Thursday, December 23, 2021

Chase had a busy day on Thursday. First, Chase and Nanaw went to the Train House to see the Christmas train display again. Chase had popcorn, of course, and shared it with Nanaw. He had fun looking at the toys in the gift shop. Chase and Nanaw looked at all the displays and found three of the eight candy canes. The other five are in other buildings and locations. When Mama comes along to visit next week, they'll have her try to find the three candy canes. They also identified some things for her to find. Scavenger Hunt for Mama at the Train House: Three candy canes; Fox; Buzz Lightyear; Eagle; and Someone making snow angels. In the afternoon Chase went to Will's house to play. Nanaw said she would pick him up in two hours and thirty minutes. Chase said he would set a timer on his Fitbit. Nanaw is so impressed that he learned how to set a timer all by himself. When Nanaw went to pick up Chase at Will's, she had a delightful talk with Jill and her mother. Chase said he had a wonderful time at Will's. On the way home from Will's, Chase and Nanaw went to Dollar Tree. Nanaw wanted cookie containers but they'd sold all of them. So she got containers with red and green lids. She's giving cookies to Uncle Doug and Aunt Rita, nephew Dan and Sherry and their two sons, Aunt Rita's sister Aunt Cheryl, and Sherry's brother and his family. Chase and Nanaw bought lots of flavored water at Dollar Tree. When Nanaw got home, she couldn't find her phone and was afraid she'd lost it at Dollar Tree. So she and Chase got in the car to go to Dollar Tree. Chase heard some kind of noise that he thought was coming from Nanaw's phone so Nanaw went into the house and called her number. Chase came running into the house with her purse and the phone, saying he'd found it in her purse. A million yays for Chase!!

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Wednesday was Chase's first full day off for Christmas break. Nanaw had a doctor's appointment at 11:10 so she dropped Chase off at his house at 10:30 and picked him up at 12:30. Mama said he shouldn't play with the tablet because he'd already had enough tablet time. Chase had said he wanted to do arts and crafts so Nanaw brought up his arts and crafts materials from downstairs. He spent a lot of time using construction paper and pom poms to make an ornament for Mama's Christmas tree. He also made an ornament for his tree. Next, he had Nanaw get out the basket of his Roblox figures and he played with those on the bed. Nanaw was baking Christmas cookies; she brought him a green Christmas tree; some chocolate chips in a large pill cup that she called medicine, just like she used to do for Mama and Uncle Mike; chocolate chip cookie dough as another version of medicine. Chase was so good that at 4:15, Nanaw sent Mama a text asking if he could have his tablet because of his good behavior. In the evening, Mama, Daddy, Chase, Tee Tee, Creeper and Nanaw went driving around to look at Christmas lights in Columbia, a tradition of theirs.

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Daddy was off work today so he took Chase to school. Chase had just a half day of school so Nanaw picked him up at 11:45. Chase was excited that he had no homework over the Christmas break. He said they had a candy cane and other stuff in class. Nanaw had fixed lunch for Chase, which he ate on the way to the Magic House for their afternoon adventure. Chase had a wonderful time at the Magic House. He spent a lot of time in the science lab playing with the sandbox with several other children. He didn't want to leave when Nanaw said they should go do some other things, so they stayed for a while longer. They went to the Legos and the Lego racing area, the grocery store, the fishing hole, the library, the kinetic sculpture, the hockey area, and a snowball area. He really had fun in the snowball area. They went to the gift shop, and Chase liked this long tube thing with little plastic building things so Nanaw bought it for him for Christmas. He told it cost $25 and he asked if she had $25. Nanaw said yes and that she also had her credit card. Chase said what if they don’t take credit cards, and Nanaw said she was sure they do. And they do. On the way home, Chase asked if Nanaw knew where his Lincoln Logs were, and she said they were downstairs and that she would get them for him. He played with the Lincoln Logs for a long time, making houses and a bench. 

Monday, December 20, 2021

Mama and Daddy had the day off for Chase's birthday so they took him to school, then went to the Abbey for breakfast. Chase took cupcakes from Schnuck's to school for his birthday treat to his class. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school, he had three cupcakes left. He gave one to Nanaw and took the other two home for Mama and Daddy. He said he had homework in math and religion that he would do at Nanaw's house. On the way home, they went to Dollar Tree to buy birthday and Christmas presents for Tee Tee. Back at Nanaw's house, Chase did his religion by himself but asked Nanaw to help him with his math, which she did. Chase and Nanaw went to Chase's house at 5 so they could go out for Chase's birthday dinner. He went with tradition and chose Steak n Shake. They were open for people to eat inside but with many changes. You ordered your food from a kiosk rather than from wait staff. You picked up your food at a counter rather than having it delivered by wait staff. Very interesting and very smart of them. At Chase's house he opened his presents and got lots of cool gifts, including a tabletop pool table, a Fitbit from Nanaw, jammies and a Minecraft blanket, a penguin blanket from Nanaw, a pinball machine from Nanaw, a Calega game from Nanaw, a Wimpy Kid game, a Minecraft ornament from Nanaw, a game for his Switch, and more. After presents, they ate yummy ice cream cake.

Sunday, December 19, 2021

Nanaw went to visit Chase after church because he wasn't going to come to Kris's birthday dinner because he had hockey practice. For an hour, they played with the slime Mason and Hunter got him for his birthday. They both agreed that playing with the slime was very "satisfying." Mama said after Nanaw left, she, Daddy and Chase played cops and robbers with his new remote control cars. Mama drove the Jeep Wrangler, Daddy was the policeman in the patrol car and Chase drove the red Corvette. Mama sent Nanaw two pictures from Chase's bowling birthday party, a picture of Chase in his hockey gear, a picture of Tee Tee wearing what Mama calls the Alligator Santa Hat and a picture of Chase in the Alligator Santa Hat. Chase was missed at the birthday celebration. He would have really liked the virtual reality game, Occulus, that cousin Joey brought. Mama asked Joey to bring it back on Christmas Day so Chase could see what the roller coaster looks like. 

Saturday, December 18, 2021

Saturday was a major day for Chase: his birthday party at the bowling alley. Nanaw went over to Chase's house at 2 p.m. and rode to the bowling alley with Mama, Daddy and Chase. When they arrived, Jackson and his mom and dad were already there; they came in Jen's awesome Chevy Blazer. Mama got everything organized and then the boys, girls and their parents started to arrive. Mama had invited the siblings of the boys who were invited to there were lots of kids -- 19, I think. Daddy and Jackson worked on putting in everyone's names. Jackson also helped some of the kids find the 7 pound balls. All the boys and girls got bowling shoes at the main counter. Everybody seemed to have a wonderful time bowling, especially Chase. He was so excited about his birthday party and about bowling. He gave Nanaw lots of hugs, which made her very happy. Cam wanted Chase to open his present so Chase did -- it was an awesome Batman remote control car that can run on water. Chase brought the rest of the presents home and opened them with Jackson and his parents and Mama and Daddy and Nanaw. He got a Mario video game from Connor; Roblox figures and a Minecraft shirt from Cole; a Nerf gun from Brady; a remote control police car and Corvette from somebody Nanaw doesn't remember; a taco game from Jackson; and some other presents Nanaw doesn't remember. The pictures were from Chase playing with his Light Bright today. Nanaw tried to take a picture of Chase at his birthday party but the battery was too low on her phone and the picture didn't take. Nanaw had to turn her phone off. Joey's mom took some pictures of Chase so Nanaw is going to have Mama ask her for the photos. Then Nanaw will put them on Days of Chase. 

Friday, December 17, 2021

Mama and Daddy had the day off today so they took Chase to school. Nanaw really missed him but she got to sleep late, so that was good. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school, he was happy to report that he didn't have any homework. He did almost perfectly on his tests today -- 17 out of 17 on the social studies test, and 29 out of 30 on the reading/English test. So all that studying on Wednesday and Thursday nights really paid off. When they got to Nanaw's house, Chase brought his Chromebook in so he could show Nanaw a neat science thing online about motion and friction. It was sort of like a game, Nanaw got the laptop and tried to do it but didn’t do too well. Chase, of course, did it well. When they were getting ready to take Chase home, Chase had trouble finding the hood of his coat to put it on his head. Nanaw thought that was funny and started laughing and laughing. Chase didn't like that very much and said, "Suck it up, buttercup." Nanaw guessed he was telling her to stop laughing.