No School Friday

This morning Morry and I had a meeting.

After we got home Grandmom took the boys to the mall to get Legos and lunch.

They worked most of the afternoon building their Legos.

For dinner Morry, Grandmom, Evan, and Noah went to Red Lobster.  The boys were good there and had 2 smoothies each.

We just got the boys ready for bed.  Morry's reading the 5 Little Gefiltes book to them now.

Boys with Grandmom

I dropped Noah off at school and then went to tutoring and a meting. Evan and Grandmom spent the day together.  They went toy shopping.

I picked up Noah, came home to eat lunch, and then went out for another meeting.  The boys stayed home with Grandmom.

Evan had his first basketball practice today.  Morry said he did well and seemed to enjoy it. 

After the practice they came home and picked up Noah and Grandmom and went to eat dinner at Red Lobster.

We just got the boys ready for bed and Morry is reading to them now.

Day Off

Hello everyone, this Morry.

Both Evan and Noah had the day off today since it's Good Friday.  Evan has off on Monday as well.  They both got up around 8am this morning and played in the game room until Grandmom and Rachel woke up.

At 11am, there was a thing for Mom bloggers at a party store where they showed how you could have an Alice in Wonderland party.  You could have a tea party for girls or a card party with knights and things for boys.  They had little cupcakes and things and the boys got to play there.  Rachel said there were some older boys that Evan played with.

Grandmom and I met Rachel and the boys at Bruegger's bagels.  Noah got smoked salmon on a bagel.  He really likes smoked salmon.

When we got home, Grandmom made a deal with the boys that she would drive them to Toys R Us and get them something if they cleaned up the game room.  Noah got GeoTrax and Evan got more Star Wars Legos.

For dinner, we went to Red Lobster where Evan and Noah shared a pound of crab.  They both ate well.

When we got home Evan did FaceTime with Quin, Lennon, Aunt Rachel and Uncle Dax.

The boys are in bed now.

Until next time...

Locomotion

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This morning the boys let us sleep in.  It was nice.  We had planned to take them to Locomotion but they were very busy playing in the game room that we just stayed in bed for awhile.

When we got up we got ready and we went over to Locomotion.  It's one of the inflatable jump places.  It was raining today in Austin (for the second day straight) and so the place was packed.  There were also several birthday parties going on.  The boys didn't seem to mind and had a great time.  There were a bunch of people we knew invited to one of the parties, including our neighbor.  We talked to them for awhile.

On the way home we stopped and got Slurpees.

We tried to have a small lunch because it was nearly 2pm when we got home and we wanted to have an early dinner.

We just relaxed until dinner.

For dinner, we went to Red Lobster.  Evan wanted crab and lobster.  They have a small lobster tail on the kids menu so we ordered that for Evan.  Noah said he didn't want food. Rachel got crab legs.  When the food got there, Noah wanted some of Rachel's crab.  So Evan, Rachel and Noah all shared the crab legs and Evan and Rachel shared the lobster tail.

After dinner, we stopped at Petco to get litter for Mottel and then to Old Navy.  Rachel had another coupon and I was hoping to get track pants.  Unfortunately, they were not on sale and they were kind of expensive otherwise.

We came home and the boys are now in bed.

Until next time...

Day 3: No Rachel (First Baseball Practice)

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This was our last day without Rachel. She returned around 10pm this evening.

The boys were up around 8am and very loud. They were playing loudly and at one point Evan had made Noah upset and was really needling Noah to make the situation worse. I pretended not to hear.

When I got up, I brought the boys downstairs and got them breakfast. Evan wanted green eggs so I made them for him. He ended up sharing some with Noah.

When Grandmom got up, we had to get going. I sold our Longhorns tickets to the game today and had to meet the guy at 11:45. Once I sold the tickets we went to Wendy's for lunch.

We came home and Noah and Grandmom stayed at the house while I took Evan to his first baseball practice of the season. It was night and day from last season. Last season, of the 13 kids, there were only 5 kids who had never played. There were 7 kids at today's practice (5 could not make it) and of those 7 there today, only Evan had played before. The coach really spent time working on the basics which was good. Evan seemed to have a really good time. He was really racing around the bases. He looked much improved. I was third base coach for a bit and Evan asked if I could stay as third base coach. They have practice again on Sunday and Monday. Evan is already looking forward to practice.

After practice, we came home and I showered. Then we went to Toys R Us and got Legos for the boys. Despite Evan throwing a fit, we went to Red Lobster for dinner. Evan loves Red Lobster so I'm not sure why he was throwing a fit. We got him a smoothie and then he was back to a good mood and ate a ton of crab as always.

We came home and I gave the boys a bath. They were pretty grimy. Evan was still awake by the time Rachel came home.

Until next time...

Happy Birthday Dear Evan

Today was Evan's birthday. Both boys slept until about 8:30am, which is late for them.

I dropped the kids off at school and went to Walmart to get a few things including cupcakes for Evan's class.

Morry met me at school at 1pm and we had a little cupcake party for Evan and his school friends.

After school we stopped at the bank and then came home.

I made popcorn and the boys watched tv.

Blanca came at 3:45 and I left to tutor.

When Morry came home he took Evan and Noah to Evan's baseball practice. I met them there after tutoring.

For dinner we went to Red Lobster (Evan's choice). Evan ate a ton of crab and then got a sundae for dessert. He was very happy.

Earlier in the day I made Jello because I know how much Evan likes it. When we got home the boys had Jello and then we put them to bed.

Evan seemed very happy today. I'm glad he enjoyed his birthday. Since he had school today, tomorrow we are going to take the boys to Chuck E Cheese for lunch to celebrate both of their birthdays.

The Snow

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

I woke up this morning around 5:20. I was supposed to go to the gym, but I checked the news on my phone and saw that UT, the schools, the city and the state government had closed and there had been many accidents from the snow and ice. I decided it wasn't such a good idea to go to the gym or into work so I went back to sleep for a while.

Shortly after I got up and started working downstairs, Evan got up. I could hear him get up so I came out of the office. His eyes were huge as he saw the snow on the ground. He was really excited. He wanted to go outside but we told him we had to wait until Noah got up. We let Lizzy out and Evan leaned out and touched the snow. When we first opened the back door to let Lizzy out, she was running out and put the brakes on when she saw snow outside. She seemed hesitant, but then ran out and had a blast in the snow.

I worked some until Noah got up. When he got up, he was cranky, but I showed him the snow and he got excited to go outside. We got bundled up to go out and everyone, including Lizzy went out. Evan had a great time. I don't think he would have ever come back in. Noah didn't enjoy it as much but he seemed to enjoy a lot of it. Rachel built a very miniature snow man because the snow was powder and didn't stick together.

Shortly after we came back in the boys had lunch.

Rachel put Noah in his room after lunch, but Noah didn't nap.

For dinner, we went to Red Lobster. We had never taken the boys there and actually, Rachel and I have never gone there together. In fact, it's been well over 10 years since I went there. But both boys like shrimp and crab so we thought it might be a good place to take them. It was. They ate really well there. Evan also liked seeing the live lobsters at the front of the restaurant.

We came home and gave the boys baths. They are now in bed.

Until next time...