First Week of School

Well, I have to say this week has not gone as planned. As I'm writing this my eyes are puffy from crying the whole way home from dropping the kids off at school. It's my first day in 4.5 years that I haven't had atleast one child with me during the week. You would think I would be happy... Monday Lexie woke up with a bad, itchy rash. We watched it and it looked better but continued to flare up off and on. She had to miss the first day of school, and the 2nd. We took her to the Dr. Wednesday after doing benadryl for 48 hours (the doctors request) and she has a viral rash with a weird name. It will just have to go away on its own and we will have to deal with the itching for probably 2-3 weeks! So Today (Thursday) was her first day back. She was happy and walked right in before I could even say anything. She walked right up and hugged her teacher. She's so friendly and sweet. Then there's Tripp. My little man, who is 3 today. He is such a precious little mama's boy and my heart is broken that both days of school he screamed when I dropped him off. Tuesday the teacher said he screamed for 25 minutes. She had to pry him off of Randall...he was clinging to his neck so hard. It's an awful feeling just dumping your kid off with strangers and leaving them when they aren't happy about it. Every part of me says he can wait a year, and I should go get him. Especially today...it's HIS day, his birthday! I pray that he stopped crying and is having fun with the shaving cream the other kids had all over the table and that this crying at drop off ends soon! Sleeping has been weird as I worry about Lexie, and she wakes up itching like crazy and coughing horribly. So I lay with her and listen to her cough for an hour until the benadryl or allegra finally kicks in and soothes her. Then I don't usually sleep good after that. We are having a party for Tripp on Friday and I have about 60 cupcakes to make and decorate as well as baseball cookies to ice. I'm hoping I can get it all done today while they are at school! Let's hope I don't get a call that Lexie is too itchy. She was sad that she had to miss the first few days. I am emotionally drained this week! I think if Tripp was happy to go to school then that would have changed the whole week. My poor boy, but he sure looked handsome in his new clothes! He seemed fine at first on the first day until we told him bye... I took them for ice cream at Orange Leaf after Tripp's first day. Here's the pics of Lexie today, on her first day... Here is a picture of the brownie treats I made for Tripp's class to celebrate his birthday! I thought these would help make him happy, but they didn't. He also brought everyone a baseball sticker.