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Austin was home from school today. A trip to the doctor says he has strep throat. I guess it is good that it is a long weekend so he only has to miss the one day of school.
I also went to he doctor today. I have had a rash for the last week +, had the same thing when I was pregnant with Austin. Head to toe and itchy as all get out!! This type of rash (PUPPP) lasts until the baby is born, so I was not going to be like this for 15 or so more weeks, so she gave me a topical med and I should be good in a few days = yeah!! Otherwise I am feeling good, baby is moving and kicking all of the time!
We packed Don off this afternoon for a weekend of work! Ugh, three nights of 6 pm to 6 am night shifts. He will be home sometime Monday AM, probably to sleep for the whole day, and go back to work on Tuesday. I can tell you he will be very happy to have Harold back and eventually Marty (the guy who broke his hip!). No one ever said being the boss was fun. Well, at least he should get some playstation time in at the hotel (I don't think Austin knows yet that he took it!).
Don is officially part of our churches parish family. This past week was the annual auction they hold each year. Last year we went to it and this year they asked him to work at it. It is a lot of fun and you never know what you will find there. But they have a tradition called the chicken hat. Some woman from the parish makes a new one every year (it is a BIG chicken atop a straw hat with fake hair and ribbons hanging down it), and they auction it off. But the key is whoever buys it gets to choose who to give it to and that person has to wear the hat all night long (and then gets to take it home). Well Don bid on it, but this guy Mike ended up winning it, and promptly turned around and gave it to Don!! So he had to wear the chicken hat all night long. So funny, I wish I had had the camera with us. Bell thought it was great and kept saying (yelling actually) Daddy and signing hat and bird. It is quite an honor to be chosen to get the chicken hat (which is now up in the attic).
Bell is doing great, She learned to open the corner cabinet in the kitchen that spins around and took out all of the spices today. I let her do it, and then we made a game of one by one her bringing them back (she had brought each one over th me at the table and laid them on the floor) and putting them away.
Well, that's all for now - night all!