Going Away Party
Yesterday was Alex’s going away party. It was really fun to get a bunch of us together in one place to hang out. They BBQ'd some chicken and steak shish-ka-bobs, and made a bunch of other yummy foods. Bella had a blast being the center of attention. Of course she got fairly grumpy at points like she always does, but everyone was commenting on what a good baby she is, which I guess really is true compared to most other babies.
We sat and talked and ate and just hung out for awhile, around like 4 hours, which is a long time to be somewhere other than home with a baby. It was funny, towards the end a bunch of people we didn’t know came over and they were all in the kitchen eating and stuff and Alex’s mom’s boyfriend Kurt announced to everyone about how Bella is one of the top 25 cuties babies in the county lol, like she was some baby celebrity. It was really cute. Oh, and Francesca gave Bella some cream from a cream puff and man did she love it lol. I’ll have to post a funny pic at the end of it.
Of course it was bittersweet because it was going to be the last time I saw him before he leaves for the Navy on Tuesday. He’ll be gone for 18 weeks, because after boot camp he goes straight to school without getting to come home. After having him in my life for the past like, 7 years it’s going to be really hard to go that long without seeing him. And while he’s in boot camp the only thing he can do is write mail, which of course is fine with me because I love doing the pen pal thing and I don’t have any pen pals anymore, but I just hope he doesn’t forget about us and not write. I want to try and send him pictures and stuff, I hope that’s allowed.
Today Josh left at like 8 in the morning to go work on the boat. I guess they were doing some whole 3 step wax treatment thing on it to try and bring the paint back since it’s looking pretty worn out; I mean, it is an older boat. I don’t really care about the boat that much and I don’t really get why they are so into it, but whatever. What pissed me off about today was that we had things that we needed to do, like clean up around the house and go to Party City to get the rest of Bella’s party decorations. I realize that I was home alone and could have totally cleaned up, and I did do all of the dishes and run the dishwasher, but I’ve really never been good at the whole chore thing, probably because I never had any chores as a kid. Nevertheless, I work better at cleaning when Josh is here helping. Even if he’s off cleaning something completely different, I just work better when he’s here for some reason. Shortly after I got the dishes done I got this killer headache so I took some Tylenol and laid down and watched TV for awhile but it didn’t go away, and finally I realized that it was probably because I hadn’t had any caffeine today. Well by then it was like 5 something so Josh had been gone for 9 hours, and when I called him and told him he needed to come home because it was dinner time and we still had to go get Bella from my parents house, he hung up on me!! And I totally wasn’t completely pissed until then, so I sent him a text message saying don’t bother coming home and I put on some makeup and left. I went to McDonalds and returned the Twighlight DVD that we watched last night, and got myself dinner since god knows when Josh was going to be coming home. Then I went to my parents to eat and pick up Bella, and Josh called saying he was on his way home. Apparently he hadn’t gotten my text message.
Oh, I forgot to mention that we got Bella some new toys yesterday at Fred Myers; they were on sale buy 2 get 1 free. I think she gets bored really quickly with toys, and also I think she prefers toys that are small enough for her to pick up and throw around and bang together, and most of her toys are bigger and not really like that, so I got her a toy cell phone (because she loves mine so much) and some little pots that jingle or have a mirror in them, and then some building blocks that have little heads that pop up when you stack them. So I brought her home and played with her with her new toys, but they only kept her occupied for a short bit of time because she really wanted to hang out with Josh; such a daddy’s girl.
Josh says he’s not feeling good, and I don’t know if it’s because he’s getting sick or if it’s because of inhaling all the wax and who knows what else working on the boat today. So he wanted to hold her and play with her, but he didn’t want to get her sick. It was sad, we went into the bathroom while he took a shower and it’s a glass stand-up shower so she could still see him, but she just kept crying and reaching her arms out to him like she wanted him to pick her up. After that it was jammies, bottle and bed for her. She actually went to bed a little earlier than usual, but she had been tired since I brought her home. Her nose is still running, almost a little worse than it was a day or two ago, so I’m not sure if she’s still sick or teething or what. If Josh wakes up sick tomorrow, I guess I’ll just have mom keep her so she hopefully doesn’t catch whatever Josh has. Also, I guess Alex asked Josh if he’d stop by the house after work tomorrow since that will be the last time we see him, so I guess I’ll swing by too. I’m so proud of myself that I haven’t cried about it yet, but I know it’s going to come at some point, but I don’t know if I want to cry in front of Alex or not. I don’t want him to feel as bad as I’m sure he already does.
Here’s the picture of Bella with cream puff on her face, begging for more. (The pic looks kinda naughty and it makes me giggle).
Here’s a pic of me, Josh, Alex and Bella. The last we’ll have together for a long time.
I think I’m going to call it an early night. Ciao!