Home Early From School

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Evan wasn't feeling well this morning but he didn't have a fever or anything so we sent him to school. 

I worked from home for a while in the morning and then went into the Touch To office as someone from HomeAway was coming in for a meeting.  Rachel left to go teach.

I got a phone call towards the end of the meeting.  It was the school nurse.  She wanted to send Evan home.  He wasn't feeling well and didn't look well.  He still didn't have a fever.  I finished up the meeting and then drove and got Evan.

I tried to get Evan a doctor's appointment but the soonest I could get it was after 6pm.  I took the appointment and Evan laid down at home.  I had another meeting that I could call into.  When that meeting was over, I called a urgent care place and the could see Evan right away.

Rachel got home as I was about to take Evan.  She went and picked Noah up.

My big concern was that Evan had gotten the flu.  Obviously it's going around.  A boy from Evan's team got it.  So they tested Evan and luckily it came back negative.  They called in a prescription for Tamiflu in case Evan gets worse.  Hopefully he doesn't.

For dinner, we picked up Me Con Bistro and had it.  Evan didn't end up eating much.

The boys are getting ready for bed now.

Until next time...

Football and Hanukkah

This morning Morry and I took Chewie for a walk. 

Then, Morry ran out to pick up some bagels.

A little before noon Noah's friend Jake and his dad Alex came over to watch football.

I left around 12:30 to tutor and got home around 2:30.

The boys and men had a good time hanging out.

I took the boys to Sunday school at 4pm and then picked up a few things at Walgreens.

There was a Hanukkah party at Sunday school at 5pm.

Morry, Grandma, and Papa, met me there for the party.

Noah's group preformed a Hanukkah play.  Noah was the king and he really hammed it up.  Everyone enjoyed that.  The kids played dreidel, bingo, and more.  There were latkes.  It was quite a good turn out.

From there, we went to dinner at Maudie's with Grandma and Papa.

The last few days Evan has been complaining about his finger hurting.  He poked it with a paper clip at school on Thursday.  Today it was swollen and hurting even more, so Morry took him to an urgent care place after dinner.

They are on their way home now.  The doctor said Evan's finger is infected and prescribed some antibiotics.

Here are some pictures from today.

Poor Little Noah

Last night was a tough night again. Noah woke up around 4am and wouldn’t go back to sleep. Morry and Grandma/Lynn took turns holding him until the morning. Care now, a walk- in doctor’s office, opened at 9am. We made a web appointment and they were able to see Noah right when it opened. We were concerned because Noah wasn’t taking his medicine or eating or drinking anything. He was extremely fussy. Morry took him in and they gave Noah 2 shots- one antibiotic and one cortisone. The cortisone was to help his throat feel better. The doctor also said his ear was red and we needed to continue the antibiotics at home.

For lunch Papa/Lenny picked up deli sandwiches and soup for us. Then, we packed up the car and drove back to Austin.

The ride home was not fun. Noah was complaining and crying a lot of the way.

For dinner I picked up Little Caesars. Evan ate very well. Noah still wouldn’t eat anything, so after dinner we went to Wendy’s to get Frosty’s. Noah ate most of his Frosty. At least he ate something today.

We tried giving Noah is antibiotic before bed tonight, but he just spit it out. I’m not sure how to get him to take it. He keeps spitting it out. We can’t mix it with food or drink because he’s not eating or drinking anything.

It seems like Noah is asleep now, but Evan is still up.

Thanksgiving vacation recap

Hello everyone, this is Morry. I've been tapped to do our Thanksgiving recap. As some of you may notice, we haven't made any posts since the Monday before Thanksgiving. Well that's because we spent Thanksgiving in Dallas. Then, the Saturday after Thanksgiving, Rachel and I left for Costa Rica for 5 days. We just returned to Austin this afternooon.

So, as it will be too much, I will give just a quick recap of some of the highlights of the last 11 days.

• On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, Rachel and I put Evan and Noah down for bed. We came back into the room about 30 minutes late, only to spot Evan sitting on the bed where Rachel and I were going to sleep. On Evan's face there were streaks of red. It turns out, he had gotten into Rachel's lipstick and put lipstick all over his face.


• Noah enjoyed eating Turkey on Thanksgiving. I'm not sure there is much that Noah doesn't enjoy eating.


• Rachel had to go to an urgent care facility on the day after Thanksgiving because of a sinus infection. They gave her a stronger antibiotic than she had taken before.


• Three hours before we were to leave for our trip, Noah was diagnosed with early stage pneumonia. He had an awful cough and it sounded like it was in his chest. So I took Noah to the same urgent care place that Rachel had been the day before. They did an x-ray on Noah and diagnosed him. The doctor assured me that all would be fine and there was no reason to cancel our trip.


• Rachel and I had a great time in Costa Rica, even despite the fact it rained at least a few hours each day. We went jet-skiing, hiking through the rain forest (although it's not truly a rain forest, it's a humid forest or something like that) and saw two different kinds of monkeys, two kinds of sloths, a variety of birds, lizards, iguanas, some rabbit/rat thing, and a bunch of other stuff that I can't really remember. We each got a regular massage and a foot massage at the spa at the resort. And best of all, we just relaxed. It was a nice time.


• Meanwhile Evan and Noah did their best to tire out their grandparents. Evan enjoyed trying to entertain Noah when they were supposed to be sleeping, since they were sleeping in the same room. Evan even climbed into the crib with Noah at one point.


• And Evan also got to see some Polar Express display they had at the Willow Bend mall in Dallas. Evan had a great time and Noah enjoyed watching Evan have a great time.

We captured most of this in pictures, but it's too late to be putting up the pictures now. Keep checking back and we'll have them up at some point.

Also, tonight, we went to Barry and Lisa's for dinner. We saw Lincoln who has gotten so big. Barry and Lisa made a great meal and we all had a wonderful time. Evan seemed to have the most fun as he played with the dog Sunny the whole time.

Until next time...