Chicken Pox....NAH

On our second day....Not even 2 full days of school, I got a call from Hattie's teacher. She is itching all over and has some bumps. The teacher thinks she has chicken pox. She needed me to come get her right away. So my mind is totally freaking out!! Where in the world would we have come into contact with chicken pox? I have a 15 mo old and am pregnant, what if we get it too? We are supposed to go out of town this weekend. And so on. To top it off, I get to wake Riley from her daily nap. This is not going to be pleasant. With cranky, half awake baby in tow, I head off to the school to pick up my itchy kid. All the while, trying to make an appointment and guess how long it will take me to arrive at the doctor's office. I pick Hattie up and yep, she is red all around her neck, arms and chest. Oye Ve. We get to the doctor's office in record time and we proceed to wait, and wait, and wait. Now granted, we are being sqeezed in, at the first of school starting, near the end of the day and the girls doc is very, very popular! So, I am holding my own, reading some parenting magazine and trying to coral the girls. We finally get back to a room and I am thinking we are much closer to finding out what is causing my daughter to peel her skin back with her fingernails. Another 40 minutes goes by after the nurse does her first assessment. The girls are playing so nicely with each other, why can't they do this at home? The doc comes in and we get our diagnosis.....nope, not the pox. However, Hattie is highly allergic to something she has come into contact with. What? We may never know! Close call, not even close. The red bumps are definately bug bites. I guess that is what happens when you have such a sweet kid, everyone wants a bite! :)

And Let Preschool Begin............

Today was Hattie's First Day of Preschool. We did survive!! Only a few tears were shed today, which is a good thing. Not too many to make me look like a blubbering idiot, but just enough to show hesitancy of letting my little girl go. I can't believe she is old enough to head to school! And she is so ready. Here is how her day went.
The entire family loaded up. We were on an adventure to take Hattie to school. The past fews weeks have passed with much anticipation. A count down that envolved into a daily "is today the day" yet routine. This in turn was helping me get up the nerve to let my little girl "go". I was ready to walk her to her class and give her sweet goodbyes. However, upon arriving, Hattie showed the utmost courage and refused to have anyone but her teacher's aide walk her in. After much pleading, I conceeded. She is so very independant. Not only did we not get to walk her to her class, she took off in such an excited dash, there were no kisses or well wishes for her first day. And for this reason, there were a few tears. Now, I would love to say that they came from the eyes of Charlie, however, that would be untrue. They came from yours truly. But, there weren't as many as expected either. Our baby girl has become a little "strong minded" girl. For 3 hours, she was in the care of her teacher. Upon picking her up from school, she told me that she learned EVERYTHING today. She says her day went really good. She learned about bears and read a story about a bear that lost a button. A yellow one. And that is all she had to say about school. Oh, and that she didn't get to play very long in the sand box, because it was a long day.
After our long wait in the parent pick up line, we headed off to Sonic to get her a refreshing Ocean Water. There she told me that we were in a "Wait thru" restaurant. We finished our journey home and resumed life as usual. And on goes life. There will be a second, third and so on day, with its very own challenges. But for today, we made it through an introduction to Pre-K.

First Day Pics... ENJOY!!