The First and Hopefully, Last

Finally Reese was allowed go to school like everyone else! He was very ready to get into the building with his big sister leading the way. Dad had the day off and they made it really special. He had a great time with his classmates and he is already telling me the rules of school. Tonight he said from now on he "must always say excuse me when he burps." I said, "Don't I always tell you to say excuse me?" But he thinks it's "better when I'm at home because Brendan laughs." How can a Mom  compete with that? His job was cleaning up and turning the radio on when it was clean up time. He can't wait to go back again tomorrow.

As far as Brendan is concerned, he hopes he NEVER has to go back to the surgery center again.

The nurses and staff were wonderful and tried to make this as easy as possible. It was quick and almost totally painless, but he had more fear this time than ever before. It may have been easier with a 15 month old, they don't know to be afraid. He was given a Magic Tree House Book as a gift and started reading it in the recovery room. I think we may have been in there about 3 chapters and we were bounced with our post-op instructions. He was in school by 11:15 am telling his friends about his crazy morning. I strongly advised against much football today, but I'm sure my idea of "just hanging out on the sidelines tonight" were taken under advisement and quickly forgotten. There are only 3 days until the first game against Ovid Elsie and now is not the time to be a slacker. Maybe his coaches can keep him down for the evening. Obviously my boys can listen to authority, just not mine.