Made it To October

It's the first day of October and this being a Thursday and all, I looked forward to a quiet day. By now I can easily fit in my IS Team Meeting in the middle of Johnnie's computer class and his music class and actually be done with both by the time Johnnie finishes. This morning's computer class is not to be confused with this afternoon's computer PROGRAMMING class as I am trying to fill Johnnie's schedule with activities to make him believe anything is possible. I even posted his newly programmed "game" in Instagram. With minimal help both from myself and his teacher <as in he simply watched and then explored himself>, he did this thing that to me seemed no different than planning out an approval workflow in Sharepoint or Powerapps. Yes, I'm saying he actually has an understanding ALREADY at the age of 5 of how workflow logic works. I mean Lisa and I already know he's fairly advanced. I can already observe that he thinks outside of the box, and he's able to articulate his thinking. Never mind what he's articulating and he IS actually capable of self-regulating, at least when he's in "class" mode. He doesn't speak unless asked by the teacher, which is totally different from at least a couple of kids in his computer programming class that I WISH I could tell their parents to keep them on mute just so the other kids in class could participate. Anyway, I'm not sure if Lisa is as proud of his computer achievements as I already am, but I don't care. I was sure to tell him he was doing SOOO well. 

About his other self-regulation tendencies though, he is basically a perpetual motion machine with the propensity to laugh and joke all the time, which is just fine... until I am not in the joking mood. How do I get him to understand that adults have other things going on too and that he needs to develop awareness without getting his feelings hurt when he's not getting attention. I DO realize it's all about the attention. And I do acknowledge that at certain times me being the INFJ personality that I am, I do need to go internal and process my own thoughts and feelings that way. And him hitting me incessantly on my legs, on my stomach <although that DOES get me to laugh every single time>, and to keep him from hitting me in the head DOES not lend itself to that. And so love him as much as I do, I am also GLAD it's Thursday and it's hand-off night and pass on the tag team to Lisa. I'm sure Johnnie was also getting bored. I mean I did keep him in the house all day after all. It was hot outside yet again and when I broached him about going swimming, he passed. And it was way too hot to go biking a good distance too. And so I did the only remaining activity... I let him watch his Jurassic videos. It's funny that he has regained his interest in dinosaurs. I know full well that this is simply the current phase and I don't mind really. At least when I need my own time, I can easily create a half hour pocket. Tonight while waiting for Lisa to call and pick him up, I was even watching Van Helsing on Netflix in my bedroom, while he watched his Jurassic World in the living room. As it was, Lisa did come on time and then we confirmed for Saturday morning which was a normal Lisa work Saturday. And then I just chilled on the couch. I didn't feel like cleaning the apartment, didn't feel like doing much of anything. This is how I bring in October huh? Oh there was just one more news of note... Trump apparently has tested positive for coronavirus. Boy can't wait for the news cycle to circle back on that one for the next few days...