Month: May 2017

Sunday 8:30 PM.  William’s Grandma (Tim’s Mom) came to U.S.A from Vietnam without no issues at all while flying.  Accompanying her on the long flight is aunt Hue, aunt Quyen, uncle Duy and cousin Dai (who is the doctor in Vietnam, we asked him to fly along in case Grandma  has any trouble while flying).  The flight arrived 8:30 PM but the group could not get out until 11:00 PM because they were getting Green Card for Grandma.

Monday morning 11:00 AM (Memorial holiday) we took William to visit Grandma but she was sleeping so we let her sleep; we’ll come back another day then.

William loves this inflatable duck so much that every time we say “Shower”, he’d run to the bathroom and hold on to this duck, insists to seat in it and play with the water.

We got this tent for William for a while but didn’t inflate it because we don’t have the pump until now.  W loves it so much that he crawls in there several times a day.  He  dragged it from the living room to the hallway and then to the bedroom, he wanted to put it on the bed but I said no.  He showed signs of upset: frowned face.  Lately he started to throw tantrums when he can’t get what he wants:  sometimes he pats me,  other times he glances at me with the eyes filled with some tears; the worse I’ve seen so far is that he cries,  kicks, uses both hands to hit me or hit on his face, some times scratches his face.

Mother’s Day, Sunday 10:00 AM.  We drove to Buena Park to get some bakery for the family at the famous Porto’s Bakery & Cafe, which was just grand opening last month.  It was hard to find the parking but we got lucky, we din’t have to wait long.  The line  to the store entrance was so long, end of the line was outside the store but it was moving fast.  This place is so huge with high ceiling, and it was crowded.  There were more lines inside the store.  It has 4 main areas: cake, bakery, cafe bar & Cafe.  We wanted to buy some bakery so we got in the line there, which has the longest line.  The order process was kind of hassle because there were lots of people standing in front of counter which cover most of the displaying bakery so I had a hard time to browse around.  We had to tell them what we want and they write down.  It was my first time there so I just picked the ones that look yummy :).  Then we need to wait for the staff to pack the bakery, once they’re done, they will get in line to get to the cashier.  We ordered 5 boxes with the same number of items, 10 items per  box so it took her a while to box,

Took us more than 1 hour to finally got our hands on the boxes.  Total was $70.00.

Every morning I woke up around 7 AM, prepare my lunch and put 2 diapers in William’s backpack (fortunately I’ve never messed up to put diapers in my lunch bag :)).  7:30 AM, take the stuffs out to the car so that I don’t have to carry too much when it’s time to take William to school.  8:10 AM, wake William up, change his diapers and clothes, wash his face/hands, put on his socks and shoes; and we head to school.  We have to get out of the house by 8:20 AM.

Lunch time, 12:30 PM , I leave work to get home to prepare his snack for the daycare. I can bring his snacks with me in the morning so that I don’t have to stop by our house to get it but our house is on the way so it’s not wasting time at all.

I’d pack 1 bottle of milk and some slices of hot dog for William to drink/eat right after I pick him up from Mitchell school.  Usually he finishes the bottle of milk, but the hot dog, some day he eats it, some day he refuses.

And in his lunch bag I’d pack some snacks like chips/chocolate/candies, etc and a bottle of orange juice; this is for him to take to the daycare so that later in the afternoon he has something to drink/eat but most of the time he doesn’t: when Tim picks him up around 5:30 PM, the snacks and orange juice is still full in the lunch box.

The teachers at the day care said they gave him his lunch box but he refused and pushed it away.  I hope that they try to give him the lunchbox everyday not just once and then stopped.