Post-Football Sunday

Hello everyone, this is Morry. Rachel is talking to her parents so I'm writing the blog tonight.

Today is the first Sunday after the Steelers won the Super Bowl (just typing that phrase is exciting). Or as Rachel says "we now have our lives back". The boys let us sleep in until 9:30 again. When we woke up, Rachel informed me that we were going to go for a run.

We got the boys ready as well as Lizzy and took off for a run. Rachel pushed the stroller while I ran with Lizzy. It was very humid out. I have not run for over a year, while Rachel has had spurts of running in the past year. Rachel was able to run a good distance while I had to stop and walk after a while.

When we got back from running, we decided to run over to the Home Depot. We needed things like a filter for our refrigerator and weather stripping for the back door where Lizzy tore it. A few months ago, Lizzy chewed a piece of a wood train of Evan's. I wanted to just sand it down for Evan before he could play with it again. I told Evan back then that I'd do it when we went to Home Depot to get sand paper. As Rachel and I put a list together of what we needed, Evan reminded me that we need to fix his train. That kid's memory is amazing. It's actually better than mine, which is scary.

We got to the Home Depot and Evan told me he wanted to walk around. First we picked out night light bulbs which Evan carried the whole time. Evan really enjoyed walking and being free. We looked at washers and dryers a bit and Evan wanted me to open up one for him. When we got the weather stripping, Evan wanted me to carry it. I got to 8 foot strips. So Evan held the back end of the strips while I held the front end. We walked through the store like this. The checkout lady said "looks like you've got a little helper."

For lunch, Rachel made and omelet for her while I made fried matzoh. Noah shared some of the omelet with Rachel while Evan shared the fried matzoh with me.

After the boys naps, Rachel tutored. Evan wanted us to watch Garfield for the 200th time. Noah was a bit cranky that whole time. I'm not sure what his deal was. Rachel got home around 7pm and we had dinner then. Rachel had gotten chicken and wild rice soup together and I made chicken tenders. I fed Noah before Rachel got home but then he sat with us and ate finger food during dinner. He seemed upset the whole time.

The boys are now in bed. Evan seems to be quiet while Noah has been making noise. I had to go up there in the middle of writing this because Noah was crying. He had knocked all 4 of his pacifiers on the floor and was upset.

I don't know why I'm actually typing this out, but if Evan doesn't get out of bed tonight, he will have stayed in bed every night for a week. Amazing.

Until next time...