1. we just got back from a trip to mexico where i not only managed to accidentally steal some toys that the house we rented gave us to borrow for the week (i didn't even realize it when i took the toys out for q to play with on the plane! the boy had to point it out to me), but i also stole an entire pack n play. that's right. a freaking crib. i have big issues
2. a dialogue at a recently attended party:
host: let me take your coats. i'll put them upstairs in one of the bedrooms
me and the boy: thanks! great party by the way. (it wasn't really, but we wanted to be nice)
....roughly an hour and 25 minutes pass and a girl walks by us holding a coat over her arm...MY coat!
me: holy cow, that girl's stealing my coat! (i knew this to be true because it's a maternity coat from the gap that i got last year when i was pregnant. it's such a great winter coat, though - i can't stop wearing it even though i don't have the belly to fill it anymore. i can't imagine many other non-pregger women are having that same issue with their identical gap maternity coat. it had to be mine.)
the boy: sure she is. (i wish i could give the boy some more credit than this for being sympathetic, but i can't. he stopped taking me seriously a long time ago. plus, i was claiming that somebody was walking off with my coat...not a very typical crime)
me: i'm serious! she just hung it up right over there! maybe she's the official "move the coats to another location" person? they should at least warn us before relocating our coats!
the boy: maybe you should go check it out (shoos me away as he continues his conversation, although i can't imagine how any conversation in the world could be more important or enthralling than this great coat mystery)
so away i sleuthed, into the room where my coat was now hanging. i examined the tag closer - there was no question, it was my coat. that thief! i took it off the hook and started carrying it proudly back to the boy to show him. just to back up my proof, i stuck my hand in the pocket where i put my gloves. instead of gloves though, i felt a wad of (likely used) kleenex and a set of (not my) keys.
ut oh. someone DID have the same issue as me with wearing their maternity coat around post-pregnancy. and she was standing right in front of me, watching me steal her coat!
me: (after turning right around, hanging the coat up as gingerly and quickly as i could, running back into the room - completely ignoring coat-owner's eye - grabbing the boy's arm) go, go, go, go!
and that's why we left the party early.
in other news, my baby's now 1!!!
she's not walking yet, but she has quite the vocabulary, including words like: duck, bubbles, mail, cracker, banana and pickle... what do you mean it's not normal for a one-year old to say (and love to eat) pickle??
on her first birthday, she proved to the world that she was now one by climbing up the steps and going down the slide all by herself. before we know it, she'll be stealing toys, pack n plays and coats, just like her mama! i'm so proud
