Christmas Day

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This morning Evan came in our room at 5:45 and then at 6:45. The first time he couldn't find his pacifier, the second time he wanted the music on. He did go back to sleep and didn't wake up until 8:30. I started a movie in the gameroom for him.

When we all got up, we played downstairs. Rachel worked with Evan to learn to write his name. I fixed the gate upstairs which had come out of the wall.

Rachel has gotten a cold. She also developed a cough with it. The cough kept her up last night, so she called the doctor today. The doctor called in a prescription for an antibiotic and a cough medicine. I took the boys out to go to Walgreens to pick it up.

While we were out, Rachel started making a Spanish dish called tortilla espanola. When we got home, she was still getting it ready. I got lunch ready for the boys and then helped Rachel with our lunch. She needed me to flip it but we tried to early and some of it went all over the stove. It was a mess. When it was finished cooking, it was good.

The boys napped for a couple hours. I folded laundry while Rachel cleaned up the kitchen.

After naps, we took the boys over to Dmitriy and Katheryne's. Katheryne built a koi pond. We thought the boys would like it. Also they have a Great Pyrenees dog. When we got over there, the boys just loved it. Noah was running around pointing to everything, saying "look!". Evan was quiet but had just as much fun. The dog was taller than both of them, but neither boy was scared or intimidated at all. He's really nice and very gentle. He looks nice and gentle and I think the boys can sense that. His face kind of looks like Lizzy. Dmitriy and Katheryne have two fish tanks, the koi pond, 4 ferrets and a tortoise along with 4 additional dogs who were upstairs. They didn't bring the other dogs down but the boys absolutely loved looking in the fish tanks and seeing the ferrets. Noah was giggling almost the whole time. The boys liked to pretend to sleep in the doggie bed. It was a really nice time.

After dinner, we went to Katz's Deli for dinner. We had to wait for about 30 minutes to be seated. The boys were really well behaved though. I think the hostess moved us up the list too. There were other people with kids waiting, but for some reason I feel like they made an exception for us and we definitely appreciated it. We asked for pickles and Evan had two plus half of the one that came with my corned beef sandwich. Noah ate some corned beef and was pretty well behaved. The table next to us thought he was really cute and they gave him a lot of attention. He just loves attention. We got a scoop of vanilla ice cream for the boys to share.

We came home and gave them baths. Noah is in bed, but Evan is out.

Until next time...