Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Chase and Nanaw had a quiet day at home except for one exciting visitor. Uncle Mike came down to Nanaw’s house in the morning to fix the soffit on her roof, which the wind had whipped loose. Chase was very excited to see Uncle Mike and especially excited to go outside to "help Uncle Mike fix Nanaw’s house." Chase took some of his tools with him and seemed to have a great time watching Uncle Mike up on the roof. One time, Chase shouted up to Uncle Mike, "Be careful, Uncle Mike." Chase wasn’t too happy to come inside when all the repairs were made. But Uncle Mike sat with him at the kitchen counter, and they colored together – very cute. When Uncle Mike went out into the garage to look for a children’s fishing pole, Chase looked sad and said "I miss Uncle Mike." He was happy when Uncle Mike came back and colored with him some more. After Uncle Mike left, Chase and Nanaw went downstairs where Chase played with his trains, played with the groceries and the cash register and watched Thomas the Train videos on Nanaw's computer.

Monday, November 10, 2014

Mama and Daddy took the day off from work so Nanaw only saw Chase for an hour or so. She came to visit around noon and had a great time playing with Chase in the living room. Evidently the bug decided to mix things up and abandoned his trains for awhile to play with the garage. Chase and Nanaw put lots of cars, trucks and motorcycles on the garage and ran them up and down the elevator and down the ramp. For lunch, Chase had leftover chicken fried rice from Sunday night’s dinner, and he seemed to really like it. In the evening, Mama, Daddy and Chase met Daddy’s friend Betty for dinner at Texas Roadhouse in O’Fallon. Mama says Chase was extremely well behaved and did a good job of eating, although there was enough of his mac and cheese for lunch on Tuesday.

Rockbridge Weekend: Friday, November 7 to Sunday, November 9, 2014

Chase had his major Rockbridge weekend on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. He went on the trout fishing adventure with Daddy, Mama, Uncle Mike, Aunt Becky and Nanaw. On the drive to Rockbridge, they stopped Missouri S & T in Rolla to visit cousin Robbie and take him to breakfast at BreadCo. First, they went to see his room in the dorm. Chase watched videos on the trip to Rockbridge and seemed to enjoy the ride. Chase, Mama and Nanaw went for lots of walks on the weekend. On Sunday, Daddy joined them for the major hike in the woods. The most important activity at Rockbridge is eating at the restaurant, and Chase participated enthusiastically. At various meals, he had grilled cheese, mac and cheese, lots of fry-fries, mashed potatoes, teddy bear pancakes and lots of "memomade" (as he calls lemonade). On Saturday afternoon, Daddy showed Chase how to hold the fishing rod and cast it into the water. He promised Chase that he’d get to fish more next year with his own fishing rod. Also on Saturday afternoon, everybody but Nanaw put their chairs in a line on the porch to make a train for Chase while Nanaw took of picture of the train. Chase met a little girl named Jenna whose grandmother owns Rockbridge, and Chase and Jenna played together. On Saturday night, Uncle Mike and Daddy built a fire in the fire-pit and everyone sat around and enjoyed the fire, except for Chase. He recruited various people to run around with him playing "Zoom." Chase was delighted with a friendly gray kitty that hung around the lodge and let Chase pet him. There were also six or more baby kitties that Nanaw wanted to take home – she took a picture of them posing on the gnarled tree – very cute. They went home by way of Springfield so they could visit cousin Kristie at Missouri State University.

 

Thursday, November 6, 2014

For today’s adventure, Chase and Nanaw went to Chase’s favorite place in the world: The Train House, aka the Museum of Transportation. The 9:15 session of the Creation Station (aka Thomas Table room) was sold out so Chase and Nanaw had to wait until the 10:30 session. While they waited, Chase and Nanaw watched the workers constructing the Christmas train displays in the main lobby. There are the trains that used to be in windows of the downtown Macy’s store at Christmas time. Chase and Nanaw also watched the Thomas videos on the television outside the Creation Station. In the Creation Station, Chase played with the trains for a long time, played on the slide, played in the kitchen, played with the puppets and played with the puzzles.