Hello from another snowy morning in Colorado. Joey told me he’s okay with a few days of nice weather and a few days of wet weather but I am just ready for only nice weather, please! We did have a nice warm day on Saturday, so we took full advantage with lunch al fresco and a long afternoon walk. More please!

Friday morning, Joey and Dempsey went to Huckleberry to get us some more coffee beans and to pick up a latte for me 🙂 We were on our own that day but managed to make it through. I gotta say, even though it’s helpful to have grandparents here taking care of him during the week, it’s also hard to just be downstairs. We made black and blue steak salad with mini baked sweet potatoes for dinner and while I was finishing up, Joey made us some killer cocktails. They had a little bit of whipped cream on top, YUM! We started Spirited Away that night and only made it about halfway through (how come the baby is sleeping through the night but we’re somehow still always tired??), so more on that later 🙂 P.S. See how Dempsey is practicing his standing up?!

Saturday = Happy 5 Months to our little lovey!!! I can’t believe it! I feel like the 6 month mark is going to bring big changes (sleeping in his own room maybe?? trying solids!), so I’m savoring this month for sure! We’ve been waiting for the right timing (aka when Dempsey sleeps past 6 AM) to go to Stowaway and it worked out finally. We had lemon cake for breakfast appetizer and Demps was as chill as could be the whole time. He fit in a shorty nap when we got home before the CU Buffs game. We ate lunch outside and then I headed into Louisville to see my dad because my neck was so messed up! It feels way way better now 🙂

Back at home, we took a nice long walk and delivered some cookies to the neighbor who helped dig my sis out of the snow last weekend. Had a 5 month photo shoot afterward then put Dempsey down for his last nap of the day and he always super fights that one!!! We ordered Park Burger for dinner and “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.” It was so good though! Once the baby was down for the night, we finished our movie and guys, I LOVED IT!!! So whimsical, so heartwarming, so totally weird. I was shocked that it wasn’t subtitled?? Just very obsessed with “Sen” yelling everything at the beginning of the movie. “CAN YOU GIVE ME A JOB?!” I already want to watch it again!

Do you see that bright-eyed baby?! He’s a morning boy for sure and I love it so much! He and Joey hung out while I made us some strawberry cornmeal pancakes that turned out really really good. Dempsey’s nap schedule was A MESS all day and it’s always so stressful. Not because we want a good chunk of time to ourselves but because he progressively gets more and more tired as the day goes on and it’s sad to see. Poor baby! Somehow I fit in granola making (I hadn’t made any since before I got pregnant!) and an outdoor run and Joey managed to clean our bathrooms, do the laundry and work a little bit. We put Dempsey down for the night and he woke up an hour later so I held him on the couch for the rest of the night and by the time we went up to bed, he was OUT!!! Part of me was stressed that he woke up when he was supposed to be sleeping but holding him is also the best feeling ever.

It’s spring now, can you believe it?? How was your weekend?

We got SO MUCH SNOW yesterday! And the entire day (ESPECIALLY the end) definitely did not go as planned. Still, there were some bright moments from this weekend that I want to share 🙂

Friday morning, Joey had an early dentist appointment, so Dempsey and I took a little trip to pick up coffee. I love that Cherry Bean will bring your drink out to your car! Drank that lavender latte with a blueberry scone my mom baked and YUM. Dempsey was really grabbing at my cup but maybe it’s a bit too soon for coffee, bud.

That night, we made a veggie shepherd’s pie with goat cheese mashed sweet potato on top and it tasted extra good on a cold winter night. I also picked us up some beer from Diebolt and Joey was drinking the wildest stout! Upstairs, we read a chapter of Mr. Popper’s Penguins then into bed for that little baby and we started Cherry but then that little baby woke up! He remains a terrible napper for the most part but we’ve had pretty good luck getting him to sleep and staying asleep at bedtime. It’s honestly been what keeps me sane during those loooooong nap-fighting days, so the fact that he woke up half an hour after bedtime gives me so much anxiety!

On the plus side… he’s still sleeping through the night! It feels SO nice. The snow forecast kept changing and though we thought it was going to come in on Friday night, we woke up on Saturday to nothing. I made us some oatmeal, chocolate chip, banana pancakes and they were amazing!!! I need to make those more often. This is when we made the decision to do some gentle nap training that involved periodically checking on him instead of sitting in there and rushing over to put his pacifier back in every 5 seconds. I can’t say it worked perfectly and we had just a looooong short nap day. Ugh!

For dinner, we made kung pao brussels to go with our wontons and dumplings from Yuan Wonton (finally cooked them all!) and it was all so good! We let Dempsey hold a chopstick for like two seconds so we could take a picture of him with his “wand” and not poke himself in the eye with it. Again, we tried to “put him to bed” and he woke up 30 minutes later. Since when does he think bedtime is just another nap??? Tom Holland is me thinking about how it took us 24 hours to watch an hour of Cherry.

When we woke up on Sunday it was SEVEN FIFTEEN AND DEMPSEY WAS STILL ASLEEP! Hallelujah! With the time change it was actually 6:15 to his body clock, but still. My sis worked a night shift on Saturday and was due to work another one on Sunday, so instead of trying to drive back and forth home, she came to our house! I was just finishing up biscuits and gravy when she got there, so Dempsey napped and we feasted. Guys, why didn’t you tell me biscuits and gravy are super easy and super rewarding to make?? I loved it! We let my sis take our room to sleep for the rest of the day and we continued to try to nap Dempsey in his pack-n-play downstairs. He’s getting better at the falling asleep part but is TERRIBLE at the staying asleep part. I think he took like four 20-minute naps. Every day, I give myself a pep talk so I won’t stress about his sleep. But it’s sad when he’s tired. Get some sleep, baby boy! Oh and we finally finished our game of Monopoly. I slaughtered Joey in about ten minutes, ha!

The snow was coming DOWN!!! It was so pretty but it got a lot less fun when my sister went to leave and got completely stuck. She, Joey and two neighbors tried to dig her car out for an hour and a half while Dempsey and I watched from the window and felt stressed for them all. They finally had to give up and she called a Lyft that just never came. Finally, around 9:30, her charge nurse just told her to stay home. I think we all felt really bad, but I felt like she’d given it her every effort. Instead, we watched the Grammys and Dempsey freaking woke up half an hour after I put him to bed. WHY??? We started the show so late and even though I had so been looking forward to it, I just felt so impatient. We finally fast forwarded to the BTS performance, then called it quits. Grammys, give my boys a 30-minute performance next time!!! Anyway, that was their 31st performance of “Dynamite” and each and every one was different and special. Their talent!

Here’s some pictures of the snow today. Dempsey seemed unimpressed 🙂