Family Schooling Summary

Monday was our first day of the LDS Co-op school, called SHARP.  It is about an hour drive and we took the back way since I wanted to avoid traffic.  On the last turn before we reached the schoolhouse parking lot big sister A threw-up all over herself and her car seat. Did I mention that we were an HOUR from home?  I think that it was just nerves and maybe a little car sickness.  She said that she felt fine and wanted to go to her first day of school.  Picture me taking deep cleansing breaths of fresh air as I stepped out of the car trying to come up with a rational plan.
I left everyone buckled in their seats and went in to talk to the head teacher for a minute.  I told her the situation and that the class that I teach was scheduled for the first hour.  I proposed that I bring brothers M and S in for their classes and leave the course packets for my students to start looking at while I went somewhere to buy big sis A a new outfit. She thought that was a good plan.
It worked great except that big sis A had gotten impatient with waiting while I took the others in and arranged everything. She got out of her carseat and took off her yucky clothes and was standing there in just her underwear when I came back to the car. Some of the puke got spread around in that process. Leather upholstery is such a life saver.  I wiped her and the car off with diaper wipes.  Then we cobbled together an outfit of the fleece pullover that little bro M had worn out to the car that morning and little brother's extra "accident" shorts, and were back in the school, only about 10 minutes late for class.  She did not get sick anymore after that.  My class went relatively smoothly and all the kiddos really enjoyed the day. Then it was time to get back in the car to go home. Yuck!
Part 2 of the plan was to make a trip to Walmart (5 minutes away) and buy big sister A her booster carseat (we were planning to do that when the new baby came anyway) and a couple boxes of baking soda.   I doused the pukey carseat with the boxes of baking soda and that held down the smell and absorbed yuckyness until I could pull it out at home.  I installed big sis in a different seat in her new booster and we were off. A very exciting first day!

Here are some pics that I took of the kids in their classes the 3rd hour of school:

Brother M has a music class for 3rd hour--

Big Sis A has "Science as Art"

And baby S has nursery/free play time:

Soccer class also started this week.  Here are some shots daddy took of them in class-- a blur of motion: