Evan's Birthday + The Last Few Days

This week we were all busy with our different obligations.

I worked teaching, tutoring, and with blog/influencer stuff.  I was on a local news show on Wednesday (see the video here) and had a food blogger event on Thursday.

Morry started his new job as CTO of a startup called Answers Now.

Evan and Noah had sports practices.

Today was Evan's birthday.  He's 13 now!

This afternoon Noah had football practice.  We picked him up a little bit early in order to get downtown to pick up our race packets for the Cap10k on Sunday.

Then, to celebrate Evan's birthday we went to Big Top Candy Shop and then Tarbouch for dinner.  Grandma and Papa met us for dinner.

Now the boys are getting ready for bed.

Thursday and Friday

Yesterday I taught, then came home to get Gizmo for his checkup at Austin Pets Alive.

They said he will need another eye surgery.  Other than that everything looked good.  He got his last vaccination.  They said someone will contact us soon to schedule the surgery.

For dinner last night we made pizza at home.

Today, while the kids were in school I went to pick up my race packet for the half-marathon this weekend.

This evening Evan had baseball practice.

On the way home, they picked up dinner for all of us at Pluckers and got home around 9pm.

Soon the boys will get ready for bed.

Cold Morning

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

It was a cold, windy morning walking to school.  It was 39 degrees but the wind chill made it about 28 degrees.  We all survived.  Lizzy seemed to like it.

I was planning on working from home all day but then Aaron and I ran into an issue so I needed to go into the office.

Rachel and I met at Wholy Bagel for lunch.  Afterwards, I went back to the office.

Rachel went downtown to pick up her packet for the half marathon this weekend.  The packet pick up didn't start until 2.  She got home a little after 2:30 and I had started walking to get the boys.  Rachel met us there.

Wade and Jack walked home with us.  Evan and Noah enjoyed having them over.

For dinner, we had a Living Social deal to a thai food trailer.  We ordered it for Rachel and me.  We stopped at Subway on the way out and get the boys sandwiches and then picked up our food.

The boys will be getting ready for bed soon.

Until next time...

Potty Training Success

So, I knew we’d be home all day today. I still had a lot cleaning to do. I decided today would be a good day to try potty training Noah. We tried a few months ago, but he wasn’t quite ready.

Today went really well. Noah was in the same pair of underwear all day and didn’t have a single accident. Evan was a good helper. He’d help dump the pee from the small potty into the toilet until Noah decided he wanted to start doing it.

Gabby came at 3:45 and I tutored.

Morry and I needed to pick up our packets for the Turkey Trot so we decided to all go to pick them up downtown and then go to dinner. Our plan was to go to Mongolian Barbecue. We got our packets and then found a good parking spot downtown near the restaurant. When we got to the restaurant the door was locked. It turns out they are only open for dinner on certain days. We ended up going to PF Chang’s across the street. Both boys did well. Noah went to the bathroom multiple times while we were there.

Morry and I put the boys to bed and are doing some more cleaning. Evan and Noah are still up. Noah keeps saying he needs to go potty. It’s hard to know if he really does or if he just figured out another way to stall before bed.