Last Day of School

This morning we drove to school since we had Evan's graduation. Before the ceremony, the 5th graders walk the hallways of the school giving high fives and hugs to past teachers and current students.  During the ceremony, each student was called up and the teacher announced their name, what college they want to attend, and what they want to be when they grow up.  Evan said he wants to go to Villanova and be a baseball player.  Surprised?

After the ceremony, there was a reception for the kids and families.

Then, the fifth graders changed and went to their pool party at the community pool next to the school.
It sounded like they had a great time.

Before school was over, they returned and changed clothes.

Morry and I walked to school in the afternoon.

Evan went over to a friend's house and Noah came home with us.

We picked up Evan at 5:30. Then we got Papa and went to dinner at Home Slice.

For dessert, we ate at Culvers.  We tried to go to Big Top Candy, but it was closed already for the night.

Evan was exhausted and is asleep already.  Noah is in his room.

Here are some pictures from today.

see Evan around 1.52

Noah the Reader

This morning both boys slept late. Evan slept until about 9:30 and Noah slept until almost 10.  I let them both sleep because I knew they needed it. 

Evan and I dropped Noah off at school and then came back home.  I got some stuff done around the house.  Evan played with his water gun in the backyard. Somehow he soaked himself (on purpose) and had to come in and change clothes.

After we got Noah from school we went to my eye doctor to order my glasses.  On the way home we picked up the pottery Morry and I decorated for our anniversary.

Blanca came over at 3:45 so I could go to my hair appointment.

Morry came home and then Grandma and Papa arrived.

Morry and the boys went to a swim party at Jack's house.

I got home around 6:30 and the Morry and the boys came back around 7:00.

We all went to dinner at Trudy's.

While getting ready for bed tonight, Noah wanted to read to us.  He read most of the book Green Eggs and Ham with just a little bit of help.  He was really sounding out words and remembering words he had read before.  He did a great job.  He read 34 pages and then decided to finish the rest of the book tomorrow.

Cranky Boys

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

The day began early for a Saturday as Rachel got up before 7 to meet some women to go running. She did a 5-mile run which is pretty impressive. It was cool for Austin this morning which helped, I'm sure.

Noah got up at 7:30 but I left him in his room. Evan got up at 8am and let Noah out and then the two came into my room. They got up in bed with me and I put Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on for them. Rachel came home shortly thereafter.

We had a birthday party to go to for a friend of Evan's. It was a pool party. It started at 10 and Rachel had a baby shower to go to at 11. She said she'd show up a bit late to that and help me out longer at the party. Evan seemed to be the only boy his age that couldn't swim without the aid of floaties or a life jacket. Ironically he was the only one who consistently wanted to be in the pool. The other kids were using a blow up water slide not attached to the pool. Rachel and I were the only parents in the pool helping Noah and Evan. When Rachel left, we got the kids out of the pool because I couldn't hold them both at the same time. That started the crankiness. Then they served cupcakes. Evan ate his fine but Noah said he wanted one. But then he wouldn't eat it, so I gave it to another kid who wanted a chocolate one. Noah, of course threw a fit, even though he wasn't going to eat it. So then I gave him mine but he still didn't want to eat it but he didn't want me to eat it. Then he wanted grapes but he wouldn't eat them and wouldn't let me eat them. He insisted on having me hold him but he was crying and just being plain miserable. He wanted a juice box but then he didn't want a juice box. I couldn't put him down for even half a second. Then Evan decided the other boys weren't sharing toys with him although the birthday boy was simply opening up the presents. No one was playing or sharing anything. I think it stemmed from the fact that Evan wanted the present that we gave to the boy and he wanted to play with that. So Evan just stood and cried. I said "we're leaving" but then Evan's friend called him over to come play which made him happy. When it was time to leave the father of the birthday boy helped me get everything out to the car since the boys were of no help. I didn't talk to any adults the whole time.

We came home and had lunch, and of course, the boys were in fine moods at home. Rachel came home from the shower and we put Noah down for a nap.

Evan and I watched the Little League World Series. I asked him if he wanted to play in the LLWS and he said no, he wanted to play for the Pirates. I said he can do both and he said no, he just wanted to play for the Pirates. Later he said he wanted to play for the Pirates, Rangers and Steelers.

For dinner, Rachel and I went and picked up Chipotle for us and made dinner here for the boys.

They're in bed now.

Until next time...

Swim Lessons

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Around 6:30, Evan came into our room. I didn't, however, get up to get him breakfast until 7 or 7:15. He watched TV in the gameroom. Sometime after 8, Noah woke up and was calling for us. We just sent Evan in there. He and Noah went downstairs and played for awhile downstairs. We could hear Noah talking so much and so loudly we were ok with it.

Today was the first day of swim lessons at Lifetime Fitness for the boys. Noah was first, at 11:55. I took Evan to the outside pool while Rachel was with Noah at the swim lesson. There was one other kid in his class. Apparently he wouldn't do anything that the instructor was telling him. At the beginning he just cried and held on to Rachel. Even after he stopped crying he continued to hold onto Rachel.

Meanwhile, they were having a "pool party" for Memorial Day weekend out at the pool. They had a blow up water slide, games, face painting, etc... Evan just wanted to go down the blow up water slide over and over. He loved it. At 12:30, I took him in for his lesson. He was the only kid in his class so it was a private lesson. He always looks so serious when he does this type of thing but when he finished he just talked about how much fun he had and how he learned how to swim. He told me he "walked like an astronaut". I'm wondering if that's what they told him it was when he was treading water. He seemed to do very well.

After the gym, we came home and made lunch. Following lunch we put Noah down for a nap.

At the end of Noah's nap, we were trying to figure out what we wanted to do tonight. Rachel had heard there was a restaurant out of Austin a bit that had a big open field for the kids to play on while you ate. We also heard that it gets crowded quickly. So we got everything together and drove out there. We got there at 6pm and it's a good thing we did because it filled up fast. We sat on the patio and the boys ran around kicking soccer balls, throwing footballs, throwing Frisbees. Noah just did whatever Evan did. He was Evan's shadow. It was very cute. The restaurant is called Verde's Mexican Parilla.

We stopped on the way home at Yogurt Planet. The boys really enjoyed that.

They are in bed now although Evan is being very loud upstairs.

Until next time...