July 8th,2009

We had a great fourth of July, which we spent in Bellevue. The parade was a little wet, but that did not stop Chase from getting a bag full of candy. Clayton stood and waved to all the tractors and Chase picked up the candy. Pretty good deal for Chase. Later that evening we attending a Lumberking game and watched fireworks at the stadium.

The next evening Craig, Chase and Donnie went fishing, and I am told that Chase caught all the big fish, and Papa caught the small fish (that is according to Chase!)

I do have to say we are all enjoying summer. Chase sleeps till about 8 or 9 (it's awesome) He plays hard all day, naps extremely well, and is a lot of fun to take places. He went with me to a softball game yesterday, and all I had to give him was a bucket of wiffle balls, a tee, and a bat and the kid was entertained for hours. He would hit the whole bucket off of the tee, pick them all up, and do it again. I did notice that when coaching third base one of the balls soared over the fence into the outfield...... he had really gotten ahold of one! Good thing the umpires are pretty laid back.... they just laughed.

We continue to work on manners and what is great about this is that Craig is learning his manners as well. I never thought that would happen. The newest thing is that you must ask to be excused from the dinner table. We incorporated this because Chase was always wanting to get up from the table and run around. He now sits, cleans his plate and then asks, "May I be excused from the table please?" Because he loves to be in charge, he now sits at the table to longest, making sure that Craig and I have to ask him to be excused from the table. Whatever works!