June 1, 2018 It’s Summer time; which means no school in the morning so we send William to the Children’s World Preschool full day today; and next week too. Then he’ll have summer school for about 1 month and then 1 month off before going to the Transition Kindergarten at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School.
Thursday May 31, 2018. It’s William’s last day at Mitchell Child Development Center.
Mrs. Hana, Ms. Delma, Ms. Melissa, Ms. Susan gave William a big hug. We also stopped by Mrs. Kerstin (the school nurse) to said good bye and to pick up William’s medicine.
William was not aware of what was happening; he probably was wondering why was everyone hugging me!
I wanted to stop by to principle’s office to say good bye but he was busy so we didn’t want to bother.
After 17 months (Nov 2016 – May 2018) going to this school, we felt so in love with it. It’s a beautiful place with a nice playground and lots of empty space for the kids to run around. William didn’t know anything at all when he first came here; now he knows the alphabets, can count, can sing alphabet, wheel on the bus, happy birthday songs. The teachers also potty trained him. He now can talk using a complete sentence even if it’s just a few words:
I want this/that.
William/Mama do it.
It’s so cute!
Open the Door
Etc.
I’m much thankful and appreciate all the hard works that Mrs. Hana and her assistants have done for William. Without their love and patience, William would not progress this fast and learn so much in such a short time.
So Thank YOU from the bottom of our hearts!
Wednesday. There’s only 2 days left at Mitchell school so we brought the teachers some goodies as a Thank You for their love and support toward William.
This week is William’s last week ( and 4 other friends) at Mitchell Child Development Center after about 1 and 1/2 years going to this school so Mrs. Hana threw them a little ceremony around 11:00 AM on Tuesday, after we returned back from Memorial Holiday.
William refused to stand up when Mrs. Hana called his name and people were starting to clap their hands. Then finally he got up and Mrs. Hana handed him the Certification. After that he lost it and started to hit himself on the face using his palm when he got back to his seat. I think he doesn’t know how to handle all the attention so he felt frustrated. He hit him few more times after that while eating lunch until we left the room.
More pics:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/L6MtPcAQs7KZ9uwp2
Wednesday. William was sent home today with a big dark bruise on his face below the right cheek with a note that he had an accident! According to the note he was trying to jump off the Merry Go Round and slipped and hit his face on the metal bar.
Ms. Jeannie from TasKids was there with him at the time of the accident.
Today, it’s 6th day and the bruise still bad. When I touched it gently and asked him if it hurts but he did not say anything.
Friday 9:30. There’s no school at Mitchell today so William will spend his whole day at the day care. When I dropped him off, Ms. Chastity opened the small door for William to go in and told me that she’s now William’s teacher. Ms. Chastity has been with the daycare for a while but she was not in charge of William’s class. She said Ms. Nancy quits because she was not happy here lately. Ms. Nancy was in William’s class for only 2 months, I think. There’s lots of staffs changes in the last few months.
Below is a list of staffs who were/are William’s teachers:
Ms. Leila, she stayed with the school longest. She was in charge of Yellow Bird class for more than 1 year.
Ms. Sandra, few months.
Ms. Nancy, 2 months.
Ms. Chastity.
Hopefully Ms. Chastity will stay longer. I can tell that she really likes William. Most of the time when I drop him off around noon (after Mitchell class), she’d sit by his tiny bed and try to get him to sleep.
She told me she just re-decorated the room; so I came in and took a few pictures. It looks nice, she did a nice job. The fact that she went extra to make the room looks nice means that she really loves working there. The other morning, the school was giving out morning snack in the yard; she tried to get William to come to the table but William refused. I’m really thankful of that nice gesture because at that scene there was Ms. Rosemary and Ms. Jennifer but no one asked William if he likes to eat something.
Ms. Chastity seems very excited about this news, I heard her said it several times “I’m in William’s class now!”. And I’m glad too!
Thursday, when I picked William up from the Mitchell school, the teacher aid gave me this little pot for Mother’s Day. Thank you!
I hope one day William will understand what this day means and personally pick out something for me; small or big I will gladly accept it.
Every day when I pick William up at his Mitchell Child Development School, I always bring 3 items: a wet towel, a bottle of juice and either corn dog or cheese sandwich which is his favorite for the past month. The first thing we do when we got inside the car is to take off his shoes, then he takes off his socks himself. I use the wet towel to clean his face and hands. When the weather is hot, wiping his face with a wet cool towel really helps to cool him down to make him feel better. Then I’d ask him to drink the juice; once he has a few sips of juice then i’d let him eat the snack. While eating snack, he gets to play around in my car. We’d spend around at least 15 minutes in my car for him to eat snack (depends on how much time I have before I have to get back to work). Usually he needs 40 minutes to almost finish the corn dog and the whole bottle of juice.
8:20 AM. Ready to go to Mitchell school. He still looks very handsome even though he’s sleepy.
I wish I have his flawless skin!
Love you, my handsome boy!
1 PM. It was raining this morning, and now it’s kind of cool so I dressed William up with jacket and fleece-line pant. Today I brought him a corn dog; he finished about 1/3 of it; drank all the juice from the bottle and asked for more juice so I gave him the bottle that I packed for his daycare. He only had a few sips from this bottle though.
On the way to the day care, he felt asleep. With this cool weather, I want to sleep too. I wish that I don’t have to work so that I can drive him home, so that he can sleep in his comfortable bed.
Love you son!