Slow day planned...not so much

I scheduled nothing to do on Thursday and as little as possible for Friday to help Cairn prepare for Saturday's graduation but everything changed.

Friday morning we stayed home, took showers and worked on schoolwork.  At noon, we got Andrew's haircut and got Oreo weighed at the vet.

We had to get Oreo weighed because when they vet saw him in September he weighed 7 pounds.  I knew he weighed a lot more than that now and I was worried about his fat belly.  So the vet said to bring him in for a weight check.  He weighs 13 and 1/2 pounds.  She said only 1/2 pound overweight.  He just has a large fat deposit on his belly.  Good to know.

I thought Cairn had something special to wear for her graduation but she grew and she didn't have anything so after the vet we headed to the mall.  We hit 3 shops before we found something.  The best part everything was on sale and I got everyone's Easter outfits too.  Cairn got a dress, shoes and a headband.  She was super excited.

Andrew has had a cough for about 3 weeks now.  It had been a pretty normal cough - not too bad and he never had a fever, runny nose or any congestion so I didn't worry about it much.  Then yesterday (Thursday) he started barking when he coughed once or twice.  After going to the mall today, his cough got even worse and every cough ended in barking so as soon as we got home I decided to call the doctor.  I figured she wouldn't want to see us since there was nothing really but a cough but she had us come over right away.  10 minutes later we were in the doctor's office when Andrew coughed and the doctor said right away he had croup.  Since croup is a virus, there is nothing to do except a steroid which opens up the pathways.  She said it would take 12 hours to take effect.

We ran from the doctor's office to get Cairn to her last piano practice class before her recital.  Her teacher wanted us there early but we were late since we hit the doctor.  Dropped Cairn off, then the three of us ran home to pack the car for all the things we needed for World Thinking Day.  We picked up C and headed down to the fairgrounds.  Dad would pick up Cairn after her piano practice and take her to the fairgrounds.

World Thinking Day was fabulous.  The troop looked great in their costumes.  I didn't take any pictures but the other leaders did - as soon as they send me some pictures I will post them.