Oil Change

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Last night, I had a major coughing fit which kept me up a long time.  It seems fine now.  But I didn't get much sleep so Rachel, despite being very sore from running yesterday, walked Evan to school.  He insisted on wearing his Roethlisberger jersey.

Noah slept in a long time.  It was good because he needed it.  Whenever we travel, the boys don't sleep as well.

Rachel laid down for a bit after taking Noah to school.

At lunch time, we dropped Rachel's car off at Groovy Lube to get an oil change.  I followed her and we went to Zorba's Greek Diner for lunch.  We hadn't been there before.  It was pretty good.

Rachel picked up Noah and a bit later she left to pick up Evan.  She told Noah they'd be leaving in a minute.  When she went to leave, she couldn't find Noah.  She saw the door from the house into the garage was open.  Noah had gotten into the car and gotten into his car seat, buckled himself, and was ready to go get Evan.

After "naps", Evan saw the boys he played football with at the Halloween party outside.  He wanted to go out.  He ended up playing football with them for about an hour.  At the end it was just Evan and the oldest boy, Johnny, who is in 2nd or 3rd grade, I think.  Evan was punting the football and Johnny would catch it.

For dinner, Rachel had leftover soup, I made eggs for myself and the boys had leftover.

Rachel gave the boys baths.  Evan was complaining his throat hurt so we gave him some medicine.  Noah showed us this tiny cut that he got days ago and wanted medicine.  He is still throwing a fit that he wants medicine.  Evan is either sleeping or close to sleeping.

Until next time...

School and Running

This morning when I dropped Noah off he started crying. Miss Terrie wasn’t in the room, so I thought maybe he was upset she wasn’t there. The other teacher Miss Alexis was there though.

After dropping off the kids at school I met a trainer from Lifetime Fitness at the trail across from the gym. She organizes a running club, but they meet at 8:30 on Tues/Thurs so I can’t go since that’s when I take the boys to school. Anyway, she offered to meet me and help me with my running. Today, she had me run a mile so she could get a feel of where I was and how I run. I ran a mile in 8 minutes and 40 seconds. She seemed happy with my speed and form. She did offer some suggestions. After that she had me run about another mile and half. We are planning to meet again on Tuesday.

After running I went over to Groovy Lube. Ever since we got an inspection a few weeks ago I have notice the gas mileage decreased in my car. I used to get 19 or 20mpg and now I’m getting 16 or 17mpg. The guy said he’d take a look at my car, though he claimed they don’t touch anything that would affect the gas mileage when they do inspections. He quickly looked at the car and didn’t see anything. He thinks we should do the 60,000 mile check up (which we are due to get) and perhaps we just need new spark plugs? He wanted me to track the gas mileage again for this tank and let him know how it turns out. I was kind of annoyed because I have been tracking the gas mileage for the last few weeks. I don’t see how it would be any different this week. He didn’t do anything.

After that I went home for a little bit and then it was time to pick up the boys. When I picked up Noah they confirmed that he had been crying because Terrie wasn’t in the room. As soon as she came in Noah stopped crying. Both Evan and Noah were happy and seemed to have a good day at school.

When we got home I put Noah down for a nap and he actually napped.

Blanca came 4pm and I tutored.

I got home around 6:30. For dinner we had ribs and baked potatoes.

We are about to put the boys to bed.

Blanca is coming back at 8:30pm to babysit for us.

We are going to the Alamo Draft House for the Spaceballs Quote-along and Bill Pullman (from Spaceballs) will be there. Morry is super excited.

Morry’s Night Out

This morning I went for a 3 mile run with the boys in the stroller. At one point a woman jogging with a dog passed us going the other direction. She looked at me pushing the double stroller and said, “Now that’s a workout. Kudos!”

When we got home, I quickly showered and then we left again to go meet Morry. Morry met us at Groovy Lube to get my car inspected. We dropped off the car and then ate lunch at Steak N Shake. The food is just decent, but it’s a great place for the boys. It’s very kid friendly. Evan and Noah did really well there.

After lunch we picked up the car and came home. I put Noah down for a nap.

Blanca came at 4:30 and I went to tutor.

Morry came home for a little bit after work, but then left again to go see a movie with some of his work friends. They were meeting up at the Alamo Drafthouse.

When I came home it was 7:30 and the boys and I hadn’t eaten dinner yet. I took them to McDonalds. They say a commercial that McDonalds now has Batman toys, so they have been asking us to go there.

Morry just got home and he said he had a nice time. It’s 10pm and both Evan and Noah are still awake. Hopefully they fall asleep soon. They have another day of school tomorrow.

Swimming after Dinner

This morning the boys were good. I had planned on going to the gym, but it was taking a while to get everyone dressed and fed. We had plans to meet Morry for lunch and to get an oil change for my car. Instead of going to the gym we met Morry around 11:30am at Groovy Lube to drop off my car. Then, we went to lunch at Steak n Shake.

We didn’t really know what Steak n Shake was, but it was close to Groovy Lube. It turned out to be a great place for the kids. It’s kind of like a fast food diner. You sit down and are served at the table. They had cars made out of paper that you have to fold up and chef hats for the kids to wear. Evan and Noah ate well. Noah had hot dog and Evan had peanut butter and jelly.

After lunch we picked up my car and everything worked out well.

I thought maybe we’d go to the gym afterwards, but both boys were getting a little cranky. It was already 1:00, so I decided just to go home.

It took Noah a while to nap and he didn’t nap that long.

For dinner we made pasta and then went to the gym so the boys could go swimming. Evan and Noah had a great time. We were hoping it would wear them out. They are in their rooms now, but Noah is still making noise at his gate.