SL - Congrats on winning the giftcard!!
BnB - I just want to say that you officially have me paranoid about being pregnant now! I mean, logically I know I'm not, but last year just about this time I got this weird illness where I was achey all over, throat pain, tired, fever, congested, etc., but not a real cold or anything. I really think it was an "inception illness" cause it was just days after Henry was conceived. And guess how I felt today? I think this time it's a real cold cause Madison's got a bad one, but I still have this huge sense of dread hanging over me. I would die if I had a positive pregnancy test now or anytime in the next 2.5 years! So I want to thank you for making me the most paranoid person in the world!
J&D - Jenna's picture is so cute! I have some photos of Madison that I love, but you can't see her face too. I really think they capture their personality so well.
Alice28 - Good luck as team leader. I don't really know what you have to do, but I'm sure you'll be great!
Lissawynn - Sounds like your house is coming along nicely. I can't wait to see pictures of the finished product.
Jill - I'll send you a PM with our rough schedule. I know you've got a lot of people going with you so don't stress about it cause we can always meet up when we're back home.
Joats - Madison has the keys in that picture and still plays with them now. I never got the phone but now I think I will get one for Henry when he's a little older.
Ice - Don't stress over the 2 hours you'll be alone with Tess' mom. Just focus more on Tess and getting her to warm up to you cause she's your priority anyway. And I forgot to share a story about "sounding white". My mom's dad remarried a woman from Puerto Rico when my mom was a teenager. When they were looking for apts she'd (the stepmom) call and every place said they did not have any apts available so eventually she asked my mom to start calling and suddenly those same places now had vacancies.
When she'd show up with my grandfather to sign a lease they were often told that the apt was "just rented" and that she sounded different on the phone. Of course, this was in the 60s so you'd think we'd have progressed more than that by now, but I guess not.
Tasha - Great to hear from you! Sorry Kylie's got a bug, but hopefully it's gone now and you won't have to clean anymore vomit. I'm not so great with that either so I can sympathize. Madison's only ever really vomited once (other than vomiting with a cough, but we came to expect that really fast and were prepared with a towel), but it was right after I picked her up facing me so it was all over me.
Nucpharm - I hope Emma is feeling better today too. I wouldn't have thought Madison was that sick either so you're not a bad mommy!
Fabumouse - Henry was actually quite the angel today. He must have known Mommy was sick. He napped decently too - 4 naps, 2 fairly long ones and 2 short ones - and still went to bed on time! He is not bothered by his cough at all, he's sleeping, eating, peeing, etc. without a problem and is happy as a clam, but with our trip on Monday I figure I should get him looked at anyway. The nurse seemed pretty unconcerned though and said she thinks it's just one cold after another, which is what we think it is too, but since we'll be away all next week, with my mom who will tell me what a bad mommy I am for not taking him the dr, I think it will be in everyone's best interest to take him in.
My pregnant friend in Bahrain sent me her list of possible names for her kid and one of them is Tierney, the name we were going to use for Henry if he were a girl. Well, the name I say we were using, my husband insists it was not cause he hates it. So he's thrilled now cause if she uses it he thinks that I can't. Not that there will be any more babies in this house for at least 3 years...!
Time for bed. I still am not feeling great, but at least it's just the cold now, the achiness is gone.
ETA: Tamie, that is weird about your MIL. Does she see Tyler often? I really wish we lived near family so we could just drop by like that.
Her nasal congestion got worse and quite suddenly early Sunday morning she began to cough and wheeze and went down hill rapidly. I took her to the ER where they did the RSV test and we were admitted right away when it came back positive. She was the first baby in Maine to be hospitalized with it this year so far. As I said we are home now and have to watch her like a hawk. She is still having issues with breathing and is unable to nurse. She has also had reflux issues caused by the virus so she has had to have cereal mixed with her breastmilk just to keep it down. I rented a pump from the hospital since mine is not meant to maintain a milk supply. I did not get to see Aidan for almost four days. Thank God DH is still on paternity leave thru Jan 2 or I would have lost my mind. I feel like a fool for being so unanware of the diffrence in winter and summer babies and what they may be exposed to. The Dr used a portrait studio as an example of how infested a place can be with these types of viruses and I just about fainted knowing I had taken Bailey and Aidan both for pictures and she was so little. Sorry to be so dramatic but I really needed to get these thoughts out. I haven't really slept too much and now am going to get some much needed rest. I'm sure I'll feel better after some sleep and now that we are home.
I mean she has to eat right? I kind of thought if she didn't want to go out she might invite us over for dinner or just to visit so she could see Tyler. I guess not. 
Hope the cookies come out well!
LOL! I would have said "um, eat one of the million things I already made" 
I hope that it all works out!
