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Chapter 25:I be cute!:March 2016
Cat's POV
"Are you sure you can't get tomorrow off?" I asked sleepily.
"I've already asked and there's no chance," he told me. "Sorry babe," he kissed my forehead.
"Okay," I sighed. "Goodbye," I told him.
"Bye love, have a nice day!" he smiled and closed the door. A few second later, Willow came into my room.
"Good morning my baby!" I said to her, helping her get up onto the bed.
"Daddy wake me," she yawned snuggling into me.
"Go back to sleep, Boo. We don't have to get up for a while yet," I told her.
"Okay," she whispered. I rubbed her hair gently.
"We have to take Kaiden and Lucas with us tomorrow, Daddy must go to work," I told her.
"Noo! Just me and you!" she whined. We sent Willow's portfolio to Wilhelmina. A few weeks later, we got a phone call saying they would like to interview Willow. It was tomorrow, so Willow and I were looking forward for our day out.
"I'm sorry baby. It'll be fun anyway, we'll go for ice cream afterwards if you want," I smiled to her.
"I like that!" she giggled.
Later on that day, I collected Willow and Lottie from preschool. They both loved their nine hours a week there. They had a nice group of friends and they had already been on several play dates with them. Willow and Lottie were best friends. They saw each other a lot.
They looked really cute as they walked over to me, holding hands. Willow who was wearing turquoise jeans and a grey top with a butterfly had her hair in two pigtails, as she often did. Lottie had her blond hair in two braids and was wearing pink jeans and a white flowery top. They both had their Mickey Mouse backpacks on their backs, and were wearing their uggs, which they loved.
"Hi girls!" I said giving both of them a hug. "Did you have a good day?" I asked them as we walked to the car.
"Yes!" Lottie giggled.
"We had story time and played puzzles and we played firemen and soccer!" Willow smiled.
"Wow! Did you do anymore writing?" I asked them. They were learning how to write there names.
"I write Willow!" Willow said proudly.
"Good girl!" I told her while strapping her into her car seat. "Can you write you name Lottie?" I asked her while lifting her up, to strap her into the other side. She nodded.
"Mommy, we have cake later?" Willow asked me as I started the car.
"If you want, but not too much," I told her.
"I like cake!" Lottie giggled.
"Me too!" Willow said, and gave her a hi-5. I smiled at them.
"Girls, can you sing me the song you learned?" I asked them. They had recently learned a new song called Eency Weensy Caterpillar.
"Okay!" They giggled and sang their caterpillar song for me. I clapped afterwards.
"You're brilliant!" I told them. The smiled.
When we arrived at Colette's house, I lifted them out of the car, and took them inside. There was a few costumers at the bakery. Mostly the people we get almost every day. There was lots of them, that came in with toddlers in the morning and just had a cake and coffee. Jade, who doesn't have any classes until 2 pm on Thursdays and Fridays, was there with Landon. He was sitting up at a table, eating a cookie and colouring in a picture. Jade was sipping coffee and talking to him and keeping an eye on Kaiden and Lucas, who were having a nap in their stroller.
Willow and Lottie ran up to them and sat down. I went into the kitchen. Business has been great. We get no more than around 30 customers a day, but with all the free cupcakes we give away in the streets or shops to anyone who looks down, and vouchers we give out, that doesn't add up to much. We do get quite a lot of orders for special cupcakes or cookies. And we get orders for big cakes too. That's where we make most of our money.
"Hi!" I smiled to Collette.
"Hello," she said, concentrating on icing a cupcake. "How are they?" she asked.
"Good, they want cake," I giggled. She smiled and I started to ice some cupcakes. I put their names on them and brought them out.
"Who wants cake!" I asked. Willow, Lottie and Landon's head looked up. I gave them each a cupcake, that had their name on it. I sat down next to them.
"Are you doing your homework?" I asked them. Willow and Lottie nodded. They already got homework. It was simple, coping letters or numbers and colouring, and they didn't have to do it, but Willow and Lottie always did.
"Yup!" Willow giggled taking a bite out of her cupcake. Lottie copied, her face getting covered in icing as she did.
"Me have homework too!" Landon giggled holding up his picture.
"Wow!" Willow giggled. "What is it?!" she asked.
"Lion," Landon smiled taking a sip of his juice.
"Cool!" Lottie giggled.
"It very great!" Willow laughed.
"I tired!" Willow whined as I pulled a purple Gap hoodie over her pjs. She fell asleep at 3 pm yesterday. Then at around 8pm she decided she was going to drink a lot of Mommy's coffee. There was no way that I could get her to sleep. She would not give it. She eventually crashed at about 3 am. Now, she wouldn't get up!
"You can sleep in the car!" I told her. I lifted outside and strapped her in. I kissed her forehead. "I'll be back in a minute Boo!
I went in side and into the living room. "Lucas! Come here!" I called. He stood up and walked over to me. I picked him up. "Good boy!" I told him. I strapped him into his car seat, next to Willow's. I rushed back inside again.
"Mama!" Kaiden whined from the floor. I picked him up. Lucas could walk for almost 2 months now, but he had hardly any speech. Kaiden on the other hand, was 10 months old and couldn't even crawl yet! However, he never stops babbling and says real words quite a lot too!
I strapped Kaiden in, closed locked the front door and started the car. I was driving to Janelle's house. She asked me to come over so we could pick out Willow's clothes. I agreed because I always love the clothes she picks out.
"Hey!" She said opening the door. "How's everybody?"
"Sleepy!" I replied. "Willow will need to sleep for a while, or else she'll throw tantrums all day long!" I told her.
"That's okay, we have ages, she can sleep on the couch if she likes!" Janelle smiled.
"Thanks!" I said and laid Willow down. She momentarily opened her eyes, but shut them again and curled up.
"Would you like some coffee?" Janelle asked. "And can I please dress the boys, I have the cutest outfit ever!" she asked eagerly.
"Sure! I love my boys to be dressed well. They're still in their pjs now!" I giggled. "And I would love some coffee!"
A little while later, Kaiden and Lucas were sitting up in their stroller, looking really cute. They were dressed in cream cable knit sweaters tipped in red and blue and new British khaki coloured herringbone cargo pants. They had navy canvas slip on sneakers on their tiny feet. They looked adorable. Janelle got the clothes that they were wearing from the Peter Rabbit brand in Gap. I shopped in Gap for my kids a lot, because they've got such cute clothes. When Janelle was picking clothes for my kids she bought them in the shops I liked, so my money was going to shops I like too!
I fed Kaiden and Lucas yogurt for their breakfast. I was very careful not to get it on there clothes.
I hoped that Willow wouldn't be cranky. It was very likely that she would, since she didn't get much sleep. If she was cranky she could throw a tantrum and if she threw a tantrum or was cranky at the interview, her chances of being a model would be gone.
I was delightfully surprised when I went into Janelle's living room to find Willow sitting upright and watching TV.
"Mommy! I hungry!" she whined.
"Come on, let's get food!" I told her. I took her had and let her into the kitchen.
"Good morning Willow!" Janelle smiled. She was watching Luke walk around the room and had Kaiden sat on her lap.
"Morning!" Willow said. "I hungry!"
"Well Mommy better hurry up and get you food!" She laughed. I took out Willow's lunch box and put a container of cornflakes on the table. Since Willow liked juice with them, I decided that I should give her fruit with them instead. She liked this just as much. I took out another container and sprinkled some blueberries and raspberries on her cereal.
"Can I borrow some milk please?" I asked Janelle.
"Sure you can, there's tons in the fridge!" she smiled. She put Kaiden and Lucas on a mat on the floor and they played together. She sat Willow on her lap.
"Where are we going today?" she asked Willow. Willow shrugged.
"You do know silly! You're going to be a model today!" Janelle told her. Willow smiled.
"But you must be a big girl and be on your best behavior!" she smiled.
"I be good!" Willow said spooning her breakfast into her mouth. She smiled at us. I hoped she would stick to what she said.
Just before we left, Janelle had dressed Willow in the cutest outfit ever, from the Rivera brand in Gap. She was wearing dark wash knit waist denim shorts. Tucked into them was an ivory blouse embroidered with little red flowers. She had opaque black tights and was wearing her uggs.
"Do I look pretty?" Willow asked walking in a straight line in front of us.
"Very pretty! Like a model!" I told her. "Let me take a picture and send it to Daddy!"
"Let me fix her hair first!" Janelle said. She fixed Willow's crease, but let her curly hair loose.
"Did you bring your credit card?" Janelle asked me, who decided that it would be the perfect time to do a huge shop for summer clothes.
"Yeah!" I said, checking just to make sure I did.
"What's your budget?" Janelle asked. She was holding Willow's hand and I was pushing Kaiden and Lucas' stroller.
"Beck said that the movie will make millions, and we're still financially good, so go mad!" I told her. She giggled.
"Yay! Thank you!" She hugged me.
We went to Gap first, my all time favourite shop. She grabbed a basket and we went over to the toddler boys section.
"Kaiden's colour is red, and Lucas' is blue. Is that okay?" she asked. I nodded. "Great!" She smiled.
She threw in a few different items into the basket, red hoodie for Kaiden, blue hoodie for Lucas, red khakis for Kaiden, blue khakis for Lucas, red striped top for Kaiden, blue striped top for Lucas. She kept the colour thing up for a while. She threw in two of some items too, lots of plaid shirts and patchwork shorts. She threw in a few caps too, she said that they would be really cute once they were both toddling. We bought lots of clothes from the Peter Rabbit section too. I thought that they had the most adorable clothes!
"Willow, would you like to pick out some of your clothes?" Janelle asked her. Willow nodded and walked over to her.
Willow ended up with endless pairs of brightly cloured jeans. Red, purple, pink, blue, yellow, peach, white with light blue flowers, navy with pink flowers & lilac with a cherry blossom pattern. She had endless graphic t-shirts too. That's what I usually dressed her in. Bright jeans, graphic shirt and either uggs or Converse.
We also got Willow some hoodies, shorts, skirts, leggins and a few jumpsuits.
"Wow! We sure got a lot!" I giggled. Willow's apportionment wasn't until 4pm. It was 1 pm now. We still had a lot of time to pass. I wondered what we should do.
"We're not done shopping yet silly! We still have 3 more shops to go to!" Janelle smiled. My eyes widened as she dragged us into another shop.
Carter's was another one of my favourite kids clothing stores. They had really nice clothes, and the prices weren't bad either. Janelle grabbed tons of clothes. We went into the changing rooms, and made "outfits" with them. We ended up with loads for all of them.
Kaiden and Lucas had tons of summer outfits now. They mostly consisted of stripy or graphic tops, navy, camo or khaki short, canvas shoes and caps. We bought a lot of tracksuits for them too.
Most of the clothes we bought Willow in Carter's were fruit themed. There was cherry print leggins and smiley watermelon tops. It was bright and fun, at they suited Willow a lot. Just like the twins, we got her some tracksuits too.
We had to drop the bags in the car, because there was no way that we could carry all of them! We hurried back and went into another shop.
It was Next. (Do they have that shop in the US? Well just pretend they do if they don't). I loved this shop and there kids clothes were really cute. The clothes that we bought Willow were from a bright a bold section. She now had several outfits that were made up of bright patterns and colours.
Kaiden and Lucas got some cute clothes there too. They got cardigans, t shirts and dungarees mostly. They were all super cute!
The last shop we went to was Children's Place. Kaiden and Lucas got five really cute outfits! We mixed and matched with some of the colours. They were still a bit big for them, but they would be perfect during the summer. Willow got 5 too. They were cute too. Some were from the toddler section but some were from the older kids section. She also got a really cute leather jacket!
We made another trip to the car with all the stuff we had bought. We wouldn't be doing another shopping trip for a long while. We spent over $3000! That's way too much to spend on little kids clothes! Oh well. We had enough money. Another huge shopping trip definitely wasn't on my to do list until at least September. Hopefully, their clothes would fit them next year too!
"I'm hungry!" Willow told me as we put the bags in the car.
"We'll get food in a minute, Boo," I told her.
"Can we go to Subway?" Janelle asked.
"Sure," I replied, shutting the boot of the car. We walked to subway and ate our sandwiches. Willow got the kids meal, a sandwich, juice and apple slices. She ate happily with the rest of us.
"Willow?" I asked. "Do you promised to be extra good, and do what the ladies say today?" I asked her. She nodded.
"Be as cute as you can, love!" Janelle smiled to her.
"I be cute!" Willow smiled posing with her hands under her cheeks and smiled at us. I just hoped she would be like that later.
Janelle, Willow, the twins and I stepped into a small room.
"Hello, Willow, how are you today?" A smiley woman asked her.
"I good!" she giggled. The woman bent down and picked her up.
"So you want to be a model?" she asked her. Willow nodded eagerly. "Okay then, I must interview you in that room on your own, Mommy must stay here, is that okay?" she asked her.
"That okay!" Willow smiled. The lady put her down and held her hand.
"We won't be too long," she told Janelle and I. "You can look through the window!" she told us pointing to the large window on the wall of the room. We went up to the window and looked in.
Her and another woman asked Willow loads of questions. She replied happily, making eye contact with both of them. I couldn't here what they were saying, but some of her answers made them laugh.
Then they told Willow to walk around the room and copy them doing poses. She did so very well, with a smile on her face the whole time. Then the told her to act out different emotions and she did that too. She even did some of her hip hop routine.
Thankfully, they let them style her hair into a bun and take lots of photos of her. She happily posed and did anything they wanted her to do. If only she was like that with me!
She held onto the ladies hand as they walked out and back to us.
"She did really good. She does whatever we says, is well behaved, very happy, makes excellent eye contact, lets us style her and she definitely looks like a model too. We'd love to sign her!"
Willow was officially a model. Well, she had to attend classes on Saturday mornings for a few weeks, but she could get a job anytime now!
"You did so great Willow, I'm so proud of you!" I told her as we walked down the road.
"You were fantastic!" Janelle giggled.
"Thank you! I model now!" Willow smiled.
"You are. You're the best model ever!" I said picking her up and letting Janelle push the stroller.
"Mommy?" she asked. "Can I have ice cream now?"
"Of course you can Boo. You can have as much ice cream as you like, with loads of toppings!" I told her.
"Yay!" she giggled. "I love you Mommy!"
"I love you too, Boo!"
I hope you liked it! What do you think of Willow being a model?
PS. In previous chapters, when I was describing Willow or any other of the kids clothes, I found them on either the website for Gap or Next, because their kids clothes are so darn cute!