My Boy Is Smart

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Thursday Evening.  William has ABA session with ABEST’s Behavorial Technician Selestie at 5:30 PM as usual.

He gave me his bottle of juice and said “Open”.  But the bottle’s cover is already open; I’m a little surprised because I know he knows that it’s open and ready to drink.  So I just closed the cover and then opened it and then handed it back to him.  He said Open again and showed signs of frustration and about to throw tantrums.  I took a closer look at the bottle and found out that the straw came off the top lid.   So what he really wanted me to do is to open the whole lid to fix the straw!  I felt bad that I did not understand him at first and caused him some frustration.  As a Mom I should know him better.  So I took off the lid, fixed the straw and gave the bottle back to him.  He took it and drank the juice because he understood that he could drink now with the straw is attached.

William is a smart boy, it’s just that communication is a big problem to him.  If he can talk or at least can convey what he wants then I’m sure he’ll show less signs of frustrations.  Most of the time he throws tantrums is because others don’t understand what he wants/says.

Playing With Peers

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Playing with friends

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.

William’s favorite spot in my car. He climbs down here from the back seat at least 1 time a day.
William loves the Dashboard camera in my car. I have to turn it on before driving; otherwise he’d cry.

San Francisco, Here We Come…

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Saturday morning, flying to San Francisco via South West airline, begins our trip in San Francisco for 3 days (1/13-1/16).

Found a good deal on airfare from South West airline, $50.00/pp round trip so I went ahead and booked it.  The plan is to fly there, rent a car, check out the area and especially the Golden Gate bridge.

Love His Attitude Today

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Having snack in Mommy’s car: 1 slice of cheese and milk, then chips.

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

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Monday Morning  1/8/2018 at 8:30 AM.

Watching the rain from Mom’s car.

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 :).

Looking handsome, son!

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

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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.