A normal week, well our new normal anyway................

Well my friends how are you?  We are still doing fine here with our new normal.  I continue to work outside the home making sure everyone is healthy before I go to a home to work with the kids.  I continue to work with Little Buddy on his school work online and we have had even better success this week.  We actually turned in a biography report on Neil Armstrong way ahead of time.  May is a tough paperwork month for me so I wanted that project off my  list.  He did such a good job telling me what he thought was important and picking pictures and even a video to insert.  We wrote it all out first and then he typed it into the appropriate areas and we submitted it early.  I think ours is very basic but you can imagine these amazing projects some kids submit.  Little Buddy did almost all the work with a tweak here and there from me and that is what matters.  Mona, his monkey is usually near to help us out.  He is in love with this special present from Mr. 22.  We all need a friend don't we?  Especially during these times of isolation.

Little Buddy acquired a new skill last weekend.  He is now able to do a hand stand in the pool.  This is the best photo I was able to get and his hands are not at the bottom of the pool yet but you get the idea.  This is a really tough skill for a little one whose muscles don't want to behave like yours and mine.  He is still practicing picking up items from the bottom of the shallow end and doing it faster and faster every week.

These two are just the shaggiest mops in the world.  They desperately need hair cuts but that is not happening yet.  Florida is slowing opening its doors although the death tolls still are rising in the state and this country.  In more shake your head news that this seriously can't be happening.......... Our governor and the Department of Health in Florida have intervened so state coroners can't release Coronavirus deaths because they are 10% higher than the states and that does not look good for opening the state back up for business.  And the people protesting opening up states.......don't even get me started on that and their ignorance.  Can you even imagine a large group of African American's or Muslin's storming a state capitol while wearing bullet proof vests, masks and holding assault rifles?  I am pretty sure the president would not be egging them on, nor would we be just moving on quickly from that in our news cycle like it was no big deal at all.

On Friday after loads of cleaning, school work, and my own paperwork, Little Buddy's room got a bit of a redo.  I was just about to buy him a bigger bed right before this pandemic hit.  I had been working on him for months to get one because he does not like change.  Of course just when we were ready all stores closed.  I finally ordered a bed from IKEA that is to be delivered at the end of May.  We had this IKEA black dresser in the garage waiting for Mr 26 to use when he moves out this summer, but I confiscated it and brought it into Little Buddy's room instead.  I cleaned it all up and moved his smaller dresser out.  It has more room for his shoes and braces as well as clothes.  It is a bit crowded in here because his room is actually not a bedroom at all it is a media room, sort of a small bonus room off our family room.  There are no closets and the TV and large lawyer bookshelf were already in here before this little one arrived in our life.  Still we are making due and he loves his little room.  We switched the bed over to the other side ready for the new bed to come in.  We sorted some toys, clothes and books ready for donating, and here we are with the finished project so far.  I think it looks nice.

My favorite part about warmer weather are these darling freckles.  They are back my friends, ready to make us all smile.

Hang in there, stay safe and well.