Today is Tuesday

This morning we walked the boys to school, like usual.

Morry had a morning meeting to go to and later in the day I had a consultation for Muscle Activation Therapy.

Morry picked up the kids from school, since I was still on my way home at pick up time.

Morry and Evan played some baseball out front.  Noah fell asleep on the couch for a while.  We had to wake him up for dinner.

For dinner we had burgers/veggie burgers, rice, and salad.

The boys are playing Wii, but in a few minutes we'll get them ready for bed.

Cool Monday

This morning it was pretty cool outside.  I think it was in the upper 50s. We all wore sweatshirts on the walk to school, though Noah complained the whole time about how cold was.

While the boys were in school I got the oil changed in my car - very exciting.

Morry picked up the boys from school and Gabby came over while I was out tutoring.

For dinner we had frittata.  It's an easy quick meal.  I just put potatoes, cheese, sometimes ham/turkey, and eggs together and bake them.

The boys are playing wii together now, but we are about to get them ready for bed.

Baseball, Baseball, Baseball

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

The boys slept in very late today which is nice.  It was a big weekend so it's good they got some sleep.

Today was a beautiful day.  In the morning it was in the 60s and sunny.  It felt nice to be in cool weather.  It did go up to 82, but even that is more than 10 degrees cooler than it's been.  It was great.

I had to go over to the fields early as I was volunteering for the concession duty for Evan's team.  Evan and Noah came with me.  After an hour, we went and had warmups for Noah's team.

Noah's team tied today.  My assistant coach couldn't make it unfortunately.  So I was running the team on my own.  A bunch of the parents helped out which was nice.  Noah did very well at the plate.  During warmups I saw that he was hitting the ball hard and very well.  I thought he might have a good game.  Twice he hit the ball into the outfield.  He ran well.  He made a couple plays at pitcher and a few more at second base.

After Noah's game we went to Evan's game.  I walked over there just as Evan was leading off the game.  They put Evan in the leadoff position.  His first hit was a hard line drive that went well over the right-center fielder's head and rolled to the wall.  Evan raced around and started the game off with a home run.  He was very excited.  Later in the game he lined a single to dead center knocking in two runs.  In his last at-bat he hit a ball right at the second baseman.  Somehow, and I've tried to figure this out in my head, he was able to easily beat the throw to first.  The second baseman didn't bobble it, and it wasn't a bad throw, but Evan raced down the baseline and it wasn't even a close play.  In the field, Evan was at shortstop and had a diving stop of a ball behind second base and on the second base side.  He saved a run although he had no shot at first.  The coach sent out the batting statistics of the team.  Evan is leading the team in just about every category.  His line is 8 ABs, 8 hits, 2 singles, 2 doubles, 1 triple, 3 HRs, 7 RBIs, 7 Runs.  His slugging percentage is 2.625 and his OPS is 3.625.  He really had fun.

Then, since we didn't get enough baseball, we came home and Evan and I watched the end of the Pirates game.  The Pirates won and took a 2-1 lead in the NLDS.

We had dinner and then gave the boys showers.

Until next time...

Twenty-Four Hours and 20 Minutes

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Twenty-Four Hours and 20 minutes is the exact length of time the boys and I were in Washington D.C.  Our plane got to the gate Friday at 4:40pm Eastern and we left the gate today at 5pm Eastern.  In between we went to a Bat Mitzvah.

My cousin Louis' daughter, Peyton was having her Bat Mitzvah today.  We wanted to be there for the Bat Mitzvah, but we have baseball tomorrow.  So we picked the boys up from school around 10:30 and Rachel dropped us off at the airport.  We flew into Washington and Grandmom picked us up.

We had dinner at Louis' house and then stayed at a hotel.  In the morning, we had breakfast in the hotel and then went to the service.  The party was at a Mexican restaurant.  A bit after 3pm we left for the airport.  It was good that we went.

Rachel was able to get a bit of a break which is nice.  She picked us up at the airport.  On the way home, we picked up burgers from a new place near us called BurgerFi.  It was pretty good.

Somehow it took the boys awhile to go to sleep even though it was an exhausting day.

Until next time...

Make-Up Game

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

The morning was a regular morning.  Noah whined a bit on the way to school.  When we got to school, we came in at the same time as his new friend Desmond.  Noah seemed excited.  We introduced ourselves to his mom.

Rachel went to HEB in the morning while I worked.

She and I went out to lunch together at Wholy Bagels.

We picked the boys up from school in the afternoon.  They seemed to be in good moods - Noah especially.

We watched a bit of the Pirates game before we left for Noah's make up baseball game.  Noah played very well at his game.  He made a couple nice plays at pitcher and second base.  Unfortunately, the inevitable happened.  Noah lost his first game.  He seems ok with it.

We came home and the boys ate dinner.  I gave them showers and put them to bed.

Until next time...

One Baseball Practice

This morning we walked to the boys to school.

Morry picked Evan and Noah up from school since I was tutoring. Gabby came over.

We had an early dinner of pasta and then Morry and Evan left for baseball practice.

I planned on going to HEB with Noah while they were out, but Noah didn't want to go. I didn't feel like fighting.  We just stayed home.

Morry and Evan got home around 9pm.

Both boys are in their rooms now.