12:50 PM, as usual, I picked William up at Mitchell school and let him play in my car while trying to feed him some food before taking him to the day care. He loved the chocolate brownie!
Enjoy Chocolate Brownie
Category: Schools
Starting To Blend In?
Friday morning; there’s no school at Mitchell so William will be spending his day at Children’s World Preschool. I dropped him off as usual; and stood by my car to observe him a little bit before leaving the day care. He walked around, passed the sand box and came to the group of other children who were playing with the race tracks. I’m glad to see that because other times he’d just sit alone some where and did not interact with other children. The fact that he came by to watch others play is a good sign that he’s starting to blend in.
I hope that he will continue to do this instead of isolating himself in some corner.
I’m proud of you, Son!
Lately William has trouble taking the afternoon nap; the staffs have been trying to help him by holding him; or Ms. Nancy lies next to his little cot to keeps him from running around. So I bought some bakery to say thank you to everyone. Thank you for loving my little boy.
Playing With Peers
Thursday Morning; dropped William off at Mitchell school. He walked in and did not run into the corner; he sat down on 1 of the chairs, and when Mrs. Hana took out the race tracks, he came and played with other children. I’ve been paying attention to where he goes to when I drop him off at school and noticed that for that past few days he did not run into a corner anymore. He either sat on the bean bag, or chair or stood near his peers to watch; which is a really good sign.
Here are a few pictures of William playing in my car after I picked him up when the class is over. I usually let him play and at the same time I try to feed him some thing before taking him to the day care. For the past 2 days he loved the cheese sandwich that I made. Yesterday he ate 2 slices of sandwich with 2 slices of cheese; 1 bottle of orange juice and 1 piece of chocolate.
Love His Attitude Today
Wed Morning 8:30 AM. Dropped William off at Mitchell school; he didn’t cry at all (today is the 3rd day after back to school, he cried the last 2 days); and when I stopped the stroller in front of his classroom, he stood up, gave me the pillow (he always wants to take the pillow with him) and headed to the door. Once got in the classroom he came and sat down on a chair near his classmate! Usually he’d just run and sit in a corner. So I said, “Say Hi to your friend William!”, Mrs. Hana also encouraged him, “Hi Victoria”; and he repeated, “Hi Victoria!”
I’m so happy that it looks like he’s starting to blend in instead of separating himself from his peers. I hope everyday he’d act like this.
12:50 PM. I came to his classroom to pick him up and found out he already had his backpack on his back sitting on a chair watching the movie. Ms. Delma said he was so ready for me to pick him up. When he saw me, he came running toward me and gave me a hug. Love you, son!
First Day Back to School At Mitchell After Winter Break
Monday Morning 1/8/2018 at 8:30 AM.
After 2 weeks break from Mitchell school, I took William to school, he cried and did not want to leave his car seat when we got to school.
I asked, “Don’t you want to see Mrs. Hana? Mrs. Hama really wants to see you.”
He said “No”.
So I asked “How about Ms. Susan?, do you want to see Ms. Hana or Susan?”.
To my surprise, he said “Susan”‘!
“OK then, let’s go to see Mrs. Susan.”
He got off the car seat and let me put him in the stroller, so I took him to his classroom. When we approached the room 309, he cried again and refused to go in. It just happened that Ms. Susan took another kid to the other classroom. I asked, “Do you want to go to that room?”
He said, “Yes” and got off his stroller and ran after Ms. Susan! I was so surprised. All the time I thought Ms. Hana is his favorite :).
Tuesday Morning.
He cried just like yesterday and refused to get off his car seat. So I asked ” Do you want to see Ms. Susan?”. He said “Yes” again. It was raining lightly when we walked to the classroom. The water felt on his face and he smiled, I think he found that was fun.
Another Day at Day Care
Thursday 8:30 AM, I dropped him off a the day care; he reached to the doorbell located on the left side of the school door as usual (even thought we never hear the bell rings). He walked in thru the little door, hung up his lunch box in his designated hook and then walked out to the playground. He stood by the fence and watched as I drove the car away.
At the same time a mother dropped her son off; almost every kids at the school came up to him and said “Hi, Mathew!” while William was standing alone by the fence. I wish that some day William can be that “Mathew”,; at least he can have some friends to hang out and that he won’t be feeling lonely.
Love Playing With The Sand
Wed 8:30 AM; William went straight to the sand box right after I dropped him off. Everyone says he loves to play with the sand. He used the Lego block that he took from home to scoop up the sand. At some point he almost lied on the sand; now the sand is all over his jacket & pants. (He always takes 1 thing with him to school but never brings it back)
I was about to leave when I saw this boy Zackerie tried to take the Lego away from William’s hand. William refused to give it, so Zackerie kicked the sand toward William. Mrs. Rose Mary & Nancy were there but they didn’t see that scene. I waved my hand and approached William. Mrs. Nancy saw me waving so she came to me and asking what’s wrong. I told her what just happened. She said “Don’t worry, I’ll keep an eye on him”; and turned to Zackerie who was still hanging around the sand box, “This is William’s mom; Be nice to your friend, ok?”
I heard stories from Ms. Annie, Han & Celestie about some kids at this day care are not nice to William. Some twins don’t want to share, they block the slide so that William can’t use it. And Dominique always picks on William. This is the first time that I saw it with my own eyes.
This is a small environment and William doesn’t fit it well, how can he survive in Kinder Garden, which will be next year because he’s 4 now? As a Mom I’m feel worried and sad.
First Day Back to Day Care After Holidays Break
Morning Day 2 of the New Year, 2018; I have to work so I took William to Children World Preschool (Mitchell school is still on break until Jan 8, 2018 so William will spend his time at the day care full day this whole week).
ABEST still have not received the authorization from Cal-Optima for William’s ABA services yet so there won’t be any Behavioral Technician coming to the daycare for William. 2 months contract with Magellan has ended on 12/31/2017 so ABEST is waiting for the new contract from Cal-Optima because Magellan is not handling ABA services anymore as of 1/1/2018. If ABEST doesn’t receive the new contract soon, William will no longer receive any ABA services at the day care; However the sessions at home is still on.
I hope ABEST will receive the new contract soon; otherwise William will spend the whole day at the daycare without any BT to help him.
Allergic Reaction to Peanut Butter
4:45 pm Ms. Nhu from ABEST called telling me that William at the day care was scratching all over his body; Celestie was the Behavoral Technician with William at the time.
I called Mr Gary but he did not answer. Few minutes later he returned my call and his first words were “Your son is fine”. Then he told me that William threw up, and his eyes starting to get swollen and he was scratching all over his body. He gave him some Benadryl which I think helped a lot because by the time Tim picked him up, he was scratching less, his eyes still swollen though. He said he asked Celestie if she gave William some peanut butter chocolate but she said no. They just had a photo session with Santa Clause at the day care, and Santa gave out peanut butter chocolate and candies to the kids. Mr. Gary believed that William must eat some of it; otherwise he’d not be allergic like this.
Then when Tim picked him up; Ms. Celestie asked to talk to me on the phone. She said sorry that she did not know that William is allergic to peanut butter so when William asked for it, she gave it to him. William took 1 bite then threw the chocolate away. Soon after that he threw up (I’m not sure who changed his clothes but he got home with school clothes on him) and 10 minutes later he started to feel itchy. She said Sorry so many times. I’m just so glad that William is fine after this incident. According to Mr. Gary, he did not have trouble breathing at all so that’s a big relief.
When I got home from work and found that William was happy as usual, jumping up and down; his eyes were still swollen and he scratched his body here and there but other than that, nothing is serious. And most importantly I don’t see he has breathing problem at all.
And this happened just a few days before Christmas!
Taking Over Mr. Gary’s Office
Thursday, late Afternoon. Mr. Gary sent us a video of the kids taking over his office, with William is obviously in his chair.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QjhdnvTzsM