Madalyn and I decided to go with Mark on an overnight work trip last night. He has 3 clients up around Galesburg, IL and he has to be there first thing in the morning (7am) when he visits so that he's able to meet with the night shift and the day shift nurses. So, instead of him leaving at 4:30am we decided to turn it in to an overnight trip. We left yesterday afternoon. We got to our hotel in Galesburg, a Marriott, and got our things up to the room. Mark and I were starving so we decided to go out and get a bite to eat. We had been talking about Outback the whole trip up but when we got to our hotel we found out that there was no Outback... The only "steakhouse" we could find was Sirloin Stockade. It was no Outback. We're just not big fans of buffets and the steak wasn't great. Oh well. I was so hungry I didn't really care.
Things seemed to be going well. Mady was doing a great job in the restaurant. The waitress even commented on how well she was behaving. Very soon after that the excitement picked up (well, "excitement" for us). I went to pick Mady up from her high chair so we could wash her hands and she was soaking wet. I guess with all the traveling and unpacking at the hotel, I had forgotten to change her diaper. We ended up walking back to the hotel (Mady and I) as I didn't want to put her in her carseat (fortunately the restaurant where we ended up was right behind our hotel so Mark drove back and we walked).
We changed Mady's diaper, put on a new swimmer diaper, changed into our suits, and decided to take Mads for a swim in the pool. She had a blast. She loved jumping in and having Dad catch her! It was really fun. Then it was back to the room.. Let me set up this scenario... Hotel bathrooms aren't that big. By the time you open the door, you're basically at the toilet. Well, I was going to the bathroom and Madalyn decided to come right in and play with the door. At that point, dad decides to go ahead and get her and take off her wet clothes and diaper. Ummm... don't mind mom here. So now, we're all three in the bathroom, and the diaper comes off. The bathroom floor is wet so I told Mady to step back on the carpet as I didn't want her to slip. About that time I hear "Oh no, she's peeing." Yep, she peed in the middle of the bathroom floor AND THEN fell in the puddle because the floor was super slick. Oh my. Wow, that was a lot of action and too many people for one hotel bathroom. And of course, Mady thought it was funny so she started running away from Dad, all around the room.
I never knew Mark was so good at making blanket tents. We had a bigger room this time around. We decided to put the pack-n-play over by the door, in front of the bathroom. I was getting Mady into her PJ's and I noticed Mark was over fiddling with her bed. He had that long cover that goes over the end of the hotel bed basically as a decoration. He stuffed one corner behind the mirror hanging on the wall and the other corner was stuffed under the microwave. Then he put a chair in front of the pack-n-play apparently so Mady couldn't see us or the football game that we were watching (or she'd never go to sleep!) From what I hear, Mark's parents did this to him a lot in the good ole days. Now he has that pleasure....
Mark got up this morning to go to his appt at 6am. Mady woke up too and he moved her to the bed with me. Nope, I wasn't lucky enough to have her go back to sleep. She started sticking her fingers up my nose and in my ears and saying "mom-mee? mom-mee?" while I was trying to go back to sleep. I eventually turned on Sesame Street and she watched "Mo-Mo" (Elmo) and "Duck" (Big Bird!) I couldn't get her to understand that Big Bird isn't a duck. She doesn't watch tv at home so this was a treat.
While Dad was at his appts we went swimming again and I'm sad to say that I didn't learn my lesson the first time. She peed again! Yep, as soon as I took that diaper off. This time I won't tell you where it happened... although I will tell you there were no falls involved!
Mads did pretty well on the way home. She slept for about an hour and a half and then we woke her up for lunch. We went to Subway and I had Dad get her out of the car. I was ordering my sandwiche and Mark went to go put her in her seat. She was waddling a little bit as she was walking and then I heard Mark say "oops, I put her shoes on the wrong feet... That would probably be why she's been saying uh-oh for the last couple of minutes." Yep, that would be it! we love you dad!
The adventures of the Bettinger Family in a simple 24 hour period. It was a long 24 hours but I do have to say that it was FUN and that's what we're about. It sure does make for great memories!!!
2 comments:
so you lost me just before you hopped into the pool. did matty have a new diaper or did she just jump right in?
I edited the blog - i didn't realize how confusing it did sound. Yeah, we put her in a swim diaper before the pool...
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