Heidi Chronicles

“Nooooo…I don’t waaaaant.”

Filed under: Elena, Friends, Liam, Mommyhood — Heidi at 10:07 pm on Monday, April 30, 2007

This is how L responds to anything I say that’s even slightly distasteful these days.

A few examples from today.

I went to get him from school and he started to cry when I walked in the room. His teacher was really concerned and asked what the problem was. He “just didn’t want (to go home).”
Jill and Ang came for lunch today and they both brought their babies.

He “didn’t want (to leave Stella alone when she got tired, to leave all of the action when it was time to take a nap, or to take a nap - even with the bribe of going to the baseball game if he napped well).”
L did take a nap so he got to go to the game - in style no less. AJ’s grandfather’s navy (?) buddies are in town for their reunion and they had one of the four dugout suites for the occasion. We were right next to third base at field level. Baseball games will never be this cool for L ever again. It was an interesting evening. The vets may be old, and they may need someone to bring them drinks and cookies, but they’re still feisty. A couple of them yelled at the people in the next dugout over because they were standing up and our peeps couldn’t see home plate. It got pretty comical. So, I’m not sure if it was the thrill of the game or the people watching that L enjoyed most, but naturally when it came time to leave, he “didn’t want (to go home).”

And frankly, neither did I, really. I think I could live in the suite we had. It was air conditioned and the dugout part was even shaded with a nice little breeze. Seriously, what more could a girl want? Unfortunately E was having a hard time getting to sleep so it had to be done. And maybe I had already eaten waaay too many brownies and cookies so I needed to sneak out before anyone noticed. Or maybe not. (Click pics for more.)

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Where does pee come from?

Filed under: Aaron, BackBlogging, Elena, Family, Food, Liam, Mommyhood — Heidi at 2:15 pm on Sunday, April 29, 2007

Mmmm…I slept in this morning.

It needed to happen. I was SO tired after the shower yesterday. It’s not like it was really even that much work. I just haven’t been taking care of myself the way I should.

We were all dressed and out the door in time for lunch with A’s family because his cousin, Nicole, was in town for her swearing in. We hadn’t seen them since Easter so it was nice to see everyone.

Unfortunately for A, lunch was at Applebee’s. For some reason, he hates the place. Perhaps he’ll tell us why in the comments.

Anyway, we came home and A and I did our own thing while the kids napped. And L DID nap for a change. That kid is going to be the death of me. But I guess it will be nice when he’s at school all morning.

When he got up, we went to the bathroom and he went first. When I sat down to go he wanted to know where my p3nis was. I explained that I didn’t have one because I was a girl. The previous times he’s asked, the conversation has ended there. But today he wanted details.

I really didn’t know what to say. I’ve always known it generally as The V@gina (pronounced vah-gin-uh as opposed to vuh-jine-uh), but even that’s not right. I finally told him that girls’ pee comes out of a little hole.

He was fascinated and ran out of the bathroom yelling “My pee comes out of my p3nis and Mommy’s pee comes out of a wittow hoe.”

I was horrified.
This is what all of the shoppers are going to hear as we leave the bathroom in the grocery store? Great job there, Heid.

Anyway, he didn’t yell it again, so maybe he’ll forget (even though he remembers everything, especially the stuff I don’t want him to remember like calling the dog’s poop “turds” whenever one of them accidentally goes in the house - as in, “Hey Mama. Wiw you pick up da tuwd on da fwooh? Oh, dere’s a tuwd!”).

Next time he asks I’m just going to tell him that everyone’s pee comes out of their urethra. That should settle it.

(And just so you know, the woman’s general “area” is called the vulva - NOT the v@gina.)

Other than that, I managed to get the rest of the stuff ready for Oznam to pick up tomorrow morning.

Dare I say that the majority of PS2007 is complete?

Now I have to go through the baby stuff and get rid of it. So that’s what you’ll hear me bitching about next. Enjoy!

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When A Takes Pictures

Filed under: Aaron, Blah Blah Blah — Heidi at 10:16 pm on Saturday, April 28, 2007

Oh, there are more. Click the pic to check them out.

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Molly’s Bridal Shower

Filed under: Elena, Food, Friends — Heidi at 8:36 pm on Saturday, April 28, 2007

Once I got the rest of the mess cleaned up (about 20 minutes after most of the guests arrived), we had a relaxing gathering.

Here are the cookies.

I was a slacker today and didn’t take many, but here are the rest of the pics.

Moll was a very gracious gift opener and she wasn’t upset in the least that her Barefoot Contessa cookbook would be arriving later via mail.

I’m really amazed it came together as well as it did. There were a few touches I would have liked to do, but it just wasn’t meant to be I guess.

And I don’t think anyone noticed because Miss O and E stole the show anyway.

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When you go out to buy wedding favors you could look online to decide what kind of party favors would work best for the occasion; keep this in mind for baby shower favors as well as any of the bridal shower favors you might need in the future.

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