So today I get a call from day camp asking me to come and pick Evan up because he has lice. Then they say I need to pick up all three even though they only think it's Evan. One of them has had lice before and it is the worst. We had to buy a really expensive nit comb and comb and treat several times. I know what the adults look like and what the eggs look like (excuse - I have to barf now).... I get the kids and immediately get Sean into the chair to shave his head. I do a quick check and I don't see any bugs and no eggs but to be safe, he gets shaved (#2 guide). Next up I get Evan in the chair. I look at his head more closely and I don't see anything. Not a bug, no egg sacs, nothing. Evan does have dermatitis (cradle cap) that happens to be pretty bad because of all the chlorine his head has seen this summer. It looks like my psoriasis - white and scaly. I normally use the lice comb (irony!) to remove it from his hair but I've been lazy and haven't done it lately. So I see no lice but a lot of dermatitis. To be safe he gets shaved with the #1 guide (military short). I decide to call the camp and I know they must hate me because I want to know what they saw. They tell me they'll call me back. In the meantime, I do the shampoo on the boys and shower them. Throw all the blankets we have around the house in the wash. Strip their bedding and lay sheets on the couch so they can sit down. Still no call yet so I decide to start working on Gretchen's hair. Before combing it with the nit comb, I use a regular comb and I don't see anything. She has a lot of hair so by the time I'm done, it's huge. Finally the counselor calls... She says they say something jump out of his hair (lice do not jump) or maybe fell out. I ask if they looked at his head and they indicate they saw the white stuff (the dermatitis) so they ask Evan if it's itchy and he says yes. Then he tells them he has lice. GRRRRRRRR..... I explain he has had dermatitis since he was a baby and my pediatrician can vouch for that so they say he can come back tomorrow if I have a doctor's note. I call my pediatrician and they won't do anything without seeing him so we go in this evening and she looks him over, listens to my story and gets me a letter. Then she tells Evan that he caused his own problem! Moral of the story: Don't listen to a 7 year old. In truth, I'm not mad anymore... everything in clean and the boys won't need a haircut for awhile but man, am I tired!
I'm a mother to Wolves now. The boys crossed over from Tiger Cub Scout to Wolf. Evan is the more motivated scout but Sean surprised me telling the Cubmaster how excited he was to be a Wolf. I never know what he's going to say! It was a cold and wet weekend so didn't camp but they got to do a bunch of fun things and had fun despite the weather.
They only wanted to go once.... I think they were a little scared. Evan told me the brake didn't work (he was moving it in the wrong direction per Steve).
The kids had a hard time understanding why we couldn't go to California again (um, it's expensive). We did make it out to North Caroline to visit our friend Todd. We did some hiking there and the kids made me sad when they picked stuffed animals over patches in the gift shop (that's what I get for asking them). We stopped at the Children's Museum in Indianapolis for our annual visit. They still really like that place. Once we came home, we hit the Field Museum and even managed to do the Mirror Maze in the mall near our house. It was a fun but tiring week.
Evan is star student this week. I didn't realize this until 4:30am this morning as I emptied the kids backpacks. I missed the note from the teacher on Friday. I went into full mom panic looking for stuff that he can take to school to put on up on the star board (thankfully we did not have to make a poster board for it). I happened to have this scrapbook notes that I bought on clearance that seemed to work well for the occasion. As soon as Evan got up, I asked him all of these questions. His answers were amusing.
Evan is star student this week. I didn't realize this until 4:30am this morning as I emptied the kids backpacks. I missed the note from the teacher on Friday. I went into full mom panic looking for stuff that he can take to school to put on up on the star board (thankfully we did not have to make a poster board for it). I happened to have this scrapbook notes that I bought on clearance that seemed to work well for the occasion. As soon as Evan got up, I asked him all of these questions. His answers were amusing.