Hello from Maryland

As most of you already know, we are working claims in the Baltimore area. Maddie and have been spending our days in our lovely hotel room, trying to help John, but we thought we'd give our viewing public an update. Since our last "get better Mop" post, Maddie got bronchiolitis most likely brought on by RSV. She had a terrible cough and had to go on breathing treatments. Then, a few days later she got her first ear infection and her first prescription for amoxicillin. Her doctor told me that I'm a real mom now that I've gotten "the pink stuff." They said that it would last for 2 weeks and that her cough could linger for 6 weeks, but I'm happy to report she seems to be all better now! I've discovered that the only thing harder than traveling with a baby is traveling with a sick baby!

So far, we're hanging in there with the hotel room. Sometimes she sleeps, sometimes she doesn't. We are in a great location near all this great shopping; however, to get to it you have to cross a major interstate and we don't have our own wheels, so we just stare at it out our window and dream. I'm sure it's for the best though. Shopping usually leads to buying.

Ta, ta for now. I need to get to sleep so I can have my game face on for my 2am play date with the wee one! Oh, and she's been going to bed at 6:30pm, sleeping until 6:30am. That's eastern time, folks. Working out okay now since that's what time we need to get up, but I'm a little worried about the 5:30am wake up calls when we head back to the central time zone. Yikes! Here are a few cute pictures that I snapped tonight.