposited her on the couch. "Do you want to watch a movie?"
"NEMO!" Bella squealed.
"Why did I even ask?" Calleigh replied, rolling her eyes in the process. Finding Nemo was Bella's latest obsession, last week it had been The Lion King. Who knew what it was going to be the next week. After putting the DVD into the player and powering up the TV, Calleigh made her way into the kitchen.
"Do you want some apple juice Bella?
"Yes"
"Yes what?"
"Yes pwease"
"Thank you," Calleigh congratulated her daughter. She and Eric had been desperately trying to teach Bella her manners; it seemed to be working though. Bella usually said please and she always said thank you. After grabbing a sippy cup out of the cupboard and pouring some apple juice into it, Calleigh made her way back into the room where her daughter's eyes were fixed on the sea creatures swimming across the TV.
"Here you go princess," Calleigh said with her arm outstretched to hand her daughter the sippy cup.
"Tank you mommy," Bella replied happily taking the cup from Calleigh hand. Once Calleigh sat down Bella immediately plopped herself down into her mother's lap.
"I love you Bella" Bella turned around to face her mom, green eyes locking with green eyes. She used her small hands to grab her mother's face.
"I wove you too mommy," she replied in all seriousness and dropped a kiss onto Calleigh's nose. Calleigh smiled and enveloped her daughter in a hug. After the movie was over and they had eaten their breakfast, Calleigh decided that they should make cookies.
"Wet's make choco chip cookies," Bella replied when her mother asked her what kind of cookies she wanted to make. Calleigh only laughed.
"Chocolate chip it is then." Bella carefully watched as her mother got the dough out of the refrigerator and began to make small balls out of it. "Can you do this Bella?"
"Yes," she replied happily grabbing a small handful of dough into her tiny hands. She began patting the sides of the dough and sat it down on the cookie sheet next to her mother's. "Like this mommy?"
"Very good princess," Calleigh replied, astonished at the nearly perfect balls of dough that her 2 year-old-daughter was able to produce. "I think that you're going to be a chef when you grow up!"
"A chef?" She questioned mispronouncing the word.
"Yep, someone who makes food"
"Oh, otay," She replied, going back to the task at hand. "Are wes makin cookies for daddy?"
"If you want"
"No! Dis cookies is for mommy and Bella, no daddy!" She replied, a frown appearing on her small face. Calleigh chuckled at her daughter's reaction.
"That's right Bella; these cookies are going to be just for you and me. Daddy can't have any." Calleigh smiled when her daughter looked up at her and gave her a lopsided grin that was almost an exact replica of her father's. They spent the afternoon making cookies, and when they were in the oven Calleigh watched the news, while Bella fell asleep in her lap. About an hour later, after Bella had woken up from her nap, the timer on the oven signaled that the cookies were done.
"Cookies!" Bella screamed running towards the kitchen.
"Bella don't run," Calleigh warned. Bella slowed down to a walk, but soon continued running once she was out of sight. Calleigh rolled her eyes. Where had she gotten this stubbornness from? It couldn't have been her. Must have been Eric.
When the cookies were out of the oven and cooling on the rack, Calleigh heard the door leading into the garage open.
"Bella, guess who's home?"
"DADDY!" She screamed, running towards the door.
"Princessa," The sound of Eric's voice carried into the kitchen. When he stepped into the kitchen Bella was hanging around his neck. "Hey," he greeted Calleigh, dropping a soft kiss on to her lips.
"Hey yourself," she replied once they had parted.
"Guess what daddy?"
"What honey?"
"Mommy and Bella made choco chip cookies!" She replied enthusiastically.
"Mmmm… cookies," Eric said reaching down for one.
"NO!" Bella squealed, slapping his hand away from the plate. "Dis cookies is fors me and mommy," she stated happily. Eric looked over at Calleigh who only grinned at him.
"Hey I didn't make the rules here mister, she did," she stated pointed to Bella who stuck her tongue out at him. He set her down on the floor and she quickly took of towards the living room where all of her toys were. Once she was gone Eric pulled Calleigh close to him.
"So, how was your day off?" Calleigh smiled, and looked over to the living room were Bella was trying to stack blocks.
"It was wonderful." After a quick peck on the lips Calleigh and Eric made their way back to the living room.
"Hey Bella, I think you should give your daddy a cookie," Calleigh whispered into her ear.
"Otay," she replied excitedly as she raced towards the kitchen. She reentered holding a cookie in her small hands. " 'ear you goes daddy," she said placing the cookie into his outstretched hand.
"Thanks, princessa."
Calleigh smiled at the scene playing out before her eyes. Here she was sitting in her living room with her husband and their daughter. Nothing could be more perfect than this.
Today had definitely been a good day off
A/N: Thank you, thank you, thank you very much. Hope you liked it. Read and Review, there's a lot more to come (: I'll update as soon as possible. Oh, and please remember Bella's only two, she's not going to have perfect English.
References:
Bella's room: It's an exact description of my cousin Lucia's room. It's kinda hard to describe, but it is gorgous. When I first saw it I was like "OMG, I WANT HER ROOM!" haha
Bella's obsession with Nemo: My cousin Jacklyn is OBSESSED with finding nemo. When I went to the beach with her for a week all she wanted to do was watch Finding Nemo. haha. So her dad was trying to get her to watch the lion king instead. That was a fun weekend, babysitting 5 of my little cousins all under the age of 5. Fun right?