Friday, September 6, 2024

On Friday morning, Chase had a pancake for breakfast, and once again the syrup and the pancake smelled delicious to Chase and Nanaw. Chase was happy that the school was having Papa John's cheese pizza for lunch. He was sad that Pizza Hut had left Columbia. They used to provide the pizza for Fridays at ICS but they closed a few weeks ago. Pizza Hut was Chase's favorite pizza, and Mama always got it for him on special occasions like his birthday. Chase walked out of school again today with the boy who used to be so mean to him. The boy isn't so mean anymore and Chase seems to have forgiven him. But Mama and Nanaw wish that Chase wouldn't have anything to do with him. For the Chicago trip, Chase chose Joey as the first person he's like to sit with on the bus, then the rest of the crew. He put the formerly mean boy's name last but that's probably who he'll get. Today's history assignment was about the man the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago is named after, who donated the money for it. Chase told Nanaw that unfortunately he died before he got to see it finished. After school, Chase played wiffle ball outside for a while, then practiced his pitching with the pitching zone. He said he got a few strikes. He's playing two baseball games with the Bears tomorrow, and he says he might get to pitch. He's on the B team tomorrow, and he says he's the best player on the team. His only homework was to make 22 note cards for science. Nanaw forgot to ask him what the note cards were supposed to be about but on Homework Central it looks like it might be about their Science Fair proposal.

Thursday, September 5, 2024

This morning, Chase had a waffle for breakfast, and he and Nanaw both notice how good it smelled. Nanaw said that maybe someday, Chase could have a waffle and a pancake for breakfast but Chase said that would be too much. Mama gave Chase the envelope with the permission slip and check for next Friday's bus trip to Chicago for the seventh graders. He's really looking forward to it. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school, he said they had to go to his house to get his Atlas so he could use it for his geography homework. He had three major homework assignments: geography, history questions about the Constitution and math problems. Plus he had his 20 minutes of AR reading. At Nanaw's house, he did the geography homework and the history homework. When he got home, Daddy had him start on his math and AR reading. He has hockey practice tonight, plus there's a hockey parents meeting, they wouldn't get home till about 9:30. So Chase wouldn't have time to do any homework after hockey and would have to do it before hockey.

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Chase studied for today's geography test last night with Daddy and again this morning with Nanaw. There's a lot of difficult material, and Nanaw isn't sure how well Chase knows it. When Nanaw picked him up from school, he said he thinks he did okay on the test. He also said he did his math homework in class, and they checked their papers in class so he didn't bring it home. For some unknown reason, Nanaw mistakenly thought Daddy was picking Chase up from school. Fortunately, Mama sent Nanaw a text about the pick-up call, and Nanaw realized she was supposed to pick Chase up. So when Nanaw picked Chase, she took him home so he could get ready for his baseball game in Belleville. Daddy said it would take about half an hour to get to Belleville. He also said there were only going to be 10 players there today so that means Chase will get to play, maybe the whole game. Mama and Aunt Becca are going to get pedicures and then to dinner. Chase doesn't have any homework tonight except for his AR reading so he'll have some time to himself for VR and his phone and whatever. He's reading an action adventure book about mountain climbers entitled "Into the Clouds." Nanaw put it on request at the library, and it's ready for her to pick so she'll do that tomorrow.

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Chase had the day off school on Tuesday. The 8th graders were cleaning up the school from the picnic on Labor Day but the rest of the students had the day off. Chase still had a fair amount of homework to do. He had a long math assignment that he hadn't started, and he had to study for a geography test on Wednesday. After he finished the math assignment, Chase and Nanaw worked on studying for the geography test. Nanaw was surprised at how difficult the material was. She was also surprised at the study guide. It wasn't like the stud guides that Chase has used in other classes for years. It was more of an outline or list of the topics and questions that were going to be on the test, rather than an overview of the material. Chase had a couple of other papers that had some but not all of the answers to the topics on the study outline. Chase read through all the study material and then he and Nanaw went over the outline twice. Nanaw didn't feel that Chase knew all the answers but they ran out of time. Hopefully, Chase was able to work with Daddy after the baseball game to reinforce what he'd learned and perhaps learn the rest that he didn’t know well. The ICS baseball team played a good game, and Chase got to play right field at the end of the game, but unfortunately, the team lost.

Monday, September 2, 2024

Chase's sleepover last night was at Cole's house -- with Cole, Hunter and Chase. Evidently at Cole's house, he can only have two friends at a time. They played Roblox, and Chase went to bed at 1 a.m. They had donuts for breakfast. Chase and Daddy had an assignment at the church / school picnic on Monday. From 11 to 1:30, they were in charge of the pitching booth. Mama's assignment, with her friend Michelle and Becky, was from noon to 3 at the bookstore. Nanaw came up to the picnic about 1:30. It took a while to find Chase and Daddy but eventually she did. Unfortunately, Chase didn't feel well. His stomach was bothering him again. Daddy got him some lemonade and a hot dog, hoping that would help his stomach. Daddy asked if he wanted fries and Chase said yes so Daddy got those too, and they seemed to help. Chase said he wanted to go home, and Nanaw said she would take him. But first, they went to Nanaw's house to get Charlie the cicada, so he could have a sleepover tonight at Chase's house. Chase got into bed, under his covers, and stayed the whole time Nanaw was there, except for getting up to go to the bathroom and to get pudding and a cupcake to eat. Mama brought Nanaw yummy funnel cake fries when she got home from the picnic. The second picture below is Chase standing at the pitching booth. The third picture is Elias and Chase yesterday at Mama's Labor Day party.

Sunday, September 1, 2024

Sunday was Mama and Daddy's annual Labor Day party. Chase was so excited that he would get to see his cousin Elias. Nanaw go to the party about 2-30; Chase and Elias were downstairs playing hockey. They'd been playing on the X-box on the TV. Joe, Julia and Hudson came downstairs also. Hudson is such a cute little boy. He's 2 1/2 years old and is smart  and energetic. Nanaw told cousin Joe that he and Julia and Hudson need to move back to St. Louis so Nanaw could take care of Hudson for free. They're paying $316.00 a week for Hudson's daycare cost. Hudson was playing hockey by himself; then he gave hockey sticks to Chase and Elias to get them to play with him. It was really cute, and Chase and Elias were kind enough to play with Hudson. After a while, Chase and Elias went outside to play. Nanaw stayed downstairs with Uncle Mike, cousin Joe, Julia, Hudson, cousin Lindsey and her boyfriend Dylan. Hudson got out Chase's container of marbles and dumped them out so he could play hockey with them. His mom eventually had him pick them up, and it was cute to watch him counting as he put them back into the container. Chase came back in, and it turned out that Elias had gone home. Chase left at 6:30 for hockey practice, and then when he got home, he was going to Cole's house to spend the night. 

Saturday, August 31, 2024

Mama brought Chase over to Nanaw's house on Saturday morning while she went to the grocery store. They got there about 10 a.m., and Chase told Mama he wanted her to pick him up at 11:30. He brought along the guys and his phone, and he wanted to go downstairs and play on the keyboard. So Nanaw brought the guys downstairs, and they all listened to Chase play "Sleigh Ride." They've been practicing that in Band for the Christmas concert. Chase is going to try to bring home the music to it this week so he can play the rest of it for Nanaw. After the keyboard playing, Chase and the guys got in the playpen, and Nanaw made a tent out it for them. Chase played on his phone till Mama got there to pick him up. Chase and Nanaw packed up the guys and went upstairs. Mama had bought some special things for Chase to eat at breakfast or for snacks because of his braces. She bought frozen waffles and frozen pancakes, along with syrup. She also got some Nature Valley Soft-Baked Muffin Bars. In the afternoon, Mama texted Nanaw asking if she knew where Chase's AR book, "Into the Clouds" was. Nanaw found it in Chase's room where he left it Thursday when he was home from school. Nanaw took it over to Chase's house and saw the ping pong table in the garage. Chase and Daddy had been playing ping pong. Tomorrow is the Labor Day party, and Chase is looking forward to seeing cousin Elias.