Party, Party

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This morning Evan, Noah and I drove up and picked Zayde up for brunch.  Unfortunately, we couldn't spend as much time with him today as normal.  Evan had a birthday party to go to in the early afternoon. After that we had a party for Noah's baseball team.

We went to the Frisco for brunch.  It's an ok brunch place, but it was convenient from a timing perspective.  The boys did eat well there.  Noah ate all of his pancake and bacon.

We came home and I did a very little bit of work before having to leave to take Evan to the birthday party.  It was a laser tag party.  He and the birthday boy, Brayden, formed a team in the first time they played.  They came in second.  Then he and another boy he knows from baseball formed a team the second time.  He seemed to have a great time playing there.

We went straight from there to a party for Noah's baseball team.  One of the mom's offered to have a team kick-off party.  Noah and Rachel were there and Evan and I got there a bit late.  Evan and Noah were in the trampoline with a net on it.  A bunch of boys were in there wrestling and throwing a big blow up ball at each other.  I don't think Evan came out for close to two hours.  Noah came out one time.  It was a very nice party and the backyard of the hosts were really nice.  We have some good families on the team.

We came home and sat outside on our porch for a while while the boys played with flashlights in the dark.  Then we came in and got the kids ready for bed.

Until next time...

Playdate

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This morning, everyone slept in a bit. Both boys took a long time to go to sleep last night. In fact, Noah and I had it out. He was being really bad. He ended up falling asleep at his gate. When I went to move him to his bed, he had pulled the comforter and his top sheet off the bed. He had thrown toys out into the hallway. His room was a disaster. He just works himself up when he gets upset.

When we got up, we got breakfast for the boys. Then, Rachel took Evan and Noah to Evan's friend, Ben's, house. His mom had invited Evan over to play and said that Noah was welcome to join. I stayed home to go through papers and things. Ben has an 8 year old sister and apparently, she was leading the group of four with activities. They also had a trampoline in the backyard with netting around the sides. The boys just loved that.

Eventually, Rachel and Noah left to go to HEB to get some things for dinner and dessert. Evan stayed with Ben and had lunch over there. This was his first time basically being dropped off at a friend's house.

Rachel came home and got me and we all went over to pick Evan up. Evan didn't want to leave and was very angry when we got him.

We had to run a few errands - we picked up some movies from Red Box, got gas, and stopped for slushes at Sonic.

For dinner, we had homemade pizzas. I got dough and sauce ready for a pizza for Evan and Noah. Then they put the cheese on the pizza and put what they wanted on their own half of the pizza. Noah chose pepperoni and Evan chose black olives and pepperoni.

For dessert, Rachel got waffle bowls and ice cream and a bunch of different toppings - including sprinkles, marshmallows, gummy worms, Oreos, sour gummy Lifesavers, M&Ms (we had those already), and candy corn (again, we already had these). I scooped the ice cream and the boys were allowed to add stuff to their ice cream. They really enjoyed it. It was like those new frozen yogurt places that charge you by weight.

The kids just had baths and we are letting them lay down in our bed and watch a movie. We have hicks in our neighborhood who set off fireworks and we know that, not only because of the amount of sugar from dessert, but the fireworks will keep the kids up. So we're making it a special treat.

Until next time...