Ethan came home sick today....

While I was getting ready for work, I received a phone call from Ethan's school. It was the school nurse saying that Ethan just threw up and doesn't have a fever that is registering and is there anyone to come pick him up. I said I would be right there.

Let me give you some back ground on Ethan. In all of his 6 yrs he has not thrown up very much and usually he does when he has a high fever and he ate something just prior to the fever. So I knew that this sounded weird.

Thank goodness Russell had the day off so he could watch Ethan. I decided not to tell Russell so that Ethan and I could play a joke on him.

I walk in the school and see Ethan laying down on the nurses bed and he just smiled at me. I mentioned to the nurse that this is very weird that he is sick with no fever. She didn't really say much.

On our way out to the car I asked Ethan "how do you feel? Is your tummy still upset?". He said "no" (as he is rubbing his tummy). I asked him "what happened?"

.....this is where it gets kinda of funny and sad. Ethan said he was going to the bathroom and noticed another child that had had an "accident" and Ethan noticed the "accident" on the child's socks and it made Ethan throw up.

So Ethan heads back to class to tell the teacher he threw up and she sends him to the nurse. He tells the nurse the story he told me and she took his temp and called me. I completely understand why she sent him home since the swine flu is such a worry.

When Ethan got in the car I said "Do you want to play a joke on Daddy?" He said "yes".

A little background. Earlier this week Ethan came home and said he had been bored at school and wishes they would stop teaching him things he already knows. I told him that they have to go over the same things to make sure he remembers it from last yr.

So I dropped Ethan off about 2 houses down from ours and told Ethan to go to the front door and when daddy answered it and asks him why he is there...tell him that you were bored and decided to come home. (we only live 5 houses down from school so its not a long walk)

Of course it went exactly as it was planned. Ethan let it play out for a few minutes and then told daddy what really happened. Russell said that was a good joke.

Russell was even talking about this at bedtime and how good we got him.