Johnnie No School Tuesday

So what do I do when I have Johnnie for the next 2 days and he doesn't have school and I still have to work? What you do is come up with a bunch of activities that last about 45 minutes each. I let him sleep in a bit later since he went to bed late last night <thanks Lisa!?> And then on we went to McDonald's for breakfast as if he were on his school routine. He had an extra long shower this morning too because he was scratching and itchy and very much sniffly, likely a product of whatever they did today at Courtney's. But after I cleaned him up, he was just fine. Couldn't have him catching a cold now could I? If he catches one, then I catch one. Kennedy from my team on the other hand has called in for the 2nd day in a row with flu symptoms. Here is where it gets dicey. When do you tell him to get covid tested? He had called in sick yesterday too. And then positive or not, do you start with contact tracing? I'm thinking about me of course since I was in the IT room yesterday. He wasn't there but do I need to worry? These are the questions that being in a pandemic sort of forces on you. For now I have no symptoms, not even a sniffle from Johnnie so I put it out of my head. And I managed to get him watching NumberBlocks and Alphablocks while I got some work done minimally. At least those things ARE educational. And then right after that I got him watching the same EPIC books he would be reading normally, except that these were on someone's YouTube channel. A little Cat Ninja, A little Bright family and Johnnie is all good to go, at least through lunch. I had lots of leftovers from yesterday of course and all Johnnie wanted was some penne pasta in chicken noodle soup broth and so we were good to go. The funny thing was that some people at work weren't going to be around tomorrow and so today would be effectively their last day to work this week. And I got some emails about invoices needing to be approved, and reports needing to be run. Would I be getting these things if we were working in person at the office I wonder? Ah no matter, tomorrow IS the last work day of the week so all I had to do was hang on for a little bit longer.

To keep to the routine, I kept Johnnie's swimming class with Stacy today. There would be no resistance from him today. In fact, look at him on our way back from class in the picture. Earlier I snapped a pic of us going to McDonalds' to pick up chicken nuggets. A plan that got derailed when they screwed up my order and gave me a cheeseburger instead of the nuggets. Johnnie wasn't going to eat that of course. Oh well, that meant I had lots of steps logged in already even before the swim class. And so I didn't need to walk around the pool. I just lounged around, checked my email and I almost even took a nap. And the hour long session went by fast. No complaining about how cold it was from Johnnie either. A very good thing. And when we got home, he immediately pivoted to making drawings. Lots of drawings. He wanted to draw about Thanksgiving, he wanted to draw about what to ask his mom about Christmas, he wanted to draw dinosaurs. I almost had to interrupt him to go get dinner at Panda Express even! And so it was that I really actually had no problem keeping him occupied the entire day today. So much so he didn't even take out the trampoline to jump around. Later on we finally did watch Spaceballs together. And as i suspected, and much to my chagrin, there were a bunch of choice words that were said that I really would have preferred Johnnie not to know about until later... way later in his life. Words like bitch, and asshole, and shit. Sigh. I can't believe Lisa was ok with all that. And actually, I think she probably didn't even know the words were said in the movie. Chances are she was half-asleep while Johnnie and the rest of the adults were watching it. That's usually what happens. Again no matter. I will just have to do damage control if necessary. For Johnnie, he likes this slapstick comedy stuff.  And goofy words as in the book "The Book with No Pictures". Innocently goofy stuff. I hope to keep it that way god help me. Today bedtime was as normal and I look at today as recovery day from whatever it is, Lisa had Johnnie doing for the last couple of days. And it was all good.