6 weeks first time downtown

This weekend was wonderfully boring and uneventful. Here in Michigan we got hit with 12 inches of snow so Friday we ordered in food and made a fire. Then on Saturday, Brynn turned six weeks old and we had a photographer come out to the house to shoot some newborn photos of her (even though for newborn photos it was a little late.) I'm really excited to see what they look like - hopefully in a week or so we should get to see how they turned out. Later that night we went to our friend's place that they had just bought downtown. It was Brynn's first time going downtown and we had a great time, even though the windchill was well below zero. Brrrr....I had to giggle though because when I was packing up the fifth of Effen vodka we had bought for our friends I didn't want to drop it in the snow. So instead I thought a great place to put it was in the padded diaper bag. Ahh...how times have changed. These were our good friends from college whom we've spent many a tipsy night with and now we were packing up part of their "gift" in not a paper tote or something else, but a diaper bag. Yes we were all finally growing up!

Our friend's place downtown has a great view and is right adjacent to the Art Institute which will be nice to visit when the weather is a bit better - like next summer. You can see the bridge to Canada from there and some of the casinos as well.

It used to be a hotel from the early 1900s and has all of the orignal molding and old style locks on the doors still so I liked looking around at the atmosphere.


Today Brynn has a followup appointment at her doctor for another weight check (seems like that's our regular thing to do these days, LOL!) Then I have my followup appointment for my D & C. Hopefully we'll both get a good stamp of approval before the holidays and Brynn will have gained a few more ounces. Then it's off to wrap presents and get some last minute holiday stuff ready - like I'm sure everyone else is doing. It's snowing again and I think we're supposed to get another 3 inches so it'll be a white Christmas! I'll probably post later about our appointments, but I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas or Happy holidays that they're celebrating in advance!