It’s April, can you believe it?! We are diving right into a busy month, starting with Joey’s birthday yesterday, Rockies Opening Day this Friday, TWO trips to Vegas, with Easter sandwiched in between, and my sis’s 30th birthday. Whew! This weekend was a good one that involved lots of birthday celebrating and some down time for just the three of us too. Let me show you 😊

Dempsey got to take a field trip to the family fish store on Friday. They opened up early, just for him ❤ Also, I snapped a picture of our tulips on our way out the door to pick Demps back up at the end of the day. I’m so happy they came up! You just never know, you know? Later, we walked over to Ginger Pig with Steve and Lorna and maybe ordered three giant Korean corndogs. Dempsey’s first time eating a hot dog and he was a BIG FAN! It was a fun dinner and I’m so happy to have this good restaurant so close to us. Can’t wait to start our weekly walks there in the summer again 😋

Woke up with a latte craving on Saturday, so Dempsey and Joey went out to grab me one and look who came back with a vanilla steamer that he straight chugged 😂 I made us whole wheat buttermilk pancakes and Dempsey helped by sprinkling on the chocolate chips! He had a fried egg instead of his usual scramble and he liked it that way too.

Mid-morning adventure to the library to get some books and more importantly, to get Dempsey his very own library card!!! 🥰🥰🥰 It’s just a little library but they actually have a very good selection of children’s books. I’m hoping to make this a weekly trip! He picked out three books — Burger Boy, Hats Off to Mr. Pockles and Triceratops Stomp — and played a game of peekaboo with a boy and his mom, who definitely didn’t know they were playing a game of peekaboo 😂 While Dempsey was down for his nap, Joey participated in a very serious fantasy baseball draft and I had some alone time, reading outside and taking a trip to Target.

We spent the rest of the afternoon/evening hanging outside — Dempsey was very into blowing bubbles! — and it felt so nice!!! Then we ate dinner, Demps got a bath and went to bed and Joey and I fired up Cabaret, which neither of us had ever seen. It is definitely strange and unique but Liza is an undeniable star! I only found out she was Judy Garland’s daughter a few years ago (HOW DID I NOT KNOW??) but once you know, you can’t un-see it in her every move!

Happy Birthday, Joey!!! Dempsey “helped” me wrap presents the day before and was very into Dad’s new golf club! We keep having to hid it from him 😂 We had breakfast with my mom and dad (my sis and Wayne sadly had to bail because my sis is sick 😢) and Dempsey was very into his breakfast sausage! We hung out at my parents’ for a bit afterward and tried to get Dempsey to use a magnifying glass. I had a 10:30 haircut, so Demps and Joey headed home and I headed out. Joey sent me that box picture and said Dempsey did NOT like it. Can’t imagine why! 🤣

Back to Los Arcos for the first time in two years!!!! It was Dempsey’s first time there! Felt really nice 😊 He sat on Great Grandpa’s lap, clearly said “Grandma” for the first time 😍😍😍 and devoured a cheese enchilada. We had them sing “Happy Birthday” to Joey and Dempsey seemed very confused 😂 He was NOT into wearing the sombrero but he WAS into eating Dad’s ice cream sundae. Back at home, we watching fifteen minutes of the Grammys, then put Dempsey to bed and watched the rest. I actually thought it was a very good show! And it made the Oscars seem like even more of a mess than they already did, if that’s even possible. The performances were good, the speeches were nice and the In Memoriam segment was very classy. Take note, Academy! I’m sad BTS didn’t win but their performance had my jaw on the floor. I saw a picture of Lady Gaga and Kim Taehyung later on and I honestly still haven’t recovered. Oh and Dempsey and I have been listing to Jon Batiste all morning!

Hope you had a good weekend!

Whew. Desperately trying to pull myself together and form some cohesive thoughts, something I’ve been trying to do since 8:30 last night. That Oscars telecast was truly shocking and bewildering. And I lived through the Moonlight/La La Land debacle! Very very sad that all those bright moments — Troy Kotsur winning Best Supporting Actor (his speech was so good and I loved Youn Yuh-jung standing next to him and holding his Oscar 🥺), Dune basically sweeping those technical awards and giving praise to Denis Villeneuve, Questlove’s emotional acceptance speech, Gaga and Liza announcing Best Picture, Dempsey eating ramen with a single chopstick and ahem, a surprise BTS spot (I cried during Coco too, Joon!) was all so overshadowed by a literal onstage assault?? I truly truly hated that and cannot believe it happened. The rest of our weekend was good, but woof, what a way to end.

We picked up our boy on Friday afternoon and made a pit stop at this park we drive by all the time. He seemed to like the sand pit, the giant slide and the bouncing bridge best 😍 Then we made our way to… you guessed it, Edgewater Public Market! I guess it’s our spot. It was as busy as could be and Dempsey was rather distracted. Those sliders sure were good though! Back at home, we put Demps to bed, then fired up Attica. Please excuse my ignorance, but I never knew about this event and I was HORRIFIED. HORRIFIED. Incarcerated or not, I think you have the right to be treated like a human being. I was so sad to see how this played out. I am still wrapping my head around it and how there were no consequences for the law enforcement involved. It’s somehow shocking and sadly, not shocking at all. I highly recommend this doc, but please know that it is a very tough watch.

Woke up and had more lemon yogurt pancakes. I think Dempsey would have just liked to eat the entire bowl of blueberry sauce 😂 It was so super nice that day, so we spent all morning outside. Joey did some cleaning up and Dempsey ran around undoing all that cleaning. He has so many toys but he just wants to dump dirt on the ground and hold the rake 😂

Later, I made a pesto grilled cheese for Dempsey but he is in another phase of not really wanting to eat anything (including fruit???), so he mostly just ate the melty cheese out of the middle. I put him down for his nap and got to eat the rest of his sandwich, so his loss, but definitely my gain! Joey and I caught up on Top Chef and Better Things during nap time too.

Post nap, we took a walk to the park on Tennyson and Dempsey commandeered another child’s bucket and shovel. Luckily, most children at the park are wonderful sharers 😊 Back at home, I made us super good pasta dinner that had a sauce made of corn?! It turned out a bit greener than I had expected, thanks to the scallions, but wow, it was so so good! Dempsey was a big fan too! After bath and bedtime, we snuck in one last Oscar-Nominated film with Summer of Soul. We watched the last half hour on Sunday and I thought it was amazing!

A super start to our Sunday! I went out and grabbed two iced coffees and one vanilla steamer and Joey and Dempsey stayed home and made us all egg sandwiches for breakfast. It’s my favorite thing when he holds a full sandwich 😍 He was pretty good at holding it together too! Afterward, I made our lunch salads for the week and Joey started the first of a million loads of laundry, then I went on a run and we all walked over to the basketball court to play. We cut through the field at the school and it was so fun watching Dempsey run across! He mainly wanted to pick up two little rocks and throw them over and over, instead of playing with the basketball, but we had fun either way.

Oscar Night! It started out so fun and hopeful. We all filled out our ballots and how rude is it that I spend so much time thinking and reading and listening to podcasts about these films for an entire year and all it gets me is three more right answers than Joey?? We made Parasite ramen in 2019 and now it’s a tradition! I wasn’t sure Demps would be into it, but HE WAS. Also, we never ever eat dinner in front of the TV, but since the telecast started at 6, we had to and Dempsey was into that as well. He saw me using chopsticks and wanted one too 😂😂😂 I wish I could separate that Will Smith episode from the rest of the show to be able to tell you if it was good or not, but that feels impossible. I’m already exhausted from what I’m sure will be a ridiculous take cycle, but I will leave you with this. That joke Chris Rock made was terrible and inappropriate and you should absolutely not hit someone ever. It can be both.

Okay, please have a nice day. Hopefully we can all focus again sometime soon!