Bookstore

We had plans to meet Yenis and Kevin and Lisa and Sienna at the park this morning. We drove over there, but since it had rained a little last night the park was too wet to play. We decided to go to Barnes and Noble. We got coffee and watched the kids play with the train table. They all had a good time. Even Noah enjoyed playing with the trains. Evan was kind of clingy for some reason. He wanted to sit in my lap a lot. Evan said he wanted his own coffee. Occasionally, I’ll order him a non-coffee drink like Strawberries and Cream. I told him no, but I’d make a smoothie for him when we got home.

When we got home Evan reminded me about making a smoothie for him. He drank some of his smoothie and then said he wanted to go upstairs and get his blankets and then lie down on the floor. We went upstairs and I told him he could lie down in his room. He played in his room for a long time. While Evan was in his room I took Noah outside and gave him a haircut.

When I put Noah down for a nap Evan was still up and playing in his room. I got him ready for his nap and eventually he fell asleep.

We got our new DirecTV receiver today. Morry had to set it up this time, rather than the repair guy. There is an option when you set it up to choose if you have one line or two. Morry chose 1 since we just have one line coming down right now. We are wondering if the repair guy chose 2 and that’s what was causing all the problems. After Morry set up the new receiver it seems to be working well. We’ll see how it does tomorrow.

We went to Joe’s Crab Shack for dinner. Evan ate a ton of my crab. He’s never had crab before. I wasn’t sure if he would eat it, but he loved it. He only wanted to eat the meat from the legs though. I had to make sure to keep the meat together and in a long strip. He didn’t like eating the little stringy pieces.

Brrrrr

It got cold here. The weather man said it got close to freezing here last night. This morning around 9 the temperature was 42 degrees. I still walked Evan to school. It was cold, but at least it was sunny. I bundled the boys in jackets and blankets, and by the time we got to school they didn’t need the blankets anymore.

While Evan was at school I just got stuff done around the house. Noah and I didn’t go anywhere. I fed Noah his usually lunch of cereal. I also gave him some Gerber puffs (little finger food cereal). He’s starting to get better at getting foods to his mouth. He seems to like those little puffs, even though not all of them make it to his mouth.

When I went to pick up Evan at school he was in the corner near the books lying on a pillow and covered with a blanket. He was smiling at me and said, “I tucked myself.” Wendy thought that was funny. He went over to the corner on his own, got the blanket and pillow, and tucked himself in. He must have been pretty tired.

When we got home I tried to put the boys down for a nap. Neither one wanted to sleep. I finally got Noah to sleep around 2:30. When Blanca came at 3 Evan was still up. Through the monitor we heard him say, “I want Blanca.” He must have heard her come in. Evan ended up not napping at all. Noah slept for almost 2 hours.

I got home from tutoring at 7. Morry had made ribs for us. We ate dinner and then put Evan and Noah to bed. Evan scratched his Toy Story CD, so we had to put the Raffi CD on instead. He cried some, but now it sounds like he is asleep. Noah doesn’t seem to mind what he listens to. Right now he has a swing music CD in his player.