Wonders of My World: Monster of a Week

This week has been a monster.... It has probably been the hardest week of parenthood that didn't involve a life or death situation (which unfortunately I have had a few of). Let's see, where to begin...
On Friday afternoon I got an email that Ryan had been accepted to Sterling Montessori. It is a charter school that we have been on the waiting list for since February (after not getting in last year). The catch was that school started on Monday. Ryan doesn't do well with change so this was a big decision. He was enrolled for Cardinal Charter which was slated to start a week and a half later and he has friends who would be going (not in the same grade though). The Montessori has a more hands on approach, it's a smaller community and I have always liked the Montessori method. We decided to at least try the Montessori. Don ran out on Sunday to get the school supplies.
Before deciding on the school Audrey got a UTI on Saturday, she started having symptoms about 5 minutes into a conference call, so I hung up and ran to the doctor before they closed at 12:00pm. She was diagnosed and given a week of antibiotics.

So all this went on before the week officially started. On Monday at 5:00am Don went over of town to Montana. A few hours later I took Ryan to school, he had a really hard time, he clung to me, he didn't want me to leave. It was painful but he eventually let me go. This whole week has been more of the same, but he is getting better. He is happy when I pick him up and sad when I drop him off. He doesn't understand why there is so much work, why the day is so long and why he can't go back to him kindergarten class. His teachers are very nice, they have been teaching together for a long time, the class is well organized and they have so many fun classroom materials. This in the long term is what is best for him but this transition has been hard- and the fact that I am doing it with Don out of town has made it worse. I'm sure I will have lots more to say about the school as time goes on. I finally decided to officially pull him off the Cardinal roster on Thursday so at least the stress of that decision has been made. It was a lot of stress- made worse by so many unknown variables (teachers, classmates etc).

Audrey has been at Frozen dance camp all week. She loves it, especially because their dance performance at the end of the week is to all Frozen music. It has made for a lot of driving for me (her camp goes from 9:30-12:30) but it keeps her occupied and happy.
Kenzie had a few nights of very little sleep but we now have an understanding that I won't feed her in the middle of the night so she has been getting up only once. She still gets up for the day between 5 and 6 am, but as long as I get a good chunk of sleep somewhere in there I can manage. She did decide to cut her first tooth this week which made her a drooly mess.