Home Run!

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This morning it took a little bit to get Evan up.  He was sleeping pretty hard.  But he's always in a good mood when he wakes up so it was no problem.  It was a bit colder so he wore a sweatshirt on the bike ride to school.  As soon as we got there, he handed me the sweatshirt to bring home with me.

Noah slept until about 9am.  Rachel had to go to Westlake High School to meet with a teacher of one of her students.  The student got a bad grade on the test but would not allow the students to bring home the test to learn from.  She made it difficult to find a time for Rachel to come in to see it.  It's teachers like that that give all teachers a bad name.  I have no time for people like that.  Anyway, Rachel couldn't take Noah to school so I drove Noah in.  He was in a fairly good mood as well.

When Rachel got home, I was leaving to go to a meeting with a new client and when I got home, Rachel had to leave to get Noah.

I picked Evan up from school since Rachel was tutoring.  When I got home, Gabby came and watched the boys until I finished working.

Evan had a game tonight so when I stopped working, I had to quickly get dinner made, Evan's bat bag packed and in the car, get the boys to eat, make sure I didn't forget Rachel's dinner that she had gotten ready for herself and get the water ready.  I got the boys eating first before I ate and they both finished their dinner.  I think got Evan in his uniform and we left for batting practice first.

Evan's game began at 7:30 under the lights.  They changed up the line up for this game and Evan was batting fourth, the clean up spot.  He singled in his first two at-bats.  In the fourth inning, with two runners on, Evan came up and laced a line drive up the middle that split both the shortstop and second baseman, as well as the left and right center fielders and rolled all the way to the fence.  I looked at Evan and he was running as fast as he could so I knew he had a chance to come home.  The shortstop got the ball in the outfield and was running it in and they sent Evan home.  He beat the throw to the plate for a 3-run home run.  He was really happy.  In the bottom of the fourth, they had Evan at third base again.  With a runner on first, the batter smacked a ball a bit to Evan's left.  He moved sideways and got the ball on a hop, turned and fired to 2nd.  Unfortunately the second baseman could not hold on but he almost did it in back-to-back games.  If he keeps playing third like that, he may stick there.  Earlier in the game, while at 2nd, Evan got the throw as a cut off and the third base coach for the other team went to send the runner home. Evan threw a rocket home to the catcher forcing the runner to literally crawl back to third after he turned back to third and fell.

Needless to say, both Evan and Noah were super hyper as we came home at 9pm. They are in bed, but I'm pretty sure they are still up.  They were running around.  It was a fun night though.

Until next time...

Whew, long day

Evan and Noah woke up early this morning. They started making noise around the time Morry left for work.

I started the laundry, got the boys dressed and fed, and finished getting Evan’s school stuff together.

After dropping Evan off at school I went to HEB. I had a lot of stuff to buy and was there a while. Noah was pretty good in the shopping cart. He just got fussy at the end. At one point we passed some samples. I let Noah have a few bites of chocolate cupcake. Somehow he managed to get just those few small bites everywhere. He had chocolate on his chin, a glob of icing on his sock.

Noah fell asleep on the way home. I put him down for a nap. I quickly put the groceries away, straightened up the house downstairs, and got dinner ready. I made another crock pot dish – Crock Pot Turkey. It was really good and juicy.

Yenis came over for lunch at 12:00. By the time we ate and I fed Noah it was time to get Evan. I was sort of in a hurry because I needed to be back at home by 1:30 for tutoring. I had planned on picking Evan up right at 1:15, but got there a few minutes late. When I walked in Wendy was changing Evan’s diaper so we weren’t able to leave right away. Then, Evan wanted to take his artwork home. They had painted cutouts of cars. I asked Wendy if we could take Evan’s home. She said that was fine, since she already had one for his folder. He made about 6 of them! I guess they figured out how to get Evan to do art. When we were pulling out of the parking lot we had to wait forever to get out. It seemed like everyone was leaving at the same time.

We got home about two minutes late and I quickly cleared off the dishes on the table for tutoring. I tutored the homeschool Algebra II student from 1:30 – 3:00. He took his online final exam with me and made a 100. He didn’t end up leaving until about 3:30 since we had to wait for his mom to pick him up.

While the boys were napping I did more laundry and cleaned.

For dinner, Evan and Noah didn’t eat much. Evan had a few veggie sticks and fruit and a Popsicle. Not real healthy. I think Evan’s throat may still be bothering him. He still sounds hoarse.

The boys are playing as I’m writing the blog. In a few minutes we’ll get them ready for bed.

Cold Sunday

We planned on going bike riding this morning, but it was in the 40s. Instead we walked around the trail at the Costco shopping center. It was a little cold walking, but it would have been much colder riding a bike. We walked around the trail with Evan, Noah, and Lizzy and then stopped for smoothies and Smoothie King on the way home. It’s in the same shopping center.

We ate lunch and but the boys down for naps around 1:30. Both were acting tired.

After naps I took Evan and Noah in the backyard to play while Morry made dinner. Morry made a chicken stir fry with rice. It was very good.

At 7:00 the homeschool student came over. I tutored him from 7:00-10:00. Morry took Evan and Noah upstairs while I was tutoring and put them to bed.

It’s late.. I just wanted to update the blog and quickly let you all know what we did today.