Busy Sunday

This morning Grandma and Papa took care of the boys so that Morry and I could sleep in. We had a ton of strawberries that needed to be eaten today, so Grandma made strawberry muffins.

Papa had a lunchtime meeting at Hillel, so Grandma, Noah, and I met Aunt Susan for lunch at Kneaded Pleasures. Morry had work to do and Evan was supposed to come with us. Evan threw such a fit getting into the car, we decided just to leave him at home with Morry.

Lunch was nice. Noah was good. On the car ride there Noah kept talking about eating pancakes. We ordered him one, but of course he didn’t eat it. We ate lunch inside, but then Papa joined us later and we sat outside the restaurant for a while.

We came home for naps.

Morry took Evan to a birthday party at the Austin Children’s Museum. It sounded like Evan had a good time.

For dinner, Papa picked Torchy’s tacos for us. We ate dinner at home, but outside in the backyard. It was nice sitting outside. Everyone seemed to enjoy it, even Lizzy.

We just put the boys to bed. Evan is still up.

Port Flushing

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Last night went pretty smoothly. Neither Noah or Evan got up in the middle of the night. And Evan only came out of his room once last night.

This morning, Evan slept until after 8. Rachel got them up and took Evan to school.

Rachel and Noah came home for a bit. She had a 10:45 appointment at the oncologist to get her port "flushed". Her port is basically an outlet to her vein so they could draw blood or give her the chemo without needing to do an IV. After about a month if it hasn't been used, it needs to be flushed. They put in some thinner so that the blood doesn't clot. She's having her port removed next week so this is the only time she needed to do it. She decided to call Alissa and see if Alissa could watch Noah while this was being done. Alissa lives right near the oncology place. Rachel picked Alissa up and they went. They had to wait a while for Rachel to be called in, but once she was in there, Alissa watched Noah.

For lunch, they went to a sandwich placed called Kneaded Pleasures.

Rachel and Noah went home and then Rachel put Noah in the stroller and walked to Evan's school to pick Evan up. She said it felt good to walk.

The boys went down for a nap. When Noah got up, he told Rachel he had pooped. When she went to change him, she realized it was a blow out and it was all up his back. She threw him in the bath. Evan wanted to take a bath too and undressed and jumped in. When he saw the poop floating in the bath, though, he quickly jumped out. I got home right about the time Rachel put him in the bath. I got home and I heard the bath running and Noah crying hysterically. I went up to find this scene. I scrubbed Noah while Rachel held the shower head and rinsed him off. While I dried and dressed Noah, Evan insisted on taking a shower. With Rachel's help he was able to clean himself. He didn't want to come out.

For dinner, we had an enchilada meal that Lisa had made for us a while back. They brought over two meals that time. That night we had one and we froze the other. It really came in handy tonight. I made pasta for the boys.

After dinner, Rachel went to tutor. Evan watched a Goofy Movie and Noah played on the computer while I helped him. He really enjoys the computer.

The boys are now in bed.

Until next time..

No Rachel

Hello Everyone, this Morry.

This morning, Evan woke me up at 7:15. I took him downstairs and got him some breakfast and put on a movie for him. He came back in at 8:30 and wanted to get dressed. Shortly after that Evan got up.

We all played in the gameroom. Soon, Grandmom/Marilyn got up and joined us. When Rachel got up we went downstairs.

We headed out to lunch at Kneaded Pleasures. It's a bagel/sandwich shop. Neither boy ate much there. We noticed, as we were entering the shopping center, that the Blockbuster was having a sale on previously-viewed DVDs. They had some listed as 5 for 20, some as 3 for 20. So we got Evan a bunch of DVDs. We also got two Wii games which were buy one, get one free.

When we got back, we put the boys down for a nap. Rachel's Aunt Susan came and picked her up to go to San Antonio. Rachel's cousin is getting married tomorrow and the rehearsal dinner is tonight. This is the first time that Rachel has been away without the boys and without me.

Noah got up from his nap first. At 5:30, I had decided that Evan had slept long enough. So Noah and I went to get him up. Noah walked right in and went over to Evan who was sleeping and yelled "Eh-yan". Then he climbed into Evan's bed and laid down on top of him and the climbed over him. It was really funny. Evan thought it was funny even though it was probably a tough way to wake up.

From there, we went to Target and got some stuff for the boys and presents for Ben and Molly. After Target, we met Matt, Ben and Molly at the Austin Pizza Garden. They had a guy playing guitar live there. He was pretty good.

When we got home, I gave the boys baths. I thought we'd try something new. I asked Evan if he wanted to sleep in the bed in Noah's room. He was very excited to do that. I thought that might make it easier for Evan to go to sleep since he's been getting out of bed because he wants to be with me. Well it has worked on one count. Evan hasn't gotten out of bed. But it is 10:19pm currently and the boys are still up. It seems to be getting quieter but they have been laughing and squealing and having a good time together. I have gone up there twice to remind them to go to sleep.

Until next time...

JCC, Boats, and Spaghetti

Evan got up early again. He was up around 6:30am.

This morning I took Evan and Noah to the JCC. Noah seemed to really like the music during Tot Shabbat. Evan like the challah.

After the JCC we met Morry for lunch since he works by there now. We ate at Kneaded Pleasures. I was able to find a coupon and we got a buy one get one free sandwich. Evan and Noah did well there and we had a nice lunch. During lunch Evan said he needed to go potty. Morry took him to the bathroom and Evan peed in the urinal! He was very excited to tell me about it.

Then, we went to Morry’s work to get the tour of the office. Noah must have liked what he saw because he was very loud there. He kept squealing and yelling.

Not too far from where Morry works there is a boat ramp to the lake and a neat bridge. I took the boys there. Evan and Noah liked going over the bridge and watching the boats.

At home, both boys took good naps. I put Evan in a diaper for nap time.

After naps, I went upstairs to get Evan. He had taken off his diaper, threw it away, put on underwear, and got dressed! His pants and underwear were backwards though.

Morry got home and we went out to dinner. We ate a Spaghetti Warehouse, which we also had a coupon. We had a buy one get one free dinner. Today was the day of coupons. We ate our dinner inside the trolley. Evan loved that. Evan and Noah were very well behaved. Evan went potty in the urinal twice while we were there.

As we were leaving the restaurant there were a ton of motorcycles outside. The Motorcycle Rally is going on this weekend here. We watched all the motorcycles for a little bit.

Morry’s watching the hockey game and Evan and Noah are playing with toys. In a few minutes we’ll put them to bed.