The Brattychick

"I don't feel like writing 'Skidoo'"

come here... If you will let me be the little spoon and whisper me your secrets, I will listen intently and use my magic tricks then I will spin you something exquisitely beautiful out of words so you will know you are of infinite importance. It will be Our Most Lovely Moment Even if you forget it, forget me I know it is still in you somewhere, and I remember everything. I write it on my heart.

Heidi: [looking at the phone bill] Who called us from Haddonfield New Jersey... Jamie : My girlfriend. Heidi: ...for one minute. Jamie: That's all I needed.

"If what I think is happening is happening...it better not be." -Mrs. Fox from Fantastic Mr. Fox

At a restaurant called Cheeburger Cheeburger ... Cole : [Reading a poster] Look. They put the fun back in fund-raiser. Heidi: I wish they would put the s back in cheeseburger. And the other e.

Heidi: That is totally a gray hair. I don't care what Daddy says. [sigh]...Well, I guess everybody has to get some gray hairs sometime. Dexter : Yeah. I'm getting brown hairs [hugs me and looks up with giant blue eyes]...I have a lot of brown hairs. Heidi: Is that weird for you? Dexter: Yeah. Heidi: Yeah, that is weird.

Cole (3/5/98) is the first-born child to Jamie and Heidi. His parents were young when they had him. His father was 23 and his mother was 18. His parents met in 1995 at their workplace, Langley Electronics and Camera. Jamie worked in the front of the store, helping customers and selling electronics, and Heidi worked behind the scenes in the photo lab. They were friends for two years before they became romantically involved. Although both his parents wanted a boy, they opted not to find out if the baby was a boy or a girl. However, blue was Heidi's favorite color and everything that she purchased for the baby was blue. This dismayed her mother, who thought the baby was a girl. During her pregnancy, Heidi worked at two different photo labs and then did temp work at an auto dealership. At the time of Cole's birth and through his babyhood, Jamie was working as a web developer in a company he started with his mother and step-father. The couple had great trouble agreeing upon nam...

"I solemnly swear I am up to no good." -Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban , by J. K. Rowling