Happy Monday! Super Bowl weekend sure is weird when you don’t attend the party you’ve been going to for years and years, but we made up for it with too much dip for two people, baby football outfits and more wings than we could finish. Also, that Michael B. Jordan-Alexa commercial was too good! Let me show you what else we did this weekend.

Another week, another batch of scones from my mom. This one had dried cherries, dark chocolate and pecans, yum!

My sis came over and she is a baby whisperer because she got this nap-fighter to sleep! In fact, she got him into that DEEP sleep, where you can put them down in their crib and they don’t even notice. She sent me that first picture and told me “I brushed his hair to the side so he looks more dignified.” HA HA! Love seeing my sis with that little baby 🙂

We weren’t feeling any of the leftovers we had in the fridge, so we decided to order Ginger Pig! Everything sounded good, so we ordered way too much food — eggrolls, cheeseburger fried rice (OMG!), pork noodles and Korean fried chicken. Plus cocktails, of course. That fried rice was insane. I’ve never had a Big Mac before but Joey assured me that rice tasted exactly like one. Dempsey was still sleeping halfway through dinner but when we saw him waking up on our nursery camera, we both sprinted upstairs to get him, we missed him so much 🙂

Finished the night with The Little Things and ugh, Rami was SO miscast. And Jared Leto was funny?? I think I was too distracted by those two performances that Denzel’s felt overshadowed. Not the worst movie I’ve ever seen, but certainly not the best either.

Love seeing this smiley baby in the morning 🙂 All week, he’d been sleeping from 9 PM-3 or 4 AM, then he’d still be sleeping when we woke up in the morning and it was SO nice. His Friday night sleep wasn’t quite as good, but he was still all smiles in the morning. Joey took him downstairs and then I came down a bit after and made us lemon ricotta waffles. I made that mini waffle for Andi and I seriously have no memory of feeding it to him. Did I eat it??

Dempsey napped on Joey while we ate breakfast and watched TV and look! His new trick is sucking his thumb and it’s seriously the cutest thing! Especially when he does it while he has his pacifier in his mouth, ha. After he woke up, he practiced another new trick of trying to sit up. He can’t actually do it unsupported, but dang, he sure keeps trying. Any time we have him laying in his Boppy, he raises his head and legs in the air and that abdominal strength sure is impressive!

Once he was back down for a nap, Joey and started playing Monopoly. “If I lose all my money, can I be done playing?” is a real thing I asked prior to starting because I’m legitimately the least competitive person alive. A little bit later, we paused our game so I could head into Louisville to see my dad. My neck was SO messed up all last week and my back has just generally hurt for a while, so he worked on both and I feel so much better now. Plus it was nice to spend some time with my dad 🙂 Got to briefly see my mom on my way out and she introduced me to her client as “Dempsey’s mom,” ha!

Leftovers and Malcolm & Marie to end the night. I really like some things about this movie — it looked cool (that big tree in the black and white moonlight!) and JDW and Zendaya were GREAT — but I was semi-bored/annoyed with that plot. How good did that mac and cheese look, though??

Please ignore that baby drool 😛 We were planning to pick up breakfast at Onefold but there we were awake at 6:30 AM and their 8 AM opening time seemed so far away, so we loaded up the baby and headed first to Black Eye for coffee — they had a honey rose latte special that I had to have! — then Huckleberry for coffee beans and Bonfire breakfast burritos. They accidentally gave us two bacon instead of one bacon and one chorizo and they weren’t quite as crisp as they probably are when they come straight from the griddle, but they were good! Would you look at that cute football onesie?? I had two other moms tell me their sons were in the exact same outfit 🙂

Who knows where the rest of the day went! Between baby naps, we managed to do some chores and get our Super Bowl spread together. I did miss being at Darron and Karla’s party, but it was fun cooking for ourselves. We made guac and jalapeno popper bean dip, that Joey didn’t love but I did! Then after we’d eaten way too much of that, we pulled ham and cheese sliders and wings out of the oven. We bought sauces from Fire on the Mountain earlier in the week and used this method for baking the wings and we both thought they were really good! Who knows what even happened in the game but I liked all those dancers on the field during “Blinding Lights” and I maybe had to hold my hand in front of Dempsey’s eyes so he would go to sleep instead of watching the TV.

Please tell me how your weekend was 🙂

Is it because we’ve had so many weekends of doing nothing and seeing no one, that even small events feel like a big deal lately? I’ve been thinking about when this is all over and we go back to normal life and wondering if we’ll have weekends that are busy? Where we won’t have time to sit around and watch TV or do just so many loads of laundry or just decide to go on a long walk because what else do we have to do? I don’t know if I’m quite ready for that again, but it was really nice to see people and maybe go places this weekend!

Hannah, Mason and Henry came over on Friday!!! I was seriously so excited to see them all. Dempsey had just woken up from a nap, hence the out of it look on his face. Joey and Mason built a snowman named “Joey Snowy” (ha ha!) and Hannah and I tried to get the babies to look at each other 😛 Hannah seriously HOOKED US UP with all the three month clothes and it maybe took us the rest of the weekend to sort through them all.

After work, Joey cleaned up our mess of a house and we heated up leftovers for ourselves and fingers for Dempsey (his new favorite snack), then watched Pieces of a Woman. That intro is BRUTAL. It just had me very very on edge the entire time. It’s a sad but good movie and over all, we really liked it. We were excited to see Sarah Snook but then she was playing the EXACT same character she plays on Succession and it sort of made me less impressed with her work…

Saturday started my very favorite way, with cuddles! Afterward, I went back to sleep and Joey and Dempsey went to get us some coffee and then I came down and made us (and the pup) pancakes. We had Joey’s Aunt Joanne and Uncle Keith over to meet the baby afterward and we hadn’t seen them in SO long, so it was extra nice. Joey made me wake Dempsey up and it felt wrong in every way, but he went right back to sleep after they left, so I guess it was okay. They got us some SUPER cute clothes and I cannot wait to put him in this little sweater and khaki number!

It was warm (but windy, ugh!) that day, so we loaded baby and dog up for a long walk down to Rocky Mountain Park Lake. It is sad but cute when the sun gets in Dempsey’s eyes and he has to close them and squirm to try to get out of the light. We made it over to the lake and then that babe shut his eyes and slept the rest of the way around the lake and back home. Also, HOW CUTE is he in that little hat?? We were worried this would be too long of a walk for Andi — last time we walked 2 miles, he was injured for days and we ended up taking him to the vet! — but so far, so good! More cuddles when we got back home 🙂

Nap time journaling for me! We spent the weekend putting him down for naps in his crib WITHOUT holding him first (mostly, anyway :P) and it seems to be working! Also used that time for cleaning and who knows what else. We made Chicken Paprika for dinner and it’d been too long since we’d made it! So good! We’ve been timing it lately where Dempsey wakes up from his nap around 5:30, so we can finish cooking dinner/feeding him and then he’s awake while we eat and it’s been so fun! He was really fighting sleep while we started watching The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (a slow, but beautiful movie that I liked but Joey was truly bored by) but eventually gave in when I held him on my chest, which he hasn’t let me do in a month. I loved every cuddly second!

Blurry early morning baby pictures are the best, right??

Okay, please please don’t judge us but we went to a restaurant. For the first time since February 2020! We will certainly not be making this a regular thing and we (okay, mostly I) went back and forth on it all weekend, but we felt like the safety precautions Stowaway was taking were good and we were almost the only people there. Dempsey mostly stayed in his car seat with the cover over, except for in that picture, and though he was awake the entire time (“go to sleep!” is a thing I’m almost always saying :P), he didn’t fuss and immediately fell asleep in the car on the drive home.

Back at home, we found a cute Nike tracksuit in Hannah’s pile of donations and then Betsy, Jory and Elliott came over to meet Dempsey. LOL at Dempsey’s face in this picture! Spent the rest of the day doing normal Sunday chores, watching SNL (oh my god, it was so bad!!!), going for a run and giving baby a bath. I hope you all had a good weekend!