Goings on

It's been a crazy week! Rick flew to Phoenix for a couple days and I had yesterday off for Nevada Day (go figure). Ella is talking in two word sentences now - "my towel" or "more juice". Oh, and Bradley got kicked out of daycare. Not really "kicked out" per se, but they are unable to transport him to school on the bus any more (which amounts to him being kicked out). Earlier in the week he was rough-housing on the bus with his best friend April (a 4th grader), and he hurt her finger - turns out pretty bad - as in broke her finger. Oh, and she needs surgery to put a pin it. It was totally an accident, even April says so (and, thank God, so do her parents), but apparently there are strict daycare rules about such things. The incident happened on Tuesday, I had to sign a piece of paper on Wednesday saying one more incident and Bradley will have to disenroll, and then Bradley chooses Thursday to kick another kid in the chest ("but he didn't even fall down..."). So, now they won't transport him on the bus even though the next incident didn't happen on the bus - but he's not "kicked out." After talking to one of the higher ups on Friday afternoon I'm pretty sure that they were just looking for an excuse to "kick him out". Not that I'm taking anything away from the fact the he did both things - the finger breaking, totally an accident, but he did do it; the chest kick - totally NOT an accident. I guess they have to CYA.

So now we're left with such a quandary. What do we do with our children? I have never been 100% sold on this daycare anyways - I think the people in Ella's room are doing an excellent job, but the front office people have never really been all that nice to me. I chose to ignore that because I felt like Ella was being taken care of. Now that Bradley can't go there any more, I'm not sure what to do. I toured another day care on Friday that also busses to his school but it's really far away from our apartment. But do I switch Ella too? Also, I haven't been all that happy with Bradley's school either, because he spends so much of his time being bored. So now I'm thinking maybe I should enroll him in a private Christian school where he can get better attention. If we go that route I wouldn't be able to start him until after the Christmas break, so that means Bradley will have to start Safe Key on Monday - it's a before and after school program at the school. It's not very structured, but now that Rick's working days, he will only have to spend about 45 minutes there in the afternoon.

So many thoughts are running through my mind - why is Bradley acting out? Should we got to the new daycare that's further away? Should we start Bradley at the Lake Mead Christian Academy (assuming they will have a spot for him)? When will LMCA's day care be open, so Ella can go, too? Where are we going to move when our lease is up in 4 months? Do we stay in the same area so Bradley can keep going to the crappy school, or do we move somewhere else where he might wind up going to an even crappier one? Keep us in your prayers. I'm sure all these trials and tribulations are teaching us some very valuable lessons!

P.S. On a happier note, we looked at campers today. We're probably going to get one in the next few months - after we get the whole Bradley school/day care issue resolved, and the housing issue resolved. I can't wait to go camping and experience America the Beautiful first hand!