Kindergarten Teacher

We went and met Marc's kindergarten teacher tonight. He was very excited! Him being our first child off to school, of course we took lots of pictures. This is him walking across the parking lot. Yes, he wore his backpack because we had to bring all of his "required" school suplies tonight.This is him standing in front of the main doors, ready to go in and meet his teacher.
His teacher's name is Amy Grimm. She was so super nice. She thought Marc was "so cute". She was very excited about how well he was reading already. By the end of the 15 minutes we were there she was pretty confodent that he wopuld be in the "higher level" of learners in the class. I was very excited to hear that they base the work somewhat on the leartning level of the children. The one main example she gave was the phonics program they use. There are 3 different level of reading books. They are all the same story, just different reading levels. That way when they talk about the book at group time, all the kids can know the answer to her questions, but Marc will be challenged to comtinue reading at a higher level. :)
After talking with her, and seeing her interact with Marc tonight and left there feeling almost giddy. I am so excited about this coming year and how much we will learn and grow over the year! :)

Birthday Party for Spencer

Marc was invited to Spencer's (a neighborhood friend) birthday party last night. We debated about letting him go....and then decided that it was the end of the 10th day of recovery so he should be completely recovered....so we let him go, under 1 condition....I went and stayed to keep an eye on him. He said that was fine, so we went across the street for some fun. :)
He was so excited to be outside, running around with other kids. I don't think he ever stopped smiling as he was playing. :) It made me smile to see him having so much fun.
He actually got to eat a hot dog with the rest of the kids.After dinner, Spencer opened his presents. Marc was very anxious to give him the one he picked out. It was a race track (with monster trucks). He said he picked that one out because "he liked, he thought Spencer would like it, and he hoped he would get to go over and play with it". Pretty smart thinking for a 5 year old! ;)
After presents, we sang Happy Birthday had ate ice cream and "cookie cake".Amy, Spencer's Mom, said that they never do cake in their family anymore. They tried one of the big chocolate chip cookies from the bakery once, and that what they all prefer over cake, so that is what they had for us. It was yummy!After dessert the kids got to have a water balloon, and sometimes buckets full of water, fight. Marc has never had a water balloon fight before, at least I don't think so, so he had a blast! At one time he was filling up a new balloon with the hose, I walked over to see if he needed help....and he turned the hose on me...the little traitor! ;) I don't think there a dry person there!
There were 10 boys and 1 girl there, all between the ages of 5-9. Talk about chaos. Amy kept saying she "had no control". Me and the other couple of Moms that stayed asked her if she expected to have it, because we didn't think that was possible with that many adolescent boys! ;)
Amy wanted a picture of all the kids together. We told them that if they let us get a good picture of them all, we would then take a picture of them being silly. Here the one "nice pose" picture.And here is the "silly pose" picture.
I think Marc got tired of me asking him how he was doing, telling him to "take it easy", telling him to drink, and making sure he was taking small enough bites of his food. Even though I "nagged" him all night, he had a great time!! It was good to see him out running around having fun with the kids after having to "take it easy" for 2 weeks. :)

Recovery!! :)

Well, today is the first day of non-recovering time! :) Marc made it through his 10 days of recovery from his tonsil/adnoid surgery....with no issues (except Mommy going nuts)!! ;)
He did amazingly awesome during his recovery! We are so proud of our little trooper! :)
The surgical center sent us home with Vicodin as his pain killer. He stopped taking that on day 3 of his recovery. The doctor's office told us that when he was ready to go off Vicodin, to put him on Tylenol. We didn't even have to do that! (So, needlessly to say, we have a TON of Vicodin leftover....any takers? ;) )
We have been having him rate his pain level on a scale of 0-10 throughout his recovery. The first morning he woke up he said it was a 4 or 5. From day 3 through day 7 is was a 1 or 2. And after that is was a 0 or 1. Now, today he has told me that is a 0 all the time, no matter what he is doing, eating, or drinking. :)
Since the doctor told us to have him do "light activity" for 7-10 days, we were prepared with lots of crafts for our craft-loving boy to do. He actually ended up watching more movies & tv that doing crafts. I normally don't let him just sit in front of the tv and veg but this was a special circumstance. Here are a few pictures of the crafts he did do.

Painting a box to put his bottle cap collection in.
These were cool plastic molds of cars from the CARS movie that he got to put sand in the make them look however he wanted...

and this is how they turned out. A great addition to his CARS bedroom. :)
Making a plastic canvas CARS Kleenex box cover...another great addition to his CARS bedroom. (I have a feeling that I will end up making most of this project)

Daddy Marc was a sweetheart and brought flowers home for both Marc and I on Thursday last week. He wrote very sweet notes on both cards about how we both (Marc & myself) have done well and that it was almost over. Throughout his recovery we have gotten lots of get well cards for him, which he LOVED getting in the mail over the last week. Thank you to all of you that sent them. :)
Throughout this recovery I have learned a very important lesson....I could NEVER be a nurse! ;) It was very stressful to see your child not feeling very well and not getting to eat much and not being able to play as much as he wants to. I have discovered that I eat when I am stressed. ;) I think I gained the 5 ponds that Marc lost while eating all of the soft foods. ;)
I am very thankful to all of the help, thoughts and prayers that were sent our way of the last 2 weeks. They were all very much appreciated! :) Now that it is over, we are going to take Marc out on Saturday to do something fun and let him pick where we go to eat. Wonder what he will choose???? I will post what we do at a later date. :)