Month: September 2018

Break Time Cannot Be More Than 60 Minutes

Posted on by MICHELLE N

Thursday Afternoon, got this email (sent to everyone) from Nancy (our company’s office manager)

“Hello All,
As we all know, meal breaks are important to employee health and company productivity. Therefore, I would like to remind you that it is encouraged that you take regular meal breaks but meal breaks should not exceed 60 minutes.
Thank you.“
I went to the bathroom and cried.  This means that our boy might be starved when I send him to the day care after school.
Most of the time William would not eat much during breakfast and lunch provided by school; so every day when I pick him up, I’d bring him 2 pack of juice, 2 mini corn dogs and a little bag  of cookies and let him eat them in my car before taking him to school.  In order for him to finish the 2 corn dogs  and juice, it’d take at least 30 minutes.  And he’d finish his chocolate filled cookies while I’m driving him to the day care.  And we can’t do this within 60 minutes!
Driving from Work to Lincoln School is about 18 minutes, from school to Children’s World Preschool is about 11 minutes; from Preschool to Work is about 20 minutes so total of 50 minutes of driving.  I need some time to stop by the house to get his snack (5 min), which is only 1 block away from school.  So in total I’d need 70 minutes, and that doesn’t count any delay in traffic.  To keep 60 minutes requirement from the company, I’d have to reduce his eating time from 30 minutes to 10 minutes.  The boy has to eat faster!
If they’re starting to count the time, should I start to count the time that I’d willing to work at nights to fix bugs or to meet deadline? Of course I didn’t get pay over time for those extra hours!  Also, the company offers 15 minutes break for every 3 hours which I never take.
I just wish that I don’t have to work so that I can take William home after school and care for him.   But if I don’t work, we’d be in deep financial trouble because I make twice as much as Tim makes a month.
Dreaming for winning the lottery, hopefully one day my dream will come true!
From Work to School – 4.6 miles (18 minutes)
From school to Children’s World Preschool – 3 miles (9 minutes)
From School to Day care – 9.2 miles (20 minutes)

Small Foot Village in Hollywood

Posted on by MICHELLE N

To advertise for the new movie “Small Foot” coming on 9/28/2018, they held an event in Hollywood to introduce the new movie.    It was an indoor event with theme & decorations from the movie.   William loved the snow bed that he jumped right in and lied down; he also liked the ball pit a lot.  One nice thing is that at each of the scene there was a staff with an ipad to take pictures for us and then send to us either via email or text.

The event started at 3:00 PM, we arrived to the Highland Shopping Center around 2:00 PM after William’s swim session.  We walked around the shopping center first, took a few pictures then walked to the event which is about 15 minutes walking  on the Hollywood Blvd; that was not too bad because William had a chance to “follow the stars” on the Hollywood Blvd.

We found Mr. President Donald Trump star and was about to take a picture, then a man walked by and spit on the star to show his hatred toward the President.

Highland Shopping Center, parking here is $17.00 flat rate for weekends.
Waiting in line for to enter the Small Foot Village

William loves this pile of fake snow

 

 

Stop & Wait Practice

Posted on by MICHELLE N

Friday, ABA session as usual from 5:30 PM – 7:45 PM.  The supervisor Huy suggested we took a walk to practice safety rules: Stop, Wait and Come Here commands.  William must learn to listen to commands and do not run without asking permission.

So when we’re walking, I’d tell him “Stop and Wait here with daddy” then let him standing there with Tim, I’d walk further up then turn around and ask him to come to me, “William, come here!”.  He’s supposed to walk to me and hold my hand; but every time he’d just run past me!  So Thomas would have to stand behind me to block him from running.

William did that every time on today’s walk so Huy suggested that we train William on walking nicely first.

Getting Cold – Summer Is Almost Over

Posted on by MICHELLE N

Thursday morning 7:45 AM.  It’s getting cold in the morning so I put a jacket on for William before heading to school.  Last night he felt asleep around 11:30 PM which is good so assumably he had enough sleep.

William’s sleepy look
Pick up friends from the bus with Mrs. Birdie
With Mrs. Birdie and classmates heading to classroom. William is the smallest compare to other 4 peers.

 

 

 

William’s New Teacher Angelica

Posted on by MICHELLE N

One day when I dropped William off at the day care after picking him up at Lincoln school, Mrs. Chastity asked me if I’m OK to move William to higher level.  The other day Ms. Jennie told me that it’s better for William to move up to higher class because looks like he likes to play with older kids; and also with older kids he can learn to talk more.  Huy also asked me if it’s possible to move him up; I guess Jeannie talked to Huy about that.

So I said Yes to Mrs. Chastity, the goal is for William to talk more, with this Yellow Bird class, mostly the children are 2 or 3 years old who don’t know or don’t talk much.  So it’s natural that William would want to play with other kids about his age.  William is almost 5 now, not sure why they still keep him in the Yellow Bird class.

Today I took him to his room as usual, I met Mrs. Angelica, she told he to took him to the other room.  To explain, she told me that William is now moved up to Red Bird class.  Surprisingly I asked, “Since when?”, she said “Since today!”.  So now he’s officially in the big room with a nicer cot to nap :).  His cot is next to the wall and the standing fan, which I think is very nice location.

Labor Day at Huntington Beach

Posted on by MICHELLE N

Monday, It’s Labor holiday,  we had a day off so we decided to join my sister’s friends for a picnic at Huntington Beach.    William at first refused to go down to the beach; he wanted to walk on the walkways only.  Then we asked if he wanted to see baby Sophia; he said “Yes” so we said, “If you want to see baby Sophia, you have to go this way!” so he let us took him down to near the water.  He wanted to go back to the walkways several times, we kept reminding him of baby Sophia to make him listen and continue.   When we got near the water, he refused to go down so I sat down on the sand and let him sat on my thigh and just watched people playing.

Aunt Eliza offered him some tools to play with sand, that was when he stood up and play but still refused to go any where near the water.