Sunday, July 14, 2024

Nanaw went over to visit Chase on Sunday afternoon. Just Chase and Daddy were there. Mama was over at Auntie LaLa 's house for a day with her best friend. They went shopping at Ollie's, a store that Auntie LaLa says is very much like Big Lots. Mama says she bought a lot of random stuff, including a pack of eight pickle ball balls. Nanaw asked Chase if he saw any of his friends at church on Sunday morning, and he said he saw Owen. After church, Brady came over to ride bikes. Daddy had fixed the pedal on the bike they share. They're going to buy a new bike in the next few days, at Target or Walmart. When Nanaw got to Chase's house, they watched TV in Chase's room for a while, then went downstairs for Chase to play floor hockey and knee hockey, and to watch more TV. When Chase was finished playing hockey, they went outside for Chase to show Nanaw his new pickle ball net, paddles and balls. Daddy and Chase put on a pickle ball demonstration for Nanaw but it only lasted five minutes because it was so hot outside. Mama called Nanaw on the drive home from Auntie LaLa 's house. Nanaw didn't bring home Chase's groceries so Mama is going to bring them tomorrow morning when she drops Chase off at Nanaw's house.

Saturday, July 13, 2024

As part of last night's sleepover, Chase had a long bath in Nanaw's garden tub. He took in one of Marc Andre's hockey sticks, a hockey ball and an eyeball to play with. Mama had sent along a bath ball for him to put in the bath. It had a toy inside -- a darling little owl. Nanaw made Chase a Pop-Tart for breakfast but he didn't want it. Mama had brought a big box of Pop Tarts, which Nanaw is keeping in the freezer. But Nanaw isn't sure if Chase is ever going to eat them. Nanaw took Chase home at nine. He and Daddy were going to go running. Nanaw asked Chase if he likes running with Daddy, and he said yes, he did. Mama had a big plan for Chase later in the day. She'd decided that since Daddy taught Chase how to cut the front lawn, she would teach him how to wash, dry, and fold his laundry. Nanaw asked Mama if Chase liked doing laundry, but Mama said she didn't know. She said Daddy put the pickle-ball net up in the driveway, and Chase and Brady played. Brady and Cole had showed up, and they went to the park to play. Brady had to leave because he had to serve at mass so Chase came home. Then Brady came back later when he was done serving.

Friday, July 12, 2024

Nanaw had a doctor's appointment on Friday, and Chase stayed by himself. He always does well (except for the time he made oobleck and coated Nanaw's kitchen with cornstarch LOL). When Nanaw got home, Chase had fixed his lunch. He wanted to fix the Kraft Mac and Cheese but they were out of it. So he heated up the cheeseburger and mac frozen dinner in the microwave. Nanaw was so impressed and proud that he did it all by himself, reading the directions and doing it all perfectly. Nanaw took Chase home at four so he could visit with Mama and Daddy before Chase's sleepover at Nanaw's house. Mama and Daddy were going to a birthday celebration for Brady's dad. Then on their way home, Nanaw and Chase went to Sonic to get their dinner. Chase got two pretzel twists with cheese sauce, cheddar bites and a mini Sonic blast with M&Ms. Nanaw got jumbo popcorn chicken. After dinner, Chase and Nanaw worked on the Roblox soccer game that they decided would be their sleepover project. Chase was excited because the two new plastic cicadas they ordered came while he was there. They put red fingernail polish on the new ones so they could tell them apart from Aree and Ying. Chase named the new ones Aree Jr. and Ying Jr. Unfortunately, before he went to bed, Chase threw up.Nanaw didn't know why it happened. But Chase felt fine afterwards.

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Daddy took Chase to running club this morning, as he usually does on Thursdays because he's working at home. When Nanaw picked Chase up, he was soaking wet. He said they played sponge ball again. That means they threw soaking wet sponges at each other. Fortunately, Nanaw had a towel in the back of her car and dry clothes for him at home. Nanaw had a dentist appointment at noon, and Chase had one at 3:30 so their time for school was cut short. They finished listening to Slugfest, and of course, it had a happy ending so that made Chase and Nanaw happy. They're going to start listening to Kidnapped tomorrow. If Nanaw can figure out how to do it, they'll start back at the beginning because Nanaw wants a refresher. Math went well. Chase zoomed through the problems in the book. It took Nanaw a little longer because she had to copy the problems out of the book. They've gone back to chapter 1 of the math book and finished up the study review today. Tomorrow they will do the chapter test. Chase only had to have one tooth pulled at the dentist. The other one fell out a couple of weeks ago, and Chase got $5 from the tooth fairy for it. Mama said the hygienist told Chase he has to do a better job brushing his teeth so Nanaw will make sure he brushes his teeth every day.

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Chase wasn't too interested in doing his pitching and batting practice on Wednesday so they postponed it to Thursday. Chase and Nanaw had a conversation about working on their planned Roblox game on Friday night at the sleepover. Chase is interested in creating their own Roblox baseball game. In school, they're almost done listening to Slugfest, and Chase really likes the book and so does Nanaw. Having Alexa read the book to them has been wonderful. Chase wants to go  back to reading Kidnapped, the one they started with at the beginning of the summer. Kidnapped is the first book in a three-book series. Nanaw bought the second two Kindle books so now they're set for Kidnapped. They finished the extra practice section in the 6th math book and started back at the beginning of the book. They're going to do the study review and the chapter test for all 9 chapters. In the evening, Daddy and Chase went to Play It Again to look for a bike for Chase but didn't find anything. They found one at Target; they're going to wait till Prime Day and see what the price is then,

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Nanaw had a meeting at church on Tuesday so Chase decided they wouldn't have school today. But he promised to have one hour of school in the morning tomorrow and two hours in the afternoon. Chase and Nanaw talked about the sleepover they're going to have on Friday night, and Chase said he's gong to change his Sonic order. He's going to have mozzarella sticks, in addition to his pretzel twists.  Chase watched all kinds of sports events on various TVs today, including a Pittsburgh Penguins/Chicago Blackhawks game from the 1992 Stanley Cup and a random soccer game. It rained all day today so they couldn't do their baseball swings and pitches. Chase was disappointed that the Cardinals/Royals game was rained out. But they're going to have a doubleheader tomorrow. Unfortunately, some of Chase's stuffed animals got left behind at Nanaw's house: Leo, Simon and Grimace, as shown in the second picture below. Daddy had planned to take Chase shopping for a bike but decided to wait till a night when it wasn't raining. Nanaw is having so much fun with Chase this summer. He's pretty much always in a good mood, he's very nice to Nanaw, he smiles a lot, and he talks to Nanaw a lot. This is different than earlier in the year and so much better.

Monday, July 8, 2024

Chase had running club Monday morning but his friend Joey wasn't there. Joey was at Camp Ondosonk. Nanaw asked Chase if he'd like to go to Camp O, and he said no. Nanaw asked why, and he said because he couldn't have his phone for a week. So that's interesting and a little bit sad. Nanaw got Chase to running club on time, and was two minutes early to pick him up. She'll be sure to always be on time for drop off and pick up because it bothers him when she's not. Chase and Nanaw had a new adventure on Monday morning after running club. Nanaw had Chase do some of his baseball practice: pitching and batting swings. She made up a spreadsheet to track his swings and pitches. He did 25 swings, and Nanaw thought he would just swing the bat but Chase wanted her to pitch to him so she did. Nanaw is a very bad pitcher but Chase managed to hit almost all of her pitches, no matter how bad. Nanaw thought Chase would also do 25 pitches but he just wanted to do 20. He got six pitches out of 20 in the strike zone. He said his goal is 15 pitches in the strike zone out of 25 by the time he goes back to school. As part of his Lunchable lunch, Chase had the Arby's potato cake Mama bought for him and a piece of the chocolate banana bread she baked yesterday. School didn't go too well. They listened to Slugfest too long, and the math had metric problems and finding the area of polygons. Most of the rest of the extra practice math is the same so tomorrow they're going back to the beginning of the book, and they'll do the practice chapter tests. When Nanaw took Chase home, it was starting to thunder, and Mama and Chase told Nanaw to hurry home so she didn't get caught in the storm but she did anyway. Mama sent Nanaw a picture of Chase in the Gascar chair, saying Lars was scared of the thunder and the storm.