Evan's Birthday, Noah's track and Cap10k, Galveston

 Over the last few weeks, we celebrated Evan's 16th birthday at the Round Rock Express game.  Noah is on the track team and ran 300-meter hurdles in a couple of track meets.  Noah also ran the Cap10K with his school group.

Over Easter weekend, we met the Edwards in Galveston and had a fun time.

Here are some pictures from the last few weeks.

Round Rock Express Games + Orthodontist

 Here's what's been going on over the last few days.

On Saturday and Tuesday, Evan went with his friend to the Round Rock Express baseball games.  On Saturday he caught a foul ball in the air. 

Morry hasn't been feeling well for the last week and was able to get a telehealth appointment the other day.  The doctor prescribed him some antibiotics.

This week I've had a few doctor's appointments for checkups that I've been way overdue.  I had an appointment with the dermatologist on Monday and today I saw the eye doctor. 

Evan has started baseball practices again.  He had a scrimmage on Sunday and will have another one this Sunday.

Today, I took Noah to his orthodontist appointment.   He has one more tooth to lose, but the orthodontist says he's ready for braces now.  He'll get those next week on Wednesday.

Morry and Evan just got home from baseball practice. 

Last Work Day for Me

This morning I had to be at school at 9am for a teacher workday.  I asked the kids if they wanted to come with me.  Noah wanted to stay home since he said he was tired, but Evan came with me.

I had a little bit of work to do in my classroom, checking supplies and textbooks, entering final grades.  I got that done pretty early, but had to be back for an 11:30 meeting.   Evan and I walked around the trail and creek at the school.   Evan really enjoyed that. 

Then, we met Morry and Noah at Einstein's Bagels nearby for lunch.    Morry had made plans to pick up some of the baseball kids at noon in that same shopping center.

When we finished eating I went back to work.

Morry picked up 3 kids and brought them back to our house.

After my meeting, I got my hair highlighted.

I got home around 4:30 just as Morry was leaving with all of the kids to go to the Round Rock Express baseball game.

He just dropped off all of the kids and now they are on their way home.

Evan's Birthday and Rain

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

On Thursday, we celebrated Evan's 12th birthday.  For the first time since he went to school, Rachel and I couldn't meet him for lunch.  I think parents are allowed to meet their kids for lunch, but I think it would be weird for us to go into the school with a 6th grader.  After school, we drove up to Round Rock to see the Express play.  Grandma came with us and Papa met us there.  Both boys had a good time but Evan especially.  His former coach, Oscar, who now works for the Express got his name on the board for the birthday list.  Evan was able to get 3 baseballs.  And the boys got on the jumbotron 4 times.

Yesterday was an uneventful day.  Evan had practice at night for baseball.  I took him to practice.  Noah had football practice at the same time.  Rachel was able to take him.  We had Torchy's for dinner.

This morning, Evan had an 8am game in Pflugerville.  I woke up at 5:40 to take him.  I got things ready, got his water ready and woke him up.  Just before we were going to leave and I saw that the day was cancelled.  Apparently there were thunderstorms overnight that I slept through.  Evan still wanted to get donuts so we did.  Then we came home and went back to sleep.

Noah had a 1pm football game.  The cold front that came through overnight brought the temperatures down to 40 degrees.  It was a cold and miserable day to be out watching Noah play.  Rachel stayed in the car for most of it.  We did bring Chewie.  Noah played well considering the temperatures.  He had several sacks.  Any time the other team tried to throw, Noah was making it difficult on the quarterback.  His team lost, unfortunately.

We drove the van to the game and it warned us that the battery was going.  When we got home, Rachel took the van back out and got it replace.  The boys and I stayed home and watched a movie.

For dinner, we brought Me Con Bistro home.  Then we watched Timeless.

The boys are going to bed.

Until next time...

Evan's Busy Day

This morning we took it easy.  Morry and I went for a walk and then we made lunch.

Morry and Evan went to Evan's baseball practice from 3 -5pm.

From there, Morry dropped off Evan with Reid and they went to Round Rock Express game.

While Evan was gone, Morry, Noah, and I ate dinner at Chuy's and then went shopping at H-E-B.

Morry just got home from picking up Evan.

Saturday + Sunday = More Baseball

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Yesterday morning, Evan had a baseball game.  His team lost but he played well.  He hit the ball to all three fields and hustled well.  The other team kept moving their players back when he came up to bat.

After the game, Evan and Darius had a catch for a while and Daniel and I watched the next game.  Noah was playing with some sticks he found.

We took it easy all afternoon.  The boys watched a movie.

In the late afternoon, we went to the Round Rock Express game.  It was Oak Hill night and the kids got to have a "parade" around the field in front of the fans.  Evan decided to run around the whole thing and in fact was racing his teammates (and winning).  You can see a picture below.  The Rockies and Nationals sat with each other which was nice.  Noah had fun with his friends and Evan had fun with his friends.  The kids were up on the Jumbotron a couple times.  The team put up a Jumbotron message that if you tweeted a picture at a certain hashtag they might show it later in the game.  Rachel took a picture of Evan with his team and that was the one they chose to show on the Jumbotron.

This morning we slept in.  Then Noah had baseball practice at 1pm.  I did a game with the kids towards the end.  The winner would get a Gatorade at the next practice.  The kid who won was so excited, he ran and jumped into my arms and wouldn't let go.  It was very cute.

Evan had a game in the late afternoon.  He had his worst day hitting this season.  Still he had a double (he was out trying to stretch it into a triple) and he lined a ball super hard at the third baseman who was able to (barely) knock it down for a single.  He also had a sac fly.

We came home had dinner, gave the boys showers and they are in bed and sleeping now.

Until next time...

Evan is 8!!

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Today is Evan's 8th birthday.  It's hard to believe we met him for the first time eight years ago.  When I got up, he was playing MLB Power Pros on the Wii.  He wanted to open his gifts.  He was excited to get a Penguins Jersey from Zayde.

We had a 10:30 baseball game for Noah.  Evan came with me.  Rachel came later.  Unfortunately, we lost but the kids played really well despite the loss.  Noah hit the ball very well and of course was a smart baserunner as he usually is.  Really the kids did very well.

After the game, one of the boys from Noah's team invited him over so he went home with them.

When I got home I had a missed call and an email.  Apparently the team that Evan was supposed to play later in the afternoon didn't have enough kids and had to forfeit the game.  Evan was disappointed. We arranged to have a practice during that time at the fields.

Around 3pm, Evan and I went over to the fields and we practiced.  There were 6 of the 11 kids there but it was fun.  The kids were all doing well and Evan had an absolute blast.  The kids that came were the kids that Evan is close with.

From there, we drove to pick up Evan's friend Wade.  We planned to take them to the Round Rock Express game.  We bought lawn seats in the outfield.  We got Wade and then jumped in the car and drove to Round Rock for the game.  An inning after we got there someone hit a home run.  It went just over Evan's head.  In fact, I don't think he completely saw it until it hit the grass and bounced back towards a kid.  Evan literally dove onto the ground with the boy that the ball bounced towards and another boy and almost had the ball.  Evan seemed to have a really good time with Wade and he was into the baseball game.  In the top of the 8th, another home run came and that was a big pile.  Evan jumped into that one as well.  That one made me a bit nervous because it was a bigger pile.  Evan was a bit disappointed that he didn't come away with the ball.

We came home, dropped Wade off and now the boys are in bed.

Until next time...

The Hammer

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Rachel was supposed to tutor this morning.  But we slept/laid in bed until she needed to get up to get ready.  The boys went downstairs and played with the Wii.  As Rachel was getting ready, her phone rang.  Her tutoring got canceled.

We took it easy until it was time for Evan to eat and get ready for his baseball game.  Noah continued to play the Wii while I got stuff ready for Evan and me.  He ate his lunch and I took him over to the game.

Rachel and Noah got to Evan's game before it started but Noah was in a really bad mood.  Rachel ended up just taking him home before Evan's game started.

For the last few weeks, Evan has been really hitting the ball well during practice and batting practice.  It hasn't completely translated to the games.  He'll have a really hard hit here and there but nothing as consistent as practice. That changed last Sunday and continued today.  He was hitting the ball with such authority today.  He ended up 3-for-3 with three doubles.  One of the balls was hit to deep left field.  He wasn't running as fast as he should have.  He could have ended up with a triple.  But his best play was when he was playing left centerfield.  A kid hit the ball hard and it bounced off the fence on the fly.  Evan played it perfectly off the fence and turned and threw it in to second holding the boy to a single.  It was a big play as the Evan's team ended up winning by one run.

From there we came home, got ready really quick and then picked up Jack.  The Round Rock Express were having Oak Hill Baseball Night at the stadium.  All the kids participated in a parade on the field prior to the game.  We met up with a bunch of Evan's teammates.  The only players from Noah's team were Noah and Jack.  They were all being silly before the parade.  They were on the jumbotron a few times.

We got home and put the boys to bed.

Until next time...