2nd and 5th!

We survived the first week of school, but just barely.  

Dude. 

Dylan spent all of last week at the Outer Banks with his best friend and his family.  They spent hours everyday tubing behind their boat, and swimming in their pool and at the beach.  He arrived back this past Monday.  I missed him so much!  We spent the whole Labor Day weekend at neighborhood BBQ's and at our pool, but it was just so strange only having Logan and not Dylan.  Dylan got back Monday afternoon and said he had a great time, and that his ear hurt a little bit.  Uh oh.   I had some swimmers ear drops on hand, so treated him with drops and sent him for the first day.

Well, by the 2nd day of school it was really hurting him quite a bit.  Took him to the doc the morning before the 3rd day of school only to find out double ear infection.  He stayed home that day (yesterday) since he couldn't even hear out of the left side.  I kept a heating pad on it, and he rested.  Last night, at midnight, he projectile vomited all over his bedroom ... FRUIT PUNCH.  Have you ever tried to shampoo splattered fruit punch vomit out of carpet in the middle of the night?  TWO HOURS later we all attempted to go back to sleep, but needless to say, Dylan missed another day of school today.  So he went two out of four days.  Ugh.

Regardless, the boys were both very excited to begin school.  Logan is attending a special classroom at a  nearby elementary school with a smaller classroom focused on teaching behavioral strategies.  He has made a new friend already, and is excited to be part of a brand new beautiful school. And this will be Dylan's final year in elementary school.   The workload will be a lot.. they really expect the kids to do quite a bit to be ready for middle school.  But he can handle it, and  he has such a great group of friends!

Here they are on their first day...

  2nd and 5th grades!!