Saturday evening, we went to another Christmas Tree Lighting which is taken place near Mile Square Park, which only 5 minutes from our house. At the end there was a beautiful fireworks display.
Christmas Tree Lighting at Fountain Valley
Category: Daily Stuffs
William’s Favorite Corner
Wed Morning. As usual I took William to his classroom and the first thing he did is to run to a corner. He does that almost all the time. Seems like he likes to sit there and watch others playing; or maybe he’s just sleepy?
Mrs. Hana said when he’s upset, he’d run to the corner and sit there.
One time he put his hand under the door that scratched his hand! :(. Mrs. Hana said this room has 3 doors, and she’s trying to block his access to the doors whenever she can so that won’t happen again.
Christmas Tree Lighting at Fashion Island
Saturday 5:30 PM. We and aunt Eliza head to Fashion Island to see the Christmas tree lighting ceremony but it was so hard to find a parking space; by the time we found a parking space, the ceremony was over but we got to spend a nice evening watching the big Xmas tree and shopping.
Halloween 2017
6:30 PM at Grandma’s house. William was dressed up as a Lightning McQueen Car Racer. We took him around the neighborhood; unfortunately not that many houses participated in this tradition Trick Or Treat so we decided to get back to the house but William didn’t want to go back; he wanted more candies.
This year is the first year that William actually leaned how to go Trick or Treat. He held on to his basket; ranng the door bells (several times!) and waited for candies. Previous years he was just sitting in the stroller and we held the basket for him.
The fact that he refused to get in the house proved that he was having fun (or just like candies).
Bill Barber Park
Friday afternoon, there’s no ABA session today so we decided to take William to the park in Irvine. He loved to sit on the turtle and play with water, getting his shirt all wet.
Then we had dinner at the Ajisen Ramen in Diamond Jamboree Plaza.
Pumpkin Patch at Walmart
Saturday morning, Tim went to work so I took William to the little pumpkin patch at Walmart near our place. Turned out he’s more into the Xmas decorations than pumpkins :).
Refused to Go to Daycare
Thursday afternoon 1:30 PM. As usual I picked William up at Mitchell school and dropped him off at Children’s World Preschool. But today he refused to get off the car seat and go in!
I said, “Let’s go in”
He said, “No”. I asked why not but he didn’t say anything. William just learned the word “No” and he has been using it a lot.
Every time I tried to unbuckle the car seat straps, he put it back in and cried and kicked his legs. So I asked Mr. Gary for help. He came out to the car, William did the same thing: cried and kicked his legs. Gary was so determined to take him so he ignored his behavior. William’s head almost hit the car floor while he was trying to escape. Mr. Gary carried him inside while William still crying; and took him to the kitchen, let him sat on the counter and offered him water. I peaked thru the window and he still crying but I needed to go back to work.
Fri day afternoon, William did the same thing. This time Mr. Gary was not there so Mrs. Anita (new teacher) came out. William shook his head refused to go in.
Nice Hat!
Wednesday noon. Picked William up and there he was with a nice hat. He looked happy as usual.
William Is Limping!
Tuesday 10 AM, Mrs. Hana from Mitchell called. She said William had been limping for 40 minutes now; he looked happy so she wasn’t sure if he was doing that just for fun. She also sent me a video of William limping via classDojo app. From the video it’s obviously that he was hurting that’s why he’s limping but he looked happy walking around the area. I messaged back to Mrs. Hana asking her to have the school nurse checked him out. 11 AM, Mrs. Hana called and said the nurse and the physical therapy (who happened to be in school at the time) took a look at his leg but could not find anything abnormal.
So I took off work around 11:30 AM, picked William up early; he was eating lunch when I came. He was still limping but I didn’t see any pain from his face. I called the doctor Huy’s office to make appointment; and they set us up at 2:00 PM. It was still early for our doctor appointment so I took him home.
2:00 PM. Doctor Huy Nguyen took a look at his leg, watched him limping around, touched his feet but William but could not find anything wrong either. He said to give his leg some warm water and massage it.
He felt asleep around 4:00 PM on our bed; after he woke up around 5:30 PM, he stopped limping. And I didn’t even give him a massage yet!
No one knows what happened; and William doesn’t talk so we’re clueless. Hopefully it’s nothing major. Dr. Huy said to observe, if it doesn’t go away then we might have to take X-ray to check out. Hopefully we don’t have to go thru that.
Later when he had session with ABA Staff Dan at 5:30 PM, he’s totally fine, no more limping.
It’s Friday!
Friday afternoon, another hot autumn day.
As usual I picked him up after my quick lunch around 1:00 PM. I always try to arrive before 1:00 so that I can find a parking spot near the gate. Almost everyday he walks out with Mrs. Hana; and today with a big smile on his face.
I told the teacher aids about toilet training William at home; and they told Mrs. Hana. So Mrs. Hana asked me if I want to do that here at Mitchell. I’m glad that Mrs. Hana is so willingly to help with toilet training. It’s been a whole week (since Monday this week) and she says there’s no accident at all; we’re so proud of you William!
It becomes a routine now that after I pick him up, I let him play in the car while trying to feed him some thing like hot dogs, sausage or cheese. Daily report says he doesn’t eat much at lunch so I always bring him some thing to eat before driving him to the daycare. As soon as he’s done eating we’ll take off and head to the day care; It’s usually about 1:40 PM.
