Johnnie's Classes
The good thing about a short work week is that it goes by fast. Especially when I'm just about getting used to Johnnie's school routine. 9 AM with his class, then Drawing class with Ms Metz, and then the time gap before his 12:10 Zoom class. All seems routine except... I still haven't been able to get the hang out of getting Johnnie lunch before his class. Actually it isn't really his lunch that is problematic. It is mine. And so today I spent that time gap dragging Johnnie to Whole Foods. He didn't want any pizza. He made it clear that chicken mcNuggets was his preference for today. And so I didn't wait until 11:30 like I usually did. I got MY lunch from Whole Foods... a carnitas quesadilla and then picked up Johnnie's lunch from McDonalds on the way home. A win-win. AND Johnnie is sufficiently fed before his class. Except... he suddenly started choking on his food. He must have rushed eating because he started to throw up. So much so he emptied out his stomach. Great. All this 10 minutes BEFORE his class. Now I had to wonder whether my rush-rush-rush mode made him eat too fast. I felt bad and I'm sure Johnnie felt even worse. Fortunately, he stopped vomiting and got right just before his class started. And then he was all ok again... except that now it was as if he had missed lunch entirely. And after his class, his day wasn't over either. We had moved Johnnie's swim class from Monday to today because the pool was closed then. Today it's open. And Stacy was available. So at 2 PM we were at the pool. I would have liked to say that Johnnie had an awesome class... after all, as of Saturday when we last swam together he was already almost swimming all the way across on just one breath of air. I was hoping Stacy would start teaching him how to breathe. She sort of tried to by getting him to flip on his back to get his breath, and then to start swimming again. But Johnnie was really having a hard time doing to fall backwards on his back thing. It took almost the whole hour before he finally got comfortable enough to do that. I was content that Johnnie just learned something incrementally no matter how small. I didn't like that he started being afraid again at the end of the lesson but I'm going to work with him about that. AFter all, didn't i get him comfortable enough to at least start dunking himself in the water? That was me with him. I'm sure I can get him learning how to breathe too. Anyway, at least he said he had a good lesson. The lesson got done a little after 3 PM, important only because I had to do that 3 PM Wednesday meeting with my Management group. I started the call from the pool, and then finished it at home. Nothing really unusual in today's meeting... after all it feels like a slower week than usual. And why not? It IS the week after Labor Day after all. And by 4 PM we were all done with another busy day LOL. By 5 PM we were at Panda Express Westwood and Johnnie is his usual goofy self. He wolfed down his teriyaki chicken in no time this time. And why not? After all, he did miss lunch. I wolfed down my dinner too. After all, that quesadilla from Whole Foods turned out to be not as good as I would have liked. But Panda Express was. I could have cruised the rest of the evening and let Johnnie just watch his beloved Octonauts videos. But for some reason I was fixated on what Ms Wiley mentioned yesterday at the meeting about writing skills of the kids. After all, writing is Johnnie's biggest weakness right now. He's way ahead of his reading track, way ahead in math. So I made up a writing exercise for him, somewhat similar to the one I used to do during the summer to teach him how to write his address. Anyway just like his swimming class, he took a while to finish this one. And he sure did get frustrated. Usually, he finishes anything very quickly. But not with his writing. But he'll get there. We're going to drill and drill until he gets this. Just like swimming LOL. Thing was he did finish his writing stuff and then I let him watch his Octonauts. And gave me time to catch up on my steps. And catch up on my journal too. And after about an hour, Johnnie made up some excuse to get me out of the bedroom and hang with him on the couch. That was fine with me. Nothing like a little bit of doing nothing, a little bit of horseplaying to cruise through the rest of the evening. The best part about it was hearing him laugh and squeal like a happy little kid. And that happy little kid was snoring softly by 9:45 PM. Not me I'm afraid. I just surfed the web for a while. And then I was asleep too.
The good thing about a short work week is that it goes by fast. Especially when I'm just about getting used to Johnnie's school routine. 9 AM with his class, then Drawing class with Ms Metz, and then the time gap before his 12:10 Zoom class. All seems routine except... I still haven't been able to get the hang out of getting Johnnie lunch before his class. Actually it isn't really his lunch that is problematic. It is mine. And so today I spent that time gap dragging Johnnie to Whole Foods. He didn't want any pizza. He made it clear that chicken mcNuggets was his preference for today. And so I didn't wait until 11:30 like I usually did. I got MY lunch from Whole Foods... a carnitas quesadilla and then picked up Johnnie's lunch from McDonalds on the way home. A win-win. AND Johnnie is sufficiently fed before his class. Except... he suddenly started choking on his food. He must have rushed eating because he started to throw up. So much so he emptied out his stomach. Great. All this 10 minutes BEFORE his class. Now I had to wonder whether my rush-rush-rush mode made him eat too fast. I felt bad and I'm sure Johnnie felt even worse. Fortunately, he stopped vomiting and got right just before his class started. And then he was all ok again... except that now it was as if he had missed lunch entirely. And after his class, his day wasn't over either. We had moved Johnnie's swim class from Monday to today because the pool was closed then. Today it's open. And Stacy was available. So at 2 PM we were at the pool. I would have liked to say that Johnnie had an awesome class... after all, as of Saturday when we last swam together he was already almost swimming all the way across on just one breath of air. I was hoping Stacy would start teaching him how to breathe. She sort of tried to by getting him to flip on his back to get his breath, and then to start swimming again. But Johnnie was really having a hard time doing to fall backwards on his back thing. It took almost the whole hour before he finally got comfortable enough to do that. I was content that Johnnie just learned something incrementally no matter how small. I didn't like that he started being afraid again at the end of the lesson but I'm going to work with him about that. AFter all, didn't i get him comfortable enough to at least start dunking himself in the water? That was me with him. I'm sure I can get him learning how to breathe too. Anyway, at least he said he had a good lesson. The lesson got done a little after 3 PM, important only because I had to do that 3 PM Wednesday meeting with my Management group. I started the call from the pool, and then finished it at home. Nothing really unusual in today's meeting... after all it feels like a slower week than usual. And why not? It IS the week after Labor Day after all. And by 4 PM we were all done with another busy day LOL. By 5 PM we were at Panda Express Westwood and Johnnie is his usual goofy self. He wolfed down his teriyaki chicken in no time this time. And why not? After all, he did miss lunch. I wolfed down my dinner too. After all, that quesadilla from Whole Foods turned out to be not as good as I would have liked. But Panda Express was. I could have cruised the rest of the evening and let Johnnie just watch his beloved Octonauts videos. But for some reason I was fixated on what Ms Wiley mentioned yesterday at the meeting about writing skills of the kids. After all, writing is Johnnie's biggest weakness right now. He's way ahead of his reading track, way ahead in math. So I made up a writing exercise for him, somewhat similar to the one I used to do during the summer to teach him how to write his address. Anyway just like his swimming class, he took a while to finish this one. And he sure did get frustrated. Usually, he finishes anything very quickly. But not with his writing. But he'll get there. We're going to drill and drill until he gets this. Just like swimming LOL. Thing was he did finish his writing stuff and then I let him watch his Octonauts. And gave me time to catch up on my steps. And catch up on my journal too. And after about an hour, Johnnie made up some excuse to get me out of the bedroom and hang with him on the couch. That was fine with me. Nothing like a little bit of doing nothing, a little bit of horseplaying to cruise through the rest of the evening. The best part about it was hearing him laugh and squeal like a happy little kid. And that happy little kid was snoring softly by 9:45 PM. Not me I'm afraid. I just surfed the web for a while. And then I was asleep too.
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