Guys. Yesterday was A DAY! We had too good of a Valentine’s Day last year — we found out I was pregnant the day before and broke the news to our parents and siblings on the 14th! — so we had to pay for it this year, I guess! I woke up at 6:30 AM on Sunday to Joey whispering “Happy Valentine’s Day, we have no heat.” We scrambled to find a repairman, on SUNDAY at SIX-THRITY AM, then got back to our breakfast plans but there were no delivery people available because it was -4 degrees outside and yeah, I wouldn’t want to be out driving around either! We found a back up and then breakfast and the repairman arrived at the exact same time. Meaning I ate breakfast upstairs (snuggling a baby, of course) while Joey was downstairs and then our smoke alarm started chirping, which set the dog off at the exact moment the baby was finally falling asleep. To top it all off, after the repairman left — he was able to rig up our heat so we could at least turn it on but we needed a new thermostat still — Andi went to the bathroom in our hallway. OY!

Back on Friday, my sis came over to watch Dempsey and we feasted on Yuan Wonton’s Lunar New Year menu for lunch. Seems that little baby loves going to sleep easily for everyone but Joey and I, ha! We made ricotta gnocchi for dinner then watched Judas and the Black Messiah. I really thought this movie was good, and I love Lakeith Stanfield, but I was so much more interested in Daniel Kaluuya’s character. That performance was SO compelling to me. And Dominique Fishback’s too! Not surprising, since she is SO SO GOOD in The Deuce.

Saturday started with a lively baby and then Joey took him downstairs and I came down a bit later and made us some banana fritters — my mom used to make these all the time, but I didn’t remember that we ate them with sugar instead of syrup — and in between naps, we did some cleaning, some Christmas ornament painting (don’t ask…), some grocery ordering, some laundry and then we collapsed on the couch. I wanted to get all our chores done so we could be free on Sunday but we definitely did not get to the cleaning of our four bathrooms. Why are there so many bathrooms??? We watched 21 Bridges that night and some of it felt like an episode of CSI (or what I imagine CSI to be since I’ve never actually watched) but I thought Stephen James was actually really good. Which mostly reminds me that I need to watch If Beale Street Could Talk again 😛 Dempsey was so sleepy and let me cuddle him in our bed for a bit. THE BEST.

Okay instead of reliving all the bad moments of Sunday let me show you the good parts. No heat means baby snuggles to keep warm. Dempsey was being so chill that morning and I loved it. Joey and I opened Valentine’s cards and presents to each other and Dempsey was mostly interested in the card. Our biscuit sandwiches from Denver Biscuit Company were so good! I texted my mom and sister to say “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing” because my grandpa used to always say that 🙂 Left that Cuter Than Cupid baby and Joey at home while I got my hair cut and even though we almost just ordered Illegal Pete’s for dinner because we’d just had it with the day and didn’t know if we could make ourselves dinner, I re-grouped and knocked it out while Joey was buying yet another thermostat. Steak and potatoes never tasted so good! Joey got us hot chocolate bombs for dessert. I maybe felt really hot and thought I might throw up after I drank mine (ha ha!) but it tasted so good.

Please tell me you had a better Valentine’s Day!

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 🙂