William’s New Teacher Angelica

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One day when I dropped William off at the day care after picking him up at Lincoln school, Mrs. Chastity asked me if I’m OK to move William to higher level.  The other day Ms. Jennie told me that it’s better for William to move up to higher class because looks like he likes to play with older kids; and also with older kids he can learn to talk more.  Huy also asked me if it’s possible to move him up; I guess Jeannie talked to Huy about that.

So I said Yes to Mrs. Chastity, the goal is for William to talk more, with this Yellow Bird class, mostly the children are 2 or 3 years old who don’t know or don’t talk much.  So it’s natural that William would want to play with other kids about his age.  William is almost 5 now, not sure why they still keep him in the Yellow Bird class.

Today I took him to his room as usual, I met Mrs. Angelica, she told he to took him to the other room.  To explain, she told me that William is now moved up to Red Bird class.  Surprisingly I asked, “Since when?”, she said “Since today!”.  So now he’s officially in the big room with a nicer cot to nap :).  His cot is next to the wall and the standing fan, which I think is very nice location.

Labor Day at Huntington Beach

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Monday, It’s Labor holiday,  we had a day off so we decided to join my sister’s friends for a picnic at Huntington Beach.    William at first refused to go down to the beach; he wanted to walk on the walkways only.  Then we asked if he wanted to see baby Sophia; he said “Yes” so we said, “If you want to see baby Sophia, you have to go this way!” so he let us took him down to near the water.  He wanted to go back to the walkways several times, we kept reminding him of baby Sophia to make him listen and continue.   When we got near the water, he refused to go down so I sat down on the sand and let him sat on my thigh and just watched people playing.

Aunt Eliza offered him some tools to play with sand, that was when he stood up and play but still refused to go any where near the water.

 

 

Another School Day

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Monday morning; I took William to Lincoln school as usual.  This is the 3rd week since school started.   Tim did not have to work today so he followed us recording the video without William knowing it.  He only saw his dad when we were at the traffic light.  When we got the the gate, he refused to go in with Ms. Newman and started to cry “Papa is not going!”.

Bring the box of cards to school as usual
In front of our house
Still sleepy, had a tough time to get him to brush his teeth, “no tooth paste” he requested.

 

Long Beach Twilight Streets – 2018

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Saturday Evening.  We went to Long Beach to see the Twilight Streets festival; William had so much fun jumping, running around with music.  Our dinner was the Hooters burgers and hot dog and fries (Kids menu for $5.99 which includes 1 entry, 1 side and 1 drink but they forgot our drinks); it took about 15 minutes waiting for take out;  best thing is that they validate the parking so we saved $6.00 for parking).

First we walked to the light house; On the way there, William saw 2 birds and said “I want to chase 2 birds” then he ran after them.  Continue on to the light house, William had a chance to touch the fish that some nice man caught but had to release because the fist was too small, he loved it!  Then he had fun running around the light house, up and down the hills.

When we just got to the place, he saw the lights and immediately ran there and stood next to the men; Tim caught it on time.

He loved chasing the birds

Running freely around the light house

Queen Mary boat is on the background

Passing by the aquarium

 

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William’s Second Swim Lesson At Australian Swim School

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Saturday 10:30 AM.  When we told him we were going to the pool, he kept saying “No, no”; and then kept saying “I want to go home!” thru out the 30 minutes session.  There was only William today so he had full attention from the swim instructor Anthony.  Despite the fact that he sometime cried, he did very good.  He put his face in the water and lift face up when he was out of breath.  Today he learned to swim face up: he was scared at first but toward the end of session, he was getting much better.  Seeing how he can learn so fast, we decide to let him continue the swim lessons.

Afterward, we took him to the Mc Donald per his request; he loved the playground here.

William and the instructor Anthony

Before leaving the Australian Swim School
Mc Donald playground

 

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Ms. Jeanne’s Last Day

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William and Ms. Jeanne at our house. This is her last session at our house.

Friday 8/24/2018.  Today is Ms. Jeanne’s last ABA session with William, the Behavorial Technician, who has been with William at the day care for almost every day for the last 3 months.  She recently got her BCBA credentials; and she found a new company that meet her needs.  I’m so sad to see her go because I’ve seen her teaching William; she’s really good at teaching William to pretend plays like ordering food at Mc Donalds, in the airplane listening to the flight attendants instructions to put the bags under the seat, buckle up, etc.

May 11 – Aug 24, so Jeane has been William’s BT for a little bit more than 3 months; time does fly.  I still remember the day when I heard about William’s accident with the Merry-go-round while under Jeanne’s watch, I was so sad and wanted to ask for a different BT; but I didn’t because I recalled the first day she came to our house; she would pay attentions to little details as to what William likes to do; and she put on the music softly in the background.   She impressed me with her creative ways to get Williams to do things.  I’m glad that I did not ask for a new BT.

Last week she asked if I saw William dance yet; I was like “Uh no, never!”,  then she played the youTube video “Cha cha dance” and told William to dance.  It was so fun to see William kicking his legs and swing his hands up & down.  I’m so happy to see my boy having fun in the ABA session.

From her observations, she believes that William will understand better if she writes down the words on the papers and read it with him.  For example, “Welcome to Mac. Donald, what would you want ?”

She only came once a week to our house, on Thursday from 5:30-7:45, so we did not get to see her much; but she was with William everyday from 3:00 – 5:15 PM.  When it was summer, she’d be there with him in the mornings also.  So I bet William grows to be closed to her and loves her as much as we do.  We’re sad to see her go but at the same time we’re glad that she’s moving up in her career.

Good luck in your new role, Ms. Jeanne.  We’ll miss you!

Parent Meeting

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Friday Morning 8:15 AM.  It’s parent meeting today; and it’s my first time going to a parent meeting at school.   Ms. Newman let me in early so I wandered around, took a few pictures of the school.

All parents are Spanish speakers so the Principle talked in Spanish; one Spanish lady (she was last year’s Treasurer) volunteered to be my translator.  This meeting is about to come up with the name for the Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) and to vote for Board of Directors (President, vice President, Secretary and Treasurer).  After 1 hour, my translator left so I left shortly after her because I could not understand what the Principle was talking about.

The Principle is leading the meeting

 

I Want To Try Again!

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Thursday’s noon at 1:00 PM at Lincoln Elementary school;   William was crying while walking with Ms. Birdie to the gate where I normally pick him up.  He kept point his hand to the classroom and said “I want to try again!”.   And the story is:

The teacher took him to the bathroom every half an hour but he would not pee.   After lunch he told Ms. Newman “I want diaper!”, Ms. New said “No, no, let’s go to the bath room”, so she took him there but he did not pee.  When they returned to the classroom then William peed in his pants!  But that’s not why William cried: he cried because he did not get the last star (for peed in the pants) to get the chocolate that he wants.  He wanted to try the bathroom again so that he could get the star, and of course the chocolate that he wanted so badly.

He continued to cry for about 10 minutes in my car and kept pointing his hands toward the school “I want to try again”.   He only stopped when I gave him my phone so that he could watch youTube.  Looking at him watching videos, eating chips and drinking juice, he seemed to forget about the whole thing while I was driving him to the daycare.

 

Ready For School

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Wednesday 8:00 AM.  When Ms. Newman said “Good morning” at the gate, William responded back in a loud voice “Good Morning!”.  Everyone standing near was smiling and loving his attitude.

William and his classmates. He turned around to say Bye to Mama.