In other family news: Bracken is struggling through Manhood training once again. He loves all dogs and climbing up the playground equipment. He loves the slides and swings. But he hates to sleep. His best words are, Ball, Hi, and Mom. Mike and I are both referred to as Mom. He is an amazing snuggler, and all is right with the world when he snuggles in and pats your back with his sweet baby hands. He gets the greatest surprise eyes.
Isaac and Will are at fun stages too. They are pure boys. Last weekend we had our pack Pinewood Derby, Ike's first and Will's last as a cub scout. They had fun cutting their cars out with Mike and painting them. This year, Mike and the boys experimented with the weights and ended up drilling screws up through the bottom of each car. Then they could add as many washers on as they needed until they achieved optimum weight. Apparently, after Mikes extensive research, the higher the center mass the more potential energy the cars would have as they reached the bottom....hence the tall screws. Anyway, it was pretty fun watching both dad and sons work on this project. I think Mike only stayed up past midnight once working on this idea. Ike's car was green of coarse, and Will's had flames. I'll have to post a picture soon. I was proud of the boys. Neither came in dead last this year!!! Yay, and a big relief for Mike. In fact, they boys had to race each other and in the end they tied for 4th place out of the 13 cars..not bad especially when our family tends to bring up the rear of these events. I noticed that both of my boys tried to help a friends car that wasn't doing very well. I was so proud. At one point when Will's car was racing his friends, he took the weight off of his car to give his friends car a chance. I saw Ike, in an under the table sort of manner, give all his washers to this same friend at one point. Those were my favorite moments of the night. Sons being thoughtful friends.
In other happenings:
Isaac loves the Humphrey books and Hank the Cow Dog. He and his friends have their secret fort in the creek bed and yesterday had the "boy Awesome" moment of tipping over a dead tree. Oh the tails I hear of the battles in the creek bed!!!
Will is staring as Mark Twain in the fourth grade program and looks awesome. He has learned his lines so well. This weekend is his last basketball tournament. Life is good and busy.
I stole these pictures from our local newspaper. It was kind of fun, they did an article about our Packs Pinewood Derby. My boys feel famous!
That is Ike's green car in second! Yay!
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