Another Sleepy Day!

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Thursday Morning.  As usual I woke William up around 7:30 AM, he rolled around on the bed and refused to get up.  When he finally did, he cried.  I asked why but he did not answer.  He cried when he peed, when I brushed teeth for him and stopped crying only when he got back to the bed.  I had a hard time to give him eye drops for his dry itchy eyes. But we managed to be at school on time.

2 more days before Autumn; it’s getting cold in the morning but still very hot during noon (75 degree)
This pic I took yesterday (not today)
Ms. Newman was not here; there was someone substituted for her. When I picked William up, she said “He’s a Smart Boy”.

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Mile Square Park

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Sunday Morning.  We joined our sister and her groups of friends for a picnic at Mile Square Park.  They had 1 big bounce house and 1 small bounce house but William only played in the small one for a few minutes.  Then he played at the playground for most of the time.

Selfie with Dad Tim

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Full Moon Festival

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Saturday night, we wen to Asian Garden Mall (Phuoc Loc Tho) for the Full Moon festival.  William enjoyed listening to the music, drum beats and jumping around.  He patiently waited in line to get the balloon which is very good; then he was ok with face painting which surprised me because he refused several times before.

William likes his Head balloon, but 1 of the balloons broke shortly after that.
William sat still during face painting, he chose the Boat Anchor design.

 

Able To Keep 60 Minutes Today!

Posted on by MICHELLE N

So with the company’s memo about 60 minutes lunch break in mind, I left work around 12:40 PM and arrive at school around 12:53 PM.  Mrs. Newman took William out to the gate at 1:00 PM; and she told me that William ate well today; which really made me happy because I knew he would not be starved if we did not have much time for him to eat today.  In the car, he finished the juice pouch so fast, but refused to eat the mini corn dog; That’s ok because he ate well today at lunch.  Since he did not want to eat, I changed his pant, put on diaper and we took off around 1:07 PM.  Carried William to his tiny bed (he’s now in the bigger room), wanted to ask the teacher how’s he been doing with the new class but was afraid I’d not be able to keep the 60 minutes limit so I quickly headed out to the car after a quick wave to say good bye.  Left day care around 1:20 PM, and arrived to work around 1:40 PM.

Everything was a rush!  So we’d be able to keep the limit but that means there’s no time for William to eat or to have a quick chit chat with the teachers!

P.S. I’m glad that William enjoyed soccer, was thing about register him to a soccer class but not sure if he’re ready yet!

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William’s First Trampoline

Posted on by MICHELLE N

Listened to Huy & Jody from TasKids, we bought William his first trampoline so that he can jump to release all the energy that he has.  The plan is to let him jump before each ABA session so that he’d have less energy to run around.  But seems like he doesn’t like to jump that much because he’d only spend less than 10 minutes in the trampoline.

 

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Break Time Cannot Be More Than 60 Minutes

Posted on by MICHELLE N

Thursday Afternoon, got this email (sent to everyone) from Nancy (our company’s office manager)

“Hello All,
As we all know, meal breaks are important to employee health and company productivity. Therefore, I would like to remind you that it is encouraged that you take regular meal breaks but meal breaks should not exceed 60 minutes.
Thank you.“
I went to the bathroom and cried.  This means that our boy might be starved when I send him to the day care after school.
Most of the time William would not eat much during breakfast and lunch provided by school; so every day when I pick him up, I’d bring him 2 pack of juice, 2 mini corn dogs and a little bag  of cookies and let him eat them in my car before taking him to school.  In order for him to finish the 2 corn dogs  and juice, it’d take at least 30 minutes.  And he’d finish his chocolate filled cookies while I’m driving him to the day care.  And we can’t do this within 60 minutes!
Driving from Work to Lincoln School is about 18 minutes, from school to Children’s World Preschool is about 11 minutes; from Preschool to Work is about 20 minutes so total of 50 minutes of driving.  I need some time to stop by the house to get his snack (5 min), which is only 1 block away from school.  So in total I’d need 70 minutes, and that doesn’t count any delay in traffic.  To keep 60 minutes requirement from the company, I’d have to reduce his eating time from 30 minutes to 10 minutes.  The boy has to eat faster!
If they’re starting to count the time, should I start to count the time that I’d willing to work at nights to fix bugs or to meet deadline? Of course I didn’t get pay over time for those extra hours!  Also, the company offers 15 minutes break for every 3 hours which I never take.
I just wish that I don’t have to work so that I can take William home after school and care for him.   But if I don’t work, we’d be in deep financial trouble because I make twice as much as Tim makes a month.
Dreaming for winning the lottery, hopefully one day my dream will come true!
From Work to School – 4.6 miles (18 minutes)
From school to Children’s World Preschool – 3 miles (9 minutes)
From School to Day care – 9.2 miles (20 minutes)

Small Foot Village in Hollywood

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To advertise for the new movie “Small Foot” coming on 9/28/2018, they held an event in Hollywood to introduce the new movie.    It was an indoor event with theme & decorations from the movie.   William loved the snow bed that he jumped right in and lied down; he also liked the ball pit a lot.  One nice thing is that at each of the scene there was a staff with an ipad to take pictures for us and then send to us either via email or text.

The event started at 3:00 PM, we arrived to the Highland Shopping Center around 2:00 PM after William’s swim session.  We walked around the shopping center first, took a few pictures then walked to the event which is about 15 minutes walking  on the Hollywood Blvd; that was not too bad because William had a chance to “follow the stars” on the Hollywood Blvd.

We found Mr. President Donald Trump star and was about to take a picture, then a man walked by and spit on the star to show his hatred toward the President.

Highland Shopping Center, parking here is $17.00 flat rate for weekends.
Waiting in line for to enter the Small Foot Village

William loves this pile of fake snow

 

 

Stop & Wait Practice

Posted on by MICHELLE N

Friday, ABA session as usual from 5:30 PM – 7:45 PM.  The supervisor Huy suggested we took a walk to practice safety rules: Stop, Wait and Come Here commands.  William must learn to listen to commands and do not run without asking permission.

So when we’re walking, I’d tell him “Stop and Wait here with daddy” then let him standing there with Tim, I’d walk further up then turn around and ask him to come to me, “William, come here!”.  He’s supposed to walk to me and hold my hand; but every time he’d just run past me!  So Thomas would have to stand behind me to block him from running.

William did that every time on today’s walk so Huy suggested that we train William on walking nicely first.

Getting Cold – Summer Is Almost Over

Posted on by MICHELLE N

Thursday morning 7:45 AM.  It’s getting cold in the morning so I put a jacket on for William before heading to school.  Last night he felt asleep around 11:30 PM which is good so assumably he had enough sleep.

William’s sleepy look
Pick up friends from the bus with Mrs. Birdie
With Mrs. Birdie and classmates heading to classroom. William is the smallest compare to other 4 peers.