Crying over Spinach

This morning the boys and I went to the gym.

After the gym we went over to the Breast Cancer Resource Center to pick up my art bra. There's a photo shoot tomorrow for a calendar and they want all the models from the fashion show in it.

We came home and had lunch. I tried to get Noah to nap, but he wouldn't.

I noticed a flyer on our door. Two girls on our street put out a babysitting flyer. They are pretty young, but I thought it might be good to use them as mother's helpers when I am home to start out. I talked to both girls and asked them to come over at 5pm to meet the boys.

Gabby came and I got some stuff done around the house. Then, the girls (Maddie and Landry) came over to "meet" the boys. They have met before, but I wanted to see if Evan and Noah like them and would want them to babysit. The girls were good with Evan and Noah. We all went in the backyard and Maddie was very impressed with Evan's batting.

For dinner Morry had steak and I had fish. Among other things I had put spinach on Evan's plate. All of the sudden Noah started crying. It took us a while to understand what he was saying. He was upset because he didn't have spinach too. We got him spinach and both boys ate all of their spinach. Have you ever heard of a kid crying because he did not get spinach?

After dinner we went to Petco to get some more food for Lizzy. Lizzy wanted to come with us, so we brought her along. She was very excited going into Petco.

We are now going to put the boys to bed. Let's hope for a good night.

Downtown stuff

The boys were good this morning and drop off at school went well.

I got things done around the house and ran some errands.

The boys were happy at pick up too.

Noah didn't nap, but stayed in his room for a little bit.

Gabby came to babysit. A market research company contacted me to see if I would participate in a focus group this afternoon. I was scheduled for 4:45-6:45 and then I had a fashion show (Art Bra Show) meeting right after that. When I arrived for the focus group they told me they had overbooked and I could go home (with pay). That was nice, but I had 1 1/2 to kill until the next meeting. It wasn't really enough time to go home. I was downtown and getting home would take at least 30 min. in traffic. It didn't make sense for me to go home and then turn around and come back downtown a little bit later.

I just hung out at Book People, read some books, and got a smoothie.

At the meeting they showed us which bras we would be wearing and we talked to stylist about what to wear with them (shoes, pants/skirt, jewelry, etc). They had two big shot stylist there. One guy works with famous people here in Austin and the other guy just finished working on a movie set.

I got home around 8pm. We just got Evan and Noah ready for bed and Morry is reading to them now.

Picture Day x 2

Today was picture day at school and for Evan's baseball team.

Noah was a little easier to deal with this morning, though he still gave me a little bit of a hard time. He didn't want to wear the button down shirt I put on him. Since it was picture I wanted the boys to look a little nicer. They both looked really cute this morning.

While the boys were at school I went to the Breast Cancer Resource Center. They are having a big fundraiser event called Graphic 5 and I volunteered to help. They needed models to wear Art Bras for the runway event and for the auction. The Art Bras are created by breast cancer survivor's friends and family members, local artists and celebrities like Willie Nelson, Mack Brown and the Beach Boys. So, I went there to try on different Art Bras so they could decide what I would be wearing for the event.

After that I went to the post office to send anther package to Stephen and the Marines.

I came home to eat lunch and then picked up the boys from school.

After school we went to Great Clips to get them haircuts.

Gabby came over at 4. I got Evan ready for his baseball game and pictures and Morry met us at the fields. From there I went to tutor.

Gabby and Noah stayed at home.

We got back home around 7pm and then made dinner.

The boys are in their rooms now, but not asleep.