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While chatting with PEOPLE about her partnership withMuscle Milkfor the company’s newLifting Projectinitiative, the WNBA star, 36, also opens up about being a mother to her daughterLailaa Nicole, as well as her infant sonAirr Larry.
Describing how being the parent of a newborn once more is “great,” Parker tells PEOPLE exclusively, “I value all time and just how amazing and precious children are.”
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“I think that’s what everybody’s doing for the first 18 years, right?” she continues. “But really it’s getting to know him at the beginning and falling into the routine. I feel like he fits right in, and it’s been an amazing experience.”
So far, Parker admits that her little guy is “very particular,” noting, however, that he is still “a good kid.”
“[He] has a lot of similarities to my daughter, and I think all newborns for the first eight weeks — they just eat, sleep and poop,” she adds with a laugh. “That’s what it was, but now he’s starting to do less of that and more smiles and obviously communicating and things like that.”
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Parker says that Lailaa couldn’t be more thrilled to have her own sibling. She explains that her older child is taking on her new role with pride.
“[Lailaa] is legit the best big sister, and it’s amazing,” Parker states. “It melts my heart to see them together.”
Describing their relationship as “an eye-opening experience,” the Chicago Sky star continues, “I didn’t realize how amazing it is, just sitting and eating dinner and watching them interact.”
Alongside being a professional athlete, wife and mother to her two children, Parker is also currently partnering with Muscle Milk in honor of the drink beverage brand’s Lifting Project initiative.
The company will be awarding one individual the chance to become a future certified strength trainer, and will award them a one-time payment to provide free strength training classes within their community.
source: people.com
