Category: Halloween

Trunk or Treat

Posted on by MICHELLE N

William’s school Thomas Jefferson Elementary School organized the Trunk or Treat event at the school parking lot on Thursday from 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, so we took William there.  He did not want to go.

It was small but nice to see everyone was having fun.  William did not want to wear any costume, even a mask!  And he did not even want to hold the candy bag and ask for candies,  so I had to do that for him.  One surprise is that we met his teacher Mr. C standing next to his decorated truck to give out candy and also saw his scarecrow on the fence.  Have gave William some skittles.

The music was nice but William thought it was loud so he covered his ears when walking around.  We did not stay long because William did not seem to enjoy it.

We ordered pizza on the way home.   While waiting for the pizza in the car, William hung up the lights and glow in the dark sticks on any hooks he could find in the car, seems like he wants to decorate the car with lights, so I told him, how about next year we’ll decorate our car and give out candies?  He did not response but I think he’d like that.  Let’s see if we can do it next year!  Sounds fun!

Fall-O-Ween

Posted on by MICHELLE N

Fall-O-Ween event was at Heritage Hill Historical Park in Lake Forest.  A free event.   The scavenger hunt requires 6 stamps, then you’ll get a small bag of goodies.   William enjoyed this place very much, he walked around with us without running around.   We took quite a few pictures because their decorations are very nice.   On the way to dinner, I asked if he liked that event, he said yes.  I said, “It’s nice that you got a bag of candies”.

– “Not much” – he replied.  And he was right, there was only about 4 candies in the big brown paper bag.  I explained to him that there’s lots of kids coming so we have to share the candies,  4 is good enough.    He enjoyed eating the candies while looking out the car window: we were driving to a Japanese restaurant near there: the Ajisen Ramen at Diamond Jamboree shopping center in Irvine.

We ordered 2 special bowls, I asked for an empty small bowl so that I could share with William.  It turned out he wanted to have a big bowl and let me use the small bowl!  I told him he could have the big bowl only if he ate noodle with meat, he said “OK”.   And he did, he actually liked the meat in this ramen bowl.  It’s been more than a year since we’re back to this place.  I remember that time he did not like this ramen as much as he did today: he has changed and knows how to enjoy good foods, which is a good thing.

Trunk and Treat – Halloween 2018

Posted on by MICHELLE N

Friday, our ABA session was taken place at the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, where the Truck or Treat event was held.  William’s cousins went to this private school so we got to tag along to the school’s private event.  All participants opened their trunks and decorated with Halloween theme which is really cool.  The children then lined up and went to each car for candies.  There was music, and lots of children participated.  I think William had a great time.  We only went 2 rows but he already had a full bag of candies; he looked tired so we decided to go his cousins car to sit down.  It was a long day for him: class in the morning at Lincoln school, then Children’s world preschool till 5:30, then we picked him up and took him directly to the event.  So he must be hungry too.   One of the car offered the chicken nuggets, he grabbed that and took 1 bite; that was when I realized it was late and he must be tired and hungry.

With BT Jody and Thomas always around William, I felt very relieved; and lucky for us William behaved that day, he did not run off around; he actually stayed on line and followed it.

The event opened the gate at 5:30 PM, started the line for Treat or Trick at 6:30 and ended at 7:30 PM ($5.00 per car).

More photos (Trunk & Treat)

More photos 2 (Grandma’s House)

Our little Ninja

Jody and Thomas are really taking their job seriously; they follow William wherever he goes. Thank YOU!
Shopping for Halloween, somehow he was so attached to the chain that we had to buy it.
Treat or Trick at Providence Speech & Hearing Center where William goes to for Speech therapy every week

ABA Session In the Community

Posted on by MICHELLE N

Sat 11:00 AM at Fountain Valley  Promenade.

Halloween is approaching so I asked Mrs. Nhu if it’s ok to have ABA session while William going Treat or Trick on the Halloween day so she suggested to cancel the Friday session and have the session on  Saturday at the shopping center in Fountain Valley.  We agreed to meet Ms. Han in front of the Albersons supermarket.

I dressed William up as a car racer Lightning McQueen and took him to the meeting place.  10 minutes passed 11:00 I still didn’t see Ms. Han anywhere, turned out she went to wrong location and was waiting for us there.  So while waiting for Ms. Han to come to us, I took William for Treat or Trick.  At first William did not want to walk but I told him we could get candy if he walked so he started to comply.  We walked along the shopping center and went in each store to get candy.  William had a hard time to pick the candy when people presented a bowl of candy in front of him.   Also when people hand him the candies he reached out his hand to take it instead of showing his basket so that they can put the candies in.  It was his first time so maybe he was overwhelmed and did not know what to do.  It struck me that I did not teach him that!

We found a table near by the pizza place, so we sat down to rest and let William enjoyed his earned candies.

Few minutes later Ms. Han found us; we continue our way to knock on the stores for more candies.  It was about noon so we decided to go back to the pizza place and have lunch there.  I bought a slice of pizza and 1 drink for William.  We found a cozy corner inside the restaurant and ate lunch there.  William kept standing on the chair and go under the table; until I let him watched the Winnie the Pooh clips that he sat still.  There’s a game room inside the pizza shop so we let William play in the game room after lunch.

We left the place around 1:30 PM.