I Picked This One For You...

Ok, here is a first... Quinn was sweet enough to pick her nose tonight and hold it up to show it to me! Not real sanitary, or sweet for that matter, but definitely worth getting it down as fuel for blackmail later on in life! Too bad I didn't get a picture of it (nah, I guess we really don't need to see that, do we?).

Other than that, things are just coasting right along. We visited the Hatleys yesterday (John was nice enough to do our taxes for the 3rd year in a row) and I have a cute story to tell about Patricia. She is playing with Quinn and out of the corner of my eye, I see that Quinn has something in her mouth. I call out to her, "Hey! What do you have in your mouth?" Martina tells me, "It's just a Goldfish cracker Patricia gave to her." Ok, no biggie. Well then Martina tells Patch, "You have to make sure you ask her before you give Quinn anything to eat, ok?" And Patch promptly says, "I did ask her - and she said yes!" Kirch, Tina, Hatley and I about died, we were laughing so hard! So then Tina says to Patch, "No, you have to ask Quinn's mommy if you can give Quinn anything to eat!" It was priceless - Patch was so defensive and staunch on her answer - "I DID ask her...!" FUNNY!!!

Today we went to the Perrus's for our February playdate and had a really great time. It was a good group, and it's such a great way to stay in touch with everyone, now that we all have children and lives going in every different direction. Here are some shots from all of the playing mayhem!!!

Mom, can I PLEASE get one of these for my birthday???

No, Eleni, I think it goes this way...

Smile, boys!

Picnic in the living room...

...and cupcake decorating to end the afternoon!

Quinn went down like a ton of bricks tonight. After being up until 10pm last night (over at the Hatleys') and playing like crazy today, she was tuckered out. So here I am, on a Sunday night, blogging for the whole week, as usual... which leads me to this juicy little piece of news!

I got a promotion at work this week! I became the Executive Assistant to the president of my company. It's due to a little bit of skill and dedication, and a lot of "right place right time," but it's an awesome opportunity that I believe I'm ready for! I got a nice salary bump and some very nice praise from my boss and other employees of the company. What an ego boost - but it's a bit scary at the same time! It's been super busy at work lately, what with the original Executive Assistant leaving, preparing for a Board of Directors meeting (which went excellent, by the way), getting my boss's trip to the Netherlands in order, and planning to leave for Phoenix next week! I'm hoping Tuesday - Thursday will go well (although i have a boatload of work to do before we leave Thursday afternoon) and then when I get back the following Wednesday, I'm really hoping things settle down just a tad so I can tread water and not feel like I'm drowning! But seriously, it's a fantastic thing, this job. I can finally say I'm truly happy at my job and I LOVE IT!

This NEVER Happens...

For the most part, Quinn is a pretty good sleeper. If she does wake up, it usually just takes Kirch or me going in there, picking her up for a minute, rocking her, and then putting her back down. Lately, she has taken up the habit of waking up early and not going back to sleep. You know, like 5:30-6am early, about a 1/2 hour before we have to get up for the day anyway. So annoying :-)

This morning (on a weekend, of course), she woke up at 6am. I got up with her and brought her onto the recliner with me. We snuggled in, and after a little patience on my end, she fell back to sleep. It took about a 1/2 hour, and some sneaky wriggling, but I managed to get out of the chair without waking her up! Now, my morning has started. There's no way I'm going back to sleep. But it's 8:23am and I have since uploaded some pictures, balanced the check book, unloaded the dishwasher and done some other minor tasks while the Silent Tornado is still sleeping away!

Ahh, I forgot what it's like to have a "relaxing" morning!!!

The look of pure peace...

...and comfort...

...and absolute beauty...

PUMP IT UP!

We went to the coolest place this weekend with Quinn! It's called Pump It Up and it's a great big warehouse with HUGE blow-up slides, moonbounces, and obstacle courses! Quinn was invited by the Perruses for Alexandra's birthday, and she just had a blast. She also got very brave and needed absolutely no assistance going down those huge slides by herself! I guess I don't need to worry about the playground slides this summer - those will be nothing compared to what she experienced this weekend!