Noah Grows Up

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

The boys took a long time to go to bed last night. I kept hearing Noah come out of his room and go into Evan's room. I told them I was coming up one of the times and they were in trouble. I turned to walk into Evan's room and I could see Evan hiding under the covers and I heard him whisper to Noah "Quick, Noah, hide!" Noah was standing next to the bed and quickly put both hands in front of his face.

Because they went to bed late last night, they slept in fairly well this morning. Evan got up closer to 9 and Noah slept until 10.

Today was swim class day so we took the boys to the gym for swim class. The first class was Noah. I'm proud to say he was tremendous today. He didn't cry or scream at all. Not only was he not crying or upset, he was laughing and he was excited to do everything. He did everything that the instructor asked. He's really improving. We got to the gym a bit early and let him play in the pool some so I'm not sure if that helped. It may have also helped that Evan stayed in the indoor pool so Noah could see him. Also, the fact that Noah did everything last week and nothing bad happened may have helped.

Evan also did well swimming. His instructor said he's really improving. She said he's very good at laying on his back and floating. She said that's an excellent tool if he finds himself in water that's too deep.

After swimming, we went home and had lunch. We had to eat quickly as we had a birthday party for Marissa in the early afternoon.

The party was at the Little Gym where Evan has his sports class. We got there a bit late and they were doing some organized activity on the big mat. Evan and Noah went and sat down. About a minute after sitting down, Evan decided that was boring and he knew how to use all the gymnastics equipment so he got up and ran around doing all that. He's gotten very good at it. But Noah stayed with the group and he was doing everything that the group was doing. I've never seen him do that. He was just so cute watching him do everything. He eventually got bored and played with Evan some. Later they had a free play and Noah was right in there with Evan and his friends. Normally if Evan's playing with older boys, Noah either plays by himself or stands with us. But this time, he was just one of the boys.

Just before cake they do this thing called "Smash the Cheese." The stand a mat up on it's end and the kids run into it and it falls down as everyone yells "Smash! The! Cheese!" We did that at Evan's sports class but Noah didn't get to do it. Evan did it for us. Noah thought it was so cool that we have to do it every night in bed. Noah will sit (mostly on Rachel) while she yells smash the cheese and falls over holding him. Noah was super excited that he was finally going to get to do this himself at the Little Gym. He was one of the last kids to get to do it, but he sat there very patiently. Evan had already gone. When Noah did it he had a huge smile on his face. Evan jumped up and ran over to him and gave him a high five for doing it. I almost wish we had a video of it.

We came home from there and the kids watched TV. For dinner, I ran out and picked up Tucci's Southside Subs for us. Rachel made the kids some funky color gray eggs and ham. Rachel gave each boy the food coloring to drip one drop in. Evan had red and Noah had blue. Evan dripped one drop in and Rachel couldn't get Noah to stop squeezing the food coloring.

Gabby came over tonight so we could go out and see a movie. The boys were excited to see her. We had no problems leaving. We went to see the new Adam Sandler movie, "Grown Ups". It got terrible reviews but I'm honestly not sure why. It was great. Rachel really enjoyed it as well. It may not have been the best movie I've ever seen but man there are some things the critics like but just suck. This was way better than some of those.

When we got home the boys were sleeping. Gabby said they did really well.

Until next time...