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.

A message for Mop

Get Better Soon!

And now, a get better soon song!

5 Months!

Once again, we didn't quite capture the "monthly" photo on the exact day, nor were we anywhere close to the official photo chair, but Maddie turned 5 months anyway! She is still such a doll! She is sooo good, but pretty much spoiled by lots of attention, so she really doesn't have a lot of reasons to complain. For the record books, she is still getting up a couple of time each night. It seems like almost every day I think I'm going to teach her to sleep through the night, but then when she's crying, I think, well maybe she really needs something so I go check. Therefore, I'm pretty sure we might have similar sleep comments come month 6, but here's hoping. She takes 2-3 short naps each day unless I plan on that, then she sleeps through whatever I had planned to do. Without fail!

So, we missed the 5 month photo because we spent 12 days in Texas! We had a ton of fun seeing all the cousins and friends. John got to fish, I got to sleep in and take naps while Momo and Mop played with Miss Maddie, we got to see all our Texas cousins, go to Hadyn's party, go to Brady's basketball game, see our friends at the conference, and generally have a good time. You would think with all that, we would have taken some good photos, but Maddie rocking her new strawberry jammies from Aunt Kelli is about all I got. But these sure are cute!