a weekly log of our everyday life
One of the big highlights of the week… Jake’s moths are cocooning! We woke up one morning and saw a giant web of silk around one of the caterpillars! So exciting! Jake wishes he got to see the caterpillar actually make the cocoon. It’s okay, we have a total of 8 caterpillars. So he has […]
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Jake’s First Father’s Day!! It feels so surreal to be celebrating Jake for Father’s Day. Like what!? He is just a dad now!! For his first Father’s Day, Jake wanted to do a joint celebration with his dad! We spent the day at the beach (a Kohlhepp classic). And in the evening, went back to […]
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Postpartum Week 1: Feelings & Updates (a bit of a long post!) Our first night home alone (night 2 of baby’s life) was HARD. All the helpful nurses, who miraculously know just how to calm a screaming baby and swaddle perfectly, were suddenly gone. And we were thrown right into parenthood. Apparently night 2 is […]
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Our baby girl made her debut last week! So far the transition to parenthood has been hard. Our first night home alone was the hardest…apparently it’s typical and it even has a name– called “Night 2 Syndrome.” Breastfeeding has been hard. We have so many doctors appointments scheduled that everything just seems so overwhelming. Cindy’s […]
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Well…baby’s due date has come and gone and… we’re still pregnant. We keep saying, “Any day now!” but at this point it feels like maybe she’s just gonna stay in there forever lol. We’ve been trying to keep busy, so we don’t get bored just waiting around. Since baby’s due date was on Friday and […]
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Well….we’re hoping it’s our last date night! But we’ll see…maybe baby will come late and we can have another date night! We’re so happy things have started opening up in Los Angeles because it meant we were able to go out and actually do something fun! We are soo over ordering take-out and watching a […]
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We finally have the baby’s nursery put together and thought we’d give a tour! And share how we made space for both baby and Jake’s office in our second bedroom. We’re pretty fortunate to have moved into this bigger space a year ago. We probably could have made it work in our old apartment, but […]
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But first… the biggest highlight of our week was getting our maternity shoot pictures!! Sharing some of our favorites below: Other highlights: Jake’s ATC Jake Advanced to Candidacy (ATC)!! Prior to this, Jake was just a PhD student. Now, he is a PhD candidate! Wooo! Go Jake! It was a very stressful and busy week […]
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The big highlight of our past week was our babymoon! Ideally, we would have loved to go on one final out-of-country trip before the baby came; however, because of all the travel restrictions due to COVID, we settled on Palm Springs as our getaway destination. We were initially skeptical about what there is to do […]
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On Saturday, we had our big “Baby Planning Day”. We decided to dedicate this day to getting through some of our baby to-do list– like scheduling the maternity & newborn shoot, buying some of the “big items” for the nursery, and making our registry. It felt a lot like wedding planning! To get motivated for […]
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jake & cindy 