Poetry and Pies

This morning we walked Noah to school with Chewie.

Evan invited us to come to his Poetry and Pies party at school where the kids shared their poetry.  We went to his school but had to leave at 9:30, before Evan had read his poetry.    His teacher took video and sent it to us.

I went to my school and Morry was gone at meetings all day.

I got home just in time to pick up Noah from school.  I ended up driving so that Chewie could come along and wait in the car with me.

After Evan got home, Morry and Evan went to baseball practice.  They brought Chewie with them.

When they got home we made dinner - leftovers and pasta.

Now the kids are getting ready for bed.

Update on LIzzy and Noah's Poetry Reading

This morning we walked to school.

Morry and I dropped Lizzy back off at the vet.

I met Noah for lunch at 11:25.  After his lunch, his class went to recess and I helped set up the classroom for the poetry reading.

The poetry reading was at 12:30.  Morry, Marilyn, and Papa came.  The class was transformed into a cafe and the kids wore berets and mustaches while they read their poems. Noah did a great job.  Here's the video.  You'll need to turn up the volume.


I helped clean up and then came home.

Morry and I walked to pick up the boys.

Right after we got home I left to tutor and Morry and Evan picked up Lizzy from the vet.

Lizzy is doing a lot better, but still a little weak.   She's on steroids now which will hopefully help.

When I got home we all went to dinner at Me Con Bistro.

Soon the kids will get ready for bed.  The last day of school is tomorrow.

No More School

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Today was the last day of school.  Waking the boys up this morning was easy.  In fact, Evan was already up, though Evan is never difficult.  Noah was very excited when I got him up too.

We walked to school.  All the parents of the fifth graders were going in dressed nicely because the fifth grade graduation was this morning.  I'm not sure if Lizzy realized this would be her last walk to school for awhile.  I'm sure a bunch of kids are going to miss her over the summer.

Rachel ran some errands in the morning.  She went to the bank, Kohl's and Costco.

When she came home, we had lunch and then went over to school.  Evan's class was having an "Open  Mic - Poetry Reading".  All the kids had to read two of the poems they had worked on over the year. The teacher gave all the kids fake mustaches and berets.  Parents brought in various food and drinks to make it like a cafe.  We brought our Keurig in for coffee.  All  the boys made their readings as short as possible.  We were there until school ended.

Then we waited for Noah to get out of his class.  One of the girls in Noah's class was crying because she was going to miss the teacher.  Noah seemed upset and then he started to cry.  He said that he "was feeling sick".  But the moment we got home and he was doing other things the sickness magically went away.  I asked him later if he was sad to not have Ms. Wenske and tears came in his eyes and he turned away from me and told me to stop talking.  I think it's a good school year when a child is crying that school is over rather than being excited.

We promised the kids we'd take them to see Tomorrowland after school.  Noah's friend Owen and his mom joined us and we picked up Evan's friend Wade and saw it at the Alamo Drafthouse.  We had dinner while we were there.

When we came home, Christian and Connor came over.  They came with us on a little walk.

The boys are out in the backyard now.  They'll be going to bed soon.

Until next time...