Hello and good morning from spring in Colorado. Aka we’ve had a handful of warm, perfect weather days and now we’re launching into a week of cool temperatures. Whyyyyy? Also, guys, I am impatiently awaiting the time when Dempsey grows out of 30-minute naps. I thought we had made real strides in the past couple of weeks but WOOF, this weekend was rough. It’s not that I want more time to myself, it’s that he wakes up still tired and then we end up in an endless loop of trying to put him down for a nap where he actually gets enough sleep. The good news is, he’s perfect and I love him so much, 30-minutes naps and all! And we still had a really really great weekend!

A Friday morning photo and a Friday night photo, respectively. We ordered burgers from Park Burger because we had a free beer coupon and because burgers always sound good! Demps proceeded to knock every one of his “toys” off the table and then played with the ketchup and mustard packets. Put him down for bed and queued up Top Chef, then the Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts. We didn’t make it all the way through, but ugh, why do they always have to be so sad??

Sorry for those first two blurry photos, but it was both 6 AM and this baby boy doesn’t like to stay still. He did seem to enjoy my contacts sample box though! Downstairs, I made us some suuuuper seedy waffles (love a texturally complex recipe, TBH) and Dempsey “helped” Joey file his nails and then I headed out to do something I hadn’t done since February 2020! Got a professional mani/pedi! I was super excited for some human interaction that wasn’t Joey (no offense, Joey!) but then the whole experience was sort of depressing. There were very few other people in there and NO ONE was talking to each other. I suddenly wasn’t sure if we were even encouraged to conversate so then I also didn’t talk to my nail tech and it just felt sad. At least my nails look good!

After my mani, we had to go pick up our Chipotle GrubHub order because there were no drivers available and that’s the second time in two weeks that that has happed… By the time I got home, it was a late lunch and baby boy was on his FOURTH nap already, ugh! We did get a chance to finish the shorts though and my favorite one was The Snail and the Whale, which actually isn’t even nominated, go figure! Demps slept till 5:10 and woke up just in time for our evening plans with Steve and Lorna. Dempsey keeps crying when Grandpa Steve holds him and I don’t know what that’s about but he had gotten over it by the end of the night. We picked up Spuntino for dinner and feasted outside. Gosh I love Spuntino so much! I excused myself early to go feed and put Dempsey to sleep and check it out, he’s started to sit up on his own!!! Though he did fall over right after I took this picture 🙂 He went down easy peasy and then everyone got to chat downstairs for a bit. After Steve and Lorna left, we wathced an episode of Shameless (trying to binge this final season now that it’s all over, wahhh) and the beginning of SNL even!

Guys, do you see that sweet sweet smiley baby??? I love him!!!! Joey cropped me out of that photo, which is RUDE, but I forgive him because he got that perfect shot of Dempsey 🙂 We ordered The Noshery for breakfast and I swear Joey’s scramble came with potatoes and toast last time! We finished SNL after and Bowen Yang is a national treasure.

We’ve been trying to take Dempsey over to Joey’s grandparents’ for weeks and were finally able to make it happen! He was a happy boy (despite his 30-minute nap) and it was the very sweetest and best to see him smiling up at his great grandparents 🙂

Had Caesar salads for dinner then put Dempsey down for bed and had dessert while we watched another epi of Shameless. I came across this Italian Carrot Cake and though I didn’t actually have an occasion to make it, do you every really need an occasion for dessert? I say no! Also, the recipe said to let it sit for 12 hours and to that, we also said no! It was so so good. I served up a piece to my mom today and she concurred. That’s a win!

Happy Monday!

WHAT 👏🏻 A 👏🏻 WEEKEND 👏🏻! It started with Opening Day (which I must confess I was really anxious about) then continued on to our first dose of the vaccine, then Joey’s birthday, then Easter and one more Rockies game. Plus perfect weather, so it really was just the best!

On Wednesday, we took Dempsey to his first real outing — a retirement party for one of our employees. He napped so badly beforehand, was overtired at the office (but looked into our sliders!) and was NOT happy when I got him home. He fought his second two naps so hard and it was the saddest. I was already worried about him being awake too long at the Rockies game and Wednesday did not help reassure me. But! He did SO GOOD at the game! Helped so much that my mom was over in the morning and held him for a good long nap and then he got to see the Opening Day ceremony, took a brief nap (I was truly shocked) and then we all left at the top of the fifth, after which he went home and slept for two hours. Literally could not have gone better! Also, it was just so nice to be at a baseball game again 🙂

We both got our first vaccines on Friday. HALLELUJAH!!!!! It was a drive through event and it went very smoothly (except when the lady who administered my shot told me, “RELAX” and I didn’t know I wasn’t relaxed!). I suddenly felt very emotional while driving home. We are so close to having our normal lives back, I hope! Hannah texted me saying “Mark the weekend of May 7th on your calendar for a hang out” and guys, I cannot wait to hug my best friends!!!! We worked the rest of the day, then gave Dempsey a bath, a mohawk and a first feel of grass, ha! He was not impressed. Then we ordered Blue Pan and we were impressed, as always! I made Joey watch Top Chef before we started a movie, then fell asleep halfway through the movie. D’oh! I did wake up for the last scene of Another Round and I had no idea Mads Mikkelsen was a dancer, but I was DELIGHED by that final scene! Both of our arms were pretty sore that night and Joey had a slight headache, otherwise, no major reactions to the vaccine. Phew!

Happy Birthday, Joey!!! I woke up that morning and checked the monitor in Dempsey’s room and that’s what I saw! We considered going out but it was early, so Joey and Dempsey went and picked up coffee and I made us pancakes with lots of strawberries that I may or may not have tossed in sugar, because strawberries aren’t quite there yet. Dempsey got Joey a Rockies hat just like his 🙂 We went for a long morning walk around the lake and then the nap schedule worked out so that we could take Dempsey to his first brewery! First time at De Steeg and we thought their beer was really really good! Steve and Lorna were able to meet us there to give Dempsey some Easter gifts and Joey a birthday present. Afterward, Lori and Adam came over with Los Arcos and though we tried to put Demps down for one last nap, he wasn’t having it, so we all walked to get ice cream and then I put that little baby to sleep and we all sat outside by the fire and chatted for a bit. I know it wasn’t my birthday, so I shouldn’t be the one to say this, but to me, it was a perfect day!

Happy Easter! My mom was trying to remember what we did last year and I reminded her that we were on lockdown and none of us did anything. I think we made some soup, ha! This year was much more fun. We hosted brunch and Dempsey was totally spoiled by Easter basket goodies! Breakfast all turned out great too. I had imagined spending a holiday with a little baby at the table for so long and we finally got to! Ugh, I couldn’t have been any happier. My parents put him down for a nap and then we all sat outside and hung out. Warm weather has me feeling so euphoric! One of our employees backed out of Rockies tickets so we made a really last minute decision to go and luckily, Lori was able to join us! We lasted from the second inning to the seventh inning stretch, but Dempsey was maybe overtired when we got back and it was hard to get him to sleep. Oh well! He got to stay up and watch the very beginning of the SAG Awards and then we finished them after he went to bed. Predictable but also not?? I love that win for Youn Yuh-jung!

All in all, just such a WONDERFUL WONDERFUL weekend!