A Big, Long Day

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

As you can probably tell, I'm back from California.  I left the hotel this morning at 5:20am.  Both plane rides were on time and uneventful which was good.

Rachel had to get Noah up for the last time this morning so that they could take Evan to school.  It is difficult getting him up.

Rachel went to HEB while the boys were in school.

When I was driving home from the airport, Rachel and Noah were walking to go get Evan. On the way home, Noah fell asleep in the stroller.  When Rachel got home, she had to carry Noah to his bed where he slept.

Earlier this week, we got an email from the little league that Evan plays in.  The University of Texas Baseball and Softball teams were having a one night camp tonight for up to 40 kids.  The camp included working on baseball skills on the field of the main stadium where the UT baseball team plays.  Afterwards they served pizza and showed a movie and did some arts and crafts.  We decided that this was something Evan would want to do and signed him up.  When Rachel told Evan earlier this week, he was pretty excited.  Before we left to drop him off tonight, he was even more excited.  When we got to the stadium and he saw how big it was, his eyes got huge and he was even more excited.  I wasn't sure if he'd understand how cool this was - that he was going to be playing with a top 25 baseball and softball team.  He seemed to understand it more than I had given him credit for.  We signed him in and walked him into the locker room of the softball team.  It was like a lounge in there was nice couches and a big screen tv on.  Evan seemed excited, gave us a high five and we left.

We went to dinner with Noah.  It was strange only having Noah at dinner.  It has not been common that the three of us have been out together without Evan.  Noah ate his dinner and was very well behaved.  From there we went to Mozart's which is a coffee shop out on Lake Austin.  At the top of every hour they were having a Christmas light show.  We got Noah ice cream there and then the show started.  He loved it and was dancing to the music.  We actually stayed an entire hour and Noah got to watch it a second time. I think Noah had a really good night being the center of attention from both Mommy and Daddy without Evan around.

We drove back to the stadium to pick up Evan.  We had to walk up to one of the luxury suites and get him.  He was making a craft and seemed into the Polar Express which they were showing.  They told us that they worked with Evan on hitting, running the bases, throwing the ball and catching grounders and fly balls.  He also had gotten a UT nylon bag with a string tie.  We thought that all kids had gotten it but the camp director told us that Evan won it.  That he did something special when hitting the ball.  I have not been able to figure out what - Evan said something about hitting the ball the hardest or the farthest.  I don't know really, but what was clear is that this was something special.  He told us they took him into the batting cages and someone pitched to him.  I wish I had video of all this.  The camp was for 4 to 9 year olds and when we dropped him off, Evan looked pretty young compared to many of the kids.  I don't know if they divided the kids up or anything.  Evan said he wants to do it again.  They said they'll be doing another one in January.

We drove home and got the boys ready for bed.  I picked out the book "The Pigeon Wants A Puppy".  Evan sat on my lap.  The first page seemed easy so I had Evan read the first page to me.  He ended up reading the entire book to me with just a little help from me.  I cannot believe Evan is hanging with the UT baseball team, hitting in the batting cage, and reading a book to me.  It's amazing.

Until next time...