"Hi daddy."
EJ woke up Skylar was standing on his side of the bed, she was two years old now. "Skylar it's 3:00 am it's way too early to get up. Go back to sleep for a while ok?"
"Ok" she left the room. EJ sank back into the bed and fell asleep.
"Daddy i'm back"
EJ sighed and opened his eyes. "10 seconds is not a while."
EJ picked her up and put her in the middle of him and Gina. "you have to get some sleep ok? Do you want me to sing to you?"
"Yeah" Skylar smiled EJ smiled and started to sing 'Baby Mine' or as Skylar called it the dumbo song. It was one of her favorite songs.
"From your head down to your toes
You're not much, goodness knows
But, you're so precious to me
Sweet as can be, baby of mine"
By the time EJ finished the song Skylar was asleep. EJ looked at Skylar and Gina they were both asleep, he kissed them both on the forehead and thought about how lucky he was to be married to the love of his life and have a daughter with her. His heart was so full of love for the both of them.
A few hours later Gina woke up. "She couldn't go back to sleep again?"
"Nope."
"EJ you can't just put her up with us if she can't go back to sleep, it's gonna create a bad habit."
"Yeah I know, i'm trying my best."
Gina smiled "i know you are." she looked at their daughter "I can't believe she's two. How did that happen?"
"I have no idea." EJ smiled "you ready to see everyone today?"
"I'm so excited I can't believe everyone's coming up."
"This is gonna be a great start to the summer"
Gina gave him a quick kiss "it already is."
A few hours later it was lunchtime and soon their friends would start to arrive, they were going to have an outdoor barbecue and picnic outside to celcebate the start of the summer.
The doorbell rang. "Eej can you get that?" Gina said she was at the conter cutting up fruit for the barbecue. "Yep!"
Skylar ran to the door first, had her hand on the doorknob. "Sky." Gina warned "don't you dare!" Skylar gave her mom a mischievous smile opened the door and ran outside. "Skylar!" EJ ran after her and scooped her up in his arms. Skylar laughed "you think this is pretty funny huh kiddo?"
Ashlyn, Big Red and Harper were at the door. "Hi guys." he turnd his attention back to his daughter "Skylar you know you can't run outside without Mommy or Daddy ok?"
Skylar sighed "ok."
"That's my girl."
"Having fun?" Ashlyn smirked, EJ laughed. "I know what you're going to say.."
"It's just a phase," they said in unison
"I know, I know I say that a lot but it is. She's two she'll grow out of it. It's called the terrible twos for a reason. Enjoy it when you can she's not gonna be this little forever."
"Case in point we somehow have an 8 year old now." Big Red smiled
"C'mon in guys." they came in and went to the backyard to help set up for the barbecue. Soon everyone else came and they were all in the backyard.
Gina was standing off to the side taking everything in, she was smiling like she was thinking of something sweet. EJ stood next to her and put an arm around her. "What?"
Gina looked at everyone in the backyard, Miss Jenn and Mr. Marzza were chatting with Nini and Kortney, Ricky was playing his guitar, Seb and Carlos were singing along Ashlyn and Big Red were talking to Howie, all their kids were running around and playing with squirt guns.
And EJ, her husband the person she loved most in the world, without him she would have never stayed in salt lake, she would have never had friends or love or family, but now she did all thanks to him.
Gina looked up at EJ. "we have a pretty great family don't we?"
EJ looked out at the backyard then glanced at his wife and smiled "we really do."
So that's it! I hope you guys like it! I will be writing more HSMTMTS stuff so be on the lookout for that! Have a great day wildcats! Tell me what you think about thai fic in the comments! I love getting feedback!
