Ashlee left the baby at home and took her new blond extensions and her hubby Pete Wentz to PURE in Las Vegas, where she downed champagne and partied the night away to ring in 2009.

She’s lost a lot of the baby weight, but you can tell she’s still being careful to cover up her arms and her tummy. Which is totally fine by me! It’s such a relief to find a celebrity who’s actually human and doesn’t lose the entirety of her baby weight in twelve days. That shit’s insane anyway.

Where are you going to be ringing in 2009?  I’m happy to tell you that I’ll be snowed in on a gluten-free bread bender.  But people who actually have lives have some big plans.  Check it out:

Jennifer Anistonis in Los Cabos with John Mayer, Courteney Cox and David Arquette.  Well, John Mayer is staying at a villa located in close proximity to where Jen is staying with the Arquettes.  He totally strikes me like one of those “We don’t need a title” types.  Bleah.

Lindsay Lohan is hanging out with Samantha Ronson at her deejaying gig at Mansion in South Beach.  Sam is feeling more rested since last week’s hospitalization now that she stopped eating at airport kiosks.

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are hosting a party at PURE Nightclub in Vegas.  Technically, she’s Ashlee Simpson-Wentz but I’m preparing for the future when she drops him and the hyphename.

A longer list of New Year’s Eve celeb whereabouts is here and please, Denise Richards made this list?  Like one person in the universe was wondering what she was up to tonight.

Oh, and I just tried the bread and I gotta tell you:  Gluten-free bread is so disgusting.

Rather than hawk the first photos of their baby to the highest bidder, Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz debuted the first photos of Bronx on Pete’s website, Friends or Enemies, with a note encouraging readers to donate to one of several suggested charities (including the Richie Madden Foundation).

Ya know, the more I learn about Pete Wentz, the more I think he’s probably a wicked smart and downright decent dude. Great catch, Ashlee.

I promise you.  I am not a bitter brunette.  I think blonde hair is beautiful and we all know how gentlemen prefer it.  Thankfully, I never had any use for gentlemen.  Anyway, there is a small segment of women that I believe look so much better with dark hair.  Jessica Biel, Lindsay Lohan, and Halle Berry for example.

What do you think?  Does Ashlee look better dark or light?

Ashlee Simpson out yesterday in Hollywood.

“It was the single best sexual encounter I’ve ever had. We were in the Soho Grand Hotel, and there was a mirror, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, you’re banging the girl of your dreams and you’re watching it right now.’”

Pete Wentz, talking to Howard Stern about the first time he had sex with his wife/baby mama Ashlee Simpson.

He also commented on their decision not to sell their baby’s pictures. “At this point, it was not the right decision for us to go out and pimp our baby in that way,” he said. “That’s not to say that the world’s not going to see the baby … or fans aren’t going to see the baby, but he’s not a commodity.”

Rock on, Pete. I like this kid more and more these days.

Miz Simpson-Wentz was all wrapped up in layers of black at the opening of Pete Wentz and Travis McCoy’s art exhibit at Gallery 1988 in WeHo. She also made damn sure the camera always caught her in profile — never face-on.

I guess I can appreciate her position — and it’s cool that she came out to support her hubby rather than hiding at home because she hadn’t yet lost the baby weight. But, seriously, Ash, you just had the baby like twenty seconds ago. If anyone dares to call you fat right now, I will personally bitch them out, and I’m a really mean blogger. Your “I’m fat because I had a baby” card is valid for at least a couple more months, sweetheart. Don’t sweat it.

Also there: Nicole Richie and Joel Madden. Nicole looks so much older lately. And I don’t mean that in a bad way. It’s not that she looks wrinkly or haggard or anything. It’s her eyes. There’s so much more maturity there these day. She looks peaceful for the first time since we were introduced to her. Nice to see.

Petey Pete called into the Ryan Seacrest show on Tuesday morning to chat about his child’s name, Bronx Mowgli Wentz. He gave a really weak explanation for the “Mowgli” part: “The Jungle Book was something that me and Ashlee bonded over. It’s a cool name.” Um, WTF? Like, vodka was something that my ex and I bonded over, but it’s not like we were going to name our child Belvedere. (We planned to name him Horseman, but that’s a different story.) Enjoying the same book is not an adequate reason to name a child Mowgli.

Pete refused to talk much about the Bronx part of the equation. He should have been like “Well the Bronx has always been our favorite place to score coke,” but instead he said “We came up with the idea Bronx. We’ve been throwing [ideas] back and forth a while. It’s kind of cool to just leave the narrative what it is. People are stoked or pissed or whatever. And you’re like, you know what: I don’t think anyone really has the real story.”

Regardless, congrats to the happy family!