Shape of you (Daniel Ricciardo)

Officially yours

After being away for a couple of weeks racing in Italy, Monaco and Spain, with Daniel winning Monaco and coming in second in Spain, they are back home for a couple of days before leaving for Canada.

Stevie and Daniel have an appointment with the midwife for a check as she is now 11 weeks pregnant. Besides their family and close friends, nobody knows yet. They haven't made anything public and they aren't planning on doing so any time soon. Of course Michael and Blake know and they were extremely happy for the couple.

They just don't see a reason to tell the world about it as it isn't really anybody's business. Of course at a certain point Stevie won't be able to hide it anymore, but until then it's only shared with the people closest to them.

She still has a little bit of morning sickness, but nothing too bad and she is tired a lot. At the moment the race weekends are tough. During the week she is mostly able to take a nap during the day and being able to sleep for an hour or two helps her get through the days. During the race weekends she can't, which usually means she falls asleep after dinner.

One more than one occasion she was sleeping on a couch while Daniel took their kids to bed. He lets her sleep because he knows how tired she is. She feels horrible that she isn't helping him with the kids bedtime, but he really enjoys it. It gives him some valuable one on one time with both kids which he cherishes very much.
And there is of course the fact that she is growing a little human in her body, so she has every right to be tired. At least that's Daniel's opinion on it.

According to Stevie she will get her energy back after she passed the 12 weeks. Or at least that's what happened with her first two pregnancies.
For Daniel it is all so new, exiting and scary at the same time.

Which is exactly what he tells Michael when they are working out the morning of the appointment at the midwife.
"Are you nervous for today?" Michael asks him while he is pulling on a device around Daniel's head to strengthen his neck muscles.

"Excited and nervous. I mean I can't see anything on the outside yet, so I have no way of knowing our baby is doing ok. Stevie says it is, because she is of course having some pregnancy symptoms. But yeah I can't wait for that bump to start showing so I know he or she is growing and thriving in there." Daniel answers, straining to keep his head straight.

"Do you want a boy or a girl?" Michael wants to know.
Daniel shrugs.
"I don't care, we already have one of each, so it doesn't really matter. I'm gonna be super unoriginal now, but as long as our baby is healthy I'm happy with either."

Michael removes the device from Daniel's head and moves on to the next exercise.
"You know I don't think there are a lot of guys that would do what you're doing right now."
Daniel doesn't really understand what his friend is talking about.
"What am I doing? Except for being destroyed by you in the gym? Because no I don't think a lot of guys are doing that."

Michael shakes his head laughing. Daniel likes to complain about him being to tough on him, but they always are joking around like that.
"No mate, stepping up for two kids that aren't yours. Especially after such a short time being in a relationship with their mother."

Hearing Michael say Cole and Zara aren't his makes Daniel look at his friend with anger on his face.
"They are my kids. It's only a matter of time before the documents are finally done so we can sign them."

Michael raises his hand in defense.
"I know you say they are yours and you're about to adopt them. But if you are completely honest with yourself, you know they are not your kids. Don't get me wrong, I think they are amazing and Stevie is a great woman. But you know, you're their stepdad."