What a week....

So I was expecting the first week of school to be a bit of a madhouse, but nothing like it has turned out to be.  The first day of school Andrew forgot to bring home his good water bottle from school and we have yet to see it again.  The second day of school, he got to ride the bus for the first time and LOVED it!  hen he got off the bus the second day, he had to swim upstream back on to the bus because he forgot his backpack.  When we got home, we discovered his lunch box wasn't in his backpack.  On the third day of school, I get a phone call from the nurse's office telling me that Andrew slipped in the rocks and split his head open and I needed to come and get him.  It wasn't too bad and didn't need a bandaid or anything, but he got some pretty good rock burn on his head, face, arm and leg.  Still no water bottle or lunch pail.  On the fourth day of school, I went to meet his bus about 10 minutes early, only to find the bus had already dropped the kids off.  I hurried down to the bus stop.  No Andrew!  Thinking he has just not gotten off the bus, I called the school who radioed the bus driver.  She said he got off on the right stop.  Awesome!  I thought maybe he had gone the wrong way from the stop and down the wrong street.  I got 2/3 of the way down the street north of us...still no Andrew.  Asked a couple of girls if they had seen him.  No luck.  My friend who was with me happened to look behind us and see a woman and three kids.  It was him.  Thank goodness a mom from a different stop realized that the little boy following her son off the bus wasn't a regular at their stop and decided to help him out.  I'm a bit frustrated with the bus driver who said he got off the right stop when he didn't.  I realize the first week of school is crazy, but the drivers really should be more aware of where the kindergarteners, who have no idea what they are doing, have all their stuff and get off at the correct stop.  On the lighter side, he did bring home his lunch pail so now we are just missing a water bottle and half his sandwich container.  So far, so good today.  I hope we don't have any more excitement!  I don't think this mom to a new school-goer could handle much more!

UPDATE:  So today went just fine.  He even managed to find the water bottle he lost on the first day of school and brought it home. 

Andrew loves his teacher though and has a blast playing with Jacob and Travis, two of his friends from preschool.  He also has made friends with a boy from his class who catches the bus with him in the morning.  Whew!  What a week!