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Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh City

December 8, 2017

Written by ashleyrespecki

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Quinn is soaking up spring with extra family time!

Quinn is soaking up spring with extra family time!⁣
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Nothing is worse than rain when you have visitors during a pandemic, so I was freaking out with the weather forecast this week. But turns out, my parents and sister brought sunshine with them. ☀️ Grateful for beautiful weather, vaccines, walks, puppies, and most importantly, this family. ⁣
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📷 : Quinn + cherry blossoms, girls selfie, Wilson fam (@austin_j_wilson Quinn tagged in for you on this one—miss you!), The Respeckis, Quinn & her grandpa, 3 best friends, Quinn & Auntie Abby @heyabbywilson 😎, and bonus content: sassy Auntie

Quinn and her Lamb are celebrating Easter today—

Quinn and her Lamb are celebrating Easter today—and hoping your hearts are filled with as much joy and hope as ours! ⁣
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Feeling mega nostalgic for Easter dinners with family at my great grandmother’s house...I can practically taste the fluffy angel food cake she’d decorate with jelly beans for dessert. 🎂 Nick and I can’t eat a whole cake by ourselves though so I’m filling the Easter dinner void with ham and deviled eggs instead.⁣
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Cute bonus content for your Sunday: swipe to see Sawyer’s reaction to this little Easter bunny. 🐰🐶 ⁣

My beautiful girl is 6 months old! 🥰⁣ //⁣ Q

My beautiful girl is 6 months old! 🥰⁣
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Quinn’s great grandparents and great uncles were able to visit this weekend so we celebrated her “half birthday” together! 🥳 DC treated us to beautiful weather for our time together and the cherry blossoms showed off too. I’m so grateful they got to see this girl in action: she told them stories, showed of her big grin and attitude, and snuggled them close. She had her first outdoor dining experience and @nicholasrespecki installed a cute little outdoor swing for her to enjoy this spring! We’ve had so much fun starting solid foods this month that she also tried to eat the cake the adults got to celebrate 🤦🏼‍♀️⁣
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Quinn has brought so much joy to our family and has taught me and Nick so much along the way. Including the best advice I could offer for first-time parents: pay for the extra cloud storage! 📸🎥⁣

So March 2020 was a little wild...but remember Mar

So March 2020 was a little wild...but remember March 2019, March 2018, March 2016, March 2010??? Gracing your feed with a cute pup in a snapshot from 5 years ago today, *instead of* 1 year ago today (and just in the nick of time for #flashbackfriday).⁣
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I spend a lot of time in my camera roll these days looking at photos of Quinn, because babies change so fast!!! And my trusty iPhone Photos app is so good at bringing up awesome memories (I get it @apple, I used to travel to cool places!) and making those special little vids—it’s great for someone as nostalgic as I am. Today it showed me this pic of baby Sawyer shortly after we brought him home. ❤️ And while I’m inclined to heavily reminisce about a year ago today, I’ve really been enjoying GREAT memories from the first weeks of March in years past: @sightingsofsawyer’s gotcha day, getting the keys to our first house, my fav annual tulip magnolias in DC, @heyabbywilson visiting for her spring breaks, a kitchen renovation, a basement renovation, and successfully making it past the nerve-racking early weeks of pregnancy. So many amazing memories.⁣
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Tell me something you remember from a pre-pandemic March 12-ish! (And here’s hoping it’s a good memory, or this is a real 🦶in 👄 situation...)

Okay, so this girl turned five months last week—

Okay, so this girl turned five months last week—a #momfail posting on time, but I did take the photo last week! We’ve been the good kind of busy, hence the delay: Quinn’s five month milestone coincided with @nicholasrespecki’s 34th birthday and a week-long visit with her Grandma Respecki. So “mom and dad” went on their first real date as parents (we ate at an actual restaurant for the first time since last summer!), and after a tearful goodbye to Grandma, we spent the rest of our weekend physically, mentally, emotionally prepping for the start of daycare this week. I’m grateful for all the things going on because it kept my mind off the fact that this girl is growing right up!😭⁣
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Our (petite!) five month old is *talking* like crazy. She’s chill and goes with the flow—until she doesn’t 😂 We call her “boss.” She loves her pup brother, and chewing on her hands AND toes! She’s close to sitting up independently which means we’ll start some solid foods very soon. 🥑🥕🍌 Her hair is growing back in so she won’t be bald like her mom as a baby after all! And I swear her giggles are still the sweetest sound I’ve ever heard. ❤️⁣
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Can’t believe we’re approaching half a year with this sweet little person! (Is it just me or do these milestones really punch you in the gut?!😩)

I can’t believe it, but this guys’ paternity l

I can’t believe it, but this guys’ paternity leave is coming to an end very soon.😭 ⁣
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We’ve experienced a lot of silver linings in the last year due to the pandemic, and transitioning back to work with my sweet girl hanging with dad in the next room has probably been my favorite. I can get baby snuggles in between meetings—highly recommend this stress reliever!—and being able to scoop her up and feed her just like I did during maternity leave has been so nice. And I’ve managed to not accidentally flash any coworkers! 🙌🏻 Whew.⁣
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We’ve officially found an in-home daycare and Quinn starts on March 1. I’m so happy to have found someone great to care for her while mom and dad work, while simultaneously experiencing intrusive thoughts on the regular courtesy of postpartum anxiety. So to help me cope, please pass on advice for: pumping, best clothes for daycare, how to label everything, how to not be an emotional mess every damn day. 😭😭😭
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📷: @annameyerphoto

Baby’s first snow! 👶🏻❄️ With pup broth

Baby’s first snow! 👶🏻❄️ With pup brother supervision! 🐶⁣
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Mom-hacked the crap out of this “sled” because they were sold out everywhere. The @bumbo_us seat came in clutch. Swipe to see it in action! 😂 And in true Respecki fashion, that’s waterproof vapor barrier tape from a recent crawlspace project, wrapped around an @amazon box. ⁣
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Oh and per usual, we got less snow than predicted, but it was just enough to have fun in! I’m pretty sure Quinn was bewildered but mom, dad, and Sawyer had a blast. 😊

My pod. 👩🏼👶🏻🐶👨🏻⁣⁠
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After a 709-day snow drought, we’re about to get INCHES of snow in DC! So we’re going to.........do exactly what we’ve been doing for the past 10 months. 😂 Snuggle. Right. Here. We *will* take our tiny human outside for her first real snow experience though! But like, she’s sledding on a cookie sheet or something because sleds are sold out everywhere!⁣⁠
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P.S. You can get links to #therespeckireno living room furniture and decor via link in my bio! Or you can screenshot this pic for products in the @liketoknow.it app—and then follow me there, plssss! 🥰

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