Busy day

The boys slept until 8:30 this morning. Noah woke up when Morry was getting ready for work around 6:30. I just gave him his pacifier and he lasted until 8:30. That’s great for him.

After I got the boys changed and fed I took a walk(1mi)/run(1mi) with them and Lizzy.

After the walk we went to the library to return some books and movies and then over to HEB. I had a huge list of stuff to get. We were there for over an hour and both Evan and Noah did pretty well. I had Evan in the cart and Noah in the Baby Bjorn. By the end, my back and shoulders hurt pretty bad from carrying Noah. I was able to save $24 in coupons getting stuff we would normally buy anyway. By the time we got home it was a little after 2. I quickly put the groceries away and made lunch for Evan and Noah. I was able to put them down for a nap around 3.

We had our left over pasta from last night for dinner since I was tutoring later and we needed a quick dinner.

I tutored 2 students tonight and was gone from 7-10. Morry took care of the boys.

Evan's half-birthday

Evan is now 2 ½. Today is his half-birthday. Hard to believe.

For brunch we went with Grandma/Lynn/Mom, Papa/Lenny/Dad, and Aunt Susan to Chez Zee. Today is Aunt Susan’s birthday, so we went there to celebrate. The food was good. Morry and I both got Crème Brule French toast. Evan told us he wanted a pancake. He kept insisting so we ordered him a blueberry pancake thinking he would most likely not eat it (just because that is what normally happens when we order something for him at a restaurant). Evan ended up eating very well and ate about ¾ of the pancake. Noah ate well too and ate a whole jar of baby food while sitting in a highchair. At the end of the meal they brought out a cake for Aunt Susan and Evan helped her blow out the candle.

We had a relaxing afternoon. Both Evan and Noah took really good, long naps.

After dinner we spent the evening upstairs as Morry watched the football game. Evan watched a little, but mostly just played with his toys. I tried to play catch with him, but he either wanted to throw the ball really high in the air or hit it with his bat. Noah was moving all over the place. He is still not crawling, but he is able to roll around pretty well and get where he wants. Morry is still watching the Steelers game and both boys are in bed, though Evan is not asleep yet.

Can you tell Morry dressed Noah today?

Dinosaurs

Hello everyone, this is Morry again. Rachel asked me to post today. I went through all the posts and counted up all the times I was referenced and the grand total is 4. I really am a part of the family. I'm not quite sure how I get left out of the blog.

So this morning, Grandma/Lynn/Mom came over. She and Papa/Lenny/Dad are staying with us tonight. They have been in Austin all week long, but they were staying at the Hilton for a conference. The conference ended this morning. But Papa had one last meeting this morning and then he went golfing at Grey Rock Country Club which is right near our house.

We had heard about this dinosaur exhibit at the Zilker Botanical Gardens so we decided to go there today. First, we stoppped at HEB and bought tickets. Then we went to lunch at Shady Grove. Evan was acting very attached to me and insisted on sitting on my lap through the entire lunch. We put Noah in a high chair and fed him solid food at the table. That was the first time we gave him solid food out of the house. He ate it all up. I guess that's why he's in the 75th to 90th percentile for weight. Rachel tried to give him some of her lemonade by letting him suck from the straw. For some reason, he didn't realize he was supposed to suck on the straw. He just chewed on it.

After lunch, it was on to the Dinosaur exhibit. We found great parking and walked into the Gardens. I had never been to there but it was really nice. It was very shaded and really nice trees and flowers. We followed the signs to the dino exhibit. Evan insisted on handing the tickets to the lady collecting the tickets. Right away he saw a dinosaur among the trees and ran over to look at it. He told us the dinosaur looked happy. Then he ran to the next set of dinosaurs. After that he wanted to be held. After awhile I ended up carrying him. He's getting pretty heavy. I think overall he enjoyed the dinosaurs but he was very tired. One of the dinosaurs had eggs. He really was fascinated by the eggs. The last dinosaur we saw was a relative of the T-Rex. Again he said the dinosaur looked happy. This woman heard Evan and started to laugh.

Then it was back home for naps. I put on college football and watched Texas Tech crush Kansas State. When that game was out-of-hand I put on the Alabama-Kentucky game. It was around then that Evan woke up from his nap so he came down and sat down on my lap while I was watching the game. Grandma asked Evan who was playing. Evan told her that Roethlisberger was playing.

When Papa got home, we went to dinner at Segovia. It's a Spanish Tapas restaurant. It's pretty good. Evan asked for bread so they brought us a lot of bread. Evan ate almost all of it.

When we got home we gave the boys baths. Evan loves having Noah in the bath with him. At one point though, Evan slipped and fell forward and hit Noah's head with his head. Noah started to cry. Evan looked like he was going to cry - but not because he was hurt. I think he was really upset that he hurt Noah. Noah was ok though. At the end of every bath, Rachel brushes Evan's teeth. Evan insists on brushing his own teeth. So Evan was standing in the bath and brushing his own teeth and Rachel said "Get the back". Evan pulled the toothbrush out of his mouth and started to brush his back with the toothbrush.

So that was our day today. The boys are in bed. Rachel and I are about to take advantage of her parents being with us so we're going to go see Eagle Eye. Tomorrow night is the Steelers game. Evan seems to enjoy watching the game with me. So we'll see how that goes.

Until next time...

Zilker Park, Train ride, Rachel’s on TV again

Grandma/Lynn/Mom came over to the house this morning to hang out with Noah, Evan, and me. We decided to go out to lunch and then to Zilker park. We drove over to Austin Java Company on Barton Springs, but there was no parking out front. Luckily they have a parking down the street and a free shuttle that will take you to the restaurant. It worked out well and Evan loved riding on the “bus”. It looked like one of those over-sized golf cart things. Lunch was fun. We were able to sit in the enclosed patio that overlooked Barton Springs road. We got a high chair for Noah and Evan sat in a regular seat. I ordered a turkey sandwich with cranberry sauce on it. Evan ate most of my turkey and cranberries so we ordered him his own sandwich. He ate quite a bit of it.

After lunch we went across the street to Zilker park. They have a small train that goes around the park. Luckily it was leaving within the next 10 minutes so we were able to get tickets and not wait too long. Both Evan and Noah love train rides. Noah was talking and jumping up and down in my lap. Evan and Grandma shared a seat, but Evan insisted on sitting on Grandma’s lap. Evan enjoyed waving to the other kids in the park.

When we got off the train we went to the concession stand and got snow cones. We gave Evan his own and let him choose the flavor. He got Banana/Strawberry. Noah had a little of my snow cone and seemed to really like it. We sat at a picnic table overlooking Barton Springs Pool. There was no one there at the pool for us to watch. We later found out why.

As we were eating our snow cones Evan noticed some men with large video cameras. We thought maybe they were shooting a movie or something. One of the guys keep looking at over at us and I jokingly thought maybe they are looking over here because they want me in their movie. One guy who was holding a notebook came over to talk to us. He asked if we knew that the pool was leaking. He told us the pool was closed because it was leaking about 4 inches of water an hour. Then, he asked if I would like to be on TV and talk about it. He said they were there with KVUE news. So, I got interviewed for the news. Those of you that know me well know that I always seem to get on TV somehow. Unfortunately, I didn’t have an opportunity to say “It tastes like chicken.” (from when I was interviewed eating alligator a few years ago). We’ll watch the news tonight and see if I really got on TV.

So, yes, we got on TV. Here's the link to the video of the news story. http://www.kvue.com/video/index.html?nvid=289346&shu=1

Poor Noah got Mike Wazowski’d (Monsters, Inc). Every time they showed him, his faced was covered by something.

The best little baby ever!

I had a busy morning this morning and Noah was great. After I dropped Evan off at school I had to rush over to my 9:15am doctor’s appointment. I need a refill on my thyroid medicine and they had to check my thyroid level.

Then, I filled up the car with gas and headed over to Kohls. I really need some nice colder weather clothes especially for Jake’s bar mitzvah the end of this month in Chicago. I’m not much of a shopper and I remembered why. I get so frustrated shopping for clothes and shoes for me. Nothing ever fits. I’m in between Juniors, but Ladies sizes are usually too big. The Juniors clothes tend to be too tight and show too much skin. Man, am I sounding old now. I can never find small enough sizes in the misses/ladies section. For casual clothes I can always find things at Gap and Old Navy but for dressy stuff I have the hardest time. I was able to find a few things after being there a really long time. Noah was great at Kohls. I had him in the stroller the whole time and he was mostly awake just looking around at everything.

This morning before I dropped Evan off at school I started doing the laundry. I had his clean sheets on the ottoman and he was playing with them, but then he started jumping on them. I told him not to do that because his shoes were dirty and we didn’t want to get the sheets dirty. He stopped right away and I told him how good he was and that I love him. He then says, “I love…”, and I think he’s going to say either “you” or “Mommy”, but he says “I love my sheets.”

When I picked Evan up at school they said he was being very sweet today and hugging Wendy (the teacher) all day. They gave the kids different types of apples today. Evan’s favorite was the red apple. I asked Evan what he did today and he told me he played hide-and-seek with Natasha (assistant teacher) and that she read them Humpty Dumpty.

Hello October

Last night was rough. Noah wasn’t feeling well from his shots and was up from 1am-3am. I tried everything to get him to sleep. Even the Motrin didn’t help. Morry eventually had to walk him around until he finally fell asleep. Today Noah has been really cranky too. For his nap I had to rock him for a while to get him to sleep.

This morning we met Melissa and walked around the lake. I brought bread again for Evan to feed the birds and again, he ate a lot of it before we even got to the birds. There weren’t many birds around, but there were some fish and turtles that were happy to get the bread.

For lunch Evan had mac and cheese, dried peas/corn, and wheat thins. We also had some apples and honey. I forgot to do that yesterday. Evan wasn’t sure he wanted the apples with honey, but he finally tried it and of course, liked it. I also cut open a pomegranate. Evan loved that. It’s been a while since he has had pomegranate and he kept telling me he liked it.

Noah hardly napped.

I tutored tonight from 5:30-6:30 and then met Morry, Evan, Noah, and Dad/Lenny/Papa at Matt’s El Rancho for dinner. We didn’t have to wait and got a nice table on the patio. The food was really good. When they brought out the chips and salsa Evan asked for guacamole so we ordered one for Evan and Papa to share. Evan ate a ton and was double-dipping so Papa ended up getting his own. Noah slept pretty much the whole dinner.