PINEWOOD DERBY!

Austin participated in his first Pinewood Derby Tuesday night. He did really well and place 6Th over all out of 17 boys.



This is a video of Austin's 1 race of the night. Austin's car is the first car you see. He came in second on this race with 2.833 seconds.

Here is the final scores listed. Austin is listed as car number 8- 2.833, 2.801,2.899 and 2.817 with and average of 2.82. As you notice car 9 was a friend of Austin and his average was 2.69 for the 4 races.

Austin and his dad had alot of fun building the car together. I never knew how much work the boys put in to the cars. The shaping, sanding and painting and making sure the weight is under 5 ounce. Who knew it took so much work.

Accidents Happen!

Yesterday afternoon Nikolai had his first accident that required a trip to Insta Care (we suspect he will be there often). He was standing by the door that leads to the garage and Robert opened the door just right and split his forehead open. He cried for a few minutes while we were trying to clean up the blood and assess if he needed to go to the doctor's for some stitches. He did! So we took him up to Insta Care (our pediatrician office told us to take him to PMC but we felt that he didn't need to go there since the bleeding had already stopped). He was so brave and good to let the nurse look at the cut and then put some numbing gel on the surface just in case he was going to get stitches it would have made the process alot easier. When the they called his name 20 minutes later to go back and have his vital checked he was awesome, he knew how the finger monitor worked (because of dad's portable one) he stood on the scale (34 lbs) and they took his temperature. And then the nurse had to clean the area with a syringe of water so that we make sure it was good and clean to prevent an infection. The doctor looked at it and said we could use the Durabond glue so we would not have to have the stitches..Yippee! He laid so still and let the doctor glue the edge together and off we went. He then spent the rest of the afternoon running an playing and squirting everyone with the syringe that they gave.

Megan is at it Again.....

So a couple of weeks ago I get a call from the daycare. The director is calling shortly after I get to work she leaves a message on my voice mail assuring that the kid are fine but to call them. So I call the day care. The director tells me that there has been an incident with Megan and scissors. Megan has had her haircut by another child in her class. I am laughing at this point because leave it to our kids to cause issues. I asked where the hair has been cut and she said in the back. I was like that is good at least it is not her bangs. When I go home that night and looked at her hair there is a chunk of hair missing in the back. But since I am late coming home (I had an Access Class) I came home and she has taken a Red Crayola Marker and colored her lips, finger nail and toenails. She just want to be a pretty little girl. I asked her what happened to her hair and she said "Aubrey Cut it!". Why did Aubrey cut it? "Because I asked her too." replied Megan.

I could cover the cut job by pulling her hair in a pony tail, but those of us the know Megan knows she does not leave pony tails in for too long so we had to have her hair cut. I now is cut to just above her shoulders and has some layers it the back to cover so the the unevenness that is still visible.