The words every elementary school parent cringes to hear...

..."mom, my heads been really itchy for, like, 5 days..."

Oh great.  Under the lights for a lice check.  Positive confirmation, with him and his little brother who have been sharing a bed. 

 

We just got the letters home from each of the classes last week saying lice had been found in "at least one student".  Looks like we heard too late. 

 

 And why did he not tell me sooner? He wanted to grow his hair out for Halloween in order to be old Obi-Wan, so he thought he'd just ignore it.

Out come the clippers.  All 3 boys shaved just up from bald. Check the sister and mom with hair daily.  Possibly shampoo with Nix just in case.

And now for the fun part - wash absolutely everything in the house and put all pillows through a 20 minute dryer cycle.

This was supposed to be my day home alone...now I get to spend it with some very uninvited guests!