I'm FIRST I'm FIRST!!!!!!! I LOVE BEING FIRST!!! (said in my best Dora and Boots voice).

Yeah, I know what you mean about the good/bad of being "home alone" without Papa. You can do whatever you want but you still miss hima nd regular life.
Adorable pictures.

So, now for my comment...

I say GO TO THE SHOW and TAKE THE TRAINS... maybe you'll end up here (KC), and you can finally move to my town and be my best friend, like you keep promising. You know you wanna. "I'M IN YUR TOWN, BEST FRENDING YOU." I swear, I'm only as weird and wacky as you are. Well, somedays are wackier than others... but I LOVE Pinot Grigio, chick flicks, taking the tops off champagne bottles with a sword, and Noah and B can get married, and our hubbies can hang out and do all that male bondage -- er, bonding stuff. Just sayin'.

Oh, and Noah's curls make me want to swoon! SWOOOOON!

What a lovely kick start to the day! Simply adorable and definitely got a laugh out of me =)

oh my gah, the curls. The adorable, adorable curls.

HOLY CUTENESS BATMAN!

Glad you guys are still alive.

OMG...love Noah. He is too cute.

Chicago is where I call home. Traffic sucks, weather sucks, storms suck...no power, can't drive in some places because of flooding or trees down, streetlights out during rush hour last night tripling everyone's commute times...hope Jason makes it home safely and on time!

You don't have to go alone, I'll go see Rent with you. I'm in New Jersey. I'll meet you in Newark!

I've found the best cure for the stir-crazies that set in after being cooped up in the house all day is, drum roll, please, a walk. Outside. Stroller is good, baby backpack is better, if my back can handle it.

Oh, the cuteness! the expressiveness! and the stripey turtleness!

Last time my husband was out of town for a few days, I spent every night watching Gilmore Girls clips on YouTube and eating ice cream for dinner. It is very fortunate that he doesn't leave very often because I would seriously be so fat and would also live in hovel. And have little money because he makes twice as much as I do.

He's ready for Hollywood!!

ack! the cuteness! you two are adorable!

Yay for Steel Magnolias!

I mean if you really want someone to go with you, then you only have to ask once.

Then again, we couldn't sing out loud because that would be weird, but I'd go.

(BRING ME!)

Hey look! Noah's learned how to play "52-Pickup"! Aren't you lucky....

Enjoy the show, get a sitter, and get a buzz on. I think you've earned it!

yay! I'm so happy to hear that the original cast is actually doing a good job (that's totally why we're going, of course, to see Adam and Anthony). Jason is at the airport and so far his flight is on time. He got there really, REALLY early to make sure he got his seat. Fingers crossed.

hello insomnia - I use a lens with an image stabilizer. Is the only way I can get non-flash photos to come out non-blurry. (Unless I'm using our fancy fancy flash, but I'm not really great at angling it correctly.)

I wish Jason luck getting out of the city! The storms of DOOOOM did a number on the city last night (I walked passed FIVE cars crushed under trees in my 1/2 mile walk to the train this morning...FIVE!). Hopefully he'll get out in front of the second round of storms that are coming in this afternoon.

Yay, Chicago! I love that movie, but the boytoy doesn't watch it with me. =( I hope Jason can get home tonight. And I say you should go! And if you end up in Chicago, you can get some awesome pizza! And end up with jason! Whoo!

Noah is adorable. Can I gobble him up yet?

Oh dear. I had never watched Steel Magnolias until a couple years ago when my husband was out of town for a boys' weekend. I thought, "What better time for a girly movie?" I told my sister-in-law what I was planning, and she was a little taken aback. "Umm, are you sure that's the best movie to watch while you're all by yourself?" "Pshaw," I scoffed. "What's a little girly movie going to do to me?"

Two hours later, I was a blubbering mess on the couch, so sad that I was all alone just like poor daughterless Sally Field and did my mama love me that much and would I ever have kids of my own? I didn't recover till the husband came home Sunday.

Also, yikes. The weather here has let up temporarily, but is scheduled to resume shittiness soon. Has Jason been able to explore the culinary landscape during his trip?

Oh, he is such a little mini-you! Hee!

My favorite part of Steel Magnolias is Tom Skerritts crazy gun-toting bird-shooting foil to Sally Field's character. He is hilarious.

"(that's totally why we're going, of course, to see Adam and Anthony)"

ummm.... i would love to say that had no impact at all on our trip... but yeah. i'd be lying. it's the whole reason we went. and i'd seen rent 4 times already before this trip. they were just as good as they were way back when. and adam is still as hot. :) tamyra was just the cherry on top!

I don't know how you stand being in the same room with such an adorable baby. The cuteness factor is just too much. I've always sworn that I would never have children, but if I could guarantee that it comes out like yours, then I might reconsider.

Oh my jesus, someone pass me the tissues now. Thanks, Amalah!

I'd threaten to hurt you for planting fivehundredtwentyfivethousandsixhundredmiiiinutes in my brain but ohmygod the curls, the curls, the curls they're so cute!

Oh, and for the record, Steel Magnolias was filmed 'rightchere', and I promise you guys we don't really talk like that! Great movie though!

You two are looking good! Keep up the "alive" status - I think that's a plus. My husband will be heading to Arizona for a week in September, but I'm not as brave as you - I'm bringing in the back up (aka, my mother).

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for these last two posts! Because seriously? I totally count the minutes until hubby comes home every single day. There is only so much two year old I can take! And my stay at home days are limited since I go back to teaching next week. I swear, all stay at home and work at home moms deserve a medal!

The curls, OH MY THE CURLS...don't ever cut his hair!

the curls! the curls!

i've been reading through your archives lo these last few weeks (yes, yes, i am bored at work) and you've made me cry a ridiculous amount. love your site. don't ever stop.

Love the pictures:)He looks so much like you! Too cute you two are.

You two and all of your adorableness! How can you stand it! :)

My god, your son...I just want to eat him he is so cute.

Well, it is still blue skies in Chicago (contrary to weather forcasts). I work about 10 minutes from O'Hare so hopefully everything went smoothly this afternoon :)

Crazy - I flew out of Chicago last night. When I finally got to leave at 9:50pm, there were 27 cancelled flights on the board thanks to the weather. One of the flight attendants on my flight said the customer service line was the worst he'd ever seen.

Hope your husband makes it home without too much hastle. If he doesn't, and has to stand in that line - please know it was certainly a slice of hell. (and he may not want to take Noah off your hands right away...)

If you miss out on the chance to see Anthony and Adam I am just going to have to stop reading your blog. Ok, well, maybe not altogether, but only because Noah is too damn adorable to turn away from...

the weather is being so rude lately, isn't it. making me downright moody and i'm not even having to miss a broadway show.

Adam and Anthony will be fab; saw them during the first run and had a mad crush on "Roger." My hubby is away too--for two weeks while I mind three children 8 and under. It was fine until the new school year (yes, we've already begun) exhausted them to the point of afternoon tantrums!

Go get "Love Actually" and your chick flicks will be complete.

(Also, I nearly wet myself at your comment back to Kathryn. BAH! I can see Sally rending her garments and tugging at tissues as we speak)

ahhh, RENT. Loved it. Saw it on stage here in Toronto.... Totally worth seeing again...and again. Definitely worth learning all the words of the songs for singing in car and/or shower.....

Awesome photos of you and Noah! So 'dorable!

Quite possibly my favorite post yet, you continually pull at my heart strings. I cannot read you at work anymore, I either laugh out loud or the tears start flowing. Have a great time at RENT...a wee bit jealous am I.

Man... our weather (Chicago) has been lousy. (We've got trees blocking most of the streets in my neighborhood.) I think the rain held off long enough for the majority of flights to get out last night. I hope Jason got home! :)

am typing this from my phone. Just left the show and my hell but it was awesome. I look like a raccoon and sob. Currently trying to score a table at babbo.

Measure your life in love, bitches!

oh man do i know what it's like to have a hubby go on business trips. ash (my 17 month old son, thats right, i named my son ashley *l*) goes NUTS without daddy. and like you by six o'clock the world is just about to end.
i love reading here because it makes me feel normal. like maybe i'm not the worst mom in the world and maybe the people who claim that life is rosy and peachy and full of rainbows are really full of shit.
wait...what was my point again?

Oh boy - lucky Jason.