Last Day

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Today is the unofficial last day of summer.  School starts tomorrow.  It's Noah's last day before he enters elementary school.  He seems to be excited to start Kindergarten.  He said he's not scared at all, which is good.

Rachel and I slept in a bit.  When we got up we had to run a few errands.  We stopped by Target.  On the way home, we picked up smoothies at Smoothie King.  The boys and I are there enough that we just have to say "We'll have our usual" but Rachel had to order something.

Rachel got the boys lunches ready for the week - at least all the non-refrigerated food.  On the white board in the laundry room, she put what we should take out of the refrigerator for their lunches for each day for each boy.

In the afternoon, the boys cleaned up some and played Wii.

Dmitriy and Katheryne stopped by for a bit.

For dinner I made pizzas and then we gave the boys showers.

They are in their rooms now.

Until next time...

Evan’s New Room

Today was the day we moved Evan into his new room. We switched Evan’s room and the guest bedroom.

This morning Gabby came over at 10am to watch the boys while we got the rooms ready.

I went over to Bed Bath and Beyond to pick up a few things while Morry got started.

Katheryne and Dmitriy came over at about 11am to help us out. Katheryne is very handy and helped us take furniture apart and hang curtains. Dmitriy was also a big help with moving furniture.

Evan and Noah started to get hungry to so I got lunch ready for them.

Around 1:30 I picked up food for us Santa Rita. We sent Gabby home with I got back and then we all ate our lunch. Dmitriy and Katheryne went home after that.

Noah napped and Morry and I did more work around the house. There was still more moving to do, but we had to hold off on some things so that we wouldn’t wake Noah up.

For dinner we had pasta.

Noah is in bed.

Evan's being a stinker. He wasn't listening to me tonight. He's fighting sleep right now.

Here's a pic from last night with Jonah and Erika

Before/ During The Room Switching

After

Christmas Day

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This morning Evan came in our room at 5:45 and then at 6:45. The first time he couldn't find his pacifier, the second time he wanted the music on. He did go back to sleep and didn't wake up until 8:30. I started a movie in the gameroom for him.

When we all got up, we played downstairs. Rachel worked with Evan to learn to write his name. I fixed the gate upstairs which had come out of the wall.

Rachel has gotten a cold. She also developed a cough with it. The cough kept her up last night, so she called the doctor today. The doctor called in a prescription for an antibiotic and a cough medicine. I took the boys out to go to Walgreens to pick it up.

While we were out, Rachel started making a Spanish dish called tortilla espanola. When we got home, she was still getting it ready. I got lunch ready for the boys and then helped Rachel with our lunch. She needed me to flip it but we tried to early and some of it went all over the stove. It was a mess. When it was finished cooking, it was good.

The boys napped for a couple hours. I folded laundry while Rachel cleaned up the kitchen.

After naps, we took the boys over to Dmitriy and Katheryne's. Katheryne built a koi pond. We thought the boys would like it. Also they have a Great Pyrenees dog. When we got over there, the boys just loved it. Noah was running around pointing to everything, saying "look!". Evan was quiet but had just as much fun. The dog was taller than both of them, but neither boy was scared or intimidated at all. He's really nice and very gentle. He looks nice and gentle and I think the boys can sense that. His face kind of looks like Lizzy. Dmitriy and Katheryne have two fish tanks, the koi pond, 4 ferrets and a tortoise along with 4 additional dogs who were upstairs. They didn't bring the other dogs down but the boys absolutely loved looking in the fish tanks and seeing the ferrets. Noah was giggling almost the whole time. The boys liked to pretend to sleep in the doggie bed. It was a really nice time.

After dinner, we went to Katz's Deli for dinner. We had to wait for about 30 minutes to be seated. The boys were really well behaved though. I think the hostess moved us up the list too. There were other people with kids waiting, but for some reason I feel like they made an exception for us and we definitely appreciated it. We asked for pickles and Evan had two plus half of the one that came with my corned beef sandwich. Noah ate some corned beef and was pretty well behaved. The table next to us thought he was really cute and they gave him a lot of attention. He just loves attention. We got a scoop of vanilla ice cream for the boys to share.

We came home and gave them baths. Noah is in bed, but Evan is out.

Until next time...

Port Surgery

This morning I got Evan for ready for school and Jodie picked him up and took him home.

At 10:30am Sonya and Avery came over to watch Noah while I had my surgery. Katheryne picked me up at 11am and took me to have my port put in.

The surgery was fine. They let me go home around 2:30 and then I just slept when I got home.
We got the results from the cat scan and the bone scan. Everything looked fine. Tomorrow I have a heart scan.

For dinner, Morry made shrimp for Evan and me and pasta for him and Noah.

Evan and Noah are in Noah’s room now, but still awake and playing.