Hi! How is your March so far? Ours has started off really good, even though it was in the upper 60s all week then snowed all weekend. Oh well! We distracted ourselves with an outing to the Butterfly Pavilion and then my sister, mom and Wayne came home from LA and we’ve adopted my mom for a few days. Having a live-in au pair is so nice 😂❤

Picked up our Dempsey on Friday afternoon and drove straight to Chop Shop for dinner. He was fully distracted by the person sitting behind us who was wearing really colorful shoes 😂 Bathtime and bedtime for our little love when we got home and then Joey and I watched Bergman Island. I feel like it was not to our benefit that we know NOTHING about Ingmar Bergman but I do love Vicky Krieps. I was sort of confused by the ending and Joey had to fill me in, but I did think it was very interesting.

Saturday started with lemon yogurt pancakes with blueberry sauce and judging from Dempsey’s face, I think he was a fan 😂 I was too! What a texture on those pancakes.

I told Joey that we should probably occasionally plan to do something fun with Dempsey on the weekend instead of just always hanging around the house and threw the Butterfly Pavilion out there. Made a quick decision to go after breakfast and we had fun! Dempsey was definitely more interested in all the insects than made me comfortable and Joey totally held a tarantula 😱 Inside the pavilion, Dempsey seemed very interested in seeing the butterflies soar around but was not interested in them coming too close. I got a funny video of him flapping his hand at one, with a look of pure disgust on his face and same, bud! 😂 Spent some time on the indoor playground and then Joey had to see how the cotton candy machine worked. Demps was definitely a fan of that!

Just had a chill rest of the day at home, then when we heard my family had landed in Denver we asked if they wanted to join us for dinner. Timing didn’t quite work out, so Joey, Dempsey and I ate on our own and then Joey picked everyone up from Union Station and I made them fresh burgers once they got to our house. They got to spend just a little time with Dempsey before he went to bed 🥰 They bought me Rubber Soul at a record store in LA and I’m so happy!!!! In other news, we decided to wean Dempsey from the pacifier on a whim this weekend and it’s actually been going really well. We just straight up hid them all and it’s a fun act of distraction while we put him down for naps and bed. He cried a bit on Saturday night but I think it was more tiredness than anything. My sis and Wayne hung around for a little then they headed home and my mom, Joey and I stayed up to watch the first half of SNL.

A fun Sunday with Grandma! I brought Dempsey down to my mom’s room in the morning thinking he might cuddle with her, but who am I kidding because this kid can’t stay still 😂 We ordered breakfast from The Nosh and I’m grateful for Joey, who went out in the snow to pick it up! We amused ourselves all morning, then the adults watched Singin’ in the Rain while Demps napped (my mom had never seen it!) and when he woke back up, we made some cookies together. Kale Junkie’s “Life Changing Tahini Chocolate Chip Cookies” are amazing, for the record! And then we made pasta for dinner, gave Dempsey a bath, put him to bed and watched Top Chef, which Joey and I were DELIGHTED to find out has started up again. My mom stayed the night again, since she watches Dempsey on Mondays anyway and I could get used to these sleepovers ❤ Hope you had a nice weekend too!

What a weekend! Felt like I could really feel the transition from February to March, in terms of weather, in terms of pace, in terms of focus. I like it 😊 Also Joey and I had not one but TWO day dates?! Good for us 🥰

We’ve changed up our Friday schedules so that neither Dempsey nor our house cleaners are there, just Joey and I, and it simultaneously feels weird and nice. Joey is always trying to be super productive and I am always trying to remind him that it’s Friday. Our compromise this week was to take a real lunch break and go out. We’ve never been to Stowaway for lunch and they are busy! Finally got a table and dove into two really good plates (bowls?) of food!

Picked up our little man later on then had leftovers for dinner. Joey and I are always so tired come Friday that watching the latest episode of The Amazing Race is all we had in us.

A Saturday of nothing but also lots of things? Dempsey helped me make pancakes by sprinkling on the chocolate chips and holding the spatula with me while we flipped them ❤ We are watching the pups this week while the rest of my family is in LA, so while everyone napped, Joey and I watched Free Solo and what an interesting and terrifying documentary that is. Post-Dempsey nap, we went on a walk and made dinner. Dempsey seems to love celery root? 😂 And after he went to bed, we fired up Spencer and I have mixed feelings on Kristen Stewart’s acting but I actually thought she was amazing in this! The movie overall is kind of dull, but she was great and I loved all those scenes of her with William and Harry.

Sunday started with breakfast and then we hung out for the rest of the morning. Dempsey is really loving having Huni around and she is much more tolerant than Andi, who wants Dempsey nowhere near him and Demps and Joey were in the backyard for a bit because it was so nice outside! Dempsey was in his happy place, picking up snow, walking around with the watering can and looking through the gate. Well, until he fell 🤦‍♀️ He ate lunch and went down for his nap and Lori came over so Joey and I could spend the rest of the day at the movie theater. If you’ve been reading for any length of time, you know how much we love going to see the Oscar Nominated Short Films and we were SO HAPPY AND EXCITED to be back in the theater to watch them. The best ❤ I think they were somehow less depressing than usual, even though they were still pretty depressing. Nothing can be worse than the year I had to watch five short films about children dying, okay!! Could have used one straight up funny live action film in there though.

We picked up pizza on our way home and Lori stayed and ate with us and then bedtime for Dempsey and SAG time for Joey and I! Oh how I’ve missed in person award shows and without the Golden Globes this year, it felt like it’d been even longer since we’d had one. Very happy for CODA and the Squid Game crew and if every other award had gone to Andrew Garfield that would have been totally fine with me, but it was not to be. We can get it right at the Oscars, eh?? Hope you had a nice weekend!