Please Pass the Mom Jeans

So I'm a mom. That's weird. I still can't believe it sometimes! I mean, the guy at the salon last week thought I was 17. Sooo...clearly I'm not old enough for this. Just when I thought I was starting to grow out of my teenager look too! But then another girl in her 20s I was talking to at Art City Donuts (post baby healthy eating is going great btw) was shocked I was only 23. I guess holding your baby adds 6+ years. Who knew?

Things have obviously changed a lot, but there are a few things that stand out:

My new bedtime is right around 4 or 5 am since Dez is ALWAYS wide awake the entire time and wanting to eat every half hour from midnight to 4ish. Is this my reward for being such a night owl my whole life? I'll take it.

I curse any day I have to be anywhere/do anything/look halfway decent before 1 pm (okay 2). Staying in bed that long is the only way I get 5 or 6 hours of sleep (this kid eats often and for a looong time).

My brain is all over the place and much worse than any pregnancy brain. The only example I can think of at the moment though (my point exactly) is the other day when I was looking something up on my phone and then I needed to look at a calendar so I put down my phone and was running all over the house looking for...my phone's calendar. I frantically asked Colby if he'd seen my phone anywhere, and luckily he was sitting right next to me when I put it down to look for it. Eeesh.

I also remember the first week we were home from the hospital we stayed up late watching Friends (obviously) and we were so sleep deprived we thought everything was extra hilarious and I literally could not stop laughing at every little thing. I also thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen when I was too weak to reach alllll the way to the coffee table to put my chapstick down and laughed hysterically when it fell on the floor instead. So there's that.

Life has changed so much and sometimes I don't even know that I can do it but we're on cloud 9! Dez is the best baby ever and we're so in love and can't stop staring at our perfect angel. It makes me sad how much he's already changed in the past 3.5 weeks. Stop it!

A few of my favorites:

The first time holding my son. Way up there among the best moments of my life.

The very best humans.

Probably the first really big smile I saw from him! He kind of even laughed too. It was awesome.

One of his most common expressions. It's hilarious.

Wearing my dad's blessing outfit for his baby blessing on July 13. We went without the bonnet though...it's not 1966 anymore amiright?!

Saying goodbye to Aunt Alisa at the MTC!

We loved having Aunt Amanda visit from Portland. It's always way too short!