And then there was Corona with a virus...

A lot has happened since the last time I blogged about you, so I will try to catch us all up to speed. Your kindergarten year seems like such a long time ago. Mrs. Houk did such a great job as your teacher and you did such a great job in school and making the CARE program work. Although not alwasys on task I know you are alwasys doing your best. See the thing is that whole world changed in March when the Coronavirus took us by storm, and with this terrible virus we ended up getting the greatest gift....TIME WITH FAMILY. Learning became e-learning at home where Mommy and Daddy were the teachers. I'd say you did a great job although not all of the days were rainbows and roses. A social butterfly like you craves interaction and friends and defintely has FOMO. Looking back our neighbors were a salvation for us because you had an outlet and may I add it was an awesome outlet. Although you are the youngest of the girls in the hood, you sometimes make the biggest impact and they are not just Charli's friends but your friends. Sometimes I think you may be a little closer with them than she is. No issue with that! You are in it to have a good time and you wake up each day craving an adventure. Even your bike can't keep up with the spped you live life at, so we need to slow down and smell the roses a little bit. That is what we are trying to work on with you. You don't have to always be doing something or be with someone and you don't have to rush through things, we need to slow it down and enjoy things a little more. Even have some down time and alone time just to breathe. This is way easier said than done when it comes to you kid. There is a humor and a spunk in you like no other and you get involved in everything. Half the time you only understand half of what is going on so when things come out of your mouth they are hilarious, we never know what you are going to say. On the flip sometimes you share to much and you are still learning boundaries. One of the jokes you tell comes from Unlce Mike, " would you like a lime with your Corona or a virus?" not that funny, it is when it comes from a 5 year old. You were 5 for so long. No one even could believe you were 5 because you excel at everything and because you can hold a conversation with anyone. I am serious, public speaking- check! Writing this blog today it is September 28, 2020. You are officially 6 years and 1 months old. Now writing that I want you to be 5 again. Why is time flying by so fast? You bring so much joy and chaos to the day that days are way more than 24 hours with you. At night when you come in my room with soaking wet hair and want to lay with me I finally remember you are just a little girl. So very sweet, innocent, kind, caring, and loving. Not a day goes by where you don't have a new bruise or cut and even through tears of falling off your bike you still ell your friends you will be rigth back when we carry you in to clean up the blood and bandage you up. You are fierce Danica, Fierce! Summer days were filled with bike rides, and play dates, sprinklers, pools, and catching frogs. Made-up dances, gossip, and sunrise to sunset fun. Red cheeks and tan legs. An image that would sum up your summer is helmet on, right red, face, a cut up knee, asking if you could go ask another friend to play since the friend you were just playing with has something they need to do. There is no time for water or a break on Danica speed but there is ALWAYS time for ice cream or a snack. ALWAYS! The first thoguth of the day for you is a popsicle. Now that you are 6, we need to start understanding the food groups and that popsicles is not one of them! We started school 7 weeks ago from home, remote learning in your room. Ms. Dusold is your teacher and a veteran teacher is she. Dad and I have listened to her firmly keep 25 first graders in line through a screeen. Inclduding Even the kid who hangs from the ceiling fan! She is a Saint I tell you. She has kept you in line. I am not sure time management has been your best part of learning but we made it through because today you are in person learning! Yep today you went to school, mask on, and READY to go. SO READY TO GO! you have been talking about it since they gave the green light. Kindergartners and 1st graders only. You have been up early, talking about it non-stop- making sure all your supplies were ready. You started labeling individual crayons without us even knowing. I mean talk about prepared. You had your book bag ready( thinking about it we need to make sure to give you a coloring book for free time since you have to socially distance 6 feet away and can't touch other people's things etc.) lunch bag ready, sanitizer, sweat-shirt, outfit picked out, talk about ready. You had no hesitation of going back. No issues with wearing your mask. You are as strong and brave as they come, but just as soft and sensitive at the same time. It is so quiet at home without you. I miss you so much and I am jsut waiting until 3:30 to grab your face and give you a huge kiss! I cannot wait to hear all about it. Now let's back it up a month. WE had a HUGE birtday celebration for you on August 28. It was Awesome. Balloons outside and balloons inside. A cake with a huge gymnast on it and a soccer ball buterrflies and more. We had all your friends and family and it was just awesome, just like you! So many gifts from so many people. You told everyone you want a bath tub for oyur American girl doll and bras and that is exactly what you got. When school started I asked what you want to be when you grow up and you told me "Big Boobs!" at the end of e-leaninng in the spring it started with wanting boobies and now big boobs! I guess that is my impact as an e-learning teacher LOL!!! So family got you bras and you have been telling me that your boobs are growing!!! I am pretty sure you have worn the bras underneath your gymnastics leos but I will have to ask if you wore one to your first day of first grade. See at this house solely becasue of you we get back-logged on laundry since you change 10 times a day and then put whatever yuo had on for a second in the laundry. You also like to pull up whatever pants or shorts you have on as high as you can and then model in the mirror. I am not sure what that is about but it is something else we are working on now that you are 6. I am hoping the boy crazy has started to cease but only time will tell on that. You are not such a fashionista on hair but definitely on clothes. If you could wear high heels not you would, but until then we settle on gym shoes that you manage to wear out or grow out of in a week! You have the best pair of legs, I don't know where these model legs came from, but they are strong and long. Then add you light brown hair to your piercing blue eyes and you have a masterpiece, pure genius masterpiece. I could not love you more. I shake my head and laugh thinkig about you. Charli celebrated her Communion this weekend and because of Coronavirus you and Aj could not come and stayed home with Grandma. You were crying that you "want to eat a body too and drink blood." It took Grandma a minute to figure that one out and that was the laughter of the communion party. Don't worry honey it will be your turn soon. It is really funny when you tell us that you want the party to be about you and celebrate you. I think you are all only children in your own right, so I guess we are spoiling you all equally. The interaction between you and your siblings is priceless. You are so good with AJ, still learning your boundaries but you love you little "buddy" or "AAAJ" as you call him. I love to sercretly watch you read to him, or sing to him, or play with him in general. You talk to him all the time and he jsut loves to run away from you and have you chase him. I love how much you adore Charli and want to dress like her, and whenever I ask soemthing you say, "Is Charli doing that, is Charli going, is Charli gonna do that to?" Without fail and I have to remind you that you are Danica and not Charli. You are back in gymanstics and you are so excited! I think you could live there, again activites, athletics, and people that is your perfect recipe. You started soccer and I think you should have your own team where you play against everyone because that is what you seem to do and on a side note you are a goal scoring machine! You told Grandma that people just try to stand in front of you when you kick it, but I guess they are supposed to wait behind the line and one sassy girl didn't listen :)That was your story to me. Sometimes when you get overwhlemed it is too cute but then you storm off, then you don't talk to us, or you come down hiding with something over your face, and we have to earn you back. You can really hold a grudge let me tell you. And without fail Daddy can still do no wrong in your eyes. You are Daddy's girl and it is Daddy's world and Mommy is just living in it. Well, except at bed time when you want to always snuggle with me. #winning I really think you are a remarkable little person. I am so intrigued by your magnetism, strength, compassion, creativity, and joy of life. There is never a dull moment with you and you always keep us laughing and on our toes. Even the neighbors know when you are a teenager watch out! You are only 6 and I have to watch out! Thank you for all the joy you bring to us. Thank you for making sure there is alwasy something else I can clean up in your room. Always a know I can et out of your hair, always soemthing that can be put away correctly, and always a new boo boo I can kiss to make better. I am so excited that you are so excited and I am beyond estatic that you love school..but if you come home with any tears today I am not sending you back. I missed you too much and I did it with pre-school 4, kindergarten, and I will do it again. Your happiness is my number one and I will change my life to make sure yours' is the best it can be! I know there are some other moments that have had us laughing I will have to remember. I know when I asked you what Grandma should get you for your party you did the best to describe you know that thing, its green, and kind of hard, and you lick it, and you went on and it...only for us to finally figure out you wanted artichokes which I think you called "chokie." I still have not corrected you on "capetillars" and you know what I might not. It is only once you get to be 6 and since you will never be 5 again I will cherish this year more than the last. I love you Danica poonie pon, FRANKLIN, I could not love you more and although sometimes you think that you are not number 1, you will always be number 1 in our book, I mean I think you are going to be numner #1 in a lot of people's books. In the mean time just stop taking all those silly sanp chat pictures, texting everyone, and making funny videos all the time... okay you can do that just no more of that Run Tom game! At least you ask my permission...some of the time. Love you! Oh and I cannot wait to hear about your day, you have continued to talk more than anyone we know and tell us every detail about everything. This is a reason why the neighbors love you too. You leave not detail unturned and tell the truth to a fault! Today's update: "School was okay. Our house is way better than Pleasant Hill because our sinks are way better. The sinks at Pleasant Hill Spray everywhere in my face and all over my jacket. Callan showed his boobs and kissed the wall and I told him he can get coronavirus and that is not appropriate but I didn't tell the teacher because he was going to cry. I couldn't open my lunch box for like 5 minutes and the teacher couldn't help but I figured it out. We can't touch anything at recess we just have to play on the grass or on the basketball court and run around in that square but not the playground that is off limits. I thought recess was going to be fun but it wasn't. I had a good day and the best part was eating lunch because it was more funner, actually the calendar, actually the end of the day you got to put your chairs up and your bucket and our buckets are over flowing. I had to go to the bathroom but the boys kept going like 5 times so then I went but only pee and then the water kept running. Then the music teacher wore all packers his mask, his shirt, and his black pants. He ruined the smartboard and Ms. Dusold said "uhh." She tried to write on it and it wouldn't work. New friends today, Sammy and Jillian. I learned a song about apples. My desk is in the way back corner and they call on me last. School is fun because we go to wear a name tag." I DON'T want to forget- we were talking about gummies at the Communion Party ( is that wrong?...) and that Grandma should take some- at that moment you went up in the cabinet and got everyone your vitmain gummies. It was priceless and not only that the next day you were upset that you shared all your gummies!!! Walking to school today, day #4, I asked if you were wearing a bra and you said you keep forgetting and that you will definitely wear one when you"take" a run with me or something :) and you laughed. You got a little teary saying goodbye so I told you that when you hug yourself you can feel me hugging you and then I was like "Danica you are squeezing too tight" when you started to hug yourself and I then I said "Danica I can't breathe." You started to laugh. I tried not to cry. Miss you like crazy~