Saturday, November 30, 2019

Saturday, November 30, 2019

Chase had a soccer game on Saturday afternoon. Mama and Nanaw both looked at the schedule and were sure it said 3:30. But evidently there had been a change in the schedule, and the game was at 3 p.m. so Chase missed half of the game. Mama thought he would be mad at her but he wasn't. After the game, Chase wanted Nanaw to come in and play with him. But Nanaw had made turkey soup earlier in the day, and she wanted to go home and pick up the turkey soup so Mama, Daddy and Chase could have it for dinner. So Nanaw brought the soup back, and then played with Chase. First they played with his stuffed animals on his bed. Then Chase decided he wanted to play hockey on his bed. They did that for awhile but it didn't go well. So then Chase wanted to play hockey in the hallway, and that went better. Chase is a very loud hockey played and Nanaw tried to get him to be quiet so that he didn't wake up Grandma Pat. Nanaw forgot to ask Mama if Chase ate the turkey soup. She'll have to remember to do that.




Friday, November 29, 2019

Friday, November 29, 2019

Chase, Mama and Nanaw had one of their major annual adventures: visiting the Train House to see the Christmas train display. It was better than ever before. They had a new scavenger hunt that was hard but lots of fun. They had to ask one of the volunteer engineers where the eagle was. It turned out that the eagle was on top of the circus tent, a new display this year. One of the engineers said that next year, the circus would be operational. Chase, Mama and Nanaw all had popcorn, then went out to visit the reindeer, Donner and Vixen. The reindeer were lying down, resting, but were still as cute as they could be. After the Train House, Chase said he wanted to have lunch at Arby's, which made Mama very happy because that's her favorite fast-food place. After Arby's, they went to Handyman Hardware to look at their special Christmas decorations display. Mama bought a cute Christmas stocking for Sylvester. Next they went to Telegraph Road Schnuck's, then to Walgreen's. Uncle Mike and Aunt Becky were at Nanaw's house putting up Nanaw's outdoor decorations. They ended up looking better than ever. In the evening, Nanaw went with Mama, Daddy and Chase to visit Jackson, Aunt Jen and Uncle Joe and to meet Jackson's new dog, Mello.




Thursday, November 28, 2019

Happy Thanksgiving! Thursday, November 28, 2019

Chase, Mama and Daddy went to Thanksgiving dinner at Daddy's cousin's house in Fairview Heights. They had Mexican food for Thanksgiving dinner. Last year, they had Italian food. After their Mexican feast, they came to Nanaw's house. This year was the biggest group ever -- 16 people that just barely fit at the dining room table. All the food turned out well. Aunt Becky brought two special dips that made everyone happy. Uncle Mike and Aunt Becky made the mashed potatoes and piled them high in a bowl, and Nanaw took a picture of that. Unfortunately, Nanaw forgot to take any pictures of Chase but she got lots of pictures of the other grandchildren. Mama did her great job of washing the dishes. The boys helped Uncle Mike get Nanaw's outdoor decorations out of the garage attic. Chase went into his room to play with his kinetic sand, and Daddy went with him and watched a football game. It was a wonderful Thanksgiving, and Nanaw hopes everyone had a good time.



Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Chase had the day off school on Wednesday. Mama was working at home but Nanaw asked her to drop Chase off so that Mama could carry Nanaw's turkey up from the downstairs refrigerator. Chase watched Chase TV and played on the laptop for a couple of hours in the morning until it was time to go to Powder Valley. He and Nanaw had a good time there, as always, looking at all their favorite displays, doing the scavenger hunt and drawing pictures. They got to see one of the conservation workers feed the fish in the aquarium. He also fed crawdads to Chase and Nanaw's favorite: the turtle in the aquarium. Today the turtle was buried in the gravel up to his neck. Sometimes he buries himself completely. After Powder Valley, Chase and Nanaw went to get gas and stopped at the library to pick up the DVD version of Secret Life of Pets 2. Nanaw got Veggie Straws for Chase from the "bending" machine, and he said they were delicious. So Nanaw texted Mama asking her if she could get some for the snacks in Chase's backpack. Next, they went home for lunch. After lunch, they went to the Magic House. First, they went to the science lab, Chase's favorite place at the Magic House. He did experiments, looked at butterflies and insects under the microscope, played with the topographic sand and made animal footprints in clay. Next, they went to the crafts place and did lots of building and making things. The last place they visited was the art studio where Chase played with the glass where you write with markers. In te evening, Chase went with Mama and Daddy to Auntie LaLa's house. It's a tradition that they go visit on the night before Thanksgiving and watch Uncle Chris make pumpkin pies.









Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

When Nanaw took Chase to school on Tuesday morning, the parking lot was full, and Nanaw wondered why. Then she remembered that they were having Thanksgiving Mass. In Chase's classroom, the computer teacher was there. Mrs. Meyer was already at Mass, and Mr. Gilbreth was taking the boys and girls whose parents and grandparents weren't going to Mass. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school, it had gotten rainy and windy. Both Chase and Nanaw thought it was really yucky. On the way home, they went to the Telegraph Road library so Nanaw could pick up a book for Mama and the movie, The Secret Life of Pets 2. Nanaw had accidentally requested the BluRay version of the movie instead of the regular DVD version. So she also put the DVD version on request. At Nanaw's house, Chase and Nanaw did one of the pages o his November morning work, for tomorrow, November 27. Chase said they could do the page for Thursday when he was at Nanaw's house for Thanksgiving dinner. When Nanaw took Chase home, Mama was making dough for turkey cookies. Chase wanted Mama to save one for Nanaw and Mama said she would. Chase wanted Nanaw to come back over later in the evening for a cookie but Mama and Nanaw talked him out of that idea. When Daddy got home from work, he took Chase for a haircut, and Mama sent a picture of Chase with his new haircut to Nanaw.



Monday, November 25, 2019

Monday, November 25, 2019

When Nanaw took Chase to school, they discovered that the desks in the classroom had been moved around. Mrs. Meyer says that happens every weekend. For a few minutes, Chase was sitting between Maria and Lizzie. On the way to school, Nanaw tried to get Alexa Auto to work but couldn't. Then on the way home, she tried again but no luck except for making phone calls. After they got home, Nanaw worked on it again and she thinks she finally got it to work. She'll test it out when she takes Chase home. Chase played baseball outside while Nanaw was working on Alexa. Chase played with the laptop while Nanaw worked on her computer. They both like computers a lot. Mama was taking Sam to the vet after she was done with work so she texted Nanaw when she got home and was ready for Nanaw to bring Chase home. Daddy had to work late so he wouldn't be there at 5:30 for Chase to come home. Mama said they should at least go to Walgreen's on black Friday so they could say they'd gone shopping.


Sunday, November 24, 2019

Sunday, November 24, 2019

On Sunday, Chase had two times at church. In the morning, he went to mass with Daddy and Grandma Pat. Then in the afternoon, all second graders had their First Reconciliation ceremony at church. The boys and girls decorated candles with things that were meaningful to them. The boys and girls had their candles lit by the second grade teachers after they made their first confession to one of the four priests there. After the ceremony, there was an ice cream social downstairs. Chase, Mama and Daddy had ice cream with chocolate sauce on it. There were also brownies but they didn't have any of those. On the way back to Chase's house, he invited Nanaw to come over in the evening, like always, he said. So Nanaw said she would bring her salad and some games. She took Weather Bingo and the Christmas Go Fish card game. But it turned out that Chase didn't want to play games. He wanted to play with his little super hero action figures, then his key chain collection and then his magnetic sticks. He and Nanaw had lots of giggly fun.




Saturday, November 23, 2019

Saturday, November 23, 2019

Chase had two adventures on Saturday: Andrew's birthday party at the Webster Groves ice skating rink. Mama said the party was a lot of fun, Chase had a good time, and there were a lot of kids there. She also said Andrew has gotten a lot taller from the last time she saw him. Nanaw and Chase found out yesterday from Mama that Chase's friend Brady has a broken collarbone. He was playing cops and robbers with some classmates, and one of them was chasing him. Brady stopped suddenly and the classmate didn't and ran into Brady, knocking him down and breaking his collarbone. Then at 5:30 Chase had a soccer game, and Nanaw went along to watch. It was a very exciting game, with lots of action. Chase did a good job of keeping up with the ball. The two teams tied, 7 to 7. When Nanaw got back to Chase's house, she went downstairs to see the new sump pump they had installed. It's by the washer and dryer, and it's sort of in the way when Mama wants to get something out of the dryer.



Friday, November 22, 2019

Friday, November 22, 2019

Mama took the day off on Friday to spend it with Aunt Becca, so she took Chase to school. In the morning, Nanaw went to the Transportation Museum to renew her membership. The train display was up but not running. Miss Lynn said it wouldn't run till the day after Thanksgiving, and Nanaw told her that they would be there that day. Nanaw had a problem with her garage door shutting crookedly so she stopped by the Electro-Door office to ask them to come look at it. The lady in the office said they were all booked up today but if someone finished early, she would send them over. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school, he said he didn't have any news for her. He told her that in music, they practiced the songs for the Christmas program. Nanaw told Chase they were going to the cemetery and the library and would do the scavenger hunt and go to the "bending" machine. When they were on their way to the library the Electro-Door guy called, so they went back to Nanaw's house instead of the library. The man fixed the garage door, and Chase and Nanaw went to the library. They did the scavenger hunt and went to the "bending" machine where Chase got Cheez-its. Chase stayed late at Nanaw's house because Mama and Daddy were visiting with Aunt Becca.






Thursday, November 21, 2019

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Chase wore his new shark jammies last night, and Nanaw got to see them when Mama brought him to Nanaw's house on Thursday morning. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school, he told her he had news. Nanaw is always a little concerned when Chase says that because sometimes the news isn't good. But today it was. Chase said he won the game Four Corners and got to pick a prize from the treasure box -- a construction vehicle. Four Corners is the game where Chase cried when he lost. So it's good that he finally won the game. On the way home, Nanaw stopped at the post office to mail the electric bill. Chase asked her what she mailed, and she told him. He asked if they still had electricity at her house for lights and the computer. It was very funny. At first when they got to Nanaw's house, Chase wanted to play a fishing game with Nanaw. Then he changed his mind and decided to play Roblox by himself.



Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Wednesday is Uncle Mike's birthday, and we're all going out to dinner at Joe Boccardi's. After school, Chase and Nanaw did the excavation thing they bought at Dollar Tree. Chase used Nanaw's little hammer and the digging tool. Inside the white "rock" was a pirate rock. Chase read the directions and they said to wear safety glasses while excavating so Nanaw gave Chase a pair of her reading glasses to wear. He had a great time hammering on the rock, and Nanaw took pictures of him. At dinner, Chase had toasted ravioli, his current favorite dish. Nanaw suggested ordering 12 so he could share with Mama, Daddy, Nanaw, Uncle Mike and aunt Becky. Everybody enjoyed Chase's T Rav. Nanaw had Caesar salad, Mama and Aunt Becky had pizza, Daddy had a fish dish and Uncle Mike had a chicken dish. At Nanaw's house, they had chocolate cake with chocolate icing and chocolate chunk chip ice cream. Mama, Daddy and Chase gave Uncle Mike a navy blue Cardinals hat. Nanaw gave him a lightweight leaf blower, peanut brittle and chocolate covered cherries.