Baseball and San Antonio

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This morning I organized a "practice" for anyone who wanted to play baseball.  I emailed the parents of Evan's team from last year as well as a few others.  We had 8 kids, including Evan and Noah, out at the fields.  Evan was able to use the new bat we got him this week.  It's an inch longer but is the same weight.  He hit very well with it. I think it made a difference.

Noah also played very well.  One of the dad's pitched underhanded to him and at one point, he hit four straight balls.  He also is using a "new" bat (although it is a used bat).  It's a bit longer but actually 2 ounces lighter than his previous bat.

At the end of practice, Evan, Jack and Noah practiced fielding a groundball at short and throwing to first.  That's part of the tryouts which are next week.  Noah did really well.  He was able to throw it from short to first on one bounce which is significantly farther than he was throwing even back in May.  He seemed to have a good time.

We had lunch at home and Evan played a bit of Wii.

Then we left for San Antonio.  Rachel's cousin Jonah was having a birthday party for his daughters, Valencia and Ayesha at a movie theater.  We saw Smurfs 2 and then we got a tour of the projection room.  It was pretty cool, though I think the kids weren't as amazed as the parents.

On the way home, we stopped at Best Buy and got a FitBit for Rachel.  I had gotten Rachel one for her birthday but it wasn't working properly so we returned it.  They were all sold out of them in Austin so we checked to see if they had any in San Antonio while we were down there.  It turns out one of the Best Buys did have one in stock so we picked it up.

Noah fell asleep on the way home and is now sleeping in his bed.  Evan stayed awake.

Until next time...

80 Degrees

Today the weather was beautiful. It got into the 80s today.

We went over to Yenis and Kevin’s house around 11:30am. They just built a house. They have brand new carpet upstairs, so they ask you to take your shoes off before walking on the carpet. Kevin has a very nice gameroom upstairs. Evan remembered this and as soon as we walked in Evan sat down by the stairs, took off his shoes, and asked to go upstairs. Evan, Kevin, and Noah played upstairs for a little while. Then, we all came downstairs and went in the backyard. We ate lunch and played outside. Yenis made lasagna. I didn’t think Evan would want any. He usually doesn’t like pasta with sauce. Evan asked for lasagna and then asked me if it was the same as the lasagna that Garfield eats. He ended up eating a little bit of it. I’m glad he tried it.

Evan really liked playing with Kevin’s guitar. Below is a video of Evan playing Jingle Bells. Evan and Kevin also played baseball. They would take turn pitching the ball while the other was at bat. A few times they actually did well and one of the boys was able to hit the ball with the bat.

We came home for nap time. Noah napped, but Evan didn’t.

Blanca came at 3:00. I tutored and got home around 6:00.

Morry made fajitas for dinner. We just finished eating and cleaning up.

We’ll go upstairs soon to get the boys ready for bed.

I’m meeting Alissa tonight at Ruta Maya for some salsa music/dancing.

Evan rides his bike, Noah watches

We didn’t do much today. I took the boys in the front yard so Evan could ride his bike. He hasn’t ridden in a while and I thought since the weather was nice, today was a good day to teach him how to use the pedals. I took some video of Evan riding his tricycle on the sidewalk. He was really starting to understand how to use the pedals, but his steering still needs some work.

Of course the neighbor’s dog was barking this morning. I just put the boys down for a nap and the dumb dog started barking again. I actually took video so you can see/hear how annoying this dog is. It is still barking and now Noah started making noise. I tried yelling at the dog, but it won’t stop barking. I’m tired of it waking the boys up all the time.

Yesterday Evan brought home some of his art. He decorated a bat. Below is a picture. He told Morry he made footballs on the bat. Evan’s getting good at making circles. It looks like he even tried to give the bat some eyes, or maybe that’s just a coincidence of where the circles happen to be?

Evan wouln't let me get a picture of him