Austin Parks and Class Assignments

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Last year before school started I took a day away from work and we went to Inner Space Caverns and saw the caves.  This year we decided to take the boys to Austin Parks which is a big place that has go karts, bumper boats, miniature golf, laser tag, batting cages and more.  Evan had heard about go karts and wanted to give it a try.

We got the unlimited activity pass because when we added up getting the pizza buffet and doing two activities, it was more money than getting unlimited.  We started off by taking the boys on the go karts.  Rachel and I each drove and one boy rode with each of us.  They thought that was super cool.  Then we went on the bumper boats and we had fun.  We got there shortly after it opened so no one was there and we didn't have to wait for anything.  Then we did miniature golf.  We had lunch at the buffet and then went back to the go karts.  I drove Noah around and Evan wanted to go on the slower track where they let kids his age drive the car.  At first Evan started off tentative.  He was driving slowly.  And then something kicked in and he start driving fast and aggressive.  He got very competitive.  He was squeezing in between the inside and the cars he was passing.  He got off and had the biggest smile.  He wanted to do it again.  He was even more aggressive and more competitive the second time.

We came home and relaxed a bit.  Evan went down to Nathan's.

Then we walked to school.  At 5pm they tape the class list to the door.  We got there a bit after 5.  They have some vendors out selling sno-cones and food as well as school t-shirts benefiting the PTA.  We found out Noah got the same teacher that Evan had for first grade.  That is who we wanted.  We don't know anything about the teacher that Evan got.  The thing that upset Evan is that not one of his buddies is in his class with him.  Honestly, I'm not sure how that's possible to not have just one.  Statistically, it must be less a 1% chance of happening.  He'll make new friends and it will be fine.

We came home and had dinner.

Then we had to run out to the baseball fields.  I needed to return the equipment from last season.

From there we went and got sno-cones.  We promised the boys to get it later because the line at the school was super long.

The boys are in bed now.

Until next time...

Noah the Kindergartener

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This morning was routine as I dropped Evan off at school.  Just before we left to go to school, Noah came downstairs though.  I think he was excited because to do was "Kindergarten Round Up".  That's where you take your child into the elementary school and get them registered for Kindergarten and take a tour of the school.

When we got there, we stood in line to get Noah all registered.  Cole and his mom were right in front of us so Cole and Noah stuck together.  The PTA was giving out free t-shirts to the incoming students.  We knew what they showed us on the tour, but I think it was fun for Noah to see everything.  We went into one of the Kindergarten classrooms.  In there was a boy that Noah plays with at Evan's baseball games.  He's the younger brother of one of Evan's teammates.  He was really excited to see Noah and came running up to him.  He and Noah talked for a while.  It was really cute.

Following Kindergarten Roundup, Noah went to Cole's house.

Rachel went to tutor at 4pm.  Blanca came over to babysit.

At 5:40, we left for Evan's last regular season baseball game.  He seemed very excited to play today.  When we got there, we saw that one of the boys on Evan's team who had broken his finger was there with his uniform on - looking like he was going to play.  Evan was so excited that he ran over and started talking to him.  I talked to the boy's father and Evan and the boy walked over to the fields to warm up.  Just as the game was about to start, I looked at my phone.  I saw a text from Rachel which reminded me that we were supposed to bring snacks for after the game.  Rachel had gotten them ready but I had left them at home.  I had to drive home to get them.  I had never missed an inning of Evan's game before but I missed the first two innings.

When I came back Evan was playing well.  He spent most of the game playing third base today.  I think he really enjoyed it.  I saw him get two solid singles to centerfield.  It was nice seeing him hit up the middle actually after pulling the ball exclusively the last few games.  Evan has gotten into sliding hard as well.  After the second single that I saw, the next boy grounded to short.  Evan slid really hard into the bag.  The coaches just love seeing him do that.  Evan's team won the game.  They finished in fourth place.  They will be playing the same team on Saturday at 8:30 to start off the playoffs.

We came home and I put the boys to bed.  Both boys fell asleep very quickly.

Until next time...