Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Chase had a 2:30 orthodontist appointment on Tuesday afternoon so Nanaw picked him up from school at 2:15. The appointment took about half an hour. They fixed some of the pieces of his braces that had broken off. At Nanaw's house, Chase played with the Playmobil for a little while and then played knee hockey. Then he was ready to do his homework. He worked on the history assignment about abolition; Nanaw looked it over, and he had all the right answers. He forgot his math packet but he said he only had a few more problems to do and that he could get it done at school tomorrow morning. He also worked on the conclusion to his science fair report that's due Friday. Nanaw didn't know that he and Daddy had done the Frisbee experiment a couple of Sundays ago when the weather was nice. Tonight was Uncle Mike's birthday celebration at Nanaw's house. First, they went to Joe Boccardi's for dinner, where Chase had spaghetti with meat sauce and cheese garlic bread. Then they had presents, followed by chocolate cake with chocolate icing and Blue Bell vanilla ice cream. The second picture below is Uncle Mike and Mama practicing wall pushups.

Monday, November 18, 2024

On Monday morning before school, Chase and Nanaw went over the Mockingbird material for today's quiz, and he did well. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school, he said he thought he did a good job on the quiz. He said the questions were multiple choice, fill in the blank and one true or false but he couldn't remember what the true or false question was. His only homework, besides AR, was to color a history paper on the Kansas / Nebraska Slavery Act that's due Wednesday. Nanaw suggested that he work on it today because he didn't have any other homework so he agreed. Mama and Nanaw decided to have Chase drink protein shakes so that he gains a little weight. He didn't like the chocolate peanut butter ones, so Nanaw suggested the birthday cake ones. He didn't like those either. So Nanaw is going to take the birthday cake ones and buy him some chocolate ones and hope that he likes those. Nanaw baked Uncle Mike's birthday cake, and Chase licked the bowl, which he really liked. Then he asked if Nanaw had any ice cream, and she said she had expensive ($8.32 at Walmart) vanilla ice cream for Uncle Mike's birthday. He ate some and liked it. Tonight he had baseball practice. The picture below is a selfie that Chase took of himself. 

Sunday, November 17, 2024

Chase and Daddy went to church on Sunday and then they had an adventure: They went out to Uncle Chris's house in Silex so Chase could play with Elias. Nanaw came over to visit after they got home, and Chase told her all about the visit. He said they played video games and had lots of fun. His cousin Elias is one of Chase's favorite people, and he always likes going to play with him. For dinner, Mama made potato soup with bacon bits, and she generously gave Nanaw the leftover bacon bits, which were really yummy. Mama had originally planned to make pot roast for dinner but changed the menu because she didn't know when Chase and Daddy would be back from Elias's house. After Chase finished dinner, he and Nanaw went downstairs. He told Nanaw his hockey team won its game on Saturday, 5 to 2. Chase was really happy about that. Chase showed Nanaw the new hockey stick he got. Its size is in between a regulation hockey stick and a knee hockey stick. Chase played with the new stick for a while. After Chase finished playing with his new stick, he and Nanaw studied for his Mockingbird quiz on Monday on chapters 1 through 4. This time, Nanaw had him give her the answers without Chase looking at the Mockingbird packet. He did a good job but they're still going to go over the material Monday morning before school. 

Saturday, November 16, 2024

Mama brought Chase over to Nanaw's house on Saturday morning while she went to the grocery store. Nanaw told Mama she didn’t have to get a newspaper for Nanaw at Schnuck's because Nanaw had to go there later to get strawberries, in addition to the newspaper. For a while after he got to Nanaw's, Chase and Nanaw finished watching the movie Twisters. Nanaw is happy that Chase likes the movie so much. For years now, Chase hasn't liked watching movies so this is quite a change. However, it's probably because the movie is about horrendous tornadoes with scenes of horrific destruction. Mama is going to have a family movie night soon with the movie because she and Daddy haven't watched it and really want to. Chase and Nanaw will be happy to watch it again. After the movie, Chase played with the cicadas and Marc Andre. Then they did some schoolwork. Chase had brought his school backpack with him. The only real homework he had to do was study for the Mockingbird quiz over chapters 1 to 4 on Monday. They went over the answers to the questions in the Mockingbird packet, and Chase did really well. Evidently, they went over the packets in class to make sure that everybody had the correct answers. After they finished the Mockingbird packet, Chase played Roblox on the computer and watched YouTube videos while Nanaw did Wordle. They also watched a haunted house scape on YouTube on Nanaw's iPad. Chase had a hockey game today, and he's excited about going out to visit Elias tomorrow. 

Friday, November 15, 2024

When Nanaw dropped Chase off at school on Friday morning, she told him good luck on his math quiz, his religion test, and his geography quiz. He also turned in a draft of his science fair project. When Nanaw picked him up from school, he said he thought he did well on his three tests. He said the chicken nuggets at lunch were good, and he had fun playing sharks and minnows at lunch recess with his crew of friends. Nanaw asked if he had a best friend, and he said the six guys in the crew are his best friends. At Nanaw's house, they talked a bit about the homework they were going to do over the weekend. Chase didn't have his phone with him so Nanaw asked if he would like to continue watching the Twisters movie that they started watching at Rockbridge. To Nanaw's surprise, Chase said yes. Usually, when Nanaw asks him if he wants to watch a movie, he says no. But Twisters is all about tornadoes, and Chase is really into tornadoes and severe storms and weather. Nanaw took a picture of Chase watching the movie and sent it to Mama. She was so happy to see him watching a movie. He also said he'd like to watch the first movie, Twister. They still have half an hour of the movie to watch, and they'll finish it tomorrow morning when Mama brings Chase over to Nanaw's house while she goes to the grocery store. 

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Chase had a 3:30 haircut appointment today, so when Nanaw picked him up, they went to his house instead of Nanaw's house. Nanaw was sad that she only got to see Chase for a few minutes. On the way to school in the morning, Nanaw had asked Chase if he was ever going to get a short haircut again. He said that when he didn't play hockey anymore, he'd get a short haircut. He said you had to have long hair for hockey. Nana laughed at that but she understood him wanting to fit in and feel a part of the hockey team. Chase said he had spaghetti for lunch, which is one of his favorites. At recess, they played Sharks and Minnows, and Chase was both a shark and a minnow. He turned in his history election packet and his English assignment. He said he had two tests tomorrow: geography and religion. Nanaw texted Mama today asking about the three sleepovers Chase had with her this year. The first one was Saturday, February 24 for the Dinner Auction. The second was Friday, July 12 for Brady's dad's birthday celebration. The third was Saturday, October 12 for the wedding of a friend of Mama. Nanaw plans to really enjoy her time with Chase after school on Friday.

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

When Nanaw picked Chase up from school on Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m. for early dismissal, they both remembered they were giving Cole a ride home. Cole wasn't out of school yet, so Chase went back to get him. Hunter walked out with them and thought his dad wasn't there so Nanaw said she'd give him a ride home. But then Hunter's dad called him, and Hunter went to find him. At Nanaw's house, Chase worked on his homework. First, he did a geography assignment about maps. He had to look things up on the computer, which he enjoys doing. After the geography assignment, he got out his history election packet that's due tomorrow. It's a really big packet with lots of work. He's been working on it for a week now. He had two things left to do. The first one was write a paragraph telling his opinion about the electoral college -- he's against it and wants to have the popular vote be the way the president is elected. He also thinks the swing states have too much power in the election. The second one was to write a paragraph about Donald Trump. Chase was going to write about how he started the Space Force when he was president the first time. Nanaw was so proud of Chase for taking responsibility for his homework and working so diligently on it. Before Nanaw took Chase home, he remembered that he also had an English assignment to do. It hadn't been on Homework Central when Nanaw looked at it but was there later in the afternoon. Chase said he could do in the evening either before baseball practice or after.