Monday Jan 3rd, 2022. First day back to school after New Year holiday 2022, William had a fever so he had to stay home for 3 days. Besides fever he complained about the stomachache.
Tylenol 10 ml every 4 hours to decrease the fever. I also used the warm towels to put on his forehead, body and legs.
By Tuesday afternoon his temperature became normal. As for his stomachache, Dr. Chi said to monitor; she pressed on his stomach but he did not feel hurt so she said nothing is wrong.
Nov 24, 2013: William was born at Fountain Valley hospital.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015: William was sent to Babysitter at Mrs. Loan’s House (Westminster) when he was 2 months old because Mom had to go back to work.
Apr 13, 2014: William was baptized when he was 4 months old at La Vang Church, Santa Ana, California by Father Bảo Thai. William’s Holy name is Paul.
Jan 2015 – Nov 16, 2015: Stayed home with Dad because Dad was laid off from work.
Nov 16, 2015 – Aug 16, 2019: Day care at Children’s World Preschool in Westminster, CA. He started at the daycare two weeks before he turned 2 years old (because Dad came back to work). He goes 5 days a week from 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM. Mom drops him off and Dad picks him up.
When he started school on 11/28/2016, Mom picked him up from school then drove him to the day care and then went back to work. For those days that are no school, he’d spend the whole day at the day care.
From 8/20/2019, his aunt Lily picks him up from school then babysit him at our home until we get home from work.
Nov 28, 2016 – May 31, 2018: Mitchell Child Development Center in Santa Ana, CA because he’s diagnosed with Autistic. He’s 4 years old as of May 31, 2018. This is a special education school for children with Speed Delay. The school principle is Mr. Bello . His first school teacher is Mrs. Hana Suh at room 309. School schedule is from 8:15 AM – 1:10 PM. Hot breakfast and lunch is provided. At 8:30 AM, there will be DTT (discreet training trile) session for 30 minutes. And there’s 15 minutes a week for Speech therapy. So in the morning he goes to Mitchell school; Mom picks up at 1:10 and then drops him off at Children World Preschool; Around 5:30 Dad comes and picks him up at the day care.
May 2017 – Feb 2018: ABA sessions with ABEST.
Feb 13, 2018 – Sept 2021: Started Speech therapy at Providence Hearing and Speech Center, Fountain Valley branch; every Monday for 30 minutes.
Apr 2018 – Now: ABA sessions with TasKids.
Aug 2018 – Apr 2020: Australian Swim School, once a week, 30 minutes per session.
Aug 2018 – Oct 2020: Abraham Lincoln Elementary school (Santa Ana) in Special Ed class.
Nov 24, 2020: William is 7 years old. Because of Covid-19, no gathering is allowed inside so William did not have a birthday party.
Nov 2020 – Nov 2021: Thomas Jefferson Elementary School (Santa Ana) in Special Ed class
Wednesday, it’s cool in the morning but will be really later today. The weather is so weird: it was raining and cold on Monday and 3 days later it’s hot!
While waiting for Ms. Crystal and Ms. Dora, William could not stand still, he kept walking back and forth.
His eyes are still red because he always scratch his eyes. It’s been 2 weeks already! 🙁
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Today when dropping William off at school, I had a chance to talk to Ms. Dora, 1 of his teachers. She said he’s doing fine, and that he’s so fast at playing Tag. I said, “Thank you for being so patience especially with kids with special needs!”
– I love kids! – She said. Then she asked if William wanted to go with her to pickup his classmates at the bus. Before they left, William said, “Mom, stay right there!”. He still wanted me to wait for him to get into his classroom before leaving.
1:45 PM, I came to school to pick him up, it was so crowded and hard to find a parking spot so I parked on the next residential street. I waited for about 5 minutes then I saw William’s face peeking thru the metal gate looking for me. His teacher Mr. C saw me and pointed so that William could see me. He ran out of the gate toward me; he did not look happy. On the way to the car, he said “I will not go to school anymore!”. I asked him why but he did not say anything. I could tell that he was not calm. What worries me is that he cannot explain or willing to share what bothers him.
Mr. C said that he did not eat anything at all; it’s very nice of him that he’s worried William will be hungry because it’s long hours at school (8:00 AM – 2:00 PM). He said he gave William snacks but that is not lunch. So I told him I’d pack William lunch. Not sure what I should pack though because William only wants to eat pizza and mac & cheese. Today I put 3 Melano cookies in his backpack and it’s all gone. He must be hungry.
Once we got home, I made him 1 slice of pizza; he finished it really fast!
