Month: February 2018

Starting Speech Therapy

Posted on by MICHELLE N
William with Jennifer

After calling Providence Hearing and Speech Center a few times, we finally have the date set up for William’s speech therapy, it’s every Tuesday until March 17, 2018 at 12:00 P.M., and today is the first day.

I picked up William around 11:30 at Mitchell school and took him to Providence Center which is around 15 minutes away (Bushard St. and Warner St.).   It was our first time so the specialist Kristi worked with me on some paperwork while her assistant Jennifer was playing with William.  William came straight to the table that has toys and played with it right away, he did not show any signs of afraid of the new environment.

Front desk at Providence Hearing and Speech Center

Letter O

Posted on by MICHELLE N

Tuesday 11:30 AM.  I picked William up a little bit early to take him to the Speech therapy.  The children were learning the word O when I came in.  They each had a little stack of papers with words that start with O.  They need to glue in the O to the word.  I took a few pics of William doing so.  William was not really concentrating on working on his paper, the teacher had to remind him to work several times.

Lunar New Year Celebration at Main Place Mall

Posted on by MICHELLE N

Saturday, a nice winter noon that felt like summer.  Lunar New Year is less than 2 weeks so the malls around us starting to celebrate; Main Place mall the is the one that celebrated earlier compares to other malls.   The stage with dance/singer performance took place near in front of Macy’s.  We came when a group of Taiwanese dancers were performing; very beautiful and colorful costumes.  William seemed to enjoy watching the dance.

There was another area for children with craft activities, face painting and the animal balloons which was at the other end of the mall.  We waited in line for so long to get the balloon; William picked the sword.  William was waited very patiently seating in his stroller without crying.   Finally when we got our balloon; I let him out of the stroller but he refused to get up.  I asked “What do you want?”

– I want home. – He replied.

Finally it’s our turn for the balloon.

I guess the time of waiting in line for a balloon is not really worth it.  He got tired of waiting; and me too.  I should have a asked him if he wanted the balloon or not.  We could just go back to the stage and watch the rest of the performances.  Why I didn’t think of that? I guess I just assumed that he wants the balloon.

Before heading home, we let him ride the elevator once because we know how much he likes it.
It’s the Year of the Dog – 2018.

 

Tim loves to selfie 🙂
Time to celebrate Valentine’s also.
Year of the Dog. Tim was born in the year of the Dog; William was born in the year of Snake.

Trouble Breathing Again

Posted on by MICHELLE N
William taking break in my car as usual.

Early morning Thursday at 2:30 AM, William woke up and cried.  We could see he had trouble breathing; and the kept pushing his finger against his nose; looked like he had a stuffy nose.  So we gave him the albuterol treatment.   He felt back to sleep after finishing the rest of his milk.

Poor little guy; he didn’t fall asleep until midnight last nite; and only 2 and 1/2 hour later woke up because of the stuffing nose.

8:30 AM I took him to the Mitchell school nurse, Mrs. Higbie.  She checked on him and said everything was clear.  William looked like he was fine so I took him to his class and asked Mrs. Hana to watch him for any trouble of breathing.

The day went by, I picked him up around 12:50 PM; William was running toward me as usual with no sign of sickness.

Having fun jumping around in the car.