First Day of School
Alex officially started school on Monday Feb 25th.. It was a great day. It started off ruff because I have to have him there by 6:30 am in order to make it to work on time. Well he’s the 1st one there so that makes it very hard on him. The first day he cried and his teacher held him after our 15 min of talking and getting him ready for me to leave. As I ran out the door I could here him calling for me which was breaking my heart but I knew if I went back the saga would never end and I would be late to work. I called to check on him a little while later and his teacher told me she walked him around to show him all the other rooms and then a few more kids showed up and he was excited and said “my friends” are here. She said he was great after that. I picked him up early on Monday, he was outside playing and having a great time..he didn’t want to leave! That made me happy!
By the second day he still cried when I left him but had a good day! But on this day he stayed until 5 pm when his Nana came to get him, because I was at work. When she arrived he was sitting in the group room with the other kids watching a movie..he started to cry when he saw her and told her he was ready to go. I figure this is because he was doing something he doesn’t like to do…sit still!!!! 🙂 He was fine once she got him in the car and he told her about his day. We had a good night and he was so excited about his new friends. But later on in the middle of the night he woke up and was not feeling well. He had a fever of 102! I gave him some Walgreens Ibuprofen 100 for children, and it broke the fever within 15 min. When we woke up he had no fever and we were off to school. I gave them more medicine for fever if it came back. By 9 am they were calling me to see if I wanted them to give it to him early because the fever had returned. An hour later I was leaving work and on my way to get him and head to the Doctor!
So 2 days into Day Care my little man had contracted STREP THROAT!! That was really fast. I was expecting him to get sick, but not this soon.
Sick with Strep Throat
Because he was getting his medicine so early in the day his Doctor said as long as he had no fever he could return to school the next day. I didn’t want to take that chance so I took off work. As a single parent I am learning how to deal with these things early. So now I have two days of lost wages, but Alex is feeling better which is what is important.
I have a long road ahead of me..spring breaks, Holidays, summer vacations! I use to work for people with kids during these times because I knew it had to be hard, now I can only hope that Karma heads my way and someone works for me when holidays, and spring breaks roll around!! 🙂
As for Day Care…I know he loves it. He gets to interact with kids his own age, and he is learning along the way. Hopefully in the next week or two he’ll get use to going and won’t cry and make me feel guilty each time I drop him off.
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