Five Year Old Faker

I should have known better this morning as a walked into the boys room to wake Porter up for school. I wasn't all that surprised to find Porter with his head in "The Bowl" retching. I should provide a little background information about this kid. From the beginning Porter has always been a "barfy" child. He had reflux as a baby and has been know to, on many occasion growing up, throw up for no reason at all. He has become somewhat of a pro you could say. He will get up in the middle of the night, go into the bathroom, lift the toilet seat, THROW UP, wipe his face off, get a drink of water and return to bed as if nothing has happened. We sometimes don't even know it has happened until all is said and done or until the next morning when he tells us. So it has become no surprise or alarm to us as parents when Porter throws up. We have just labeled him our "RANDOM THROWER UPPER". (I suppose we should maybe have that checked out huh) He has also been know to, on occasion, throw up off the side of the top bunk because he is "too tired to get down" so it has also become common for us to send him to bed with "The Bowl". So I did have my doubts this morning, to whether or not he may really be sick. Normally I would think nothing of it but since all the kids were sick a few nights back I was a little more cautious. Of course he climbed back into his covers and stated that he didn't want to go to school. I asked him if he really didn't feel good and he responded "No" and once again that he didn't want to go to school. I gave the whole "If you are really sick and not going to school, you can't play and will have to rest all day long" spill. He said he wanted to take a shower to see if he would "feel better". He still said he didn't feel good afterwards so I told him he didn't have to go to school. Just as I suspected a few hours or so later he was wrestling/playing with his brothers. I asked him if he was feeling better, to which he replied... "I wasn't really sick mom, I just didn't want to go to school today." Are you kidding me! I don't know what happened. He had a great 2nd day, loved school, his teacher and his new friend Matthew. Sigh... Looks like it's going to be a long school year. (Feeling really good about the preppy Kindergarten rather than Kindergarten choice right now!)