Rachel's Birthday

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Today is Rachel's birthday. I think overall, she had a pretty nice birthday.

It started off when my alarm went off at 6:20am. Rachel noticed the light in Evan's bathroom was on. I got up and walked out into the hall. Laying on the floor right against Lizzy was Evan. He had used his blue blanket as a pillow and was laying down against her. I think it had been fairly recently that he had gotten up to pee and decided to lay down next to Lizzy after he peed. I got Evan set up in the game room with a movie playing.

I was working from home in the morning today because I had to take Mottel to the vet for a follow up appointment. I brought Evan downstairs with me to let Rachel sleep and got him set up down here and started working. Shortly before I had to leave, I went upstairs and woke Rachel up to give her the gift that we got for her. It was a 32GB iPhone. Unfortunately, you can't just buy an iPhone so I bought the gift certificate for it and wrapped the box from my iPhone.

I took Mottel to the vet and he's doing fairly well. He gained 1/4 pound which the vet was very happy about. He's had some diarrhea in the last week so she gave him a vitamin B12 shot, took a blood sample and gave me some antibiotics to give to him (along with the steroids and prozac he's currently on).

When I got home, Rachel and Evan were preparing to leave to go to the mall and then lunch. Blanca had come over to babysit for Noah. Rachel and Evan went to the Apple store where she got her iPhone. While she was filling out paperwork, they gave Evan an iPod Touch to play with and he really enjoyed it. They then stopped at Chick-Fil-A and got food for Evan as well as a cookie at the Great American Cookie Co. From there, Rachel drove to Panera for her lunch. They brought Evan's food in. Rachel got coffee and put a sleeve around it. Evan said he wanted a sleeve for his lemonade. He ate very well there and was very well behaved the whole morning.

After that Rachel came home and dropped Evan off and got her hair cut. When she got home she installed a bunch of apps on the iPhone. I think she'll enjoy using it.

For dinner tonight, we met Aunt Susan and Rachel's Aunt Donna and cousin Leslie who are in visiting from Seattle at Fish City Grill. Rachel really wanted crab. Both boys were very well behaving and Noah enjoyed sitting in Aunt Susan's lap. Evan had shrimp and some of Rachel's crab. As we were leaving Fish City, a policeman was coming in. Evan was very excited. The policeman spent some time talking to Evan and asked him what he ate. Evan was shy but he did answer the questions. It was really fun to watch.

We walked over to Yogurt Planet for some frozen yogurt. I shared with Noah while Evan had his own.

The boys are now in bed although I think I hear Evan running around upstairs. I'll probably have to go check on him in a minute.

Until next time...