The First Day of School

So, it's been a day of firsts in our family today....Teagan moved from the Geologists class to the Astronauts class, I moved from the Ecologists class with my students to the Editors class, and Perryn started her VERY first day of Kindergarten!!

I can't even believe that Perryn is going to kindergarten. Any of you who know us, knows that we would much rather be homeschooling, and God wants us to send her off to kindergarten. This has been very hard on both of us (Perryn and me), but as much as I want to do what I want to do, I am hoping to show her the example of obedience.

Yes, I teared up on the way to school, a little bit more walking in the door, and A LOT more on the way out the door. The traffic was INSANE, but we made it!! The highlight of my day, was seeing her smiling face when I went to pick her up in the daycare van and she ran to give me a hug!! Here are the few pictures I was able to capture, yes we were running late with the traffic we encountered, so just deal with these pictures please....

We are in quarantine...AGAIN!!

So, bless Teagan's little heart, he has another run of his staph infection. The second one in 8 weeks. This run seems to be worse than the first with a couple of his spots looking like there is a bigger 'infection' going on. We must watch him carefully and if he is NOT making healing progress by Thursday, we have to go BACK to the doctor on Friday...here's what he looked like last night after his bath..

In unrelated good news...here's what we did at the end of May..Miss Perryn graduated from Pre-K (I don't have any good pictures) and we had her dance recital. She was spectacular. She was quite tired by the end, but all in all she did very well. Here are some pictures from that day...There is a video from photobucket that is one post down from this one...the last picture is BFORE everything started when she was excited..this picture, was part way through the recital when I could tell she was getting a bit bored...

A bit of fun

So who says that when you are in 'quarantine' you can't have a little fun and pretend to be a fireman wearing 'sunglasses'?? We should be in our last day of having to stay home and I am so proud of Teagan and how he is handling everything. We still have several days of being on THREE antibiotics, but soon we should be down to one. I can tell that the kids are missing their friends at school and so am I!

A 'forced' vacation

So I have been 'put on vacation'. To some it wouldn't be such a bad thing, but for me, I feel like I needed to plan more and I feel like my room is quite ready for me to be gone ALL week!!

For his 3rd birthday, my sweet boy got another gift from our party venue, an infection of hospital grade! Evidently it's going around, and when I stopped by to let them know about it, they didn't seem all that concerned or interested in cleaning their playscape....not sure we will be going back.

Now that we know what our sweet boy has, we have to stay 'quarantined' til at least Friday and pray that he does NOT get any worse. He does NOT act sick other than crying at the DROP of a hat. He is on a potent antibiotic every 8 hours, for the next 10 days. ALL of us get to put an antibiotic ointment in our noses twice a day for the next 3 WEEKS!! So for my 'unplanned' forced vacation, I will be cleaning my apartment like nobody's business, getting back into my running regiment..slowly, and trying to rest as best I can with the extra bathing and laundry I have to do EVERYDAY!