Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Today Chase and Nanaw went to Chase’s favorite place: The Train House. There were only about half a dozen other children at the Creation Station so there’s was lots of room at the Thomas tables for the children. Chase played with the trains for a long while, then with the puzzles and the puppets. He played on the school bus and then in the kitchen – the kitchen is becoming one of his favorite play areas there. He also went to the coloring area and colored with a little girl named Dolly. Nanaw read a Richard Scarry book to Chase and sent pictures to Mama of the pencil car and the pickle car, which Mama loved when she was a little girl. Chase and Nanaw rode on the red train and then went up the hill to explore the trains. Chase went in the milk car (the one that makes so much noise when you run in it) four times, with Nanaw following closely behind. At one point in the day, Chase told Nanaw, "I want to play trains all day long." Who knows where he learned all day long. When Nanaw took Chase home at the end of the day, he was once again delighted to see the inflatable pumpkins and skeleton in his front yard, just like last night when he saw them for the first time. He didn’t want to go into the house last night or tonight. Mama says that last night she and Chase went out to get the mail, and Chase called the pumpkins and the skeleton "Mines."