It's Friday

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

It took a little while to wake Noah up this morning.  It's not that he was giving me a hard time, it's just that he was very sound asleep.  Once he got up, he was in his normal good mood and excited for school.

We walked to school and while we were walking Jack came up on his bike.  Evan ran with Jack up to the school.

Rachel and I went to Wholy Bagel for lunch.

When we picked the boys up from school, we talked to Mr. Valdes for a bit.  He said that he posted a writing sample of Noah's up on the wall as an example to the other kids of how it looks to write a sentence.  Noah seemed very proud.  Noah also finished his first sticker chart and got to pick something from the treasure box.

On the way home, we saw Jack again.  I walked with Jack's dad while Evan ran and Jack rode his bike home.  

I did some work and then Evan had practice.  Evan played a bunch of shortstop tonight.  He made a nice play.  There was a short pop up that he couldn't get in to catch in the air.  A boy was on first.  He caught it off the bounce and then raced back to second and dove touching the bag before the boy got there.

We had leftovers for dinner.  Then the boys helped me put the license plates I just got on the car. 

Evan has his first game of the season tomorrow night and Noah has his first game on Sunday.

Until next time...

Money Down the Drain

We were going to walk the boys to school this morning.  Both were complaining about it being wet out.  It rained last night, but wasn't raining today.  We ended up driving them to the path and then walking from there.

While the kids were in school we had a plumber come over.  We bought a new faucet for the kitchen sink, but when they got there, they said we also needed a new garbage disposal.  Morry ran out to pick one up and then we got everything fixed.

We walked to get the boys from school.

Before dinner Morry and Evan ran out to the baseball field to pick up a hat for a new player on the team.

For dinner we had pizza.  This time I made the dough and it turned out well.

We just got the boys ready for bed.

Busy with Baseball

This morning was the first morning Noah gave us a hard time.  He said he had a headache and we gave him some medicine.  He is getting over a cold.  But, then when it was time to walk to school he started throwing a fit about wanting to drive there.  We still ended up walking, but he threw a fit most of the way to school.

Morry picked the boys up from school since I left to go tutor.

Gabby game over to babysit once they got home.

I got home just as Morry and the boys were leaving for baseball practice.  Noah's practice was for 5:30-6:30 and Evan's was scheduled for 6:30-8:30.  I picked up Noah after his practice and brought him home.

About 8:00 Morry and Evan came home.  They said there was lightening, so they ended practice early.

It just started raining, hard.

Evan's eating his dinner now and then we'll put the boys to bed.

Back to School Night

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Well, the long weekend didn't make it harder to get the boys going in the morning.  It was very easy to get both boys up for school and, like the first week, Noah was in a very good mood and excited to go to school.

Rachel and I didn't have anything going on during the day.  However, Rachel discovered the source of the smell that we thought was from the sink.  Rachel and I had both smelled what we thought was rotten food in the disposal.  Well apparently, our sink has been leaking.  But, somewhat fortuitously, we actually had a big bin below the sink that we kept some things in.  It was catching all the water and the water was moldy which was the source of the smell.  I carried the entire bin outside and dumped it.  It was gross.  We have a plumber coming to replace the faucet on Thursday.  I'd like him to look at the disposal too and make sure it's not that.

Rachel and I walked to pick the boys up.  It was really really hot.  It was over 100 and very humid.

In the afternoon, Rachel helped the boys with their homework and reading.

Blanca came over a bit after five and Rachel and I walked to the school for Back to School Night.  We have two of these.  Kindergarten and second grade are on different days.  Today was Kindergarten.  It was nice but we didn't learn anything new since Noah has the same teacher that Evan had when he was in Kindergarten.

We came home and ate dinner while the boys played upstairs.  We had Blanca give them food.

Now the boys are in bed.

Until next time...

Labor Day = Shopping Day

This morning we went shopping at Dicks Sporting goods to get the boys stuff they need for baseball.  Unfortunately, it wasn't such a successful trip.  They didn't have what we needed.

We ate lunch at home and then I took Noah over to Cole's house for a little bit.

Later in the afternoon Morry took the boys to Academy to look for the baseball stuff and they were unsuccessful there too. 

Morry picked up Chipotle for us for dinner on the way home.

The boys are cleaning up now.

In a little bit we'll get them ready for bed.

Another Practice

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

I came downstairs this morning and Evan was play MLB Power Pros on the Wii.  I did some work on the computer while sitting in the family room while the boys played.

When Rachel came downstairs we decided to go for a walk at the Circle C Park.  We took Lizzy and let her off the leash.  She just loves to be off the leash.  She stays right with us most of the time.  Even when she gets a bit ahead of us she'll look back, see where we are and stop and wait until we catch up.

There's a dried up creek there and the boys looked for fossils.

We came home and had lunch.

Then we went early to the fields for Noah's practice.  Evan had wanted to play at the fields all day and was disappointed that we didn't go there when I work up this morning.  We worked on hitting for a while.

When everyone else came, we got on the fields and worked on fielding as well as hitting.  The kids made great strides between Thursday and Sunday.  We have some fast kids on the team.  That may help us out.

We stayed another hour and a half after practice with some others from the team.  One of the boys on Noah's team has an older brother who is Evan's age.  It turns out they know each other from school and were having a good time playing with each other.

We came home and ate dinner, gave the kids baths, and they are in bed now.

Until next time...