I was just scrolling through the pictures I’ve taken this week and it has been a very silly time in the life of Dempsey. Toddler tantrums also abound (he wants what he wants, okay??), but for the most part, everything he does is very funny to me lately. Also sleep has been better, the Winter Olympics are on (for just a few more days ☹) and I’m in the middle of a book that I cannot put down, so 👍👍

In the Kitchen:

Joey made us cod with scallion-sesame butter for dinner and cod is not the most photogenic fish, but it sure it quick to make and this tasted great! Love a ginger-forward sauce on almost anything.

I made us chickpea burger sliders and Dempsey acted like it was poison. Oh well, I liked them!!

And last, but not least, we dusted off the pasta attachment and made pappardelle for Valentine’s Day. Dempsey would not touch that pasta but ate a million olives?? This kid!

Dempsey Snapshots:

This boy is my monkey lately. Wants me to hold him all the time and wants to crawl all over me if I’m sitting down. Exhausting but also the sweetest and cutest. Why does he look so grown up in that first picture?? 😭

Seems like he is doing a new things about 10x a day lately! He can get himself into his own little chair now and is actually interested in doing so. I love it!

Joey and I got a little cookie decorating kit for my parents to do with him on Monday and he was really only interested in eating the frosting 😂

Life In General:

I picked up a nice short book and Donna Tart’s 550+ page novel, The Secret History and guess which one seemed more interesting in the first few pages?? I’m so slow to finish a book these days, but I cannot put this one down! I was so intrigued after that intro (IYKYK), that I’ve flown through it!!!

Over at the office, my money plant is alive and thriving despite the little prune job Dempsey did on it, when we had it sitting next to his car seat on the drive home from my parents’ on Christmas night.

Have you all been tuning into the Winter Olympics? I swear I can’t name a single event correctly, so I’m just calling everything “Big Air,” which Joey doesn’t seem to find as funny as I do. I’ll be honest, I think what I love most about the Olympics is the idea that we’re ALL watching AT THE SAME TIME, but turns out, I can really only tune in for the nightly recap, which isn’t usually live and that takes some of the fun out of it. I watched that shocking end to the Women’s Figure Skating competition, then immediately went to Twitter and… crickets. Oh well!

Please have a happy happy weekend!

Hello and Happy Monday! It’s Valentine’s Day! I’m feeling semi-out of it after having too much fun NOT watching the Super Bowl, but watching three crazy cute boys run around together at the Super Bowl party. I thought I was barely paying attention to the game in years past but this year takes the cake. I think I caught pieces of the half time show and not much else. Oh well! The rest of our weekend was pretty low-key. Let me show you 😊

Started Friday with pancakes for myself because we had just a tiny bit of buttermilk to use up. Selfie with my boy before Grandma Lori came to take him to the zoo. She sent us a picture of him hanging out with a monkey and it was the cutest!

My sis and I were supposed to hang out but it was snowing and neither of us seemed too keen on going out in it. Instead, we picked up Demps earlier than usual and ordered in Mexican for dinner. It’s all fun and games downing queso until 1 AM when your son wakes up crying. Ugh! Joey was up with him for a couple of hours and then he ended up in our bed for a couple more. Needless to say, it was a restless night for us all.

Demps seemed no worse for the wear in the morning but his parents were DRAGGING. Me specifically 😂 I made Joey and I pancakes and hey, look! Our boy actually ate a little one so maybe his pancake strike is coming to an end! I got him that big boy cup with a straw at Target on Friday and he loooooves it!

The rest of the day involved coloring 😍, snuggling with our new Elmo and Cookie Monster from Grandpa Steve and Lorna and then after naps for both Dempsey and I, we took him outside with his shovel from Grandma Lori and he had SO MUCH FUN shoveling the snow!!! We were out there for an hour! Joey headed back inside to use the treadmill, so Dempsey and I took a little walk together and man is it fun to walk with him these days ❤

Joey made us cream of mushroom soup for dinner and we’ll make some modifications next time, but I rather liked it. Super quick and easy to make too! We put Demps down for bed then fired up this movie we had started Friday night before I realized how tired I already was. I thought it was really good and interesting but overall kind of sad.

After a much better night of sleep on Saturday, Joey and I both woke up before Demps. He woke up a bit later and we headed to breakfast at Sassafras. That little boy loooooves beignets and grits! And Joey and I were pretty happy with our respective meals as well. I had an 11 AM facial and Joey and Dempsey had an errand to run at 10:30, so they headed out shortly before me. Since we would be out later at the Super Bowl party, we planned to push his nap back a bit but then he fell asleep in the car on that errand run 🤷‍♀️ That book must’ve put him to sleep! 😂

Just some Super Bowl shenanigans! I think Dempsey enjoyed playing with all of Henry’s toys 😂 Darron and Karla had such a good spread, per usual! Loved those spicy wings and actually, so did Dempsey (just the inside non-spicy parts though 😉)! Mason and I played a few rounds of Crazy Eights and he wanted me to take that picture of him posing like the frog statue. Why’s he so funny?! Particularly enjoyed Dempsey wandering around with that foam sword and using it like a vacuum?? Wonder where he’s seen that? 🤣 And when all the boys climbed underneath the table and were in their own “baby restaurant.” Too much fun! So nice to be back at this party after missing it in 2020 and 2021! Demps fell asleep in the car but he was such a trooper staying up past his normal bedtime. I love him very much.

Hope you have a wonderful Monday!