Quest for a frozen treat

I had a busy day.

After dropping of Noah I went to my hair appointment. I was supposed to have a meeting afterwards, but it took a long longer than I thought. I'm not sure why. I ended up pushing my meeting to Monday.

I had just a little bit of time before I had to get Noah so I went into Nordstrom to get new Toms shoes.

I picked up Noah from school and he told me he wanted a smoothie. We were going to HEB so I said he could get an ICEE there. At HEB, the cherry ICEE wasn't working and the only other one was Coke flavored. I didn't want to give Noah Coke, so I told him we could get Blizzy's (shaved ice) after picking Evan up. Noah was pretty excited about that.

We picked up Evan and headed over to Blizzy's. It was closed. There was a sign up saying they were closed for the season and would reopen May 2012. The boys were disappointed.

We headed over to another shaved ice place and luckily they were open. Evan and Noah got rainbow flavored shaved ice.

We had a 3:45 birthday party to go to and went there right after we finished the shaved ice.

Morry met us at the party at Locomotion after work.

Morry picked up food for us on the way home and I brought the kids home. Evan was really bad at home. I had to put him in time out in his room. I think he's just overly tired.

We are about to put the boys to bed. We have to get up early for Evan's football game at 9am tomorrow.

Noah at HEB

The Mall

Hello everyone, this is Morry. Saturday seems to be my day to write the blog. Rachel, Grandmom/Marilyn and the boys are playing right now.

The boys woke up early this morning - both before 8am. Rachel got up with them in an effort to let me sleep in some. Unfortunately I couldn't fall back asleep. I did lay in bed for awhile.

When I got up we decided we'd go sign Evan up for a soccer class and then go to the mall. There is an indoor soccer place in Austin called Soccer Zone. They have soccer classes for kids as young as 18 months old. We didn't know about it when Evan was 18 months or we would have definitely signed him up for it. The class is Grandmom/Marilyn's gift to Evan for his birthday. When we got there the place was very neat. They have adult leagues there and kids leagues. Evan really wanted to actually play soccer, but an adult game was going on. He was upset that he couldn't play.

We then drove to the mall. Evan and Noah both need some sort of sandal/water shoe. We went to Nordstrom's first. It was very crowded at Nordstrom's and the saleswoman, while cordial, wasn't very friendly. It was kind of a disaster there. We left without getting anything.

Then we went up to the food court to eat lunch. They had someone dressed as a cow in front of Chick-Fil-A. Evan was a bit shy with the cow but Noah just loved him. I was looking at Noah and he suddenly started to giggle. As I looked up, I realized he was giggling at the cow. The cow came over and touched Noah's head and Noah loved it. The cow entertained Noah for a while.

Rachel got a turkey panini and a smoothie from Frullati. Evan had chicken nuggets and a smoothie as well. I had a meal from Chick-Fil-A and lemonade. Grandmom/Marilyn had a chicken sandwich and also a smoothie. She asked and was told that the smoothies were dairy-free so she was very excited to be able to have a smoothie.

Evan's mood improved after lunch and we went to Stride Rite. We got these Nike water shoes for both boys and a pair of sneakers (not tennis shoes) for Evan. The saleslady at Stride Rite was very good. She talked to the boys and got their attention so they were not fighting trying on shoes.

Then we went and got cookies on the way out. On the way in, we told Evan if he was good, he could have a cookie. Of course he remembered and he was pretty good.

The boys took good naps and then we ordered pizza from Mangieri's. They messed up our order and had to go back and get my pizza and Rachel's salad. I wasn't very happy about the mess up. When my pizza was delivered, it was disappointing. It seemed fairly flavorless.

On a random note, Evan has been calling Noah, "Noah James" several times today. We have no idea why he started doing that. Evan often gives Noah nicknames. He's been Noah James, Noah B, Gra-Noah Bar, Noah Woah, Noah Bear and Noey. Mottel has been Mottel-Nose and Mutts. He now calls me Gallo (pronounced Guy-yo). He used to say that in a generic term but somehow it is now specific to me.

We're now going to put the boys to bed.

Until next time...

Evan the Good

Hello everyone, this is Morry. Rachel is cleaning up the kitchen a bit, so she asked me to write the blog.

Well, Evan continued his better behavior today. He got up at around 8am (unfortunately, he didn't sleep too much). Once Noah got up and Evan had breakfast, Grandmom/Marilyn, Noah, Evan and I went out shopping. We let Rachel have some alone time, something she doesn't often get.

First we went to Toys R Us where, Evan got even more GeoTrax stuff. He got a bag of tracks and a bridge. He's definitely getting a bit spoiled with the GeoTrax stuff. Then the four of went to Nordstroms to look for shoes for me. Evan was terrific at Nordstrom's. First he walked around with the thing that measures your feet. He measured his feet, my feed, Noah's feet and Grandmom's feet. Then he walked around with me picking out shoes for me. Then he found some folded up paper that came along with one of the shoes and told us that it was a train ticket. It actually had holes punched in it so he liked that.

I promised Evan that after I got shoes, we could go over to the kids shoes where they have a fish tank. When we got over there they had these Thomas the Tank Engine boots/galoshes. Evan immediately took off his shoes and wanted to put them on. I helped him put them on. Then he saw a rain coat that looked like a firefighter coat. He put that on. He looked really cute. We ended up getting him some shoes while we were there but not those boots.

Meanwhile, Noah was having a great time playing with the sock he pulled off his foot and looking around at all the people.

When we came home, Evan didn't want lunch, he just wanted to play with his GeoTrax.

We had ordered HD from DirecTV and someone was supposed to come and put up the new dish and drop a line to our TV. The guy came with his 12-year-old son at about 1pm. His son played GeoTrax with Evan. The guy didn't have a ladder tall enough to get to our roof. We ended up borrowing our neighbor's ladder. It took the guy until about 7:30pm to set up the dish and receiver. He didn't end up dropping the line because he had someone to go to after us. He's coming back tomorrow to do that. The son was really good with both Evan and Noah.

Noah has really started saying Mama and Dada. He's not really using it to refer to Rachel and me but he just babbles Mamamamamama and Dadadadada. He's really "talking" a lot now. It's so cute. He's been so happy for the last week.

Both boys are in bed now. It seems that they are quiet. Hopefully they have a good night sleep.

Until next time...