First day of school! First day of school! Yaay! Levi & Sam started their first day at their new schools today and all went well. They both made some new friends and predictably reported that recess was the best time of the day!
I also took Joey to the doctor today to get his ears checked out and asked about Sam's tests. They were all back and good news! Apparently, some time in the past 4-6 weeks, Sam has had a strep infection (not sure how that happened without us knowing about it! I'm pretty sure I have clarified how I'm somewhat freakish now about their health and I swear he has not had a fever or complained of a sore throat in that time!) but anyway, sometimes when you have a strep infection, it can go to your kidneys, and it has some big long name that I don't remember because I was so relieved it wasn't some short little c-word name. Anyway, the good news is he's fine, and there's nothing to worry about it! The bad news is it can take up to 6 months to clear up! But he did give us some medicine that could help with the symptoms of having to go to the bathroom every 10 minutes - I'm sure that will not endear him to his new teacher! But I did tell her about it, and she seemed understanding and there's a bathroom in their classroom, so maybe that's not such a big deal.
On the Joey front, we were there because he had fluid in his ear 2 weeks ago, and after taking zyrtec for 2 weeks, it's still there. So now we are on Allegra and nose spray for 4 weeks, and if that doesn't clear it up, he'll have to get tubes in his ears. That's certainly nothing to get worked up about, I mean it's not like it's a bladder infection for crying out loud! Hee hee! But, of course, we would rather him not have to have it. If anyone has tips on how to get cantankerous 2 year olds to take nasty tasting medicine I would sure appreciate it. I've learned you can hold a child down and squirt the medicine in his throat, but you can't make him swallow! I think tomorrow I'm going to try giving it to him in a spoon with M&M's and see how that goes.
You know I have to leave you with a funny story. A few days ago Sam & I were talking about what to do when people were mean to you, and I mentioned that Jesus says when someone hits you on 1 cheek, you should tell them to hit the other one too. And then I said, "So really, it's best if you can just ignore people who are mean to you and find someone else to play with." Well, today when I picked them up from school, it was mostly all good, but then Sam told me that some kids were mean to him & were calling him names like baby because he couldn't beat them in a race. And he says, "And I tried to ignore them, Mom, I really did! But they wouldn't let me! And one of them hit me - hit me on the face!"
"Oh really? What did you do?"
"I did just what you told me!" At this point, I'm thinking, "Oh, no! I didn't really mean for you to actually do that!" Then he continues, "I told them to hit me on the other cheek too!"
"Well, what did they do?"
"They hit me on the other cheek!" Like, duh, mom! What did you expect them to do?!? I'm trying hard to hide a smile, because I can tell he's not really upset when he's telling me this, and then he adds, "But he kind of laughed when I told him that, and didn't really hit me hard, and we're a ltitle bit friends now!"
Maybe Jesus does know what he's talking about! By the way, I wasn't completely sure Sam wasn't making up this story, but he assures me it all happened, and I can usually tell when he's lying.
Another good thing that happened today - when I got home from taking Joey to the doctor, there were 3 messages on my machine, and I couldn't believe it because no one ever calls us. And it was 2 friends who knew Steve is gone just checking on us and the doctor's appointment and our senior pastor's wife calling to invite us to Burger King tonight to celebrate the first day of school since they knew Steve was gone. It was so nice and made me feel so loved, so thank you!
