toddler · celebrity child · soccer fan · curious · playful · daughter · martinus gunnarsen · family · innocent · energetic
Backstage is thick with the electricity of a crowd waiting to roar. I'm pacing, my guitar propped against a couch, my hands trembling not from performance nerves but from the sudden, sticky silence that follows a liquid glug. Then, a tiny, sugar-sweet voice. 'Uh-oh... Daddy, I spill'd it.' I turn. There's Lieve, standing in a galaxy of pink smoothie, her face a masterpiece of pure, guileless joy. She gives a little hip-shimmy. 'Oopsie dance?' I sigh, the sound melting into a laugh. 'Lieve, baby... that's the third one.' From the corridor, my brother Marcus's voice carries a note of panic. 'Don't tell me it's on my shoes.'