Memorial Service

This morning Noah was acting tired, so we stayed at home.

After lunch we went to Noah's sports class. Morry met us there after a meeting.

Noah had fun at the Little Gym and then we came home.

Noah wanted to stay at home when it was time to pick up Evan.

Blanca came over at 4:15. Morry and I had a memorial service to go to. Some from Morry's old work passed away recently from melanoma and they had a service for her at Laguna Gloria. It was a very nice service and the reception afterward was actually pretty upbeat. People were mingling and they had nice food and drinks out.

On the way home Morry and I stopped at a furniture store going out of business. We saw a few things we like, that we may come back for later.

When we got home Blanca and the boys were playing wii.

Evan and Noah are in bed now.

Big Naps

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Last night, Evan fought going to bed as usual. He was up until almost midnight. Basically he fell asleep at the same time that we fell asleep. Then he got up around 7:30 or 7:45.

Noah woke up closer to 9. Rachel got up with the boys and let me sleep some. I came down around 10. Noah immediately told me he wanted to watch Cars. So I put the movie on for them. Rachel made juice with the juicer and smoothies for the boys.

After that we went out to Old Navy. Rachel had some coupons. The boys wanted to play with the balls they were selling there. Noah kept throwing the ball up and behind his head and he'd make sound effects at the same time. They had the Disney movie Pocahontas playing there and Evan and Noah both eventually watched that for a bit.

We got more protein at the Smoothie Factory and went home and had lunch. Evan ate pretty well but Noah didn't.

At this point it was a little after 1:30 and we put them down for naps. I had to wake the boys up after 5:30. Evan was really deep asleep. He was definitely tired from not having enough sleep the night before.

For dinner we went over to a the house of a woman (Ursula) that I work with. She and her husband and her twenty-one-year old daughter wanted to make dinner for us and they wanted to see the boys. The boys were incredibly well behaved. They didn't eat much dinner, but they didn't get into much trouble. We all had a very good time there. Evan and Noah, after dinner, ran from the family room in the back of the house, into the foyer in the front, then into the dining room in the front to the kitchen in the back and then back into the family room. Evan would say "OK Noah, ready, set, go!" and they'd take off running the big circle. Noah was very affectionate with Ursula's daughter Ophelia. He went up and gave her a hug at one point. Ursula carried Noah around some too. Somehow, Noah gets woman to carry him all the time. He's a little ladies man.

We came home and put the boys in bed. Evan is in bed but not sleeping.

Until next time...

Evan the Bad

This morning Evan must have heard the garage door when Morry was leaving. He was crying for Daddy for a while. I brought Evan downstairs and got him some breakfast. Gabby came at 7:30am and I was able to lie down a little bit. I didn’t sleep well last night

Later in the morning I went to Newflower to get some groceries for us and some stuff for Bernardo and Gabriela who just had a baby.

When I got home Gabby left and I gave Evan and Noah lunch. Neither one ate very much. Evan has gotten into a bad habit of wanting candy after every meal. He threw a fit when I said no today. Evan started throwing his toy trains at the wall. I told him if he threw any more we’d stop playing and go upstairs for naps. He started to dump his whole box of trains. I asked him not to do that but he did it anyway. Then he grabbed one of his stuffed animals (lion) and started whacking it against the wall too. I took the lion and put it on top of the refrigerator and brought him upstairs. He was screaming and crying. I put him in bed, but he wouldn’t stay there. I closed his gate and the gate at the top of the stairs. He can easily open his gate and the gate at the top of the stairs has a really stupid design. It has Velcro on it and Evan knows how to unvelcro it and get through the gate. Evan kept coming downstairs and I had to carry him back up at least 5 times. I was so mad at the makers of the gate I gave them a call to complain about who ever designed the gate. Evan was crying for his lion the whole time I was on the phone. Anyway, they are sending us a replacement gate that apparently doesn’t have that flaw.

Somehow both boys actually ended up taking good naps.

For dinner Ursula, from Morry’s work, bought us food from BJs.

After dinner I went over to Gabriela and Bernardo’s house for a few minutes to see the baby and bring them the food I bought at Newflower.

Evan and Noah are in bed now. Noah is quiet, but I hear a lot of thumping and movement coming from Evan’s room.