Pinewood Derby fun!

   Ares had his first pinewood derby this past weekend.   He had a good time, although was a big shy at first.   Only two boys from his den showed up, but he got first place of the two.  The other kid, Kyle had a cool football car.  

He is really proud of his trophy, but we had the luau right after this, so the happiness was very short lived.   Ah well, a nice trophy to put on his shelf - next to his car.

(I still hate this program and it's lack of letting me put photos where I want them)



 

Ares designed the car on his own.   It averaged about 196.5MPH on the track.   The winners for the older boy were closer to 203MPH.   We learned a few things. 

1-having only 3 wheels working isn't a bad thing

2-The lower the vehicle, the better, also, the thinner the vehicle, the better.  Really a Flat triangle shape might be the best bet. 

3-We should probably shellac or gloss next time

and lastly

4-weight is good. 

5-Boys love jello.  The jello jigglers I made were the first things to be gone.  Even faster than the Oreos.  At first I tried to cut out with shapes, but the squares went just as quickly.   Last time I made 6 boxes, they were a little thin (in a baking pan) but maybe 8 would be better.   Get them at Aldi  =)   

Where Has the Time Gone?

Wow, I wish I could say that we've been super busy and so much is going on, but really, we're just keeping busy with everyday mundane things.  School work, Legos, parties, going out to dinner, work, art projects... we've had the intentions of doing a few home projects, but they haven't really come to fruition yet, so this is an update to say that nothing much has happened.


Ares wants roller skates.  He was by far the worst roller skater at Lola's birthday party, but he had the best time ever! Probably didn't have more than 25 seconds at a time without falling, but he kept getting up smiling.  Atlas loved his little fisher price skates as well.   Mommy was exhausted holding Ares up and catching him as he fell, but I hadn't laughed that hard in months.   It was so much fun!   We've been having a small issue with his behavior as of late.  He's been very defiant and not such a good listener.  We've threatened to take away furniture in his room when he's not behaving, so last week he lost all of the books off of his bookshelf.   He now has to earn the books back slowly.  He also lost a lot of books to Atlas and we got rid of some to the daycare.    A needed cleansing if you will.  


I can't wait to cleanse out more toys.   We took a bunch into the basement around Christmas, and neither of the boys have asked for them back, so I'm thinking that means it's OK to purge.   =)   Ares is more into painting and creating items out of paper than he is with toys at this point.  Atlas just likes to wrestle and play with cars or football players/footballs.


This morning Atlas told me that my shirt was pretty.  He's never said anything like that before.   He's becoming a funny kid - oh, and he'll be wearing diapers until  his 24th birthday.   Kid is terrified of the potty.  Fantastic. 


Up until this week, Adam has been working normal hours, which was really nice.   He's got a class working Sun-Thurs now, which is a bummer, but it's getting easier with the boys.