Mzee LOVES the Bus!

Well, today we tried something new. Milan is still sick and needed to stay home. Rather than take her out of the house so Don could drive Mzee and I to school and the train, I decided to take Mzee on the bus. There is a bus that stops three blocks from the house and drops us off across the street from Mzee's school. Mzee was VERY excited when I told him the plan this morning. We headed out with our bus fare in our pockets. We weren't even through 2 of the 3 blocks when Mzee asked if we were almost there. He did great though, and we were at the bus stop in plenty of time. His excitement was building as the bus pulled up to the curb and opened the doors. We climbed in and the first thing he noticed was one of his classmates with his Mom sitting on the bus. Before I could even drop my quarters in, Mzee was in a seat next to his classmate's Mom settled in for the ride.
It was cute to watch the boys on the ride as his friend was quick to educate Mzee on how things work on the bus, which stop he gets on at, which stop we get off at to go to school and various other bus rider tidbits of information. When we got into his classroom Mzee immediately announced to his teachers that "I rode the bus to school today!"
Tonight, I also took him home on the bus. This meant he got to play on the playground for an extra 15 minutes after school as the bus doesn't run that frequently, so we need to kill some time waiting. We rode the bus again with the same friend who rode the bus in the morning, as he takes the same bus home at night.
About half way from the bus stop to our house, we could see Don and Milan on the sidewalk, walking out to meet us. Mzee was very excited, ran up to Milan and gave her a big hug.

Milan seems to be doing better today, but still has a nagging cough and an awful runny nose. She has a nice big goose egg on her forehead as she tripped over the rug today and feel and hit her forehead on the floor. It looks really awful...poor girl. She has been going through a clumsy phase lately it seems. We are hopeful that she'll be well enough for school by tomorrow.