Sorry no pics, camera broke :(

My "new" camera fell the other day and the battery door broke. I brought it in today, not thinking to upload pictures before I did. It has to be sent out, approx "6 - 10" weeks to fix!! Ugh, it is great Don got the warrantee, but sometimes it seems that if it is under wanerntee it takes SO much longer! So I need to break out the old digital to get the pictures I have off of the memory card, but no new pics after those for awhile :((

When I get them up there is a cute video of Bell changing a diaper on her doll. When we were playing it back yesterday she said, AND signed "change doll". Yeah, two word sentences!!! She is actually talking so much these days with lots of new words. She calls Austin "bruber", and will stand on something she knows she is not supposed to and says "sit owen" with a smile on her face!

We went to the YMCA this morning for our first Tot Parent swim class and she saw this little girl walking along with her mom. She started running after them saying "irl" and signing girl! It was so cute. We had a great time in the pool and Bell is much more comfortable in the water than most of the other kids (two friends from Mothers and More are also taking the class with us). After the pool I put her in the Kids Zone, and she had fun playing with the other kids. The Y has a great kids drop off area which as a member you can use for 1.5 hours a day for free. We are not members yet, but soon...... When she was in the Kids Zone I was finishing filling out my paperwork to work in the Kids Zone 1 or 2 mornings a week (3 hours at a time). My friend Jill runs it and finally had an opening to get me in! So I am getting a job at the Y (takes a few weeks as they need to do a background check and all that stuff first), not for the money (which is not a lot), but for the benefits!! Family membership is only $24 month (as compaired to $78), kids zone babysitting is free and all kids programs and classes are half price and adult arobic / water arobic classes are free. So figure that what I make will cover the cost of the membership and classes - so it is all good. The best thing is that when I "go to work", I bring the kids with me!! Don has really wanted to get back into working out and loved the Y when he did a free trial membership in January, so this is going to be a great thing for the whole family.

Of course Don needs to actually have some free time to get there! He was covering a shift from 6-10 PM yesterday for one of hte guys who is taking a certification class (AFTER a full day of work), and spending the night at the hotel. I called him about 11:30 PM, thinking he would just be settling in at the hotel, but he was still at his desk catching up on paperwork he did not get done during the day. With two guys out on disability, he will be running on overdrive for at least the next month.

We went to an awards night at Austin's school this week for the first and second marking periods. Austin got Honors Roll certificates and pins for both marking periods! He is really doing so well in school. He just switched specials and is now in Design Tech. They make cars, airplanes and at the end of the year a rocket which they launch during school. They of course learn the mechanics behind them and the tools use to make them as well. He seems to really like this class and when we went to open house Don had a great time talking to the teacher about it!

Not much new here with me. I did go on a new topical and an antihistime day before yesterday, so I am hoping it helps the itching some in a day or two! Otherwise I am feeling good and starting to get BIG! I did get to breifly meet our new (soon to be) neighbors this week. Te house next door has been empty since the end of November, and we miss our friends Brett and Steph (Hi over there in Guam!!). Our new neighbors have three kids: 10, 8 and 14 months, so hopefully that will be fun. Of course Austin's first question when I told him was "do they have dogs?", which I forgot to ask! The reason I met her was that the dogs were barking their heads off (which is not unusual), so I went out to check on them and saw her over there, but we only chatted for a few minutes as it was cold out and Bell and I had no coats on.
Gotta go clean the house, enough goofing off....
Karen