Midweek Space Day

It's Wednesday, middle of the week, and one more day closer to the 3-day weekend coming up. And as I count down to the end of the week, so has Mar Vista Elementary towards the end of the school year. After this week there's only 2 more weeks of school. Hard to believe I know. Their countdown started last week actually and they have had dress-up days every single day which is kind of fun I think. Today is SPACE DAY and so I put an oversize LEGO Star Wars T-shirt on Johnnie and he had a lot of fun with that. Look at him mugging it up for the camera. For me it was just another drop-off day and it felt good to go back to T-shirt and shorts first thing as opposed to yesterday. The thing was that when I got done with my Data Analytics team meeting, I looked at my schedule and lo and behold, that was it for the day! W-h-a-t? There seemed to be less people pinging me over email too. Maybe the exodus from the office has started... And so I had a relatively relaxed rest of the day. I took the dog out, let him run around in what amounts to be my backyard grass, also known as the grass area in front of the apartment where dozens of dogs poop and pee on a daily basis. Claire must know that from the scent too because he drops off and pees and poops almost on command the second he gets on that grass. Boy is she going to need a bath later. Anyway, I put myself in cruise control for the rest of the day. Oh I did manage to work still. Kept myself in front of the computer for the most part. AND I did work on my steps too, just so I didn't have to wait until way later on to make up 40 active minutes. I'm still determined to do an hour of active minutes a day while not pushing myself too much either. Which means I better be at a half hour by the time I pick up Johnnie. So really I'm calling this my true WORK-AT-HOME mode, only because if I were at the office, I wouldn't be up and about, enjoying late spring, early summer, taking in the days getting warmer slowly and with that great smell of flowers about ready to welcome summer too as I am. In doing all this walking around the neighborhood though, I managed to miss the Mar Vista Room 25 Open House at 4 PM. I did pick up Johnnie on time at 3 PM and then sat him down for his late lunch, but then I just lost track of the time. Fortunately, Ms Wiley did record it and sent it to us parents and I really did enjoy the 14-minute video. It had lots of Johnnie in it of course, just like it had lots of stuff on his classmates. And I wanted to make sure to save it here for posterity. Johnnie is for sure going to remember this later on, or at least he will have something to look at to remember the strangest year ever in terms of being in class. I mean TK was strange when they went online a year ago, but that was for just a couple of months. They had been remote for the the majority of this school year and THAT by itself is a huge deal. I even posted a pic of him enjoying the presentation too. And then we finally got on to watching the last few episodes of Jurassic World, Camp Cretaceous Season 3. Did they finally get off the island once and for all? Quick answer is yes... but... it would seem their boat had picked up a stowaway. Another dinosaur no doubt. Something to look forward fo for Season 4 LOL. And so it was that we concluded mid-week with yet another bath experience for Claire. She is much more comfortable now and even the whole drying process isn't so wiggly. And so by the time we all go to bed, she is smelling so clean.  And we prep for the end of the week...