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!

Happy Monday! My first week back to full time work was… rough. I definitely cried on Monday, but the good news is, the days got progressively easier as the week went on and I actually feel pretty good about it all today. Friday could not have come faster though! We had quite the weekend, packed with an actual outing, lots of visits from family, perhaps too much take out, a few movies and just so many baby smiles. Wow, guys, 3-month old babies are just so so fun! To top it all off, Dempsey has been sleeping 6-hour stretches at night and it has felt GREAT. Let’s hope he keeps it up 🙂

We worked till about 2:30 on Friday, then packed up the baby and ourselves and hit the road for Dillon to see the Ice Castles. I think we’ve talked about going for something like four years, but it took a sleepless night for Joey to just bite the bullet and buy us tickets. We made it up in about an hour and fifteen minutes, then put Dempsey in his snowsuit and tried putting him in the carrier but HE HATES IT IN THERE! We think he likes being able to see everything?? The castles were definitely smaller than we’d expected but they were still cool to see. I think we made it through in about 20 minutes though, ha! Ordered pizza from Hops & Pie on our drive back. The pizza special had orzo on it and their breadsticks have pimento (I think??) cheese on top, yum!!! Watched something like 20 minutes of Lady Macbeth before Joey announced he was too tired, LOL!

Up and at em with this cutie on Saturday! He’s so dang smiley in the mornings and it’s my favorite! We tried to let Joey sleep in again and got started on coffee and pancakes. I saw a recipe for cornmeal buttermilk pancakes last week and really wanted to try it. We all (including Andi) approved. Lounged on the couch for bit afterward, then got ourselves ready for a visit from Cathy, Todd and Courtney. It was their first time meeting Dempsey! They brought such cute toys for him too.

Someone passed out IMMEDIATELY after they all left. Meeting new people must be tiring. I held him while Joey went out on a run and then we had lunchtime sandwiches from Brider delivered. My banh mi was sort of disappointing, but man are those chips good! And we finished our movie. Love Florence Pugh but I did not love this film. Specifically a scene closer to the end that was deeply upsetting. No thank you! We tried to get some chores that we usually reserve for Sundays done too, so that we could have more free time the next day. Uncle Adam came over around 4:30 and Dempsey managed to stay awake until about the very end of the visit.

Ended the night with leftovers and another movie. We watched Shame and I don’t know, I felt like it was a movie I was supposed to think was good more than that I actually thought was good. I feel like I always like Carey Mulligan more than I like the actual movie she’s in. Joey liked it though! I made us some salted honey no-churn ice cream on Thursday and we were too tired to eat it on Friday, so we finally broke it out Saturday night. So creamy!

The face of a baby who basically slept from 7:30 PM to 3 AM! He ate a couple of times in between but didn’t even open his eyes to do so, ha! He was, however, wide awake when I put him back in his bed at 3:30 AM but he rolled around and “talked” in his bassinet for a bit, then eventually fell asleep on his own. Knock on wood that he keeps this up for a bit (but I won’t bank on it)!

We ordered from The Noshery for breakfast and I was hesitant to order just the basic breakfast (I’m picky about scrambled eggs and so many places are surprisingly terrible at it!) but it ended up being great! Dempsey fell asleep in his lounger, which he hasn’t done in so long (except when he did it again this morning?!) and then kept on napping in my arms when we moved ourselves over to the couch. I ordered groceries and Joey took a trip to Target to pick up a few things and then I ate lunch and wrote a letter to Dempsey while he briefly napped in his crib later on.

Sunday afternoon, my sis and Wayne came over!!!! Out of an abundance of caution, they literally hadn’t been inside or held Dempsey since the week he was born, so it was SO NICE to see them! This little baby has changed so much since they last saw him. He has neck strength and can smile and see faces. And he was so excited to see them that he could hardly contain himself and spit up a bunch of times on my sister. Oops! He fell asleep again toward the end of their visit, so Joey continued holding him after they left and I made salads for the week and then we ate dinner and finished the night with some episodes of Better Call Saul. I love this show so much!

Please tell me how your weekend was! Also, if you have kids, tell me if you “put them to bed” when they were a baby?? We just hold this guy while we watch TV at night and take him up when we’re ready for bed. Is that weird?