Chase telling stories and saying funny things.

Chase has entered a funny story-telling phase.

As he and I were falling asleep in the tent while camping near Trillium lake, I would feed him two things (donkey, tree) and then he would make up a 1 sentence story about those things and say "the end." I was practically asleep and he just kept saying, "tell me another story what's it about!" and I would partially wake myself up enough to come up with two more things. Again, and again.
We were thinking about writing a story for Annie's birthday. Here is what Chase dictated to me:

"Once upon a time there was a mama fish who lost her baby. And then the baby tried to find his mama. And then he swims the wrong direction and then he goes somewhere else to a place where there's ice. And then he began growing up and diving in a different country and then he would find his little sister and they would live together. One day the brother and sister fish . . . went on a swim to a new house." The end

Chase dumped all the Cards Against Humanity cards on our bed and was playing with them.

"I want to tell you another book. Once upon a time there was a sticker on a rock and he walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and he saw an egg and in the egg he saw a card. The End."
"I'm going to tell you another book that doesn't have words or pictures. [dumps all the cards from the case onto the bed]. That's the whole book. The End. It doesn't have words or pictures. That's the whole book.
"[does it again] That the book. That's the whole book. It doesn't have words or pictures."

Other quotes/stories

We've been shredding some papers in the basement. He asks if we can shred more things. I've told him that we only shred papers that have secret numbers on them. "Let's find secret letters in the basement dada. What's that black thing called again?" [Me - It's a shredder.] "Yea, so we can shred, dada."
Cleaning the bathroom upstairs and trying to open up the toilet bowl cleaner. "I will do it dada . . . Can you show me so that I will learn?"
About 15 minutes after being upset, handing me a book - "Dada, can we read this book to culm me down?"
Playing with the glow in the dark skeleton - "I call him 'Can you see my bones?'"
Blowing up balloons - "Can you make it like a beeg feeg? Yea, like a beeg feeg."
Cleaning the bathroom, when doing the scrub brush on the toilet - "Dada, the only rule. The only rule is to not touch this. That's the only rule."
Chase playing a basketball game where he shoots the beach ball into a basketball rim that I make with my arms. He shoots a basket and then yells "That's called . . .

Maggie at rest time - Dada, what should I play for rest time? Me - why don't you pretend that you are a ship captain in charge of a ship full of animals and you need to take them across the ocean safely? Maggie - Yea! Okay, you are . . . and launches into her own world.
Chase, waking up and coming down the stairs at 7:15am on 10/30/20: "Dada - sometimes I wake up and nobody is in any of the rooms." Me - "Which rooms?" Chase: "Um, the living room, the dining room, and the kitchen, Dada. And upstairs dada. And sometimes I see nobody in grandma's room."
Chase emphatically does something, anything, and then yells "TaaaaDAAAA"
Chase helped to clean up the living room. First he piled every toy up on the ottoman and declared the room clean. Then he put everything away in the proper cabinets, shouting "A whole new room!"
"I got pee on my skirt." - Chase, during a full day of skirt wearing
"I have a plan. Here’s my plan. Dada _______ dada. I’m going to put on these socks dada. They were in a pile dada. In the laundry pile dada."

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