Tuesday morning, a cloudy day with light drizzling but not cold.
William woke up early today around 8:00 AM (usually I have to wake him up around 8:15 AM) so I dressed him up and took him to school a little bit early. The Mitchell school is under construction so now we have to walk a bit from the car to the classroom. Mrs. Hana said the construction will be done in the Fall.
Per our service co-ordinator Kim Than, I called the GSG Support Services (on Friday) and scheduled a call with them today Tuesday at 10:30 AM. They said the call would last for 45 minutes. Not sure what’s the call is about, we’ll see!
Update: Basically they asked questions about how William acts, behaves, what he likes/dislike so things that a babysitter should know to make their job easier. At the end of the call, David asked if I want to schedule for a babysitter anytime soon, because we should spend all the allowed hours before it expires so that RCOC will continue to approve for RESPITE. Otherwise RCOC would think we don’t need it, they might reduce the hours.
For William we’re allowed to have 8 hours a month of RESPITE service so David suggested that we split that into 2 sessions because the minimum number of hours for a session is 3 hours. So I went ahead and schedule for this Saturday for 4 hours but there’s a waiting list so I’d have to wait for their call to know if they can find available staff. David said latest by Fri we’d have the answer.
Sunday at Noon.
We threw a little party for William’s aunt Eliza Huyen at our house, invited some close family members. William loved to sit next to cousin Danny to watch Danny’s playing game. When aunt Julie brought out the cake, William got so attached to it. I’m not sure if he likes the candles or the cake but he patiently sat there waiting. Finally we got everybody out to sing Happy Birthday song and had aunt Eliza to blow the candles, he attempted to blow too so we lighted the candles again for him to try.
I felt so in love with his innocent smile!
Saturday morning.
It’s 16th Annual International Festival at Soka University’s (soka.edu) which located in Aliso Viejo, 30 minutes driving from our house. The University is so beautiful with a big pond and water fountain. William loves to play with the water.
I bought a Takoyaki combo which has 6 balls of 2 different flavors for $8.00, and a Thai Ice Tea drink ($5.00) at a near by vendor. I was surprised that William tried the Takoyaki and ate 3 balls; but he refused to try the Thai Iee Tea though.
Around 2 AM, William woke up and cried out loud. Usually he’d just whine to let us know that he’s hungry; and it’s time for another bottle of milk. This time we were just not sure why he cried; he cried like he was hurt. I tried to hold him but he refused; tried to carry him out of bed but he wanted to put back to bed. Finally we gave him a bottle of milk; at first he pushed it away so I put it on the headboard, then he stood up and got to it. So I guess he was hungry. It’s just weird that he rarely cries like that when he’s hungry. Last dinner he didn’t eat much so might be that was the reason.
Just bought William a new pair of sunglasses so I let him try it on. He loved it!
Beautiful Sunday morning, I took William for a walk around the neighbor. The roses in our front yard are blooming. We stopped occasionally to feed William cereal and water.
We walked for about 10 minutes.
I saw that William is interested in the train tracks lately so I took out the full box of Thomas train toys that his aunt Eliza gave him last year. It was once belong to his cousin Bryan but now Bryan is growing up, he doesn’t like playing with these toys anymore. So William inherited a huge fortune.
At first he didn’t know what to do with the toys so I helped him put together the tracks and placed the trains on the tracks. However he only likes the bridges, which he took with him to school the next day.
Saturday morning, it’s time for some fresh air in the park so we loaded the bike in our car and headed to Mile Square Park. Tim rode the bike with William; I walked around watching people preparing for the Buddha Birthday Celebration. It was gonna a big ceremony with lots of fresh flowers!
After the ride, we let William stayed in the playground for a while before heading home.
Sunday late afternoon we took William to the park so that he could enjoy some fresh air and play. At first he was afraid of the biggest slide in this playground but after the first try, he kept running to it.
We celebrated Bryan’s 11th birthday at the SkyZone for 1 hour and then had buffet at the The Luxe Buffet in Westminster Mall. For William it cost $17.00 for 1 hour play plus $3.00 for a pair of socks. There’s an area for the toddlers but he would not stay there, he kept running to the jumping area for the big kids. Finally we took him down to the game area and he stayed there the rest of the playing time. He loves the motorcycle!
At the buffet he ate some of the Italian Spaghetti then he would not sit still. He loved to crawl on the carpet and then run out of the buffet and to the Mall’s door. He loves to watch the automatic door opens and closes when one passes by thru the door.
