Sunday, June 7, 2020

On Sunday, Mama, Daddy and Chase went out to Uncle Chris's house in Silex. Chase had a wonderful time visiting with his cousins Elias, Cesi and Mallory. They all went swimming in Uncle Chris's pool. They played on the trampoline and jumped on a big stuffed dog. (Cesi has a real dog named Angel). Cesi and Elias also have two cats. The kids went down to the pond and watched the ducks. Mama said Chase fell asleep on the way home. He also got lots of sun. Mama sent Nanaw five great pictures of Chase's activities.  In the evening, Nanaw came over to visit Chase. She told Chase she's bought the basil seeds and took his picture with the packet of seeds. She promised Chase the first thing they would do tomorrow morning is to plant the basil seeds. They would also water the plants. Chase and Nanaw went into his room to play with his stuffed animals on his bed. Nanaw made up a story to tell Chase about Tee Tee piloting Creeper's helicopter. They took Fred and Berry to the zoo and had a wonderful day there. When the story was over, Chase said, "That was a good story." Then Chase and Nanaw played Math Bingo and Word Bingo on Nanaw's phone. Chase showed Nanaw how to play some of the games he likes, such as Kick the Buddy.

Saturday, June 6, 2020

Mama dropped Chase off at Nanaw's house on Saturday morning while she went to Schnuck's. First, Chase and Nanaw watered Nanaw's plants and bushes. Nanaw did her part first without the sprinkler attachment. Most of the settings on the attachments pour too much water on the plants. Then Nanaw put the attachment back on the hose and let Chase play with it. Of course the little fellow had to point the hose into the trench for the lawn drain that Uncle Mike dug on Wednesday. A couple of times Chase accidentally sprayed Nanaw, and they both laughed at that. After the watering was done, Chase and Nanaw went inside. Nanaw fixed Chase a piece of butter bread, which made him very happy. Chase and Nanaw played Roblox together. They worked on creating a space station game. They didn't get very far with it when Mama came to pick Chase up. Nanaw promised Chase that she would buy basil seeds at Washington Walmart. Later in the day, Nanaw texted Mama and asked her to pretty please take a picture of Chase for Days of Chase because Nanaw forgot to take any pictures of him.

Friday, June 5, 2020

Chase and Nanaw did things a little differently on Friday. First, Nanaw watered the plants as soon as they got back from Chase's house rather than waiting until Alexa's 3 p.m. reminder. Nanaw was very excited to see that the radish and pumpkin seeds she planted on Monday have already started to sprout. But not the green beans. At Chase's special request, Nanaw is going to buy some basil seeds tomorrow at the Washington Walmart. In fact, she's going to do all her grocery shopping there tomorrow. She can't go to Waterloo Walmart tonight because Mama is having a small party with Uncle Mike and Aunt Becky and Nanaw is invited. Back to how Nanaw and Chase did things differently. Rather than starting with the regular morning work for school, Chase finished the cursive writing assignment from yesterday. Then he did yesterday's subtraction flash cards and subtraction problems. Then it was time for reading. Nanaw had him read a couple of entries from an Answers book that Uncle Doug passed along to him (it had belonged to his grandsons Ryan and Greg). Chase read aloud about UFOs, why stars twinkle and are there people on other worlds? Chase watched the classes on Room 9 even though they were repeats from earlier in the week -- he really likes the teachers.

Thursday, June 4, 2020

Somehow, Chase didn't get as much school work done on Thursday as Nanaw planned. He played around more than usual, and Nanaw had difficulty getting him back on track. But it will all work out. They can catch up tomorrow. And they're doing more school work this summer than they've ever done during the summer. Chase really likes the classes on Channel 9's Room 9 program. He pays attention to the teachers and seems to like most of them -- which is really cute. The first picture below is Chase doing breathing exercises at the direction of one of the Room 9 teachers. In the afternoon, Chase and Nanaw went to the Telegraph Road library to pick up books, movies and books on tape that Nanaw had on request. They were having curbside pickup, and Nanaw wasn't quite sure how to do it. She registered with a lady in a tent but they had to wait about 45 minutes to get their books and things. It looked like if you texted ahead of time you got your books much faster. So Nanaw is going to try to figure out the best way to do curbside pickup.

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Chase and Nanaw had a mixed-up day on Wednesday. Mama came to pick him up a little after nine to take him to the orthodontist. Because of the coronavirus, Mama couldn't go into the office with Chase. He didn't like having to go in by himself very much. Uncle Mike came over to work on creating a drain in Nanaw's front yard and to cut the grass. The last picture below is the trench Uncle Mike dug for the drain. So they managed to get all the school work done but had to spread it throughout the day. Chase fussed a bit because he thought he wasn't getting enough computer time. Nanaw fixed spaghetti and breadsticks for lunch. Chase was very interested in Nanaw making the spaghetti, and Nanaw had him sprinkle the basil into the sauce. He liked doing that. Chase ate two plates of spaghetti and two breadsticks; he ate too fast, and later got sick to his stomach. Nanaw should have limited him to one plate of spaghetti and one bread stick. Chase and Nanaw played in his sandbox in the front yard for awhile, for the first time in a couple of years. It was fun. Chase also played with the slime. The school work eventually went well. Chase and Nanaw especially like doing the pages that require logic to figure out the correct answers. Chase gets better at those pages every day.

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Another really good day with Chase. Taking away computer time really works well for getting him to concentrate on his school work. Today he did morning work, spring prep, three pages from the Mrs. Meyer collection, subtraction flash cards, subtraction problems, cursive handwriting practice (capital letters today), and reading two stories in the Journeys reading book. (It has to be turned in to Mrs. Meyer on Thursday; Chase and Nanaw will read the last two stories tomorrow -- then they'll have to find something to read for the daily reading assignment. Chase had lots of butter bread today -- too much, actually. Mama has limited Chase to one piece of butter bread with breakfast and two pieces of bread for a sandwich at lunch. But tomorrow's lunch will be Nanaw's spaghetti and garlic bread sticks. Uncle Mike is coming over to do work for Nanaw's yard. In the afternoon, Chase and Nanaw watered the flowers and plants, and Chase played in the water. Nanaw hopes Daddy finds a wading pool for him.

Monday, June 1, 2020

Chase and Nanaw had a really good day. Nanaw has decided that having structure for school time really works well. And taking away computer time in order to get Chase focus and concentrate really works well also. Chase was very excited to have a piece of butter bread along with his regular breakfast. (He also had one with lunch and one with his afternoon snack -- he loves butter bread!) For school, Chase did morning work, one of the spring prep pages, and three of the set of activities from Mrs. Meyer. He also did subtraction problems, subtraction flashcards, cursive handwriting practice and reading out loud. After the school work was finished, Chase and Nanaw went outside to plant the seeds Nanaw bought: radishes, pumpkins and green beans. Then Chase watered the plants and flowers and bushes for Nanaw. Chase sprayed himself with the hose and pretended like he was taking a shower. When Nanaw took Chase home, Mama said they were having the taco salad that Chase had requested -- LOL. Mama sent Nanaw a picture she took of Chase posing with his First Communion banner; it's the last one below.