Sunday, January 10, 2021

On Sunday afternoon, Nanaw went over to Chase's house. Chase was at baseball practice at Powerhouse with Daddy. Mama and Nanaw went on a reconnaissance adventure to St. Clare Hospital so that Nanaw knew where to go for her appointment on Friday. Mama and Nanaw also drove to the end of highway 141, wanting to know where it stopped. The answer is JeffCo Blvd. On the way home, Nanaw wanted to look at the place they think Aldi will be built, across from Dairy Queen in Columbia. When they were turning from Route 3 onto Main Street, Daddy and Chase were coming from the opposite direction. Mama and Nanaw followed behind and finally Daddy and Chase saw Mama and Nanaw following behind them, and Chase waved. When they were all back home, Mama, Chase and Nanaw sat at the kitchen table and Chase did his spelling words for Mama. Then they all played a Roblox game together on their devices. Then Mama took Sam and Sylvester for their walk. Chase and Nanaw went into Chase's room and played hide and seek with his stuffed animals on his bed. They made quite a mess of his bed so Nanaw fixed it. Nanaw left when Mama got back from the dog walk. They were having salad and French bread for dinner. Daddy and Chase were going to hockey practice at 5:40 p.m. in Affton.

Saturday, January 9, 2021

Mama brought Chase over to Nanaw's house on Saturday morning while she went to the grocery store.  She was very excited to get to go to the grocery store. Her grocery delivery experience last week wasn't the greatest. Chase and Nanaw had some adventures. First, they got out the crystal growing kit that Nanaw gave Chase for either his birthday or Christmas. Chase helped stir the crystal containers and was fascinated with the idea that crystals were going to grow. He also like the light-up base that they'll put the finished crystals on. It's going to take a week for the crystals to grow. The other thing they did was for Chase to play in the sink in the water with his Mario guys and Loki and a few of his other figures. After those activities, Chase wanted to put the Robux he got from Nanaw for his birthday into Roblox so they did. Then he wanted to play a Covid Roblox game with Nanaw. Nanaw was a doctor and wore a white outfit and a mask. And, of course, she had her rat on her shoulder. Chase was a patient and was wearing a piece of pizza on his back and his antlers. First Dr. Nanaw did a Covid test on Chase's avatar. Then she gave him a Covid vaccine shot. Very fun and funny. When Mama got there, she told Chase he was going to have Mozzarella sticks and little smokies for lunch. I think Mama's plan was to have Top Shooters wings for dinner -- now that the quarantine was over, Daddy could go pick them up. Nanaw forgot to take pictures today so she's going to use a Facebook memory picture from four years ago that Mama sent to her today. It was from the time Daddy, Mama, Chase and Nanaw went to the movie theater to see Finding Dory. Chase posed in a special area they had set up for photos.

Friday, January 8, 2021

Happy Birthday to Mama!!! Mama had the day off for her birthday but she brought Chase over at the regular time. She was going to take down the Christmas tree in the living room, Chase's Christmas tree in his room and the Christmas decorations. Friday was Chase's last day doing Zoom classes at Nanaw's house. It was pajama day if you made a donation. Chase wore his Black Watch tartan plaid little old man jammies. Chase did really well on his last day. He was very self-sufficient in finding the Zoom links and the books and papers he needed for class. Amelie was the only other student doing Zoom with Chase. One of the best parts of the day was a Zoom session with a police dog and his policeman. Ms. Kennedy arranged for a policeman in Kentucky to do a Zoom presentation for the class. The dog is ten years old, is named Fox and is a Belgian Malinois (he looks like a German Shepherd). Chase loved watching the dog and is excited that next week, a Columbia policeman is bringing his police dog to Chase's class in person. Chase said he's looking forward to going back to school and to seeing his friend William, who's been doing Zoom for the whole school year but who is now back at class. Nanaw baked Mama's birthday cake and wrapped her presents (mostly Jack Skellington presents). After school, Nanaw and Chase tried again to make Mama's birthday game work but they couldn't. They'll keep trying because Mama really wants the game. At five o'clock, Chase and Nanaw went to Chase's house, with the birthday cake and Mama's presents. For dinner, they had Arby's. Daddy went to Waterloo to get their order. Nanaw had delicious chicken tenders. After dinner, they had super fun playing The Game of Life. Daddy was the banker and he won the game. At first, Nanaw went bankrupt and had all kinds of promissory notes. Then things turned around for her, and she ended up coming in second in the game. After the game, Mama opened her presents from Nanaw. After presents, everybody had cherry chip cake and dark cherry with chocolate pieces ice cream that was delicious. 

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Thursday's Zooming day was a little different than the others. Nanaw's cleaning lady was coming so she and Chase would have to go downstairs while the cleaning lady was there. The first thing Chase had on Thursday morning was the all-class mass. The smart little fellow went to the ICS website and found the streaming link for the mass and opened the link and watched the mass. Nanaw was so proud of Chase. When it was time for recess, Chase and Nanaw carried the laptop, all his books and papers, and everything for lunch (plus Tee Tee and Creeper, of course) downstairs. Once again, Chase was very self-sufficient with the Zoom links and the papers he needed. For Physical Education, Chase walked on Nanaw's treadmill and rode on the exercise bike. It was very cute to watch, and Chase had a great time. At lunchtime, he came to sit with Nanaw and eat his ham and cheese sandwich. After lunch, Chase played with the toys in the playpen, one of his favorite activities when he was a little boy. Music class didn't work out very well for the Zoomers (Chase, his friend Will and Amelie). They were supposed to play their recorders (Chase has a beautiful blue one) but the Zoom link didn't work so they're going to try again tomorrow. After school, Chase and Nanaw tried again to make a ROBLOX game for Mama but again their games would not work. So tonight Nanaw is going to read the ROBLOX books and do the ROBLOX tutorial and figure out what they're doing wrong.

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Nanaw is liking having Chase Zooming at her house. He'd probably rather be back in school with his friends but Nanaw is happy to have him with her. They ran into a Zoom issue in the morning. Nanaw wanted to put in a multiple outlet so she unplugged the laptop, thinking the laptop would use its battery. But it didn't. It turned off. Then it took a long time to get it up and running and Zooming again. Chase is very self-sufficient with the Zooming and remote school. He goes into the email with the Zoom links and finds the right one. He and Nanaw look through the papers to find the ones he needs. He watches the clock and knows when each new Zoom starts -- very impressive. Chase and Nanaw keep trying to make Mama's birthday ROBLOX game but so far no luck. They'll keep trying.  

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Chase and Nanaw had a good day on Tuesday doing Chase's Zooming. At first, they were in the dining room but the sunshine kept getting in their eyes. So they moved the laptop back into the computer lab. Chase had vocabulary review in Spanish. In Science, they're studying ecosystems. In Social Studies, they learned about American symbols, like the Pledge of Allegiance, the national anthem, the American flag, the Statue of Liberty and the White House. He had Fundations, which Nanaw doesn't understand and then PE. For PE, Chase and Nanaw did some touching the toes, picking up the Mario guys. Then they tossed the Mario guys down the stairs and went down to get them. Lastly, they jogged around the house. Then he did a multiplication worksheet in Math. He also colored a multiplication design for Math. In the middle of Math, Chase was supposed to print out the multiplication worksheet, and the printer ran out of ink. Nanaw changed the ink cartridge but had some problems with it so it took a couple of minutes. Chase asked the teacher and the class to wait for him while his Nanaw fixed the printer. Nanaw thought it was sort of funny. At the end of the day, Chase started to work on the Roblox game for his Mama as his birthday present to her (Mama's birthday is Friday, January 8). He named it Shy guy and the dogworld (EARLY RELEASE). He put lots of dogs in the game, along with Shy Guy from Mario's guys, Jack Skellington, Pepsi, and a book. In the evening, Nanaw tried to play the game but couldn't get it to open. 

Monday, January 4, 2021

Today was Chase's first day of his week of Zooming for school. Mama brought Chase over to Nanaw's house at the regular time. Then she went to Chase's school to pick up all his books that he'll need this week. She brought the books back to Nanaw's house. Chase's Zooming didn't start until 9 a.m. because his class had mass first thing this morning. First came reading/spelling/English. They had their weekly spelling test, and Chase got all the words right. Ya, Chase! Next came reading and vocabulary words. Recess was next, and Chase played with Nanaw's tablet. Computer class came next; Mama came back to Nanaw's house in the middle of computer class. She was going to stay with Chase while Nanaw went to have a biopsy. Nanaw got back home about 3 p.m. Mama said things went well, except for the chaos the children in the schoolroom were causing. Ms. Kennedy had to keep telling them to sit down, to put their masks back on, to quit talking. Mama said it was really bad. She said the teachers have huge amounts of patience. Mama went home and Chase stayed till 5. In the evening, Mama called to ask if Tee Tee was at Nanaw's house. Nanaw found him on the floor of the car and took him home.