Gra’noah’bar

Last night I went out with the girls (Yenis and Alissa). We had a nice time, but it was pretty empty downtown. Maybe because people were up late the night before watching election stuff, they didn’t feel like going out?

This morning I drove Evan to school so I didn’t have to rush around trying to get out in time to walk. While Evan was at school Noah and I just hung out at the house. I did laundry and just got little things taken care of. Noah started acting real cranky around 10:30, so I put him down for a nap and he slept for about an hour.

At lunch I gave Noah a straw sippy cup with some juice in it. He did pretty well holding the cup on his own and getting the straw to his mouth.

We drove to pick Evan up and Wendy told me again how much Evan doesn’t like art. They had some project with cut up bell peppers and paint. I think they were using pepper halves as stamps. Anyway, Evan wanted nothing to do with it.

Blanca came at 4 and I tutored 2 students.

It was almost 7 when I got home. As we were getting dinner ready Evan came up with a new nickname for Noah. He started calling him “granoahbar”. Evan made that up all on his own. Morry and I were pretty impressed.

Evan and Noah are in bed now and it seems quiet up there.

Nice day at the lake

In case you didn’t notice, at the bottom of the page are the most recent YouTube videos. I added one yesterday of Evan at school.

Evan loves to use nicknames. He called Mottel “Mottlenose” and Lizzy “Lizzygrowls”. Noah is “Noahknees”. Evan even sings “A, B, C, D, Noahknees.”

Today we met Yenis and Kevin (almost 3 yrs old and in Evan’s class) at Town Lake. We walked around the 3 mile loop. Evan and Kevin walked about half of the trail. They were very good and stayed with us most of the time. They both did a lot of running. I brought some bread with us to feed the ducks. We had some leftover white bread from Rudy’s a few months ago that was still in the freezer. When we were getting close to that part Evan asked for the bread. He ate one of the pieces before we Evan got to the duck part. Then when we got to the part where the ducks usually are, there were no ducks, but lots of birds around. Evan enjoyed eating the bread and giving a little to the birds. We asked him to share with Kevin so he would rip little tiny pieces off and give them to Kevin one at a time. Evan loved being so close to the birds. He even touched at least one before I could stop him. Toward the end 2 big swans swam up as well. Noah seemed to like looking around as well. Normally the walk takes about an hour, but this time it took almost 2 hours, but that’s ok. We had no where to really be.

We stopped at Jamba Juice on the way home. I usually get a medium sized drink and they pour some of it in a little cup for Evan. He loves having his own smoothie.

We had a Mediterranean dinner tonight. We made Kofta Kabobs, Saffron Rice, and Tabouli. It was all pretty good. We decided we’d definitely make it again some time. Evan really liked the tabouli. Here are the recipes we used. http://www.recipezaar.com/170045 http://www.recipezaar.com/113983 and http://www.recipezaar.com/8758

We use recipezaar a lot.