Weekly Challenge #252

Happy Monday to all!

This week started on a bit of a down turn, Artoo was sick.   I kept him home from school last week because i wanted to really nip it in the bud, knowing that he had a very big day coming up on Friday. He was sad and wanted to go to school, but i told him if we took the time to make sure he didn't get any sicker hopefully he'd be better in tim.  And he was!

Because Moebius Syndrome Awareness day was on Sunday this year, his Kindergarten class was having a Purple Day celebration on Friday! So on Thursday Artoo and i made purple 'awareness day' cookies to share with his class.

my very handsome helper

He even helped me ice them.  He's so talented.

His class wore purple and drew purple pictures and i talked to his class a little bit about how your brain is like a big computer and how all over your body your muscles have cell phones that get text messages from your brain, telling you to move your body, and that when Artoo was born some of his muscles didn't get cell phones or got cell phones that were broken or didn't work very well, so some of his muscles don't get the messages from his brain to move - and that's Moebius Syndrome.

His class wearing their purple!

In Artoo's school, all the little kids are paired up with an older 'care partner' in one of the higher grades.  So.  A big surprise for me was just after the above class photo was taken, there was a knock on the door, and the kindergarten class' grade 4 care partners came in, all wearing purple too.  my eyes were not dry, i'm not gonna lie.

One of Artoo's care partners (he has two) was so sweet.  She made him a purple card, and she came up to me and introduced herself and said: "I'm Artoo's care partner, he's so awesome!"

Purple!!

He just had such a great day.  He was so happy to see his friends wearing purple for him.  And all his friends at school were so great and wanted to sit beside him and hold his hand.  Artoo handed out his cookies at snack time and he was so proud that he helped to bake them.  all in all, it was a pretty great day.

On Sunday, which was the actual date of MSAD, we took the boys to the pool and had a really fun day.

Here's our annual Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day family pics.

Happy Family

goofs 

silly

Thank you everyone for your support with last week's challenge.  It makes me so happy to know that so many of you participated and shared about moebius syndrome on your blogs and sites, and many of you emailed me to tell me you wore purple on sunday!! It means so much to us.  And maybe someday you might meet someone with Moebius Syndrome and instead of saying; "Moebius Syndrome? I've never heard of that" You'll say: "Yeah! I know about Moebius!!" (and you'll blow their socks off. lol)

Weekly Challenge #252: "String Theory: Tangle within a tangle... it's like inception... but with tangles"

This week's challenge is to use a tangle as your string.  Any tangle you like, just biggify it to make it a string.  Then? Tangle inside!

i've really been feeling Flux lately, so i chose flux as my tangle/string.

flux string. not to be confused with the Flux Capacitor

 I tangled my little flux 'leaves' and voila!

flux-tastic

 My favourite one is the Flux in the Flux.  Like Inception. ;)

Have a great week everyone!

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