Babysitting for a bit today, shortly after my friend dropped off her 2 kids, someone called from Calebs school and said he had a fever and a stomach ache.   hung up the phone, called Dean, decided to wake  up Boaz from his nap and go in the van w/ all 3 kids to get Caleb, luckily I had enough boosters between our car and the one in our van.    As I was getting things together, Abby (the eldest I am watching today) got a bloody nose that lasted a good 10 minutes.     About 30 minutes after the school called I was finally on my way to get Caleb, he was waiting for us in the office at the school.  He’s acting much better than I’d expect consider he has a temperature of 102.5, maybe the tylenol has kicked in.  I went ahead and made him an appt. w/ the pediatrician on call this afternoon.  He had a 103 temp on Monday and we kept him home Tuesday to rest and was seeming to be doing better but now he’s got a temp again.   On Monday 10 out of 20 of his classmates were out sick, as well as on Tuesday.  On Wednesday, the day he went back to school this week, 5 were absent and 2 got sent home early due to illness.   Dont know the stats for yesterday or today but I know when I signed him out all the reasons on the sign out sheet were for illness as to why kids were leaving early.    I mentioned to the receptionist and another staff member that if that many kids are sick they need to close school, they thought i was nuts.  At this rate it’s never going to stop being passed around.   I mean 50 percent of the preschoolers were sick and on the sign out sheet today I know it was all grades from which kids were leaving, so I wonder what the statistics are schoolwide for attendance this week.   I’m sure it’s not good.    Needless to say this may change our plans for the entire weekend, thus why I’m taking him to the dr in hopes he can get meds and be well enough that we can still have folks over tomorrow as we had planned.   I feel bad for Dean, he’s going to have to spend his birthday in the house helping care for the kids.    I’m hoping the dr will check Bo’s ears too just in case!   What a way to end the week and start the weekend.   Bah!  it’s definitely been a trying week for us!