"Arctic Blast" and more sleep

After our record breaking day yesterday of officially 68 degrees, today's weather is warning us of an arctic blast--it's estimated to be 20/25 degrees. HOWEVER, they also showed the map from Mn to Maine and it's actually going to be arctic 'back home'. Sorry!! Maybe the warmer weather will travel with the plane next weekend??

We had dinner last night with Jamie, a friend from Mn. She's looking for a co-worker and one of my best buds, Jill K-K, is most likely moving to Minneapolis in the next month (all about WHO you know, not WHAT you know!! But it helps to know things too...) She was enjoying the warmer weather for a change and was excited it was 45 degrees the day before. She is here for a conference so it was unfortunate that she missed the whole day of almost 70 degree weather, but it was still 60 when we walked to dinner. Jamie got to cuddle with Quinn a little and we snapped some photos on her camera so she can show Bryan what she looks like holding a baby (many of her friends are expecting now so she seems to be bitten by the small baby bug!!!).

I got a new watch (Mike bought me a Fossil for Christmas and I loved it, but the band was itchy so I needed a swap). We also had a visit to Men's Warehouse (Quinn usually likes lights, but those lights were too bright so the workers got to hear her scream for about 10 minutes). HOWEVER, it was fun to walk around downtown with Quinn.

She observed wide-eyed all around us as we walked to the subway, fell asleep as soon as the subway started moving, and was awake when we met Mike near Rock.Plaza. After a few minutes downtown, she seemed overwhelmed by the noise, lights, and bustle, (making it difficult to fall asleep) but was quite the trooper. She's usually pretty awake from 6-10pm (which is the time we were gone), but she's used to laying on her back looking at a few toys or the white wall (her favorite thing to look at). She barely enjoyed her diaper change at the restaurant too and that's usually her favorite time to kick and laugh. Again, she was quite the trooper and it was good for me to get out of the neighborhood for awhile and into the "real world" of Starbucks, Duane Reed (like Walgreens) and McD's on every other corner! I forgot what that was like as our little neck of NY only has about 2 of each in our 5 mile radius. :)
We got home about 11, we all went to bed about 11:30---and slept until 7:45!!!!!!!

I GOT 8 STRAIGHT HOURS OF SLEEP!!

It's the best feeling EVER. AND Quinn is pretty much is back to bed again. She was chattering a little big about 30 minutes ago, but is chilling in her crib enjoying her first 8-hour stretch of sleep. My little girl is growing up so fast!