Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Chase and Nanaw didn't go for their walk on Tuesday morning because Nanaw had to get the house ready for the cleaning lady. At 10 a.m., they had an appointment at the eye doctor's for Chase to again practice trying to put contact lenses in his eyes. One time, he got really close. The lady, Courtney, who is helping him is extremely patient and helpful and kind. She says Chase is patient, too, and is really determined and trying. She says he'll eventually be able to do it. Mama will set up another appointment when they get back from Chicago. Chase and Nanaw went downstairs a little before noon. They had school from 2 to 4 in the schoolroom. Chase brought the guys with him. School was good. Nanaw switched things around by starting with reading The One and Only Bob. That's usually the final thing each day. They did some work in the new English workbook and the new math workbook.  Mama, Daddy and Chase are leaving for Chicago tomorrow morning at 10. Before that, Mama is bringing Sam, Sylvester, and Tyler over to Nanaw's house for their three-day sleepover. 

Monday, July 17, 2023

When Mama brought Chase over to Nanaw's house on Monday morning, she brought along his groceries, even though he's only going to be at Nanaw's two days this week. Chase brought along his contact solution so he can practice holding his eyes open and pretend he's putting contact lenses on his eyes. He has another eye doctor appointment at 10 o'clock tomorrow to work on this again, and Nanaw is going to take him. Mama said she'd arranged to purchase a membership in the Columbia swim club so now they can go swimming whenever they want. She arranged with Brady and Hunter's mom for them all to meet at the pool in the early evening and swim together. Chase and Nanaw didn't go for the walk because the weather looked so awful, like it would rain again. Nanaw had a 10 o'clock appointment so She took Chase over to his house. Daddy asked Chase if he'd walked, and Chase said no. So he and Daddy went for a walk around the neighborhood. When Nanaw picked Chase up, she told him she had to go to Walgreens and to the library. Of course, Chase wasn't too happy about that but it all worked out because at the library he decided he wanted POP Tarts from the vending machine, and he was totally happy after that. In school today, Nanaw used the two new workbooks in English and math she bought. They're good but they'll be skipping some of the pages to find things that will interest Chase and teach him new things.

Saturday, July 15, and Sunday, July 16, 2023

Interestingly enough, Mama, Daddy, Chase and Nanaw all had a time away from home on Saturday and Sunday -- and mostly not together. Nanaw came to visit Chase on Saturday morning, and she and Tyler, the cat, watched him play Job Simulator/Restaurant and baseball downstairs on his VR, and then they played with the stuffed animals upstairs. Chase and Daddy left a little after 11 a.m. on Saturday morning to go out to Silex to spend the night with Elias and his dad. They took Sam and Sylvester with them. Also there in addition to Elias was Uncle Chris (whose house they stayed at), Uncle Chuck, and Uncle Will Bill. It was a guys' weekend. Daddy and Chase brought KFC for lunch, and Chase had more for dinner. Elias's swimming pool was open with a new liner, and Chase says they went swimming twice, which he really liked. Chase had brought along his Wiffle ball bats and balls and his strike zone. He thinks Elias liked his strike zone, and he did well with it. Chase said they left Elias's house at about 10 a.m. Sunday morning. Mama's adventure was to go to Uncle Mike's house for a driveway party with Uncle Mike's neighbor Kent. Before the party, Mama and Uncle Mike walked to Paul's Market to look around. (Papaw and Nanaw used to go there to buy wonderful steaks.) Aunt Becky made popcorn for the driveway party. Then Aunt Becky made her wonderful homemade pizza for dinner. Mama slept in Irina's bed (Irina is still in Europe) and got to see the cat, Tucker. The German Shepherds, Cheyenne and Apache, came to visit Mama, and she liked that. On Sunday morning, Mama and Uncle Mike went to Old Towne Donuts and bought lots of delicious donuts. Mama brought some home -- three of them had sprinkles and those were for Chase. Nanaw went out to the little house on Saturday and came back Sunday and went to visit Chase in the late afternoon. For a while, she watched him play his Xbox. Next they played hockey with the stuffed animals. Then Chase wanted to go in the living room to rest. He and Elias stayed up till 11:30 Saturday night, and Chase was really tired so Nanaw went home. 

Friday, July 14, 2023

Nanaw did some things around the house on Friday morning, and she and Chase ended up not going on their walk until after 9:30. It was really hot and humid outside so Nanaw took a bottle of frozen with her to keep her cool. They stopped and talked to neighbor Steve for a minute (he's the one who owns Jose and Puss-Puss, two cats who have e run of the neighborhood and often visit Nanaw's cats). Steve said he remembered when Chase was little and Nanaw would take him for walks in the stroller. Again, Chase ran a lot of the way home -- very fun. For lunch, Chase had another one of the frozen dinners Mama bought for him. This one was cheeseburger mac. Today, instead of doing the math packets, Chase did the decimals test again. And he got every right -- a 100 -- an A+. Quite a difference from the 71 -- D -- he got in class. He was very excited about it, and so were Mama and Nanaw. Now, the only time he'll take the decimals test again is the last Friday of summer school. But he'll continue to practice decimals in summer school. Nanaw ordered another workbook from Amazon; this one is a 6th-grade math workbook. He drank almost all of his water today so that's good. He was in a fun mood today, and he and Nanaw had a good time.

Thursday, July 13, 2023

Chase and Nanaw went early for their morning walk, going before breakfast because Nanaw has an appointment this morning at 9:30. No kitten and the book is still there. Chase has been doing something cute on their way back to the house: He runs home. Mama and Daddy had been wanting him to run to get more exercise so he seems to enjoy running back home. They also have been after Chase to drink more water. So Nanaw gave him a jug of water with 32 ounces for him to drink today. He'll also drink 16 ounces of milk, so he'll have at 48 ounces of fluids. The two pictures below are of Chase with the 32 ounces of water and then the empty jug. He was very proud of himself for drinking all his water. He's also very excited about his adventure this coming weekend. He and Daddy are spending Saturday night at Elias's house out in Silex. Mama is spending Saturday night at Uncle Mike's house, so they're all having adventures. Chase did really well in school today. As usual, he did especially well in his English worksheets. Nanaw bought an English workbook from Amazon that will arrive Saturday. Chase and Nanaw were running out of free online worksheets. He's getting better and better at math so that makes Nanaw happy. We had some stuffed animal problems today. First, Nanaw found Lars on the couch and took him over to Chase's house. Then later in the evening, Mama texted Nanaw that they couldn't find Tee Tee. Nanaw found him on the dining room table amidst the school papers. Chase and Nanaw are going to have to be more diligent about making sure all the stuffed animals make it home safely.

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Nanaw stayed in bed later than Chase on Wednesday morning. When Nanaw got up, she was surprised and happy to see that Chase had fixed his own breakfast. He fixed Froot Loops cereal and chocolate milk. Nanaw told him where to find the string cheese in the fridge and told him she'd give him his vitamins in a few minutes. They went the kitten way for their walk and still no kitten. They checked the library box and saw that Nanaw's book was still there. For lunch, Chase had one of his very favorites, Cheetos Mac and Cheese. He also had broccoli and applesauce. In his math pages for school, Nanaw had added some more difficult decimal division problems. She used ChatGPT to provide some difficult division problems and ChatGPT came through. Chase had a 7 p.m. hockey lesson. Mama thinks Chase isn't drinking enough water, so Nanaw is going to fill up a container each day for him to drink. 

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Chase and Nanaw went the kitten way for their walk on Tuesday morning but no kitten was in sight. For lunch, Chase had 5-cheese zita, one of his favorites. Nanaw had a 1 p.m. appointment so she took Chase over to his house at 12:45 and picked him up at about 2 o'clock. They started school a few minutes after 2. Chase is doing well in math; he's studying decimals, fractions and equations and getting almost all the answers correct. Nanaw was excited that Chase was spending the night with her. Mama and Daddy were going to the Sunset Overlook for the Queen of Hearts fundraiser for Chase's school. In the evening, Chase wanted to watch the All-Star game at Nanaw's house. He couldn’t watch it at his house because it was on channel 2 and Direct TV is not currently carrying channel 2. Chase wanted Sonic for dinner (as always) so they went to the drive-through. Chase had 2 pretzel twists, cheddar bites and a Sonic Blast with M&Ms. They watched the game in the computer lab on the TV, and Chase also watched it on the computer on YouTube. YouTube was ahead of the TV broadcast so Chase knew before Nanaw did that the National League won for the first time in 12 years. Mama sent Chase's Halloween jammies, one of Nanaw's favorites, so Nanaw was happy.