School, Crash, Zoo

As you may gather from this weeks blog title, it has been an eventful week.  School started on Monday and Merrick just barely got to go by the skin of his teeth.  Saturday night, after his party, he woke up throwing up and threw up throughout the night.  Sunday he had a fever that he could not seem to shake.  About 6:30 pm we decided to call it and decided that he would not be going to school the next day and then at about 7 his fever broke, he was bouncing off the walls and wrestling dad.  While we cut it closer than I would have liked, we decided to got ahead and send him to school the next day.

Here is Merrick on his first day of school.  He is not the oldest in the class (a close second), but he is the tallest by a long shot.  I still don't know if we made the right decision to not send him to kindergarten early, but since that is the choice we made I will do my best to keep him engaged and challenged this year.

The second day of school for Merrick in many ways was a bigger day for him than the first.  Due to our preschool numbers this year, we are running a small class on Tuesdays that my co-teacher Lora runs without me.  This means that on Tuesdays Merrick goes to school without me.  I was surprised by how nervous he was to go, but as soon as we got there he was perfectly fine and ready to go.

Unfortunately his apprehension about going to school by himself was not the only trauma Merrick experienced on Tuesday.  That afternoon we decided to go on a bike ride/walk with Aunt Becca to pick Quincy and Colvin up from school.  Everyone was having a great time until Merrick raced down a hill not realizing Quincy was at the bottom.  When he saw him he swerved to miss him, but lost control and crashed, hard.  While he looked gruesome for a while, he has healed quickly and should not have any scaring. (I have a picture, but it is just too sad to post here)

The final highlight of the week was our family trip to the Zoo.  We recently bought a zoo membership and this was our first time going.  The weather was great and we got to get up close and personal with lots of the animals.