Baseball Brothers

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This morning, as normal, Evan ate breakfast while watching "Quick Hits" on the MLB channel.  Think SportsCenter but completely about baseball.  As we were leaving, Noah got up. He wanted to come with us but we were running a bit late - Evan was moving slowly.  We didn't have time to get Noah dressed and ready to get on the back of the bike.  He was very upset.

When I got home, he was still upset.  I ended up clearing a space for him at my desk and he ate his breakfast while I did some work sitting next to me.  That made him happy.

Noah had gymnastics yesterday.  His buddy Cole wouldn't go into the class until Noah got there.  They really are good for each other.

We stopped at Target on the way home to get a few things.

When we got home, Rachel made Noah lunch.  Then she picked Evan up from school.  Rachel called the hair cut place, Cool Cuts 4 Kids, and they said they could get them in right away.  She drove the boys over there.  Basically they lied.  It took so long that Rachel wasn't going to make it home in time with the boys for their respective baseball practices.  I thew their bat bags and waters in the car and met Rachel at Noah's practice.  I gave Evan's stuff to Rachel, as well as a chair to sit in.  Then Rachel took Evan to his practice.

The coach came over to tell me how well Noah did at his first practice.  He said he only had to tell Noah things one time and he would do them.  He liked how focused Noah was and how he hustled.  I was really excited to see him out there playing.  At this practice he did really well.  He seems to understand baseball and he tried to do the right thing.  He played second base quite a bit and I only had to tell him about covering the base one time and he did it every time after that.  At one point the shortstop got him the ball and Noah spun and threw to first as if he were trying for a double play.  It was great.

After practice, we drove over to Evan's practice.  As we walked up, we saw Evan playing second base.  A ball was hit into the outfield and Evan covered the bag.  A coach in the outfield threw the ball to Evan who made a nice catch.  I heard that coach turn the other coach and say "That Evan is a monster."

Both boys were super hyper after practice.  I think they both really enjoy playing baseball.  Both boys are excited to watch each other in their games this weekend.

We came home, had a late dinner.  While we got dinner ready, Evan did his homework.

The baseball brothers are in bed.  I think they are going to sleep pretty quickly tonight.

Until next time...

Meeting and Tutoring

This morning, like usual, Morry took Evan to school.  

After I dropped of Noah, Morry and I went to a meeting at a coffee shop.   From there we got lunch on campus at Verts Kebap.   We had a Groupon we needed to use.  Then, we went to a shoe place so I could get fitted for custom orthotics.

We got home and then I left to pick up Noah. 

Morry and Noah got Evan at school.  I left to tutor.  Gabby came at 3:15.

I got home around 6:30.  Morry had made fried matzoh.

The boys are getting ready for bed now.

Two Baseball Players

While Evan was in school, Cole came over to play with Noah.  The boys had a lot of fun together.

Noah stayed at home while I got Evan at school.  Evan had a great day at school.  He wore his Steelers shirt and his teacher said she was also a Steelers fan. 

Blanca came over and I tutored.

The boys had baseball practice at the exact same time today while I was tutoring.   Morry dropped Noah off a little early and then took Evan to practice.  After my tutoring I came to Noah's practice.

Both boys did very well at baseball practice.  Noah tried hard, listened, and hustled.  Morry told me the coaches were impressed with Evan.  Evan did very well too.

For dinner we all had leftovers. 

I had a phone meeting at 8:30 and Morry got the boys ready for bed.

Evan is sitting with me right now reading the blog as I write. I asked Evan if he wanted to say anything and he said no. 

Noah just came in.  Noah wants to say Evan played coached pitch the first time and Noah played tball for the first time.

Now, I need to get the boys to go back to bed.

Labor Day

Last night Noah was up a few times crying.  Both Morry and I had to go in there.  I'm not sure what his deal was.  He asked if Mottel was locked in the laundry room, which he was.  Maybe Noah had a bad dream about Mottel?

We had our neighbors (Kevin, Gayle, Brynn, and Naomi) over for lunch.  Their girls are 5 and 3.  Noah played with the girls a lot.  Evan played some, but did his own thing.  For lunch we made flank steak, corn on the cob, veggies, and merenge cookies.  Kevin and Gayle brought chips and fruit. It was nice and we had fun.

In the afternoon, I left to tutor 2 students and Morry took the boys to buy baseball bats.

For dinner we had leftovers from last night's dinner.

The boys also had clean up night.

Evan read all of Chika Chika Boom Boom to us tonight.

The boys are in bed now.

Recovering

Noah came in our room early this morning and wanted to get in bed with us.  I told him he could sleep on the floor next to the bed.  When he gets in our bed it's very uncomfortable for all of us.  Noah's all over the place.  Then, a little later he needed help going to the bathroom.  So, I didn't get to really sleep in this morning.

Morry and I were both really tired from yesterday.

We all went to look at a couch from Craigslist.  We are looking for a couch for Morry's office.  We didn't like the couch though. 

After that we went to lunch/brunch at Austin Diner.  The service wasn't good and the boys weren't well behaved.  Noah was cranky and Evan wouldn't eat his food.  They didn't have powdered sugar so he wouldn't eat his pancakes.

After that we went to Dicks Sporting Goods to get baseball stuff for the boys.  They weren't very good there either.  They were being wild, touching everything, and not listening.

On the way home we stopped at the JCC.  They were having a "Jewish Scouting Event" with info on Boy Scouts.  We thought we'd check it out.  I wouldn't really call it an event.  There were a couple people sitting around.  One table was out with some papers on it.  They had a few derby cars out and old roof part propped up slanted on the edge of the table to use as a racetrack.  We were the only people there other than those manning the booth.

Morry played baseball with the boys this afternoon while I rested.

For dinner we ate at Carinos and then went to HEB.

Garage Sale

Hello everyone, this is Morry.
Today we had a garage sale. It occupied most of our day.  Rachel and I planned to get up at 5:45 to start moving things out.  However, she had trouble sleeping thinking about all the stuff we had to do.  She got up at 5:20 and started getting ready.

I got up at our scheduled time and promptly began to help.  We started bringing things outside and placing them on the driveway.  We had a ton of stuff.  Evan got up as he heard all the commotion and helped us as well.

The scheduled time for the garage sale was 8am but the first people came at 7am.  We were still setting up even then.  We had planned to sell sodas, juice boxes and popcorn.  I was still setting that up when people came.  Also we planned to sell our old mattress and we hadn't gotten those out.

We had people come all the way until about 1pm.  It was a very long day.  The boys came out with us. Evan played with a neighbor boy for a while.  Noah stayed with us.  All in all, we made more than $400 selling old baby toys and clothes.  There were things that I never thought would sell but ended up selling.  Alternately, there were things I was sure would sell that didn't sell.

We still had quite a bit left at the end.  Right now it's all in our garage.  We're trying to decide what to do next.  We may have another garage sale in the spring when they have a neighborhood-wide garage sale for Circle C.

We came in and cleaned up.  Rachel and I each had showers and then we left to go to Matt and Rachael's.  They had a little party for Molly for her 9th birthday.  Ben opened the door for us.  I don't think that Evan and Ben said anything to each other.  They just looked at each other, nodded, and went into Ben's room to play Lego's.  Noah stayed out with us.  After some food, at one point, Noah and Max tried to have a catch.  I think that Noah liked being the big kid.  Then Ben and Evan were having a light saber duel and Max got a light saber and joined in.  It was really cute.  Evan was really good with Max.  All the kids really had a good time tonight.

We came home and the boys had some food. Now they are in bed.

Until next time...