Lousy Day

A little play on words with the title there.  If you haven't caught it yet, you will.

So today is another day at home.  Madison went to the nurse this morning and unfortunately, she had small eggs in her hair still and yet, this despite the huge efforts yesterday to remove them via special shampoo and endless combing with a magnifying glass.

One interesting first yesterday was this:  her first shower.  Yes, that's right.  Madison has never had a shower before.  Yesterday, we wanted to keep the shampoo in her hair longer (prescribed for about ten minutes), so we had her sit in an empty bathtub for a bit as Daddy read to her.  Then, it was time for Mommy to turn on the shower, so Daddy left and Madison had her first shower.  She was quite excited about this, calling it a 'Madison Waterfall.'

We still managed to do ballet last night too, which was nice.  It was day two, but we won't have ballet next Monday because it is Labor Day.  Madison is enjoying this class quite a bit, and although she was a little nervous last week, she dove right in there, ready to dance.

She danced today at piano class too.  There was a ballet number being played for the class, and she involuntarily started dancing a bit.  Practice was good this afternoon, and it's great that none of her extracurricular activities are being missed.  Piano went well, and Madison has done a great job with her piano homework, inspired in part by her Minecraft Piano Challenge.  But she is doing some classical music, or at least small portions of it.

We got the movie Toy Story of Terror today, and watched that before bed.  Oh, and there was a trip to the library too - we had gone to go get book number four of the Never Girls series.  We're starting out that book, as Daddy read chapter one tonight before bed.  We also read the Bible and prayed for a hedge of protection, and prayed that these annoying little bugs would all go away.  To help with that effort, we spent a LONG time before bed with a magnifying glass and that Kingdom Keepers flashlight, looking through all those strains of hair, one bit at a time.

When Madison was at the school nurse this morning, there was another girl that was being searched.  When we go back tomorrow, there'll be yet another one that she will see being looked at.  It is good to see other kids being searched through their hair, so that Madison sees that it isn't just her.

The weather is cool outside, as if the month of August has officially been tricked into thinking that it is really fall now.  It isn't, even though we watched a Halloween-themed movie tonight from Toy Story.  But some of the trees are looking like they want to start changing colors, if you can believe that.  Someone needs to shout it out - IT IS NOT FALL YET!

Daddy is typing this on a new keyboard, which may explain slight imperfections.  We got a keyboard and a case for the iPad, which is a handy little device here.  Now this iPad is all set up and ready to go with Madison to school - it's safe, and hopefully it can be useful for her.  Now all we need to do is get her back there.  After another bug check tomorrow, hopefully we'll be back on track.