Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Today’s story time books were Snowballs and Winter and the prop Mama sent was a stuffed reindeer. After breakfast, Chase and Nanaw went to the bank (where Chase got a sucker) and then to the post office. Then they went on the day’s adventure to Powder Valley. They took a walk on the short ½ mile loop – Chase did his usual friendly hellos to the other walkers – very cute. Inside the Nature Center, he did the same friendly thing with the other little boys and girls there. He loves little children and always wants to play with them. It will be a good thing for Chase when he goes to pre-school next year – he’ll have fun with the other children. In the Nature Center he visited the bees, the bear, the fishies, the snake tree house, the turtles and the puppet theater. When Chase got home, he immediately wanted to play Angry Birds and trains with Daddy – Daddy is Chase’s favorite playmate.

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Chase and Nanaw spent a warm and cozy rainy day at home. Story time featured two of Chase’s favorite books: Owl Babies with the stuffed owl named Bill and Spot Loves His Mommy with stuffed Spot. TJ came to story time also, which seemed to delight Chase. After story time, Chase had breakfast and played with his Thomas coloring and sticker book. He had Nanaw pull off stickers for him and he put them on his arms like tattoos – very cute. Next, Chase and Nanaw went downstairs to play trains. Using Super Glue. Nanaw had put magnets on three trains that didn’t have magnets. There was a drop of glue still on one of the trains and Chase got it on the palm of his hand, really annoying him – very funny. He kept trying to get it off, and finally, Nanaw used finger nail polish remover to get it off. Nanaw stayed for a pepper steak experimental dinner, "dee-wishes" as usual.

Monday, November 3, 2014

Chase and Nanaw had story time first thing in the morning, and Chase seems to really like this new activity. For today’s adventure, Chase and Nanaw went to the Telegraph Road Library. Chase wanted to play with puzzles so the first thing Chase and Nanaw did was play with the pirate puzzle on the floor. Then Chase played on the computer with the Dora the Explorer program. Next, came the Connect 4 game – Chase calls the little red and yellow disks "coins." He did some running around among the bookcases and a little bit of shouting¸ and Nanaw explained to him that they were at the library, and you can’t run around in the library and you have to whisper, not shout. When they got home, Chase and Nanaw went downstairs to play with trains, before lunch and Chase’s nap. After his nap, Chase and Nanaw played with the trains and other toys in Chase’s room. When Chase got home and saw that the inflatable pumpkins and skeleton were gone, he said, "Where are the pumpkins and skeleton?" Nanaw explained that they’d gone night-night until next Halloween.

Sunday, November 2, 2014

When Nanaw came to visit Chase on Sunday evening, he met her at the gate to the living room, saying, "Hi, Nanaw. I get a sucker." It turns out that Mama and Daddy had promised Chase a sucker when Nanaw came to visit, and Chase (the smart little one) remembered. While Nanaw was there, she told him stories (one of his new favorite things – always starting with "One day" and ending with "The End" – sometimes that’s the entire content of Daddy’s stories. Chase and Nanaw also played trains in the living room, played "Pile" in his room, played with his zoo, played with other toys in his room. Nanaw had a piece of Mama’s "dee-wishes" pumpkin cheesecake and gave bites to Chase and Mama. Nanaw also stayed for dinner, even though she hadn’t planned to -- "dee-wishes" chicken teriyaki.

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Nanaw came to visit Chase on Saturday morning, the day after a wonderful Halloween. Chase and Daddy had some of Chase’s Halloween candy. Mama had been for her mammogram and then did her grocery shopping at Walmart. Chase and Nanaw played with his toys in the living room, then went into the kitchen where Mama was baking a pumpkin cheesecake for Uncle Chris’s Halloween party Saturday night. Nanaw gave Chase a bowl and a spoon and some pumpkin seeds, and he seemed to have a great time mixing the pumpkin seeds in the bowl. He kept saying, "I’m mixing." Nanaw put a towel around his neck as a pretend apron. Nanaw will have to get him an apron and let him play with bowls and spoons in her kitchen. Nanaw wishes she could find a kitchen at Goodwill for Chase but so far she hasn’t seen one. After Chase was finished cooking, he and Nanaw went into his room and played "Pile!" with his stuffed animals. In the evening, Mama called and said they were having a wonderful time at Uncle Chris’s. Sam was there too and they were all going to spend the night.