Thursday, April 17, 2025

Chase had his new, regular breakfast on Thursday morning: chocolate milk, bread, long skinny cold yogurt and Cheerios. He wants Nanaw to have Mama get Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal t the grocery store this week. He forgot to take his vitamins and pills so Nanaw got them ready for him to take in the afternoon, which he did. On the way to school, Chase looked at the menu Nanaw keeps in the car and announced that lunch was chicken patties. He walked out of school with Cam, laughing and talking to him. It's been months since he did that. Nanaw brought Ritz crackers and a cherry Kool Aid Jammer for his car snack but he only drank the Kool Aid and didn't eat the Ritz crackers. Nanaw asked how his Animal Farm and DLR tests went, and he said good, which is usually what he says about tests, even when he doesn't do well. But hopefully it's true this time.He had ice cream when he got home but didn't drink his Premier Protein drink. He was very excited that he has four days without any homework because of his Easter holiday. All the time after school at Nanaw's house, he played knee hockey and watched Monsters at Work because he didn't have any homework.

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

As always, the usual suspects rode to school with Chase and Nanaw: the two Truman tigers, Tee Tee, Lars and Sid the snake. Nanaw checked the school menu for Chase and announced that lunch was one of his very favorites: Mexican Haystack. Chase and Nanaw took Cole home from school, and the two boys kept giggling all the way home, their heads buried in their phones. Nanaw asked what they were laughing about but didn't get an answer. For homework, Chase had to study for the Animal Farm test, turn in the Animal Farm packet, and do his math assignment. He also had to study for Thursday's DLR test. He got all his homework done at Nanaw's house, and promised to go over the Animal Farm materials again. For after school snacks, he had grapes, strawberries, and oranges, along with his Premier Protein drink and cookies and cream Lactaid ice cream. Chase had baseball practice in the evening, and he was excited about using his new red and blue bat.

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Chase must have looked at the lunch menu without Nanaw knowing about it because he knew it was hot ham and cheese. Nanaw asked Chase on the way to school how prepared he thought he was for the science test. He said he thought he knew everything. Then on the way home, Nanaw asked how he did on the test. He said it was easy, and he thought he did really well. He thinks he might have gotten an A, his first ever in science. At Nanaw’s house, Chase worked on his math, and Nanaw decided to do the math with him in her math book. It was all about projections, and Nanaw didn’t quite understand it but Chase did. Surprisingly enough, Nanaw got one of the problems right. and Chase got it wrong so he changed his answer. He had a little bowl of ice cream after he ate his Cheez-Its. He was so excited when he got home, and he found that the new bat he ordered was there waiting for him. He paid for part of if it. and Mama paid for part as his Easter present. The bat is red and blue, and Chase says it weights 26 ounces. Nanaw took a picture of Chase outside with the bat. He was going to use it at baseball practice this evening.

Monday, April 14, 2025

Chase was happy when he checked the lunch menu this morning -- it said lasagna, and that's one of  Chase's favorites. Nanaw picked up her taxes and got the checks ready to mail, took them to the post office and sent them certified mail. So another one of Nanaw's tasks is done. When Nanawpicked Chase up, he said he had lots of homework. The one thing he didn't do at Nanaw's was to study for his science test; he was going to do that at home. He didn't want to study with Nanaw. But later when she asked, he said he might go over the questions with her on Tuesday morning. He did't gain any weight this week; he still weighs 97.3 pounds. He's still drinking his Premier Protein drinks so that's goo for him. Nanaw brought him two mini Hershey bars from the tax place, and he liked those. Nanaw also brought along the Sour Patch Kids watermelon candy. Nanaw went through the photos and selected the 19 miscellaneous photos below from the past couple of months when she wasn't doing Days of Chase. You'll notice that Chase's latest, newest favorite stuffed animal is Truman, the Mizzou Tiger.

Sunday, April 13, 2025

Chase had a Bears baseball tournament today. Nanaw thinks he won four games. She's going over to visit him for a few minutes at 8:30, and she'll find out then. It's the first time he's been on a team in a tournament and won so many games. Nanaw is taking cookies and cream Lactaid ice cream to Chase and the rest of Chase's chocolate ice cream to Daddy. Mama is trying the Lactaid thing again with Chase because he threw up a few times. Mama is having Easter dinner for the family next Sunday. The menu is absolutely great: ham, Italian beef, mostaccioli, salad, fruit salad, rolls, brownies, and some dessert Mama is making. Nanaw will check her texts for the complete menu. During the time when Nanaw didn't see Chase and couldn't help him with his homework, he did a wonderful job and got great grades, and kept up with everything. He's a super boy, and Nanaw is very proud of him. When Nanaw went to visit Chase, she found out that he had played ona really great baseball team, and they won the tournament -- they won all five of their games. This was a first for Chase, and he was really excited about it. He was eating a Whopper when Nanaw saw him. She reminded him to check that his homework was all done, and he found one little thing he'd forgotten to do so he did it. The first picture below is one that Daddy took of Chase's Baseball team.

 

Saturday, March 29, 2025

Time to get back to Days of Chase, after almost two months with no Days. So here is the explanation about the absence of a month of Days of Chase. Around the beginning of February, Nanaw developed severe back pains and wasn't able to take Chase to school or pick him up. She didn't get to see him very often at all. So this entry will be highlights of his life and information about what he and Nanaw were doing. He had several hockey tournaments in the last month, and his team played better but didn't win any of the tournaments. His hockey team has ended its season, except for a fun skating adventure on Friday. So for this month, Chase had baseball practice twice a week, and hockey practice twice a week. We had snow and Chase has five snow days so they'll be going to school longer than usual. On February 4, Nanaw picked Mama up from St. Peters where they went for her procedure. Nanaw was still having the horrible back pains so Mama took her to the ER at St. Clare. She went back to the ER twice more, and then they put her in the hospital. Finally, on the hospital visit, they said she had a compression fracture in the 9th vertebrae of her spine. Nanaw's prime doc helped her set up an appointment with a doctor who could do what needed to be done. He stuck a needle into her spine and shot cement into the 9th vertebrae of her spine. So Nanaw had that done on Monday, March 3, and she's feeling much better. She hadn't driven this whole time and she thought she would do it today but it was raining so she postponed it to tomorrow. Mama stopped by Nanaw's this evening, and told Nanaw that she and Daddy got  confused about who was picking Chase up from school so Mama had Brady's grandma take him home. Nanaw feels bad for the little bug and wants to get back to taking Chase to school, and picking him up after school. After Nanaw's health challenges were finally getting under control, Columbia had a horrible storm on March 14. A hail storm damaged Nanaw's house and she needs new siding and a new roof. Her Bronco was out in the driveway during the storm because Nanaw wanted to go up to Chase's school and welcome Chase and Mama back from their exciting school trip to Huntsville, Alabama for the visit to Space Camp. Unfortunately, the hail storm also damaged Nanaw's Bronco Sport so it needs to have the hail damage fixed. Mama and Chase had an absolutely wonderful time at Space Camp, with three days of really fun activities. Chase had Friday, March 27, off from school, and he and Mama  played mini-golf in the Concord area, then had lunch at Bar Down. After lunch, Chase came over to Nanaw's house to play. On Saturday morning, he came over to Nanaw's house to visit while Mama went to Schnuck's for her weekly grocery shopping. Time to get back to Days of Chase, after almost two months with no Days. Chase had Friday off from school, and he and Mama  played mini-golf in the Concord area, then had lunch at Bar Down. After lunch, Chase came over to Nanaw's house to play. On Saturday morning, he came over to Nanaw's house to visit while Mama went to Schnuck's for he weekly grocery shopping. Nanaw had some health challenges the first month that she missed Days of Chase, including three emergency room visits, a hospital stay, culminating in back surgery for a compressed vertebrae where the surgeon shot cement into her ninth vertebrae.  After the health challenges were finally under control, Columbia had a horrible storm on March 14. A hail storm damaged Nanaw's house and she needs new siding and a new roof. Her Bronco was out in the driveway during the storm because Nanaw wanted to go up to Chase's school and welcome Chase and Mama back from their exciting school trip to Huntsville, Alabama for the visit to Space Camp. Unfortunately, the hail storm also damaged Nanaw's Bronco Sport so it needs to have the hail damage fixed. Mama and Chase  had a wonderful time at Space Camp, with days of really fun activities. Chase and Nanaw checked a Space Camp movie out from the library and enjoyed watching all the rocket activities. The first photo is Chase doing a chore for Nanaw: changing the front porch light. The next four are at Huntsville, Alabama's Space Camp.