No Rachel: Day Two (Welcome Grandmom)

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Rachel was still in Dallas today so I again worked from home. Like yesterday, I had to get Noah up so we could take Evan to school. Evan and I went in to wake him up and he was sitting up in bed. I don't know why he was up, but it made it easy.

We drove to the path and then walked Evan into the school. Evan and Noah were hugging and saying goodbye and a boy named Ben called over to Evan and asked Evan to sit down next to him. Evan got a goofy grin on his face and looked at me and sat down. It was very cute. Evan asked Noah to give him a high five goodbye. He wouldn't let us leave until Noah gave him a hard high five. I think it took three tries.

We came home for a bit and then I drove Noah to school. He seemed to be in a very bad mood and I was worried about leaving him there. He wasn't giving me a hard time or anything, it just seemed like he didn't want to go.

I then went and got a smoothie and Smoothie King and took my car over to H2O Hand Car Wash to get the car washed. I had gotten a Groupon a while back and decided to use it. They have free WiFi there so I could do work from there.

I came home and worked some and then I had to go get Noah. He was in a very good mood when I went in. He was sitting next to Miss Terrie and doing the "Bear Hunt" song. He seemed very excited to see me. He said he had a good day. So that was good.

Gabby met us at home. She took care of Noah while I went and picked up Evan.

When Evan came out of school, he was holding a paper with a bunch of stickers on it. There were three boys around him all wanting to see this paper. I wasn't sure what it was. When he came to me, he said he had filled up his sticker chart and got to choose an item out of the "Treasure Chest". He chose an MP3 player shaped eraser. He was very proud. Apparently, they get a sticker for being helpful in class. Once you fill it up, you get to choose an item. Evan managed to get 20 stickers in the first 10 days of school. I asked him if he was the first to fill up his chart. He said he was the second. Nevertheless, I am very proud that he is so helpful at school. That is wonderful.

Also at school, each day they've been "introducing" a kid to the class. The child has to stand up and tell the class how old they are, what their favorite food is and what they like to do. It was Evan's turn today. He said he told the class his favorite food was crab and that he likes to play sports. I wonder if he's the only kid in his class whose favorite food is crab.

We were home for a bit and then we had to leave to pick Grandmom up. The boys were excited to see her. Once we got her, we had trouble finding a place to eat. Evan said he wanted to eat at the Olive Garden. It turned out to be a 40 minute wait. So then we tried BJs but we didn't even get out of the car. There were a ton of people waiting outside. We ended up at Carino's. The boys did really really well there.

The boys were hyper when we got home and it took a while to get them calmed down. While they were hyper, they were still fairly well behaved. We did get them in bed and they are sleeping now.

Until next time...

Meet the Teachers

We went to Morry's work today and then went out to lunch together. We figured this would be last work day for a while that Evan could come to Morry's work. The boys liked playing at Morry's desk. We ate lunch at Craig O's. It was a great place for the kids. The owner came over and gave the boys dough balls and a chocolate chip cookie. There was also a chalkboard on the wall behind us that they could draw on.

We dropped Morry off at work and then went to Barnes and Noble. I read some Hawaii books while the boys played at the train table.

We were home for a little bit and then I was time to go to the open houses at the school.

First, we went to Evan's school. His teacher seems really nice. We have heard really good things about him.

Then, at Noah's school we spent a lot of time. Noah and Ms. Terry were very happy to see each other. There were a lot of kids and their siblings playing in the room. Noah seemed totally comfortable even though it was a new room for him.

Morry got the boys dinner ready while I ran out to pick up our food at Blue Bamboo and I got more food for Lizzy while I was out.

We just finished dinner.

Tonight is clean up night. Well, really it should have been last night. The boys have a lot of cleaning up to do.

Here's a video from today.

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.