Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Nanaw took two cute pictures of Chase on Tuesday morning, lying on the couch, cuddling and hugging Fred the flamingo and Tee Tee. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school in the afternoon, he was so excited because he and the rest of the class were all rock star students, and they got Dum Dum suckers from the teacher. Nanaw was excited for him. He reminded Nanaw that she promised him a surprise present if he was a rock star student again. Nanaw said they would have to go to Waterloo Walmart instead of Telegraph Road Walmart because of the bridge being closed. So then Chase said they would wait till the bridge was open so they could go to Telegraph Road Walmart. When they got home, Chase played on the laptop for awhile. Then he played hockey in the hall. When Nanaw went downstairs to walk on the treadmill, Chase brought his stuffed "amamals" downstairs and played hockey with them. He spread them out on the floor, and they were the hockey players. In the evening, Nanaw had to go to a web training meeting at church and had to take the Poplar Street Bridge. It took an hour and 15 minutes and most of that time was spent waiting in line on Route 3. Nanaw thinks that the next time she has to go to Missouri, she'll take the really long way -- 255 to 270.

Monday, May 13, 2019

There were traffic jams in normally traffic-free Columbia today because of the JB Bridge being closed. Nanaw didn't go to the cemetery today or over to South County. She'll do it tomorrow after she takes Chase home. She'll take the Poplar Street Bridge, go to the Manchester Schnuck's for Lactaid cottage cheese, then go to the cemetery, then to the gas station on Butler Hill and then to the website training meeting at church. Batching her jobs, you might say. When Chase and Nanaw got to Nanaw's house in the morning, Chase played on the laptop for awhile, then he and Nanaw played Minecraft on the iPad and iPhone. Mama sent along more snacks for Chase's backpack, and he made sure that all the Cheez-its were in there. Cheez-its are his favorite. After school, Chase was happy that they could go straight home and not have to go anywhere across the bridge. Once again, Chase played for awhile on the laptop, then he played hockey. He also brought some of his Hot Wheels out of his room and spread them out on Pawpaw's bed. Chase finally had baseball practice tonight. Nanaw went to watch him. She had trouble finding the practice. She called Mama to find out where they were practicing. It turned out they were moved from field 3 to field 11. Nanaw finally found them. Chase had forgotten Fred the flamingo in the back seat of Nanaw's car so Nanaw brought him along for Chase to take home. Nanaw sat by Cole's mom Tanya at the practice, and Brady's sister Emmy came to sit with them. Emma pulled up a lot weeds and gave them to Tanya and Nanaw as "flowers."

 

 

 

 



 

Sunday, May 12, 2019

Chase had a Mother's Day celebration at his house on Sunday morning for Grandma Pat. Uncle George and his family and Aunt Nona and cousin Wesley. They had Krispy Kreme donuts and a fruit tray. Chase and Daddy got Mama a Matt Carpenter jersey and adopted a flamingo from the zoo for her; she got a stuffed flamingo named Fred that Chase said he would share with her. Chase, Mama and Daddy came over to Nanaw's house for Mother's Day dinner. Chase brought Fred, and Nanaw thinks he's really cute. For dinner, they had lasagna and roast beef. Dessert was delicious strawberry cake and gooey butter cake from Nichole; Mama brought chocolate chip cookies and Nanaw made gluten-free brownies. Uncle Mike and Aunt Becky planted Nanaw's garden for her Mother's Day present -- tomatoes, cucumbers and lots of flowers. In addition to the beautiful blue hydrangea, Mama, Chase and Daddy gave Nanaw a Honeysuckle Clementine candle and gift certificate to Office Max (yay!). Later in the evening, Mama and Uncle Mike let Nanaw know that the west-bound Jefferson Barracks Bridge is closed so Nanaw will have to take the Poplar Street Bridge to visit the cemetery.

 

Saturday, May 11, 2019

When Nanaw started to go over to visit Chase on Saturday morning, her garage door broke again. So she called Mama, and Mama said she would bring Chase over to Nanaw's for a visit on her way to the grocery store. She said Daddy would come over to open Nanaw's garage door so Nanaw could move her car outside. So that's what they did. Nanaw was very happy to see the bug, her best buddy. When he and Mama got to Nanaw's house, they were talking about their plans for next Saturday night. Daddy is going to cousin Kyle's graduation, and so Mama and Chase are having an adventure together. They might go to Swing Around Town. After Mama left, Chase said he was hungry, so Nanaw gave him juice, potato chips, red licorice and Thomas treats. He played on the laptop for awhile, till Daddy came to pick him up. Daddy got Nanaw's garage door open, and she moved her car. Chase was going to Hunter's birthday party at 5 p.m. at Hunter's house. Nanaw went to a wedding on Saturday evening.

Friday, May 10, 2019

Chase and Mama were both excited about the Spa Day the first graders were planning for their mamas on Friday afternoon. Mama took two hours of community service to attend. She brought along red fingernail polish for her hands and clear polish for Chase to put on her toenails. Mama said Chase did a really good job and that they had a great time. The had pretzels for a treat, dipped in vanilla cream or chocolate. Mama also got coupons from Chase for breakfast in bed and massages. However, Mama said Chase coughed most of the time. He's been coughing nonstop for a day or so. Mama brought him over to Nanaw's house after the spa adventure. Nanaw had set up a Treasure Trail with his stuffed "amamals" leading to a school paper that Chase was to work on and then get a special treat, like a popsicle, Thomas treats and mint chocolate chip ice cream. He had fun doing it and didn't realize Nanaw had tricked him into doing school work. After the Treasure Trail, Chase and Nanaw went downstairs and played school. Mama and Daddy went out to dinner at Top Shooters -- Mama was craving wings. So Nanaw got to keep Chase till about 7 o'clock -- which made her very happy. When Mama and Daddy came to pick Chase up, they told Chase and Nanaw about their plan for October 2020 for their tenth wedding anniversary. They're planning a major trip to Las Vegas. And best of all, Chase gets to spend three nights with Nanaw -- for which he said, "Yay!"

 

 

 

Thursday, May 9, 2019

When Chase and Mama got to Nanaw's house on Thursday morning, Chase was saying he was sick and couldn't go to school. Mama said he'd been coughing all night, and Chase said his belly hurt. Mama asked Nanaw to see if she could convince him to go to school. If not, she should call Mama so Mama could call the school. At first, Nanaw didn't think she was going to be able to get him to go to school. Then at about 7:25, he did an about face and said he'd go to school. So Nanaw made sure he got dressed, and they went to school. Nanaw discovered that most of the things in Chase's pencil box had disappeared. He only had some crayons and one marker. No pencils, no scissors, no glue stick, mostly no markers. So Nanaw brought a supply of everything when Nanaw did her volunteer work with the groups. But she was disappointed that Chase wasn't included in the groups. Chase said his teacher didn't call his name to go out in a group but he didn't know why. After school, Chase and Nanaw went to the Telegraph Road library to do the May scavenger hunt. To their delight, it was a Where's Waldo scavenger hunt, and they had a lot of fun doing it. To explain the mysterious mix of pictures: the first one shows Chase lying next to his skeleton pajamas; then one of cute little Emma; Chase in the back seat; the Waldo scavenger hunt; Chase playing one of the games at the library; Chase's homework that Mama accidentally gave to Nanaw; and the Jack slippers got left at Nanaw's so they're having a sleepover.

Wednesday, May 8, 2019

On Wednesday morning, when Nanaw picked Chase up at his house, Nanaw told Chase she would have to take him to his house after school because he had a dentist appointment. Chase didn't like that very much because he likes to play Roblox and watch videos on the laptop -- his laptop, he calls it. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school, he said nothing bad happened. Then he said nobody got star student behavior. He said he sort of thought he might get it because he was very good but nobody got it. Nanaw told him if he got star student one more time before school was out, she would buy him a surprise present, and he liked that. Chase was talking about how when school is out, he and Nanaw will play school: upstairs for computer lab, and downstairs for music and arts and crafts and other stuff. Nanaw said when they go places like the Magic House and the Science Center, they'll call them field trips. Nanaw told Mama that she wants to start taking Chase's school papers home with her so she and Chase can practice with them. The first picture below is one that Nanaw took of Emma and her toy unicorn while waiting to pick Chase up from school. At Chase's house after school, Chase and Nanaw played hockey downstairs while Mama finished working before Chase's dentist appointment.