Labor Day Weekend, By the Numbers
Hours it took to drive from Oakland to Orange County: 6.5 (arrival 4 a.m.)
Hours it took to drive from Orange County to Oakland: 11 (arrival 10 p.m.)
Times we played Martin Sexton's song "Diner" to make Wombat stop crying during the drive home: 12
Times Wombat loudly protested the end of "Diner": 12
Consecutive times we played "Diner" because we're suckers: 6
Poops on a roadtrip: 0
Hours I slept in/napped while someone else watched the baby: 7.5
Hours Simon and I spent away from Wombat for Holly and Sean's wedding: 28
Times I made someone watch a video of Wombat in his absence: 3
Times I watched a video of Wombat in his absence: 6
Teeth my baby had when we left: 2
Teeth my baby had when we returned: 3
Cup sizes my chest grew while away from the baby: 4
Pant sizes my ass grew over the weekend: 20; see also:
- Parties I attended over the weekend: 3
- Times we ate at McDonald's on Tuesday: 2
- Total Oreos consumed this week: 40
- Total Oreos consumed by me this week: 32
Books Simon's mom's book club has read since its inception in 1989: 150(!)
Times someone told me I was going to suffocate my baby by using the Ergo hood in exactly the way it was designed to be used: 1
Touching toasts to the happily married newlyweds: 5
Unity candles: 0, thank god
Compliments on my hat: 10
Times I compulsively disclosed not only the price of my hat but the fact that I bought it with a four-year-old gift certificate (thanks, Teddy!) and during a 30 percent off sale): 10
People who, in reference to my wedding ensemble, compared me to Daisy Buchanan: 5 (I assume they meant I looked like a swingin' 1920s gal, not gave off the air of a sad and lonely shell of a woman with little more between her ears than gold dust)
Number of barefoot kisses on the beach: 1, 2, 3
Choreographed twin dance to "Baby Got Back": 1
Minutes of Beverly Hills Chihuahua endured on the bus ride between the reception and the hotel: 20
Pashminas I was gifted: 3
Times Wombat climbed the stairs at Gramma's house: 30
Photos taken: 428 (approx.)
Moratoriums on posting wedding photos until further notice: 1 (I'm not just being coy, I promise, and although I confessed to the bride and groom that it wasn't my best wedding photography, I think I got some good ones and I can't wait to share them with you!)
Times this post made me smile: I lost count.
Miss you guys, and can't wait for the photos :)
ACK! There's a moratorium?! I was expecting this to be the most Flickr'ed wedding of all time, and looking forward to it, sniff!
i'm perplexed: wasn't he just BORN? how can he be training to climb everest? i love how he makes sure you're still paying attention before he starts the second stair segment. CUTE.
Oh my, that video is too precious. I agree with what beyond said, though! WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?!
Also, your hat was complimented more like 100 times than 10! Add in the compliments it got on my blog comments, and even more!
HAAA. OMFG. That video is so goddamn cute. He's so proud! Big boy!
Also, I am silently thanking YE GODS for my fat-thighed, big-ass baby who, because of her size and, let's face it, girth, is slower to reach the physical milestones than her more athletically-built brethren. Because I AIN'T READY FOR THAT SHIT, YO. I like my stay-in-one-place-on-the-floor baby, thanks.
I am SO GLAD that I'm not alone in my distaste of the unity candle. Also, darling hat.
There should be more barefoot kisses on the beach in this world. And I will be complimenting that hat often, even when you're not wearing it.
That was a hot kiss as I recall, although I look like I'm wrestling you to the ground with my meaty pregnant-lady arms. Maybe you and I should light a unity candle (woggles eyebrows suggestively)...meow!
I can't believe how big and proud Wombat is now. Last time I saw him, he was just tiny and blobby and cute. Now he's still cute, but DANGEROUS.
Will you send me some photos from the wedding? Just the Bay Area girls ones, of which I still claim a dwindling part. I will even promise not to post them if you want, but since my camera died, I have not even so much as a brown iPhoto picture of any of it. And your hat was awesome.
You can have OUR copy of Beverly Hills Chihuahua just as soon as Charlotte has decided how many more times she needs to watch it. Currently: 6.
You look beautiful, love the hat, the dress, the soft soft hair.
The wombat is freakin' cute as all get out.
xo
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