Monday 9/27/2021, starting today students going to Santa Ana district schools will have to take Covid-19 test at school weekly; they asked us, the parents, to sign the consent form last week. William is not an exception.
We got a text from school this morning about the test; and just now I got another text from school giving instruction how to check the test result. Nowadays all communication from school are mostly text messages which I find it very convenient.
Yesterday I primed William about the Covid-19 test, that this will be an Oran Swab test, not the Nasal Swab test like we did at Walgreens for our Hawaii trip. He seemed to be ok with it.
Sand Castles Contest was taken place at Corona Del Mar Beach, which is about 20 minutes driving from our house.
William always gets excited when we’re going out; and he likes to bring some of his favorite stuffs with him and put them next to him in the car, which of course makes a big mess. I want to emphasize, favorite stuffs, not favorite toys. Now his favorite stuffs that he wants to bring whenever we go out is: a big bag full of white shipping foam that I got from 1 of the packages, 2 trays of checkers and chess board games, heavy load of coins that he put in my make up bag, and of course a few stacks of playing cards that he put in a drawstring backpack! Anyway, that is not what this post is about.
When we arrived to the beach, which we went here before, Tim parked on the street; William started to say “I don’t want to walk too far!” and kept repeating it over and over. That was when I realized that to access this beach, we’d have to walk down hill for about 7 minutes. Downhill is easy but it’s tough to go uphill on the way back. So we decided to drive down there to park in the paid parking lot; to our surprise, it’s expensive: $5.50 for 1 hour! Huntington beach parking fee is much less: if I remember correctly it’s only $3.00 for 1 hour.
William was so excited that he ran around non stop; but when we got to the sand, he sat down and did not want to go to check out the sand castles, so I stayed and watch him so that Tim could check them out.
Tim shows William the pics he took of the sand castles
Ms. Marilou from TasKids brought a bag of water beads, she gave some to William to put in water. He loves it so much that he keeps touching them while watching iPad.
For the last few days he’s been scratching his eyes, especially the left one, that they look so bad. I apply Aquafor on his eyes at night while he’s asleep. It gets a bit better but he still scratching them.
Wednesday 7:45 am. We arrived to school a bit early as usual. William rolled down the window and watched people passing by. He still liked the idea of playing flute and asking for money. He did not really ask people for money, he only told me, I want people to give me a million dollars. So by playing flute really loud he hopes that people will pay attention to him but he did not say anything else so no one knows his intention is for money:)
It’s Friday, which means weekend, which means I can rest more: my tooth has been hurt so much that I can barely eat, and it’s giving me a strong headache. William said, “Mom, You have to go to the dentist!” – Thanks my boy, he’s a sweet cute boy (when he’s not upset).
Ms. Dora was back today, “I had doctor appointment yesterday” – She explained when I said we missed her yesterday.
Ms. Dora in white T-shirt and red backpack holding William’s hand.
Today Mr. C held William and another boy hands while walking them out to the gate when the class was over. Usually Ms. Dora walks William out. He told me that today the school serve pizza and William ate everything! That is great!
Ms. Dora stopped me while we were about to leave the school and told me that William was very compliant today, he was waiting patiently for his turn. I’m so proud of you son. And I’m very appreciate the fact that Ms. Dora always tries to give me a brief report of how William is doing at school. I think it’s better to take William to school than let him ride the bus, because if he rides the bus then we would not have a chance to talk to his teachers. I always ask him what did he do at school but he keeps saying “I’m not gonna tell you”, so the only way to know what’s going on is thru his teachers.
Second week at school is almost gone. Time flies! While we were waiting for Ms. Dora, I took a few pictures of him in front of the school. The school is so old; but I like that there are 2 big trees to save us from the sun. Where’s Ms. Dora? usually she’d wait for us here around 7:50 AM but we did not see her. Then Ms. Crystal approached us with other children so William followed her.
His favorite expression when taking pictures
Where’s Ms. Dora?
Walking to classroom with Ms. Crystal
Waiting to pick up their children under the strong sun and hot weather. That can only mean LOVE!
Lately William keeps saying, pay me 1 million dollars! And he came up with the idea of asking people to pay him $1 million while waiting in the car every morning when I drop him off at school. One day he used the flute to make some music (noise!) when he saw some body walking by. These are the parents that taking their kids to school. Today he hung up the little coin bag on the flute and handed it out! I told him $1 mill dollars is a very big amount of money, no one will have that much, even if they have they’d not give out that much. But I don’t think he understands that 🙂
9/8/2021: Second day in a row that he did that: hang the little bag in the flute and wait for someone to walk by then he’d point the flute to them without saying anything. Sometime he blew on the flute so loud that people turned around and looked at us!
It’s Monday, Labor holiday so we had no school/work. We heard about this Tio’s tacos place and decided it check it out.
It’s a Mexican restaurant but the unique thing about this restaurant is that the owner built those art sculptures using junk and recycled materials; some of the tables are hand-made and decorated with soft drink or beer caps. It’d be a better place if there’s no trash around and not too much dust. We bought 4 tacos (beef & chicken) and 2 quesadillas (beef & chicken) for total of $21.00 which is reasonable price.
William at first did not want to go in because he said it’s too hot outside. Yes, yesterday it was hot! I tried to persuade him that inside the restaurant it’d not be so hot, but he did not want to get out of the car. Finally I had to carry him thru the parking lot. Once we were in the shade I put him down and he was ok since then. He was running around and extremely curious about those soft drink caps on the tables and walls: he kept touching them.
Friday around 9:30 AM William’s school gave me a call asking me to pick him up because he had running nose. It turned out the nurse for this session is not the same nurse in the summer so she did not know that William has allergies. But since I was there so I picked him up anyway. It’s the Covid-19 pandemic, I understand that everyone is so sensitive with Covid-19 symptoms like running nose, cough, fever, etc.
William asked “Did you go to the office?” – I said Yes, then he started to throw tantrums. He pulled me toward the parking lot while I was talking to the nurse. I told him to wait but he was so angry that he ran to the car; I had to say sorry to the nurse to run after him. Once in the car he kept continue to cry and kick. I asked him what was wrong. He said, “I don’t want you to go to the office without me!” – “But I have to go to the office to tell them that I’m here to pickup you” – I said and tried to calm him down. But that did not work, he was upset on the way home.
Anyway, next Monday is Labor holiday so counting today that he was off early, that’s total of 4 days off school for him.
