Case of the missing hotdog

Current mood: chipper

Last Friday night, my family went to dinner at Max & Erma's. Patrick and I both in the mood for Buffalo chicken, and Ally indecisive, we ordered. We ordered Ally a corndog, logically thinking that the mac and cheese was a bad choice because her shirt was cute and that the hamburger was a bad choice because, again, her shirt was cute. As our food arrived our daughter let out this loud excited growl noise in appreciation of the quick delivery of her food. Excited to see a corndog and fries, she begins face first into her plate. We all start eating, and talking, eating, talking etc.... when, Patrick and I both noticed that Ally had devoured what was in her corndog and half of her french fries! Surprised at her eating so good, we both comment, " Ally, what a great job, you ate all of your hot dog, how about the outside?" She looks down, looks back up again and politely responses, "??Hotdog??" We smile, and say, "sweetie, you ate it. Why don't you finsih eating the outside of the hotdog". Silence..... a few seconds later her arms raise up in the questioning position, she blurts out, "??Hotdog?"...her head tilts, again... "??hotdog??" Totally cute, she asks again in a much more serious tone..."??HOTDOG??" We respond back to her again, "Honey, you ate it; it is in your belly." (Note: children take everything literally) She looks down and lifts up her shirt... "??hotdog??" at this moment Patrick and I cannot hold our laughter in anymore! again, the sweet voice questions..."??hotdog??" she lifts up out of her chair, looks around, lookS underneath the table, and screams out, "??HOTDOG??" Unsure of why the hotdog is not running to her plate, she screams out again, "??HOTDOG!!??" in hysterics, we gently say, "Honey, the hot dog is all gone." She quietly looks around, and as we anxiously await her response, she lets out a big sigh...

.......she must have realized that the hotdog was in fact not missing but was eaten- by Ally herself.

The Day After...

Current mood: cheerful

So, it was my 26th birthday yesterday... It was a low key day, which was nice. On Friday my boss brought me a cake- ordered by his wife from a really great bakery on the south side of Pittsburgh. I can't remember the name at the moment, though. Patrick picked me up from work and brought me flowers. It was such a pretty day outside- 63 degrees! So, yesterday we got up, I had cake for breakfast and opened up my present from Patrick and Ally... they got me an ipod!! We were all excited about it so we spent the day loading our cds onto itunes and downloading songs etc... good times, good times...

For dinner we went to a tropical restruant called Bahama Breeze- great place! It had plam trees, a tiki bar, fish and turtles printed on the seats, good service and great food.

Thank you for those of you who called, emailed, sent ecards or text messaged. I really appreciate the birthday wishes. I was sad because I wouldn't be able to see any of my friends or family, but Patrick and Ally always make my days pretty special.

We were debating to see if my dad would actually call or send a card, I had bets that he wouldn't and Patrick was really hoping he would. But again- he showed true colors. It's unfortunate really.

Thank you to my friends and family... miss you all. See you this summer hopefully!