The Short Version

Hello everyone, this is Morry again. Rachel is doing some stuff around the house so I'm filling in for a second day in a row.

While I was very proud of my post yesterday, my mom commented on the length of the post, calling it "18 pages" long. So I will be more brief today.

Here's a recap:

We were awaken by the neighbor's dog.
We did some stuff.
Evan and Noah were cute.
We had dinner.
And now it's night time and the boys are in bed.

If that's enough for you, have a nice day/evening (whatever time of day you are reading this). If you do want to find out more details, read on.

So yes, we were awakened by the dog at 7:13 am. Evan and I both were up. Rachel seemed to go back to sleep only to be awakened at 8:07 am by the dog.

We needed to get some stuff, so we went over to Half-Price Books. Evan really enjoyed running around the store. For some reason, Noah was cranky. Rachel was holding him and I was in another part of the store and I heard him crying. Evan was with me. While we were looking at the books, an ambulance went by. Evan announced, loud enough for the entire store to hear, that there was an ambulance.

We came home and both Rachel and I tried to trim Lizzy. For some reason she really didn't want it and kept barking and growling at us. That's very unusual. She seems fine though, otherwise.

We had some lunch and then put the boys down for an early nap. Then we went over to confront the neighbors. We have been keeping a log over the last four weeks of the times the dog barks. We make a special note for when we were awakened. Someone in the house was woken up on 14 of the 28 days. There were 19 times in that 28 days that we were awakened. So we made a copy of this, highlighted all the times we were awakened. I also printed some articles about why it's bad to keep your dog outside and we went over. Our neighbor was very apologetic and said he'd do something about. I think the fact that the entire sheet was almost entirely highlighted was pretty alarming to him. We'll see if that helps.

Rachel then went out for coffee during the naps with Alissa. When the boys got up, I brought them downstairs and made some dinner.

After dinner, we gave the boys baths. When I was dressing Evan he became very agitated because he looked at his thumb and it was wrinkly. He kept wanting me to wash his thumb. I said if I wash it, it will make it worse. He insisted so we washed his thumb. Of course, that didn't help. Finally we got his mind off of it by reading him a book. The good news, his thumb did return to normal.

Well that's it for now. Until next time...