Back from Florida

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

We are back from Florida. It was a good trip for three generations of Belkin men.

Some highlights:

• We went to a fair at Mixon's which is a fruit farm as well as took a tour. On the tour, Evan was the first volunteer to have a snake put around him. Everyone cheered for him after it was over. He got to pet a baby alligator as well.


• We saw two baseball games. We had good seats to both games. Evan also got to eat popcorn and cotton candy. And he hugged and high-fived the Pirates Parrot. And of course, he got some Pirates gear while we were there.


• We got to play two rounds of miniature golf. Evan was very good and he really enjoyed it. One of the rounds, there was absolutely no one on the course so Evan played each hole at least twice. He also insisted that the two of us hit our ball at the same time which added an interesting handicap to me.


• We got to go to Pirate City which is a training area for the team. Some of the minor leaguers walked by us and said hi to Evan.


• We ate dinner on the Manatee river where the restaurant had a DVD player for Evan to watch while we ate. He got to pick out a movie and he chose the Clone Wars

All in all it was quite and eventful trip and Evan was incredibly well behaved. He enjoyed seeing Zayde and I know Zayde enjoyed seeing him.

Evan was excited to see Noah when we got back and the two boys hugged each other. Then we went to Evan's sports class where he played more golf. Honestly, I don't know how Evan had energy.

When we got back to the house, I saw how much Rachel had cleaned. She went through the toys in the toy box and cleaned up the game room and Noah's room.

The boys are now in bed. Evan really needed to get to sleep. Hopefully he doesn't come out of his room.

Until next time...

Rainy Sunday

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This morning, Evan came in the room at about 7:30. I got him breakfast and set him up watching the Clone Wars on TV. A short while later he came back in the room. Neither Rachel nor I would come out with him and he ended up laying down on the floor and falling asleep. When Grandma and Papa got up, he went downstairs with him, while Rachel and I stayed in bed for a bit trying to catch up on some sleep.

Grandma and Papa went back to Dallas as I was making lunch. For lunch, I made us pancakes. For Evan and Rachel I made blueberry pancakes although Evan finished all his blueberry pancakes and wanted some plain pancakes. Evan actually ate more pancakes than Rachel. I gave Noah a half of a pancake. Instead of syrup I put on powdered sugar. Noah just ate all the powdered sugar off of the pancakes.

After lunch, we had Evan read a set of words and phrases that Zayde had put together for Evan. You can see the video if you scroll to the bottom of this blog. Evan is doing very well at reading. We'll have to work with him even more.

Noah took a good nap but Evan didn't sleep that long. He came downstairs and made us watch a Superman cartoon over and over. We shared some tortilla chips.

For dinner, Rachel had some leftovers while I made dirty rice for Evan, Noah and me. Evan got upset because there was meat in the dirty rice. I explained to him that's what made the rice dirty. He ended up making me pick out the meat for him. He did eat the rice though. Noah had some. Noah also ate a hot dog while Evan ate some leftover shrimp that I had made for him last night.

We gave the boys baths and put them back in separate rooms. Evan was not well behaved last night so we told him he had to go back in his room. Neither boy was happy. We'll see how they behave tonight.

Until next time...