Lunch With Evan

This morning we walked to school and then I got on the treadmill.

Since I met Noah for lunch yesterday, I met Evan today.  Before leaving the house I made a waffle for him and brought some powdered sugar to go along with it.

Evan seemed happy to see me for lunch and enjoyed his waffle.  We had a nice time.

After school we walked to pick up the boys.

I did not tutor Jack and Audrey today.  Evan and Jack's class had math benchmark tests today.  So Jack was tired.  I think Audrey maybe had something else going on.

Evan and Morry went to baseball practice.

While they were gone I made meringue cookies for a brunch I'm going to tomorrow.  Noah and Calvin chilled on the couch.

We had a late dinner after Morry and Evan got home.  We ate grilled chicken and corn on the cob.

The boys are getting ready for bed now.

Here are a few pictures from today.

Baseball night and time with Noah

This morning we walked to school.

I went to Target while the boys were in school.

We walked to pick up Evan and Noah.

Around 4:30 Morry and Evan left for Evan's baseball practice/scrimmage game.

Noah and I spent time together at home.  I made meringue cookies for Evan's school project tomorrow and we ate dinner.  We gave Lizzy a bath. 

Morry and Evan just got home.  Evan is eating his dinner now and then we'll put the boys to bed.

Movie Day

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Evan was scheduled to have a flag football game today, but it wasn't until 4pm.  The movie Hotel Transylvania came out yesterday and the boys have been looking forward to seeing it.  Since the game wasn't until later, I decided we could go see it this morning.  Also, I thought that would give Rachel a chance to sleep in when there weren't two boys running around the house.

The movie started at 10am.  Before we left, I got an email saying Evan's football game was cancelled due to the rain.   I think the rain also caused lots of people to go see the movie as well.  It was very crowded.  The boys enjoyed the movie.  Lots of fart jokes.  You just can't go wrong with fart jokes.

Evan was supposed to go over Jack's house after the movies.  Noah wanted to come too.  We weren't sure how that would go over so Rachel called Cole's mom to see if Cole could come over.  She preferred to have Noah over there.  Suddenly, Rachel and I found ourselves childless.  We decided to get lunch.  We didn't need anything fancy so we went to Bruegger's Bagels.  When we came home, we put stuff back in the attic that we hadn't sold in the garage sale.

Noah did not seem happy that he had to leave Cole's.  When we picked up Evan, Jack was literally hanging on Evan saying he didn't want Evan to go.  It's nice that the boys have such good friends.

For dinner, we just had leftovers.  After dinner Rachel made meringue cookies.

The boys are now in bed.  They were pretty tired.

Until next time...

Labor Day

Last night Noah was up a few times crying.  Both Morry and I had to go in there.  I'm not sure what his deal was.  He asked if Mottel was locked in the laundry room, which he was.  Maybe Noah had a bad dream about Mottel?

We had our neighbors (Kevin, Gayle, Brynn, and Naomi) over for lunch.  Their girls are 5 and 3.  Noah played with the girls a lot.  Evan played some, but did his own thing.  For lunch we made flank steak, corn on the cob, veggies, and merenge cookies.  Kevin and Gayle brought chips and fruit. It was nice and we had fun.

In the afternoon, I left to tutor 2 students and Morry took the boys to buy baseball bats.

For dinner we had leftovers from last night's dinner.

The boys also had clean up night.

Evan read all of Chika Chika Boom Boom to us tonight.

The boys are in bed now.

Last Flag Football Game

This morning Evan had his last flag football game at 9am. We all went to the game. It was a playoff game, but since Evan's team didn't win that was the last game.

We came home for a little bit and then went to lunch at Trattoria Lisina. They added a nice playground outside so the boys played for a while after we ate.

We took it easy at home the rest of the day. Fran played football with the boys.

We ate leftovers for dinner and then I made merengue cookies for dessert.

We just got the kids ready for bed.

School and Dinner Outside

This morning the kids were pretty good. They wanted to play so I had a hard time getting out of the house on time, but at least they weren't cranky.

When we got to Noah's room he asked his teacher if she had a good time at the beach (she was out a few days). She thought it was so sweet that he asked her that.

While the boys were at school I ran 3 miles and got some things done at home.

After we got home from school Blanca came over and I went to get my hair done.

It has been a while since Blanca came to babysit. The boys were very excited to see her. They were a little disappointed that she didn't bring over one of her wii games. So, they all walked over to her house to get the game.

Evan and Noah enjoyed eating outside last night and asked if we could do it again tonight. So, we all ate outside again. The boys ate first since Morry came home a little later than usual. He had a meeting. Morry and I had grilled chicken and salad.

We just ate dessert - the cookies, watermelon, and peaches. The boys are outside, but we are about to get them to come inside and get ready for bed.

Happy 4th!

This morning the boys were good. Noah slept in and Evan played quietly in the game room.

We went to Target and bought a few things. Then we went to the gym again.

I packed a lunch for all of us. When we first got there the boys had about 5 minute to play in the water before the safety break. At that time, we ate lunch. After lunch the boys had a great time playing the pool. Evan went down the slide multiple times. Noah loved jumping into the water like yesterday.

At home, Noah took a good, long nap.

We got dinner ready as the boys played outside. Morry grilled hot dogs for Noah and him. I had fish. Evan had shrimp. We also had corn on the cob and I made watermelon juice. We sat outside and used the fan we bought at Target. It seemed to mostly keep the bugs away.

While we cleaned up and got dessert ready, they boys cleaned up upstairs.

We sat outside again for dessert and ate our watermelon and meringue cookies.

Morry is reading to the boys now. They both kept saying how much fun they had today. They like July 4th now.

Passover

I spent a lot of the day getting ready for Passover.

Gabby came at 3:45. I tutored one student and then came back home.

We had seder here with Matt, Rachael, Tristan, Maddee, Aunt Susan, Aaron, and Mandy. We did a very short seder using pieces from the Maxwell House haggadah. It was nice and I feel like everyone had a good time. We had a good variety of food. Everyone brought something. Aunt Susan's charoset was really good. For the afikomen we put teams of Evan and Maddee together and Tristan and Noah. Tristan ended up finding the afikomen that Morry hid under an end table. We gave all the kids money as a prize. During the seder Evan ate a lot of parsley with salt water. Noah liked his matzoh ball. Of course the kids liked the fruit and meringue cookies for dessert. We also had a chocolate seder plate and chocolate matzoh that Rachael and Matt brought.

We are wiped out now. The boys are still awake in their rooms.

Here are some pictures from tonight.

Happy Passover!

Snow Coming?

It was really cold this morning. I dropped the boys off at school with their heavy coats, hats, and gloves. It turned out they wouldn't be going outside anyway.

I got some things done around the house. I also went to the post office to send some things to Stephen and the Marines.

The boys had a good day at school.

Noah wouldn't nap. During nap time I got dinner mostly ready and made meringue cookies.

Gabby came at 4pm and I tutored.

When I got home we had dinner.

They have been predicting snow for tonight. They are saying we might get an inch or so. I'll believe it when I see it. Although, right now something is coming down. It's very little so it's hard to tell if it's sleet or snow.

Evan and Noah are very excited that it might snow. I hope we at least get a little. We'll see.