Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Chase and Nanaw left a little earlier than usual. As they were driving to school, Chase said, "Nanaw, you don't have to rush because we're early." He must have looked at the clock. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school, he said he had religion and math homework. He said he would do the religion homework at Nanaw's house and the math homework at his house. As they were talking to Mama on the phone, Chase said, "Breaking News!" Mama and Nanaw asked him what the breaking news was. Chase said Connor and Drew are going to start a newspaper, and he was going to be a writer. He said he wanted to be a cartoonist but they already had too many cartoonists. He said they were thinking about calling the newspaper the Immaculate Conception Times. Mama and Nanaw can't wait to see the newspaper. Chase did his AR reading even thought he doesn't have a reading log this week. He also did his religion homework and then he watched Curious George and other PBS programs while playing with the tablet. Then he decided he wanted to wear his Jason mask and Nanaw took pictures of him. 

Monday, December 13, 2021

Chase brought along Jimmy the polar bear from the Shrine this morning. Chase really likes Jimmy.  When Nanaw picked Chase up and called Mama, Mama asked him if he had any money to buy candy canes. Chase said he found spare cash in his backpack and bought a candy cane. Mama asked him he needed more spare cash, and he said yes. LOL Nanaw asked Chase if he had any homework, and he told he thought he didn't have any. Then old religion came along, and he has to look something up in the Bible. He said he brought his Bible home, and he was going to have Daddy help him with his homework. Mama was going to the Parents and Friends meeting tonight, and Daddy was going to fix cheeseburger macaroni and Chase was very excited about that. Nanaw found a sweater for Jimmy, and Chase said it was beautiful. When Nanaw took Chase home, he asked her to stay while he opened his toy advent calendar. He got a little top or maybe a Jewish dreidel. The first tow pictures are from the Shrine visit last night.

Sunday, December 12, 2021

Sunday evening was a very special event for Mama, Daddy, Chase and Nanaw. Jackson's grandma scheduled a carriage ride to see the lights at the Shrine's Way of Lights for 10 people, and she included Nanaw. They got there early and bought kettle corn to eat -- the other food wasn't available. They saw the camels giving camel rides but didn’t do it. They went into the petting zoo, and Jackson and Chase fed the carrot pieces to the goats and camels -- it was very cute. Nanaw was very cold and sorry that she forgot to bring s blanket. But Chase said he would share his blanket with Nanaw. When they got to their carriage, they learned that their horse's name was Jimmy. (The other two were Ronnie and Grace.) Jackson brought two apples for the horses. Jimmy ate one whole one and then half of the other one. The other half went to Ronnie. Nanaw had a bit of difficulty climbing into the carriage but eventually got herself seated. Jackson's mom brought extra blankets so Nanaw got one, plus some super-duper hand warmers that Nanaw shared with Chase. The lights were wonderful and so was the carriage ride. At one point, the driver had Jimmy gallop up a hill -- very exciting. On the way out of the Shrine, they got to see all the lights again. They gave a donation to the Shrine, and Chase got a polar bear for the donation. He named the bear Jimmy Jr., of course. Jackson named his bear Jimmy also.

Saturday, December 11, 2021

Mama brought Chase over to Nanaw's house on Saturday morning while she went to the grocery store. For a long while, Chase and Nanaw played with the kinetic sand. Chase was doing his latest favorite thing -- red light, green light -- with the kinetic sand. In the afternoon, Mama, Daddy, Chase and Nanaw went to Uncle Mike's house for his annual Christmas party. It was a wonderful party as always. Nanaw brought along some of Chase's Hot Wheels, and he played red light, green light with them on the living room floor. Uncle Mike's cat Tucker came to visit, and Nanaw took a picture of him. Tucker was very friendly to Nanaw and no longer hisses at her like he used to. The food was wonderful, and Chase and Nanaw ate lots, especially the sweets. They went downstairs, and Chase played ping pong with Nanaw, then with Daddy and then with cousin Joe. He had a great time and wore himself out. He started playing with Nanaw's tablet, and Nanaw decided to do the software installation on his that would allow the installation of the Google Play Store. There are lots of games on there that Chase wanted on his tablet. Nanaw got it installed, and then ordered an SD card for her tablet.

Friday, December 10, 2021

Mama and Daddy both had the day off on Friday so they took Chase to school, then had breakfast at Washy's. Then they went to Dick's to buy a new treadmill and to Bass Pro to buy a Christmas present for Chase that he saw there and really wanted. Nanaw got trapped for an hour in a funeral procession traffic jam when she was on her way to the gas station and the library. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school, he was in a really good mood. He said he had no homework for the weekend, and that made him happy. At Nanaw's house, he wanted to play in his room and watch Curious George. He decided to make some games so he asked for a TV table, paper, crayons and a scissors. He spent lots of time making all kinds of games -- it was really cute, and Nanaw was impressed with his creativity. Mama picked Chase up at 4:40 to take him to Walgreen's to get his second COVID vaccine shot. Mama said it was difficult again but at least it's over now. Chase and Mama went to Sonic after the shot at Walgreen's to get take-out for dinner.

Thursday, December 9, 2021

When Nanaw picked Chase up from school, he said he didn't have any homework, just studying for his religion and math tests tomorrow. He did 15 minutes of AR reading, then watched Curious George. Nanaw gave him eight math problems to do but he only did five of them. He and Nanaw studied the review page for his religion test. Nanaw took Chase home early, at 5 p.m. so he could eat dinner and get ready for the band concert. Nanaw went home to eat dinner and went back to Chase's house at 6 p.m. Chase had on khakis, a white shirt and dress shoes / church shoes. When they got to church / school, Nanaw followed Chase into the band room so he could pick up his clarinet and music book. The gym was very crowded for the concert. Fortunately, where Mama, Daddy and Nanaw were sitting, they could see Chase. The beginning band did a really good job, and Mama, Daddy and Nanaw were very proud. The beginning band played Cardiff by the Sea, Hot Cross Buns and Claire de Lune. The other bands were also very good. Nanaw was impressed at how good they were.

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

When Nanaw picked Chase up from school, he said he brought his religion book and math book home to study for his two tests on Friday. He also brought his clarinet home to practice for Thursday night's band concert. At Nanaw's house, he did 15 minutes of AR reading even though there's no reading log this week. Then he did four long division problems Nanaw made up for him. He played his clarinet for Nanaw and the guys, pretending that he was giving them a concert. He briefly looked through his religion book, and Nanaw said he would have to study harder with Daddy tonight and tomorrow night. Mama called and said that Cole's Mama wanted to know if Chase could go to the little library park to play with Cole and Brady. Nanaw had Chase finish up his religion studying (it's an open book test), while Nanaw packed up the guys and the rest of Chase's things. At the park, Chase, Brady and Cole played with the bats; played red light, green light; playing basketball with the soccer ball; and played on the playground. They only stayed about an hour because it got dark -- and it was very cold -- Nanaw was freezing. Chase and Nanaw got to see the beautifully decorated house across from the library; they also drove up the street across Rueck from Chase's street to see the house at the end of the street with all the wonderful decorations.