Just Another Manic Monday

As I was preparing for what to write about in this weeks update, I started to wonder if I would really have something to write EVERY week.... I suppose only time will tell. This week there have definitely been some events to write about, some of which were not so good :(

It seems like Monday was the day that everything happened! Monday afternoon when Emilee got off the bus she was in tears. I asked her what happened and she told me that some girl on the bus punched her in her arm, hip and back!!! I immediately reported this to the bus driver, who made the girl come up to the front and apologize to Emilee. This girl (who we believe is a second grader) told the bus driver it was a "game." The bus driver told her there are no games that involve punching. Emilee came in the house and told us that she was sitting in her assigned seat (Kindergarteners have assigned seats) and that two other girls sat with her and wanted a 4th girl to sit with them. Emilee, a rule follower, told the girls that only 3 people are allowed in the seat. Now how exactly the girl came to start punching her, we aren't too sure about yet. Whether it was after the event or right then and there. But Emilee also said that it was one of the other girls who told her friend to punch Emilee but to only punch her on the body, not the face!!!!! As more of this has unfolded I find myself getting angrier and angrier.

Emilee is fine and that girl has not talked to her since but I still feel like the issue is unresolved. We called the school immediately and spoke directly to the principal. He said he would review the tapes from the bus and get back to us Tuesday. We heard nothing on Tuesday. I called Tuesday at 4:30pm and left a message that we were disappointed to have not heard anything and I got a call Wednesday morning from the school counselor. She said she would talk to the principal and that she was also going to talk to the girl involved and get back to me that day. My husband talked to the principal in the same day and he informed my husband that some how, some strange glitch just happened to occur on that day during that time with the bus videotapes, and therefore they cannot review the incident. The school counselor did not call me back Wednesday. Today, Kevin and I marched ourselves down to the school and wanted to talk to the principal, but he was in a meeting so we met with the school counselor. She said she didnt get to talk to the girl yesterday, but that she would do so today and let us know. Its 4:10pm and I have heard nothing.

I am not sure what to do at this point. I am more upset at this point about the lack of follow through and urgency from the school. I dont think this girl will harass Emilee again, it may very well be an isolated incident. But I would have expected better follow through from the school.

Now that same night, Monday night, Canon was up until almost 2am screaming. Come Tuesday morning the evidence of why was all over his ear lobe as his ear must have finally drained from an ear infection :( I took him to the doctor and we got a prescription for some ear drops. That is the absolute benefit of having tubes put in his ears a few months ago. Now that he has those, we dont have to do oral antibiotics and can just do ear drops. He's already doing much better :)

On a lighter note lol... Emilee's behavior at school is rewarded through a color system....green, yellow, orange and red. Normally I am anti this type of system, however the teacher allows the kids to "earn" the green color back if they turn their behavior around. I am definitely okay with that. For the month of September, Emilee ended the day on green EVERY DAY!!!!! She did come home on Tuesday with a yellow and her teacher, Ms. Davis, said she had a hard time listening that day. I sent Ms. Davis an email about the bus incident and how her brother had been up until 2am on Tuesday morning and that these things dont excuse Emilee's behavior, but just might help explain it. Ms. Davis put a green smiley face over Emilee's yellow one and wrote "I understand" :) When I read that, I almost cried. What an awesome teacher!!!!!

I apologize that this is such a lengthy post! Aside from Monday afternoon/evening, everything else has been pretty smooth. We are getting excited for our trip to Albuquerque to visit Nana and Papa next week!!! It is the last weekend for the Balloon Fiesta and so we are going to go enjoy that, as well as some amazing food, and of course red chili!!! Mmmmmmmm............ :)